The worst is getting a region-free player and discovering how many more options you've got. Sheesh. All my money down the tubes -ohbfrank-.

It's easy to be addicted to buying DVD's because of the ongoing fresh supply. Every week 200 - 300 new DVD's come out, odds are you're going to at least like and want at least one of those.

This website is based on all of us having the same addiction. It is better than drugs and cheaper.

I agree with this statement. This site definitely increased my collection and addiction exponentially. Although I've personally realised recently to take responsibility and accountability for my spending decisions.

I've always had a 'collecting' bug since I was a child which started with baseball cards. It's a pattern of behaviour that is very hard to break.

I, also in the midst of the worst of my dvd-spending mania, found comfort in this site because I was surrounded by people like me. And it really is comforting to say that it's cheaper and more satisfying than drugs. But that really should be a comparison that makes you realise you have a problem.

In the past 6 months my DVD spending has dropped dramatically, the last 20% off Deep Discount DVD sale was my last splurge. The more that I look at my 600 DVD collection with a different state-of-mind about it, I see a lot of more DVDs that I really can live without. I've been a bargain hunter even with the huge collection I have, but I still feel a sense of guilt when I look at them these days. I've started weeding them out, trading them in to stores for credit and purchasing what I really want with the credit (instead of paying cash).

The more I cut down on my collection to the essential of what I keep and try to keep that same mind set to only buy my favorite movies/TV shows (Star Wars, Seinfeld, Fanny & Alexander, Buffy Season 7) the happier I'll be. Netflix has also been great to watch before I even would consider buying.

Okay, but that's my DVD story, yours may be similar or not and I don't assume or criticise anyone else because I've been in the same situation so it would be hypocritical to be judgmental.

I'm addicted to DVDs too.

I've always had a collecting bug too. Sports cards, comics, clothes and now DVDs.

I have over 835 DVDs and I've only been collecting since June 2002.

Thankfully Blockbuster has that deal through 11/1/04 where they are giving a minimum of $8 trade-in credit for any DVD. Check this thread in the Bargains Forum for more details.

So far, there are 12 that I definitely wanna get rid of, but I grabbed about 40 more that I'm thinking of getting rid of as well. I hope to get rid of at least 50 of my DVDs which is $400 in trade-in credit :D

Which was dalvins addiction to dvd's before some folks turned it into an addiction to crack in the thread title? The topic at hand was already debunked from the get go.

In either case everyone should realize tha t you can't own everything. Stick to what you like and what you will watch or else you will start stock piling unwarpped dvds that will never get watched.

Investing your money into this as some means of profit (Say buying criterions or OOP's) is a waste. You are better off playing the stocks since who knows what that next big collectable item will be.

I don't think this site is about everyone who has an addiction to dvd's. More so it's a collectable itch for it. Like any hobby, the user will dictate the amount or level of control he can pull off. Some folks just do not have any sort of control and that becomes the main issue. An uncontrollable addiction to dvd's is no more healthier then an addiction to crack. Sure you aren't fucking up your body, but you sure as hell are screwing up your income and you may be ignoring other aspects. Family, friends, electric and phone bills that are past due.

If you have any sort of real addiction where you can't help but buy something that you may not need, you really should get some sort of help. Have it be just talking to someone or just trying to keep yourself in some sort of control.

Any addiction can lead to a problem.

I totally agree with a couple of the above posters on just buy what you like...be honest with yourself because you will most likely regret it later if you try and buy every deal that comes along.
Luckily for me I learned early on in my collection, about the 100 mark , and just looked at them and decided if I wasn't going to watch it more then once or twice to get rid of them. I'm still addicted to it but more patient on waitng for releases that really mean something to me. Now I look at my collection and it's a reflection of me, my tastes and memories, and there isn't a one I couldn't pop in and enjoy at any time.
So still buying but now prouder of my collection then if I had had a ton of them.

Hello, my name is Bob ........

welcome to dvdbuyers anonimouse...

Baby steps Bob....just take Baby steps, and everything will be ok..

Actually I am addicted to movies and television.
The collection has grown a bit since the pictures were taken.
You can probably add a few more hundred to the DVDs
Austin

by the title of this thread, i actually thought you were some crackhead who accidentaly found their way here...but now that we're on it ...yes, i have aproblem...it was either my rent at the end of this month or the friday the 13th box set...im not even going to tell you what i did....

every time i go to bestbuy i have to buy some movie; if i don't i feel guilty. when we go to target, kmart, or some other megastore with a video section, i'd always casually say to my gf, "i'll be right back, i gotta check out something", and right there she'd give me this "uhboy" look. ha ha.

Austin, I can only hope someday you have some nice shelves to put all those on. I'd love to see that collection setup nicely!

I'm working on it
Austin

hi my name is animatedude & iam alDVDholic!:lol:

I understand exactly what you're saying regarding places like Target. I do the same thing. That's really where the <$10 impulse buy kicks in. You've fed the bear and don't feel so bad about it because it only cost you $6 and you tell yourself that Bedazzled is really worth owning because the scene where he turns into the Colombian drug lord is really pretty funny, no really it is . . . a little help here would be nice.

I've got it so bad that now every time I go into a Dollar Tree or Dollar General store, I can't help but pick through those piles of old Black n' white-public domain- almost always junk DVDs they sell in those cardboard folders....... geeez.....

i remember that you said that you had tons of duplicates. Since Blockbuster is having that $8 trade-in deal, I think that you should be able to trade in a couple of hundred, maybe even thousand with no troubles at all.

That's what I do when I have a few bucks. I think ½ of my collection is all those DVDs. I also always look at the 2 for $11 bin at Walmart. Almost a third of my collection is from that bin. And I have a huge collection of those free DVDs I find and post in the "Bargains" forum. I will watch anything if its on DVD!

Well, not everything. When I went to Blockbuster to look at used titles, I did not pick up a copy of Gigli.

Hey what's wrong with Gigli????

Saw this w/ a friend for free at a movie theater. Afterwards she went up to people and recommanded it to teens/ 20 somethings on dates on sunday afternoon.

so that's where it's theatrical run revenue came from :mad: