Most of mine are used, the only one I paid full retail for was Robocop, from E-Bay (back when it had just gone OOP):
Charade - 28.49 at Best Buy (after it was OOP)
Samurai I - 10 bucks at a pawn shop - I plan to get the box set, though.
Beastie Boys Video Anthology - 14.99 at Wherehouse Music
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - 17.96 at DDD (after it was OOP)
L'Avventura - 19.99 at Hastings (used)
Chasing Amy - 10.79 at Best Buy
Royal Tenenbaums - 9.99 at EB Games
The Bank Dick - 14.95 at Wherehouse Music
Silence of the Lambs - 22.98 at Wherehouse Music
W.C. Fields: Six Short Films - 14.95 at Wherehouse Music
Wrong Men and Notorious Women box set - 73.10 at DVD Planet (after it was OOP)
by Brakhage: An Anthology - 14.97 at Wherehouse Music
Hiroshima mon amour - 21 bucks at Wherehouse Music
Dead Ringers - from a local record store for 25 bucks
How to Get Ahead in Advertising - same record store, 25 bucks
Sid and Nancy - same store, 30 bucks
Henry V - 17.99 at Wherehouse Music
Seven Samurai (first pressing) - 18 bucks at Wherehouse Music
Time Bandits - 17.99 at Wherehouse Music
The King of Kings - 28.99 at Best Buy
Hopscotch - 12.24 at Wherehouse Music
M (first pressing) - 12.24 at Wherehouse Music
The Rock - 5.67 at Gamestop (I think I paid about 20 bucks total for The Rock: CC, Robocop: CC which I gave to a friend, and the Evil Dead II tin... :D )

Overstock.com's $9.99 deal -

Spartacus
All that Heaven Allows
Black Narcissus
L'Avventura
I Know Where I'm Going

That was a great sale - missed out on some others, but I'm not complaining.

Made the rounds of the used shops today, made out pretty damn well, I think.

$8.00 Armageddon (already have it, but at this price, I figured I could trade it) (Pawn Shop)
$11.99 The Night Porter (SunCoast)
$15.99 Monty Python's The Life of Brian (Sam Goody)
$15.99 High and Low (Sam Goody)
$15.99 Ikiru (Sam Goody)
$15.99 Red Beard (Sam Goody)
$15.99 Throne of Blood (Sam Goody)

Looks like someone dumped their Kurosawa collection. I saw Dreams and Ran there as well, but didn't get those.

I found Brief Encounter in the used section at a downtown Blockbuster, but the disc looked like no one EVER watched it and it came with its insert. It was $8, that was nice.

I managed to get Seven Samurai for free from Reel.com (remember them?) using a complex deal that involved a $25 coupon from GiftCertificates.com and placing the order though RocketCash. This was five years ago.

Such deals were fairly commonplace back then. Ah, the good old days... :)

no need to be bitter!

I buy probably 80% of my DVD's used, from a variety of sources --Hastings, pawn shops, Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, Amazon, even Blockbuster (on rare occassions). About 50% of them are pristine. This may be due, somewhat, to the fact that I buy a lot of foreign and independent stuff that hasn't seen much in the way of rentals. In general, the more popular the movie, the worse the condition, though I sometimes get even the popular stuff in pristine condition.

Of the DVD's that aren't in pristine condition, I have yet to find any DVD that I couldn't polish out to nearly pristine. In any case, Hollywood and MG have excellent return policies for used DVD's, though I rarely have to use them.

And I got the 3-DVD Monterey Pop Festival Criterion for $7 at Hastings the other day (in a 3 for $21 sale).

Some of you that have been around for awhile might remember back when reel.com sold DVDs, and had endless supplies of $10-off/25 coupons. Some of you might also remember the "Grand Illusion" snafu that resulted in multiple copies of that DVD being sent to people who ordered one. Having purchased "Grand Illusion" with said $10-off/25 coupon, I got three copies... which I was able to sell/trade for other high value DVDs. So, it's hard to say exactly what the dollar value came to, but the upshot was that I paid nothing for "Grand Illusion", and got at least one additional DVD just for playing the game. Probably adds up to something like 2 Criterions for the price of $0.00.

Free copy of a legitimate, sealed This Is Spinal Tap someone traded me last year for a copy of a book I wrote. I almost felt guilty. It put me within one of having them all (Salo, naturally, being the last).

So, if anyone wants to trade me a Salo... ;)

No offense but it seems like your the one who's bitter. Your only additions to this thread have been negative disbelief. Maybe I'm wrong.

Umm..I haven't really gotten in any good deals. I was able to order Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula from DDD before they sold out. I got Sid & Nancy from an online dealer in some strange way. I picked up a few other DVDs that are OOP now right as they went. I guess the best deal was getting the Silence of the Lambs from DVD Talk's own Treasure Chest thread.

When I first started collecting, Hastings was 3 for 1 up to 29.99, then they changed it to 4, then they made it only $20 and up DVDs work for the trade ins, which really sucks. I used to get a lot of really good deals from them.

I got Rushmore CC in a two pack with Hi Fidelity at Kmart for $18. Also, a couple years ago I bought a Sony HTIAB for the bedroom that Best Buy advertised with 5 free dvds. When I bought it, they told me it came with a mail in coupon for the dvds that was inside the box . I got home, no coupon. I called the store, they said it was advertised in error, that a different model was supposed to come with the dvds. They told me to come back to the store, they would give me the 5 dvds at store level. The clerk went and found 4 of the dvds it was supposed to come with ( CTHD, Vertical Limit, The Sixth Day, and Fools Rush In) , but they were out of the fifth title (can't recall what it was) so the clerk said I could chose any single disc title in the store as a replacement, so I picked out a copy of The Third Man CC.

Picked up Man Bites Dog for 12.95 used. Not a great deal but about the only Criterion I've found used since I've moved to this hick town(No offense to any Chattanoogans out there).

I traded 2 dvds for Robocop a few years ago.

Picked up Beastie Boys for $17 a few years ago.

The rest of them I've picked up new. In reference to Reel.com - those were the days. :) Get paid to play trivia.

Racked up quite a few at GameStop the past couple months when they were running the B2G1 sale. I got 10% off of all these prices due to having their Gamer card.

$12.99 - Seven Samurai
$12.99 - Hidden Fortress
FREE - Yojimbo (was marked $5.99)

$6.99 - Sisters
$9.99 - Running Man: CE (Not Criterion, but good nonetheless)
FREE - Picnic at Hanging Rock

$9.99 - Time Bandits (this was after the promotion, just a couple of days ago)

I guess just Hoop Dreams for $18 and Straw Dogs for $19 (from Best Buy and the most recent DDD sale, respectively).

And what exactly is this mysterious Overstock deal everyone is mentioning? Also Reel.com?

- Hard Boiled for $19.94 at Reel.com after a $10 off $25 coupon.
- Unbearable Lightness of Being for $14.99 at ValueAmerica.com when they had a 50% off sale to celebrate their opening, (plus quite a few other DVDs at the same time).
- The Killer for MSRP at SamGoody.com a year after the DVD went OOP.
- Seven Samurai first printing at CompUSA $19.99 when they discontinued selling DVDs (temporarily, as it turns out).

just got hard boiled for 10 bucks at blockbuster last week...also picked up hamlet criterion and mr deeds goes to town for the 3 for 25 deal.

robocop for 2.99

Not a single Gamestop or EB i go into ever has a criterion. I assumed they must have a film lover working for them, but after meeting the staff i have thrown that out the door.

$5 for Silence of the Lambs, back when I didn't know what a Criterion was...

My best criterion "deals" are my local public library- I checked out about 20 of them this year alone FOR FREE. And if I want to see them again I can check out again- FOR FREE.

I have borrowed quite a few Criterions from my library as well. But around here it is not as easy as if I want to see them again I can check out again since most of them have a crazy amount of holds on them. I didn't think many people in my small hick town knew what the Criterion Collection was until I saw that every Criterion my library has has at least 5 holds on it and some have over 90.

So since they will hold a DVD for you for a week and you can take a DVD for 3 days and there are 95 holds on Short Cuts then I should be able to check it out sometime around 2016. :sad:

I guess I am just lucky. My library has about 20 branches and often has many multiple copies of the same title and they will do the transport from branch to branch on a hold. My worst one is current Entourage Season one, there are 17 people ahead of me but they have 15 copies so it shouldnt be too bad.

I scored a used copy of Robocop CC for $10 back in the day from like Spun or some similar site that's now dead.

I also recieved a duplicate order of THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS from Amazon, so that was a nice deal. I turned it in for store credit at Best Buy at C-Mas.

Then during the time of super cupon/discounts/baragain days, etc I got Silence Of the Lambs CC for a whopping total of $.05.

Also picked up STRAW DOGS used at Gamestop for like $6.

$5 for Armageddon CC through some special offer from CH and Sony with no future commitments.

I worked at a Video Store, and scored some Criterions used for sale when they weren't rented out for a while.

Luckily, Since I live in a very hick-ish town, most of them had never been rented once.

I got them 2/$15 dollars Canadian.

I picked up:

Andrei Rublev
Shock Corridor
Naked Kiss
I Know Where I'm Going!
The Horse's Mouth
How To Get Ahead In Advertising
Solaris
Stray Dog
Sullivans Travels
Variety Lights

So 10 Criterions for $75 Canadian, which turned into $60 Canadian because of my Employee discount. So I guess I got ten 6 dollar Criterions with their original cases, inserts, and in perfect condition.