Do you mainly buy DVDs online or in stores?

[ChrisM]

I was looking at the pile of DVDs that I've purchased in recent months and it occurred to me how few I had actually purchased in stores. In the pile of 80 DVDs that I've yet to file, only 8 were bought in stores. Most of these were bought at Music World during their closing blow-out sales.

I don't buy the latest big new releases and much of the material that I want does not seem to hit the store shelves so, I tend to do most of my DVD buying online. I mainly buy stuff through Amazon UK (and their Marketplace sellers) since I collect a lot of British TV shows. They also seem to stock a lot of the cult films that I want, as well. Many of these are simply not available over here.

How about you? What are your DVD purchasing habits?

Cheers,
Chris

[Rael]

I almost never buy DVDs at brick and mortar stores any more. Unless I have a coupon for Borders or whatnot. There's also a New England music/movie chain called Newbury Comics and I'll occasionally go there to pick up a new release because they have very competitive prices with online retailers. Other than that, most stores I see charge list price for DVDs.

Most of my movies have been bought from Deep Discount, DVD Pacific and a couple of cult import retailers as well.

[LeeS]

Mostly stores although I have given Amazon a bit of business in the past. I currently hunt for cheap BluRays at Fry's which seems to have some good deals-$9.99. $13.99, $17.99.

[coopmv]

100% online. I have no time to walk into a brick and mortar store.

[shokhead]

Used at Hollywood Video a lot. Secondspin some. Used mostly.

[Dennis Metz]

50/50, but I buy a lot of used rentals as well.

[babyblue]

I buy DVDs almost always online from Deep Discount or Amazon. As a matter of fact, I bought four yesterday with some Amazon gift certificates I got for Christmas. If I happen to be at Blockbuster or some other video store and see a DVD title I want on sale, I might buy it, but that's very rare.

Steve

[Dragun]

I mostly buy at brick-and-mortar stores. These days they often sell DVDs for under $10, sometimes even under $6. Sometimes I will buy a DVD from eBay or take advantage of a sale at an online retailer.

A few months ago I bought a bunch of DVDs from a Hollywood Video that closed down.

Believe it or not, Big Lots has some pretty good DVDs from time to time for $3-4.

[sadie]

I'd say 80% at brick and mortar stores and 20% online. I prefer not to buy with credit if I can avoid it.


Sadie

[lasvidfil]

Online as much as possible unless the store has a really good deal which is rare. Most of my collection has come from Ebay. Always find a great deal there. Why pay expensive store prices? Everything is way too expensive these days. Have to find prices as cheap as possible. Why else are places like Wal-Mart so successful? I have issues with them but you can't deny the low pricing. Very little disposable income these days. Sorry to get off on a rant here. Back to the thread.

[coopmv]

I'd say 80% at brick and mortar stores and 20% online. I prefer not to buy with credit if I can avoid it.


Sadie

:righton: This is the midwestern economic conservatism - little or no plastic.

[proufo]

Online because of price and availability.

[music4life]

I'm finding more, and more I have to purchase them online. Most of the ones I want can't be found at BB, CC, , Borders, Walmart, etc.
The most recent ones I bought of Heart, and The Knack, were'nt being carried by any of the B&M stores

[detroit muscle]

New stuff 99% online. The local supermarket does older titles for around $5.99 that I pick up on occasion when shopping. Bought Shaun Of The Dead yesterday

[ferdinandhudson]

I would say pretty much everything online with very few exceptions and if so extremely far between. We have one A/V store with a slim selection, mostly old stuff and what's new cost a little too much. There are a couple of gas stations with a slightly better selection, but again the prices aren't too enticing.

Heck, I found a great deal on an uncut Innocent Blood from an online site in Australia and even including shipping it cost less than what I would have had to pay if it was in the bargain bins in Sweden!

There are movies that haven't even been issued here or they are in a lesser interesting local editions that I'm picking up left and right from France, Germany, US, UK, Holland, Canada, Spain and Italy.

I l-o-v-e the internet!

[coopmv]

I would say pretty much everything online with very few exceptions and if so extremely far between. We have one A/V store with a slim selection, mostly old stuff and what's new cost a little too much. There are a couple of gas stations with a slightly better selection, but again the prices aren't too enticing.

Heck, I found a great deal on an uncut Innocent Blood from an online site in Australia and even including shipping it cost less than what I would have had to pay if it was in the bargain bins in Sweden!

There are movies that haven't even been issued here or they are in a lesser interesting local editions that I'm picking up left and right from France, Germany, US, UK, Holland, Canada, Spain and Italy.

I l-o-v-e the internet!

CD prices in Sweden were very high compared with those in the US when I last visited in 93. Have prices ever come down over the past 10-15 years?

[ferdinandhudson]

CD prices in Sweden were very high compared with those in the US when I last visited in 93. Have prices ever come down over the past 10-15 years?

No, they are still pretty high in my opinion. I would say that those who haven't succumbed to downloading buy their CDs from CD-WOW or similar for a good deal.
I'd say the general price for a new release in physical stores is around 189 SEK (sometimes more) which is just below US$30 at the moment. Sometimes they offer deals on new releases that can go as low as US$16 but usually it is rather at US$25 (this is usually what Swedish based online stores charge for new releases).

[Jack Son #9 Dream]

Believe it or not, Big Lots has some pretty good DVDs from time to time for $3-4.
I need to check that out.

I'm collecting Roseanne right now. I picked up several seasons at BJ's for $12.99 each.

[coopmv]

No, they are still pretty high in my opinion. I would say that those who haven't succumbed to downloading buy their CDs from CD-WOW or similar for a good deal.
I'd say the general price for a new release in physical stores is around 189 SEK (sometimes more) which is just below US$30 at the moment. Sometimes they offer deals on new releases that can go as low as US$16 but usually it is rather at US$25 (this is usually what Swedish based online stores charge for new releases).

Yeah, $25-30 were the prices I saw for average CD's in Oslo, Stockholm and Goteborg based on the then prevailing exchange rates in 93 when I visited Scandinavia for the first time. I really do not understand the European CD market since I did see some very good prices for some classical CD's on the Amazon French website.

[Michael]

99% online. Just way to many bargains on the net. With The price of gas...a no brainer for me.

[ben_wood]

I buy most of mine online, I hit DeepDiscount hard twice a year during their 20% off sales and Amazon the rest of the time. I've been pleased with both sources.

[Green Tea]

Mostly online but occasionally locally.

[jazzlistener]

I've pretty much quit buying DVDs and just rent DVD & HD DVD titles on Netflix now - my music hobby gets most of my entertainment $.

[StephenGR12]

I'm tired of accumulating titles that end up more for show(ing off my tastes), so I'm pretty much done buying movies. I did use eBay to buy "The Matrix" HD DVD set and Christmas to receive "Blade Runner" HD (Amazon). And I would have used gift $ to buy the "Harry Potter" HD DVD set had Best Buy carried it. (It doesn't, not even online.)

[Yankee8156]

50/50 for me.

I won't usually buy a DVD in a store if it's not on sale, because it's usually cheaper online. But there are enough opportunities for me to pick up DVDs in the store for the same or less than I could find it online to even it out.