Joey Gunz

$80 per season is a little steep for me. Since some of the Star Trek and X-Files season set DVDs dropped from $100 to $50 and under recently, I was wondering if there were any similar plans for the "Babylon 5" season sets.

danDo

You probably already do this, but keep an eye on ebay. I bought season 1 and 2 new for ~$50 each(new), season 3 for $19 used, and I just got season 4 and 5 for $20 each used. All are original R1 DVD sets from people who were just clearing out collections or their "junk".

Joey Gunz

I just checked and saw some pretty good deals for "new" and "unopen" sets. I'm not really into buying used DVDs though, but I would look into it if I feel that there's a deal too good to pass up. Thanks for the suggestion.

Katherine_K

Another consideration is Amazon's used market... though you have to be very careful in reading the feedback of the sellers and description if you care about making sure you get legit Region 1 sets.

MarkHarrison

Babylon 5 and "junk" should never be used together!

danDo

I never said it was junk... just descriptions I have seen. One man's junk is anothers cheaply bough treasure.

Joey, I know what you mean about wanting new/unopened. Unfortunatly, I have had problems with those disks more than used ones, usually from being loose in the packaging and ending all scraped up. I also know what you mean about not passing up a deal if it is too good... the same guy who had to clear out his babylon 5 DVDs also sold me Buffy season 2-7 for $20 each so I definatly can't complain. It also came around at a very good time. I had been contemplating getting the "ships from asia" version of those seasons because the "normal ebay" or, heaven forbid, full price is a killer.

Good luck in your hunt.

Mark Talmadge

I can't believe you guys consider eBay, an Auction website, a leader in judging price drops. COnsidering the fact that over 75% of the DVD's sold on their site are bootleg copies imported from Asia. Not only that but 30% of the sellers on eBay defraud potential sellers and rip them off.

eBay is just a huge scam by its users who attempt to defraud buyers on a daily basis and eBay does nothing to police its own auctions.

I would look at asking Warner Brothers about this issue.

danDo

I can't believe you seriously think we are talking about ebay as a barometer for judging anything retail. It is the same thing as going to garage sales and finding a good deal on something you want.

Exactly where are you getting your stats? I can't really comment on the 75% dvds sold since I am relativly new to buying DVDs on ebay, but I have over 1400 buying and selling transactions on ebay with exactly 2 not going well. One where someone tried to rip me when I bought and one where I was selling. Everyone's experience is different, but I think your numbers may be a bit biased.

The funny thing is, if Warner Brothers really gave a crap about any issues, they could have all auctions pulled. A gaming company I use to volunteer for had ebay pull hundrerds of auctions that were not legitimate in regards to their product.

Peter Overduin

B5 should never come down in price; it should only go up to ensure that only the truly enlightened - aka: those who recognize it as unarguably the greatest TV science fiction ever made - purchase it and revel in amazement at its complexity, consistency and brilliance over a a 5 year arch!

Get a loan and buy it new...now! I'm sure I am still paying for it on my 18.9% credit card hehe.

Peter

My Collection

Katherine_K

Mark,

I have to disagree with you. Your figures sound a little high, and with a little common sense and checking a seller's feedback you can avoid the "ships from Asia" bootleg market.

Now I'll admit that sorting the wheat from the chaff isn't always easy, but I bought X-Files sets on ebay, and some Homicide and Profiler sets where I thought the sets were priced higher than I was willing to pay.

Mark Talmadge

Really? Just do a simple search for any title, anime, x-files, star trek and other titles and you'll find a large variety of other titles. Well over 80% of the auctions that I saw were imported products from Asia ... not Japan, Asia such as China, Hong Kong and other areas of Asia where bootleg copies are prevailing from.

Also, over 75% of the intended auctions that I had been interested in included sellers which had over 100-200 responses of Negative Feedback. That's way too many and indicates everything from items not received to shipping packages taking too long to ship items despite buyers paying for shipping serves to nget their packages within a week.

Also, I read complaints against eBay's Paypal service where one seller had his account, over $13,000 worth of funds froze because Paypal had been insituting frozen accounts among eBay sellers and buyers. Check out this site for more information:

http://paypalsucks.com/

I had been ripped off by one ebayer and I threatened another ebay by turning them over to Federl authorities because a second ebayer had taken two months to send an item to me that I had bought. Just do a search and check out the feedback and you'll see what I'm talking about.

oscar_merkx

Hi

Got all 5 seasons for nada. Collected enough over a year thru Ipoints.co.uk to watch them

Cheers

Oscar

Toastmasters International

Communication is Everything

Jimmy M

Gee Mark, do you really think a website called "PaypalSucks" is going to have anything good to say about it?
<