Damn thats a lot of money! But like Seth said, thats collecting DVDs for almost 5 years and never paying anywhere close to MSRP. Any fellow old timers remember the 3 DVDs for a buck deal that 800.com ran? Between that and Reel.com I never paid more than 10 bucks for a movie. 50% or more off for preorders plus all the coupons. I still have people that don't believe me when I tell them how much I paid for Armageddon:Criterion Collection. Fifty dollar DVD for 5 bucks. Man I miss those days!
Let's see...65 various title, MSRP of $2,025.78, that's $31.17 per title, average. Price I actually paid for those 65 titles was $1,199.01, averaging $18.45 per title.
My 31 page report from DVD Profiler shows a grand total of $60416.24 (MSRP) with a 34% discount average. I can tell you that there are a few hundred titles that don't have MSRP listed, as I'm always adding them when I find them, and about a 1/3 of my titles don't have actual paid prices entered (pre-98 titles). Hope my wife doesn't find this thread!
ps. This doesn't include about $6k I've paid for LDs, no idea what those MSRPs are now.
pss. I'd love to see RAFs report!
Here's my report: http://www.twowiresthin.com/dvd/stats.php
YOU HAVE A TOTAL OF 583 DVDS
YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED 117 OF THEM (20%)
LETTER FREQUENCY:
#: 7
A: 31
B: 52
C: 41
D: 31
E: 17
F: 29
G: 26
H: 26
I: 10
J: 16
K: 9
L: 27
M: 34
N: 14
O: 15
P: 21
Q: 2
R: 38
S: 59
T: 33
U: 9
V: 3
W: 27
X: 1
Y: 2
Z: 3
TOTAL LIST PRICE: $15,043.06
TOTAL PURCHASE PRICE: $9,251.65
AVERAGE LIST PRICE: $25.80
AVERAGE PRICE PAID: $15.87
AVERAGE DISCOUNT 38%
TOTAL RUNNING TIME (MINUTES): 67,347
AVERAGE RUNNING TIME (MINUTES): 116
Just out of curiosity for those of you using DVD Profiler. Do you use the current MSRP or do you keep the MSRP equal to what it was at the time of the purchase?
A lot of mine are of Asian origin and I don't think they have an MSRP (well Japan does), so I just find the cheapest U.S. importer and use their sale price as MSRP.
Wow, how are you guys tracking this?
I couldn't even venture a guess as to what my collection is worth based on MSRP.
If you really want to know, grab a calculator and hit the "MY DVDs" link in my sig.
DVD Profiler has a reports system that basically lets you define custom actions to perform on your DVD data. There's a report on the DVD Profiler website that you can download that will calculate the total MSRP cost of all your DVDs.