Thanks for the link Zutton, was wondering the same thing!

We are certainly gluttens for punishment from the studio marketing geniouses! I've actually traded in several unopened, still wrapped early version DVD's to Blockbuster after I bought the latest 'special edition'. Then again, I still have 3 versions of Terminator 2!

STL is gone? It wasn't even that good to begin with.

Amazon with STL was the best place to pre-order box sets. You ended up getting a 37% discount off MSRP and free shipping (plus the A9 discount when available). Below is my log of DVDs I purchased and pre-ordered in 2004 using STL. Naturally, I won't order nearly as many without STL.

The Shield - The Complete First Season
The Warner Gangsters Collection
The X-Files - The Complete First Season
Duel (Collector's Edition)
Girlhood
Cinemania
Joseph Campbell - Mythos
Band of Brothers
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me
Run Ronnie Run!
Dinner for Five - Season 1
Da Ali G Show - The Complete First Season
Wire in the Blood - The Complete First Season
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Touching the Void
Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Volume Three
Camille Claudel
The Thomas Crown Affair
Babette's Feast
Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition)
The Terminator (Special Edition)
The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection
This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition)
Arrested Development - Season 1
Eerie, Indiana - The Complete Series
Greg the Bunny - The Complete Series
Millennium - The Complete First Season
Futurama, Vol. 1
The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection
Futurama, Vol. 4
Martin Scorsese Collection
Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai
Strangers With Candy:Season 3
Sneaker Pimps - The Videos
Mr. Show - The Complete Fourth Season
Shadows, Lies, and Private Eyes - The Film Noir Collection, Vol. 1
Batman - The Animated Series, Vol. 1
The Office - The Complete Second Series
The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One
Pixies
The Triplets of Belleville
Sealab 2021 - Season 1
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Vol. 2
Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Second Season
The Best of Abbott & Costello - Volume 1
Weezer - Video Capture Device 1991-2002
Freaks and Geeks - The Complete Series
Coupling - The Complete Third Season
Invader Zim Vol 1of 3: Doom Doom Doom
Penn & Teller - Bullsh*t! - The First Season
Futurama, Vol. 3
Samurai Jack - Season 1
The Best of Abbott & Costello - Volume 2
The Marx Brothers Collection
The Chaplin Collection, Vol. 2
NewsRadio - The Complete First & Second Seasons
Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
The Critic - The Complete Series

I don't buy too many box sets. That's probably why. I used to buy Criterions and they were only a few cents cheaper than DVD Planet.

Edit - Your signature sucks. Finding Neverland and Garden State were the 2 best movies of the year.

Fixed.

I buy most of my stuff from DeepDiscountDVD, and will probably continue to do so. Yeah, you don't get your stuff first day, but I have a shelf full of unwatched DVD's, so I'm usually not in any kind of rush.

DDD, Digital Eyes for me.

My point exactly. The long wait is their best tool in discouraging returns.

I noticed someone agreed with Illenium about this....sry but I gotta reply, Finding Neverland was no way near one of the worst movies of 2004, in fact it was very good and the Oscar nominations it got shows I'm not the only one who thought so so

Anyway sorry...back to topic...sucks that STL is gone but I will probably still shop at amazon...STL didn't make all that much of a difference for me.

I rarely bothered with STL and mainly bought at Best Buy, so no change for me.

Wherever the deals are

Same here. Most of my Amazon STL purchases were box set preorders. First, I'll try and get such items from Costco (hopefully, their low price this week on Warners Gangsters Collection is a sample of things to come.) Otherwise, I'll just order them from DDD/Digital Eyes/Overstock...whoever has the best deal at the time.

The place that has the lowest price on the DVD I'm looking to buy.

We have somehow managed to continue to earn several hundred dollars worth of gift certificates a year through surveys, research panels, test drives, etc. for the past several years. So we buy almost everything at Amazon, and strictly with STL. We still have over $300 in certificates .... so we'll keep shopping there, until the certificates run out. We'll just get 10% fewer movies for the money now.