Ever buy the same DVD twice? (accidentally)
 

I bought a used copy of 25th Hour about 6 months ago. I completely forgot about it and bought another copy from the B2G1F sale at DDD. :mad2:

Oh well, at least I'll now have a copy that doesn't have the 'Version francaise incluse' stuff on the front. It just bugs me that there were another 1 or 2 discs that I was deciding between which got left out instead.

I one bought A Time to Kill forgetting I already owned a copy. Funny thing is, I think I picked them both up at one of Walmart's sales a year apart!

I accidentally bought The Bourne Identity at work, forgetting that I had pre-ordered it through DDD a month earlier.

I just bought the Recruit at a used store, forgetting that I ordered it in the DDD Buena Vista sale. Never thought that my accidental double purchase would be of such a crappy title.

I did the same thing on a crappy movie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer out of Wal-marts 4.44 bin.
I felt like a moran when I got home.

Not really an accident, but I bought the first edition of The Longest Day twice, because the second on is in a WWII boxset that has an OOP 2-disc Patton. Bought it for about 60 bucks. In regular market at that time Patton itself costs as much as I pay for the entire boxset.

The obscure Gene Wilder - Margot Kidder vehicle Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx. I ordered this during the last DDD sale and then read that it was going out of print. Everything else on my order shipped, and then I noticed that the title was removed from my open order list ... it had been removed from DDD's website. I called and emailed, asking if they would still be able to get the title, to which they said yes. After two months and no news I thought that they probably were going to say that it was unavailable, so I bought a copy from an Amazon marketplace seller. Then one week later I receive the original order; DDD came through after all.

So now I have two copies. Since I have less than $10 in both copies combined, I'm not too unhappy. Charming little movie by the way.

Never accidentally, that I recall ;)... then again I rarely casually shop for DVDs. I usually know specifically what I'm looking for and it's something from my "to buy" list. I purposefully picked up a second copy of Criterion Hard Boiled once though... still not sure what to do w/ it yet though.

A couple of times. The more titles you get in your collection, the easier it becomes. Especially when you buy them at a rate faster than you watch.

Yep, I almost did that with one of the seasons of King of The Hill, since I'm at quite at a backlog with TV on DVD viewing.

I can understand that I have a huge backlog right now. Many o Time have a seen something that I wanted but decided not to because I thought I all ready owned it.

Amazingly, I have not done this yet with DVDs, but it happened a few times back in the late part of the last century when I was building up my VHS collection.

I bought U-571 at walmart but already had it in my collection....oops

I bought a short film collection twice and I once bought one of the seasons of MASH twice.

I bought Casino at the last DDD sale and forgot about it and bought it again used at a local Gamestop. For some reason I bought twice used copies of Jurassick Park 3.

Only once. I had purchased the "Desperado" superbit years ago, when it first came out and I remember buying that (the rerelease) and "Once Upon A Time In Mexico" and than after I bought it, I remembered I owned the superbit. Lucky me it was not opened yet, so I got my money back.

Never done it myself, but I can see how it happens.

I did it with Independence Day during one of the DDD sales...both different versions somehow hehe.

If I haven't opened a new DVD yet and I see a dirt-cheap used copy somewhere, I'll buy the used one and sell the sealed copy.

Nope

Every buy the same DVD twice? (accidentally)
 

Every buy the same DVD twice? (accidentally)

uhh.....no. I'm in complete control of what I need and what I've already got.

I've done it about ten times with CDs, but never with DVDs.

No, but then, I always go through the ritual of opening them, checking them out, taking off the damn security tags, adding them to Profiler, etc., the day I get the disc. Also, I rarely buy more than one or two DVDs at a time.

I would bet that it happens more often to people who buy discs (especially in groups of several at a time) and leave some of them unopened for a while, if not indefinitely. I think that opening the disc, making sure it's not scratched, watching at least a little of it, etc., helps the knowledge that you have it sink in.

The day I can't remember what DVD's I own is the day I know it's gotten out of control.

Amen.