Am I the only one buying DVDs faster than I can watch them? (1 Viewer)

[BrettGallman]

I have plenty of unwatched discs too. Not nearly in the range of some people in this thread (some of you have more unwatched DVD's than I have total DVD's period!).

Sometimes I buy a film and put off watching it because I like the idea that it's always there to be watched sometime. So if I watch it immediately, some of that thrill is gone for some reason. Kind of hard to explain I guess.

 

[Cees Alons]

?? Is that when you follow the links on those pages further? Or do we see different figures?

To me it says on those pages:
5 used & new available from $9.99 (on the US site),
(1) New from CDN$ 14.50 (on the Canadian site).

But perhaps it ain't so....

(OK, I'll put my copy in an even safer place now - it's a snapper, BTW.)



Cees

 

[Thomas T]

Patty,

Although I have a large number of unwatched DVDs, within the first 24 hours of purchasing them, I will take them out of their shrink wrap and scan them to see if the disc plays okay and everything is intact that the disc promises.

I know a lot of people leave them in their shrinkwrap and unopened until it's time to watch them but a lot of stores won't take it back after a certain time and how many peeple keep their receipts. I purchased a copy of Viva Maria (the Louis Malle western) and though I haven't watched it yet I'm glad I opened it because there was NO disc in it! What if I had opened the disc 9 months from now and then found no disc in it?

 

[Mike Frezon]

Nope. We're seeing the same things. You've just got to go one step further.

The line you quote above is a workable link and will take you to the vendors who are selling the title.

There is one vendor selling the title for $9.99. That vendor is upfront that the version he/she is selling is an IMPORT (probably the Region 0 Japanese import that is cluttering up eBay right now). The others listed claim to have copies of the original US release and are selling it for $189, $199 and up.

Change the combination on your safe.

 

[Jason_V]

I know this has been said before, but I don't feel like quite an idiot anymore. Over the summer, I tried to weed through things I had only watched once or never and just got rid of them. Of course, now I have new stuff I haven't even thought about watching yet...

I am making progress, though, since I've plowed through the first discs of He-Man, Simpsons S7, Superman V2 and the entire He-Man/She-Ra Christmas Special. But that still leaves disc 2's and too many movies...

My name is Jason and I am a DVD addict...who currently has no place to put his movies.

 

[Rhett_Y]

Yup.. I have only 20 or so.... movies..but the tv sets...good god... Lots.. But I don't plan on watching those for awhile......................

R~

 

[Richard M S]

Not only do I have DVDs I have not watched or opened...but I have laser discs and VHS tapes I have not unwrapped yet.

Fortunately last February I finally discovered EBAY, so now I watch quite a few old films with the underlying purpose of selling them (The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Opposite Sex, Dames). So for me EBAY has worked as a wonderful incentive, as I do now watch more films.

The only "problem" is too many of those films I rather liked and want to keep (The Miniver Story, Plymouth Adventure, Air Force), so they never end up on EBAY!

 

[Tom-G]

I have really slowed down my DVD purchases in lieu of renting them from NetFlix. Why buy them when I can log on to my computer, queue the movie, and have it delivered in a matter of a day or two?

 

[george kaplan]

Uh, because the time may come that for one reason or another (e.g., copyright lawsuit), that film you really love may no longer be available to rent from Netflix.