Can you remember where you bought EVERY dvd in your collection?

[Mondo Kane]

Just a simple question. Can you?

I suppose it'll be tougher for those who have over a thousand DVDs and have been collecting for over 5 years. And it could be easier for those who do exclusive online shopping.

But even I stumped myself with one title in my lil' collection, Batman:The Movie (1966) , which I seriously have no memory of when and where I got this.

Are you up to the challenge? -biggrin-

[Maxflier]

No way.

[speedy1961]

For me, just about.

I do the same thing with theatrical movies in terms of location.

[Cinemaddiction]

Yep.

[Mountain Biker]

Nope. But I'd guess at least half are from DDD.

[FantasticVSDoom]

Not in a million years...

[T1000]

Yes.

A few I got in England, I got some as presents, and the rest I got from the same shop I always go to.

[Harry Lime]

I can. I have more than 360 and I can remember then all and also the price I paid for it.

[Snowmaker]

I probably could, except for a few that were gifts maybe. I've got around 300. I save the receipt and stick it in behind the inserts whenever possible.

And then for the last year or so I enter that info into into Profiler or DVDSpot when I enter the DVD.

[illennium]

Pretty sure that I could for all 700 of mine, along with an approximate price.

[Wick]

I believe so. Of course, I'm not sure of where some gift DVDs were purchased.

[T1000]

I believe so. Of course, I'm not sure of where some gift DVDs were purchased.

This is slightly off topic, but where did you get Twelve Monkeys special edition from?

The only one I can get is this one;

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=twelve+monkeys&page=search&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

They have the exact one at the shop I go to aswell.

[RockStrongo]

Nope.

I started waaaay to long ago. I got alot from www.reel.com and www.800something??? ...also, www.dvdexpress.com was good too. Damn, the coupons back then were soooooo good. I remember those $20 reel.com coupons were awesome!

Now, I normally buy from DDD, Best Buy or Amazon. Just whoever has the best price or for convenience.

I CAN remember my first DVD though, I got it free when I bought my first Sony DVD player in 1997 or maybe 98...it was LA Confidential.

[EdTheRipper]

I can't do it but I'd say the vast majority of mine are from Best Buy, Suncoast, FYE, Newbury Comics and Wal-Mart.

[Brian Shannon]

No, not possible.

[chente]

yes

[Dazed]

I only have 200ish but could probably remember where I got most of them

[DoubleDownAgain]

Well, I only have around 120 and I think I can.... Will have to give it a try when i get home. I am alos pretty good about remebering what Theatre I saw a movie in as well.

[Al Padrino]

I probably could. I never made a habit of going out and buying whatever. Just about every title has its place within the collection and I have a knack for recalling things like where I got them from. I could probably also recall under what circumstances (i.e. a sale).

Actually, I'm not sure how you could be hazy on how or where you got your DVDs from. Just seems like something you should be able to recall, unless you were buying just for the sake of it.

[Dacoops3]

No fucking way

[Russell S]

I passed the 1000 mark in early December (not sure how many I've added since then). I'd say I could probably tell you where I got about 95% of them. Why? I have no idea. It's a sickness, I guess.

[flix1]

Nope.

I started waaaay to long ago. I got alot from www.reel.com and www.800something??? ...also, www.dvdexpress.com was good too. Damn, the coupons back then were soooooo good. I remember those $20 reel.com coupons were awesome!

Now, I normally buy from DDD, Best Buy or Amazon. Just whoever has the best price or for convenience.

I bought my first 4 DVDs from www.justlaserdiscs.com (Ironic, isn't it). That was before Reel.com, 800.com, DVDExpress.com, etc. I even started a small business in 1998 and was ordering them wholesale from a company in New York and selling to all my friends for $1 over my cost (about 20% off MSRP, which was a couple dollars lower than anywhere else at the time). Once the online companies started flooding the market and selling at 30% off MSRP, and ultimately Best Buy and Circuit City starting up in 1999, I could get them cheaper at retail and closed the business in mid-1999.

I know where I bought every DVD in my 1500+ collection, EXCEPT ONE, "Road Trip". That is the only DVD that I lost my receipt for before I finished filling up my DVD database (since I started forgetting which DVD's I owned).

[pilot]

Yep, most of em probably ...It's sad...I can also pretty much name which company put out the DVD too ...

[TheKing]

Well, since I use DVD Profiler, it's not too difficult.

It's only a problem involving the DVD's I bought before I started using Profiler. But the location wasn't the tough part on those, it was a bigger problem trying to figure out the actual day I bought them.

[J-DAM]

Not exact dates, but I know if one disc is older than another. I have about 40 DVD's lumped at the same date in DVD Profiler, mainly ones I bought in B&M's and forgot when. I probably have the receipts, but don't bother looking.

Naming the studios, though. . . that's easy. :)

[Johnny Boy]

Easily.

[gutwrencher]

Sure. Pull one out and ask me and yes....I'll tell you where I bought it or where it was ordered from. Just don't ask me for a date of when I bought it.:D

[Sparrow]

Almost, I'm losing touch with the history now that I don't catalogue anymore and was surprised even today to find out that I bought X-Files Season 3 from Best Buy, I was fairly certain that I'd bought those from Amazon.com.

Strange enough, my husband would think I'm nuts for knowing this.

[MEJHarrison]

No way. But I could look it up in DVDProfiler. I have all that data in there.

[rw2516]

Not with my dvds nor my cds. But I can remember where I purchased every one of my old vinyl albums and at what theater I saw every movie I've seen.

[Bill Needle]

Not a chance, though 99% of them have been bought from one of three places, so I could take a stab at it.

[AsmodeusVice]

I could guess about 2/3 of my collection. I at least remember the first one I bought.

I also have every receipt for all 2013 (sans the few I've just recently traded).

[Eric D.]

Nope not the stores. But I can remember what state I bought most of them in. Like CT, Il, NY, NJ, NC, Hawaii, Florida and California.

[DonnachaOne]

Actually, I'm looking, and... yes. Yes, I know where I got them all. Crazy.

[tommyp007]

Hell no.

[GuruTwo]

I can easily. I can also remember the circumstances of just about every movie I've ever seen, such as where I saw it, who I saw it with, was it opening weekend, etc. going back to my childhood.

[TomOpus]

Yes, thanks to Profiler :up:

[dvd_luver]

Sort of, but I have to brainstorm first with some of them.

[Crazee4DVDs]

Yes, I'm certain I can. I've always had a knack for remembering things most people can care less about. I know which titles I bought and where and which titles have been gifts and from the person the title(s) came from.

[Linko]

Out of 445 I can remember almost all of them, but there are about 3 or 4 that I'm not 100% sure on.

[lmwong1977]

Yes maybe one or 2 I'm fuzzy on, but I only started 5 years ago and barely have 100.

[T1000]

Out of 445 I can remember almost all of them, but there are about 3 or 4 that I'm not 100% sure on.

Damn dude, you have excellent taste in films.

I'm just putting my films on that site now.

This is them so far. Not alot though.

http://dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=TenderSurrender

EDIT: It's uncanny, lol.

[Rocketdog2000]

Sure. Pull one out and ask me and yes....I'll tell you where I bought it or where it was ordered from. Just don't ask me for a date of when I bought it.:D

Same for me. I can do it with all the music I own, too.

[fliggil]

I might not remember some people's names that I've traded with, but I know which ones were bought, where at, I could probably tell you how much I paid, and around what date. No, I don't keep track, yes, I had an odd memory which remember slight details that probably waste more space than they should.

[Jason]

The store bought ones, probably. For online, I'm sure I can say they were purchased online, just not where.

[The Bus]

I thought I could then I only got to my 2nd title when I got stumped. :lol:

[MasterCXtreme]

Actually yeah, about 90%... what I paid for it as well (roughly)

[scott1598]

how the hell can you all remember where every single DVD came from? i mean that is amazing, but for the ones with 200+ or even slightly less...how? i have a great memory for certain things, like entertainment, names of actors and movies they were in and stuff and i do know where i saw and who i was with for most theatrical releases as i have saved every stub since 1985, but with my dvd's there is no way in hell i could tell you if i got half of them at best buy or Circuit City or online or what. some yes, of course, but all 500...no way in hell. i think it is like asking where you bought that bag of chips you enjoyed in 2002...how the hell can you know?

[paradicelost]

I know i can name the first few i got. My first one was L.A. Confidential in 98 when i got player at Circuit City(which i was later kicked out of for badmouthing divx in front of another customer). Then i know i went to Best Buy right after that and bought Austin Powers,Species, Scream, and the Elite NOTLD(in that very weird plastic case that opened at the bottom).
Other than that, probably not.

[mike45]

Actually, yes.

[Wick]

I got my 12 Monkeys SE at Blockbuster Video. It's the Region 1 release, which came out a year ago, or so.

[Xbox69]

I probably can. Lately it's been online in purchases of multiple DVDs. That makes it easier. :-)

[sataniko]

For most of them I remember where I bought them and the price too.

[benjsimpson]

Way too hard when I think of the whole collection...But give me an individual DVD and I could probably have a decent stab at it. I could definitely tell you whether I bought something online or not.

But when I think of all the sales and bargain bins of different department stores and music shops I have trawled through...my mind boggles...so many hours of trawling through the same rubbish to find the odd mis-priced gem, or a title I'd forgotten I loved

My eyes are getting all misty now

[wolverine1028]

I use movie collectorz to track everything.

[JiM T]

I used to remember where and for how much for every DVD, but now that I'm re-entering all that info into a new site since Guzzlefish crapped out, I find I'm unable to recall every detail like I used to be. I can recall most, but not all.

[The Monkees]

I can remember where I bought most of them. The box sets and TV shows I get a little hazy on though

[Fincher Fan]

Yep. Probably because I tend to put a lot of thought into my purchases. Being an international customer usually means rearranging and optimising shopping carts due to usually high shipping costs.

[Shagrath]

I input the store into DVDProfiler when I add the dvd. I only started adding that information in (as well as price paid) in 2005 though. So, I don't know where I got every single dvd in my collection, but I could tell you where most of them are from.

I've got a pretty good memory, so I remember crap like getting Pleasantville and Pi as my first two dvds from Circuit City along with my dvd player in 1999, and picking up Run Lola Run and Dark City at SunCoast not long after that.

[Lemdog]

I think I could...

[AGuyNamedMike]

I don't use any of the trackers, but yes. My mind just works that way (freaks out my cow-orkers).

[indiephantom]

I probably could. I've always been able to remember the theatres I saw movies at for the first time. This seems like it would be about as easy, but my collection is pretty big so it would be challenging enough.

[chsidwel]

I use dvdprofiler and dvdspot, so no problem. Every once in a while, I'll stumble accross a movie that I never entered for some reason. A recent find was ocean's 11. It's been out for a while and I have no idea where I got it, only that I know I got it on the release date.

[Albert71292]

Can't remember where I bought every single DVD out of the over 300 I own, but 98% came from either Suncoast and Wal-Mart. I rarely order online. The two times I did, one was a two-disc Ernie Kovacs collection that Suncoast couldn't order for me, and the other time was six 1970's era adult movies I ordered from Video Age, because stores where I live aren't allowed by law to sell those types of movies.

I DO remember where I got "Batman: The Movie (1966)" however. It was in the $5.50 bin at Wal-Mart.

[brianglenn]

I'm pretty sure I know most of em

[gotrice487]

Sure I can...is it cheating that I kept track using DVDSpot?

[Mondo Kane]

I DO remember where I got "Batman: The Movie (1966)" however. It was in the $5.50 bin at Wal-Mart.

I've still been thinking long and hard about this starting the first post :grumble:

I do remember getting it roughly after it was first released when I read a few positive reviews about it. And I do remember not paying fullprice for it (Got it for $9) I just can't remember where! :hairpull:

[SinCityGirl]

Most from Wal-Mart mixed with quite a few as gifts,video store previous viewed bins and EBay for most of the anime

[Iron_Giant]

Best Buy - 35%
Gifts - 15%
Target - 15%
Columbia House - 10%
Blockbuster - 10% (Used)
Free - 5%
Other Stores - 8%
Online - 2%

Alot of them I can tell you when and where I got them, but I can tell you that for almost everything I have in my life.

[blue eyes]

No way.

But I can say that the majority of my DVDs have been bought at EzyDVD, HMV and JB Hi-Fi. :)

[ernestrp]

Yes. I guess I have 2000+ titles but I can look at a title and say that came from Big Star, 800.com, Buy.com, Reel.com. It Helps to put the packing sheet/receipt in the dvd case though. I think its high time Dvd Etailers have some decent 10.00 off anything coupons.

[lizard]

Not a chance. I'd be hard pressed to just remember the names of all the places I have purchased DVDs from over the years. I do keep all that information in a spreadsheet but I assume that's "cheating"...

No photographic memory here! (But I am really good with birthdays, which surprises friends.)

[critterdvd]

Ya... I can actually remember probably where I got 98% of my collection. It's kinda weird, but true.

[Disc-Flipper]

Yep. And DVD Profiler has a place to enter Purchase location and price.

I can also remember every movie I saw in the theatre, what theatre I saw it in, and who I saw it with. Strange.

[tofferman]

If I could remember where I purchased over 1600+ dvds, I would be considered an idiot savant (and I should be in Vegas reading cards!)

[Drexl]

Although I use DVDProfiler, I've never felt the need to enter info about where I bought the DVDs and how much I paid. It was too late to do that anyway when I started using the program, but even if I had it when I started buying DVDs I don't think I would bother to do it.

So, I would be going by memory. I went through the first 50 DVDs and there was one I don't remember, so I would estimate there would be 7 or 8 I don't recall.

[shill66]

I have over 2000. I probably could tell you where I got each one. And for those that I can't remember, I have receipts for ALL of them.

[GMLSKIS]

I can. I have more than 360 and I can remember then all and also the price I paid for it.

Same here - by looking on my computer at the Excel spreadsheet with that information.

[asianxcore]

yup. either the ones I've bought myself, or the ones I got as gifts.

[nightmaster]

Not a way in the world I can remember where I bought all of my DVDs. Half a dozen different states, different cities, flea markets, pawn shops, release day purchases, online sites......

[The Infidel]

I can remember where I bought everything, but some places, like Wal-Mart or Best Buy, I might not be able to remember which exact store. I've bought discs at two or three different locations of each store, depending on where I was.

[The Cow]

From memory, no, but I have a spreadsheet listing what, where, when and how much for each one.

Sometimes I wish I would have added a 'why' column. :)

[mzupeman2]

There's plenty I can tell you about, sure. But I have a lot in my collection, and I'm sure there's some that would escape my memory.

[Dmacsg1]

Where did they all come from?!? Good question! The best I can do with my collection is narrow it down to four places:

BestBuy
Walmart
BlockBuster
DDD

I can safely say that 99% of my collection came from one of these four places!

Take care all!!

[MEJHarrison]

Just for kicks, I went through DVDProfiler and compared to see how good I would do. I thought I'd have a pretty decent success rate. It turns out my memory sucks and I failed miserably. In the first 10 I got more wrong than right, so I just gave up.

[alfonsosoriano]

I could easily tell.

[Mondo Kane]

Sorry for the thread bump, but finally found the answer to my own question.


But even I stumped myself with one title in my lil' collection, Batman:The Movie (1966) , which I seriously have no memory of when and where I got this.


Got it for free with Daredevil at Sam Goody!

[Dr. Mantle]

I bought a player in 1998 and my first two DVDs were L.A. Confidential and Contact. There was a coupon at Target for two free DVDs with the purchase of a player.

After that I bought four from Suncoast when they had a buy one get one free (or half off) sale on New Line titles. I bought: Austin Powers, Dark City, The Player and The Sweet Hereafter.

And I can probably remember where and roughly when I got every other DVD I own. Though it's not such a chore since I only have about 130.

[Sierra Disc]

Um, no. And got to say, why on earth would I want to?

[dtcarson]

For the most part, yes. Or at least I can find that information. I do use the 'where purchased' on DVDProfiler, and the only blanks that i can recall were either contests I won, DVD clubs, or trades/gifts, and given the dvd title, I can remember where it came from [in the case of a gift/trade, maybe not *from* whom, but that it was a trade/gift].
And yeah, I've only got 170 or so titles in DVDP; it's not like I'm trying to keep track of 600 or so.

[gutwrencher]

It's weird how tokin' bud for 20 years had not damaged that one little section of my brain. All 2,200+ titles. I can remember the place, on-line or retail store....for every freakin' one!

rotfl

Now wheres my damn car keys?

[Bonkit]

I can definitely tell where I got every single one of my dvds... though some are from ebay, and I couldn't possibly remember who exactly i bought them from.

[matome]

I'm sure I can recollect where I got most of mine.

[Deadpool]

No way

[spartanstew]

No fucking way


I concur.

I can look on dvdprofiler and find out, but otherwise I wouldn't know.

I'll give you an example. Just the other day I was looking at my movies and saw "Into The Blue". Now, that movie hasn't been out very long, but I could not remember where I got it. It turns out I got it in a trade from this forum. Out of 600 DVD's, I'd be surprised if I knew where I got 30 of them.

[Austin54]

Absolutely no way
with thousands of dvds and ten of thousands of VHS tapes, there is absolutely no way I could remember this.
Austin

[mbs]

No, not even close. I doubt I'd get 20% of them correct.

[starseed1981]

Hell no! I bought A History of Violence 2 days ago and I already forgot where I bought it.

[LoPan5705]

No way! I've found myself repurchasing movies I already own because I can't remember if I had it or not.

[talemyn]

No way! I've found myself repurchasing movies I already own because I can't remember if I had it or not.Oh yeah . . . this has happened a number of times to me . . . no chance that I'd ever be able to remember where all mine came from. :lol:

[mndtrp]

I could probably get about 80% of mine right. I'm not going to try, though.