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do you ever look at your collection and think: Holy crap. i own way too many DVDs. i spent way too much money and all this stuff. and why the hell did i buy THIS?

some stuff i own i could have done without

Masters of Horror Season One
The Outer Limits Season One and Two (1963-1965)
Miami Vice Seasons One to Five

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every day

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more so now that I've gone Blu this Christmas. I see movies that I want on BD, but would need to get rid of the DVD's first. I do see a big purge coming this year, tho.

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not too much, but yeah.

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I have both buyer's and seller's remorse. It's amazing how differently a DVD seems in the store compared to once you get it home.

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Don't most of those have good resale value?

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I agree with this post and its sentiment on all levels.

So, yeah, every day I have some regrets. I need to not blind buy so much... That's my Achilles heal in film collecting.

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I had it a ton with pro-wrestling DVD's until last year. I just stopped buying any and sold them all/rest went to Goodwill.

With movies, much less so as they got their use in college. I still find movies I hate and own (Forest Gump and Cocktail) and wonder why I even bought them.

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Not really. It's what I love. If I have any regrets, its only that my collection doesn't truly have depth. I mean I have a ridiculous amount of DVDs (though I tend to share with my old man so I actually don't have as many DVDs as my DVDAf page lists on hand) but there's so much great stuff I don't have.

The only really bad thing is probably the fact that I really don't have enough space for all of my discs. And some of the stuff I have I bought cheaply so the releases aren't good. IE when DVDs first came out I bought tons of "used" DVDs from video rental stores. It hasn't been until the last couple of years when I really began to work on my classic film collection that I tried hard to think about making my collection look nice.

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Daily

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I felt this way with my dvd's. I am being much more selective and careful with my bluray collection however!

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All the time. Especially now that I moved. Most of my DVDs were packed away for the past 10 months. I moved into a house and unpacked them all, and they've completely taken over! I sold some of them, but still have way too much.

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Yes and no. I love my collection and I am very proud of it. My only concern is that in a few years we will all be streaming/downloading and the idea of collecting will be dead. If streaming/downloading goes anything like the way video game streaming/downloading is going collecting will be over for sure. We will buy up all we can just like we do with DVDs only for a new media to come out or a company to go under and POOF! All our streamed/downloaded media is bye bye. That's how it's starting to work with video game (IE: Wii, PS3, PSPgo). Everything you download for those systems will only be good as long as the virtual stores offer them, and once your console is out of date, only as good as your console lasts. I fear that it will be the same for all media someday. So in other words, I love collecting (right now) but it will all have seamed pointless and a waist of money if someday the end of collecting is forced upon us.

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Yes, but only when I realize that I'm going to have to move/pack everything when my girlfriend and I get a place together.

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Every now and then I do but I also realize it is a better hobby than drinking and doing drugs along with providing entertainment to others as well as myself. I think my new outlook is to just limit my spending hence my resolution

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Yes, I used to have it a lot. Then I realized what I needed to do was stop buying so many DVDs. I did, and now I get that feeling a lot less.

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Not before.

but now it's beginning to bother me so much specially since I'm getting a new car and I feel that I should be saving the money.

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AVP...I dunno why i did buy it. For some reason over the course of time my mind imagined that the A vs. P battles were good..but...again it was only my imagination making up for the lack of a good vs.

Ong Bak....see it once and you're good. He's a stuntman who can't act for shit. Thank God for HK stuntmen who can at least act for their roles.

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There's a few things I'd probably reconsider getting now.

One being TV seasons I start, but probably won't finish like Alias. I bought Season One and haven't picked up any more. I have a few seasons of ER too that I probably will never complete.

Second is special packaging. While I liked it at the time, I have little room for big boxes or collectible items now. It takes up too much space.

Third is Hide and Seek with Robert DeNiro and Dakota Fanning. That movie is terrible. I blind bought that and still have it for some reason.

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I think it's cool owning all these movies, but I do regret the space it takes. To save space, I've been moving some of them (starting with my various completed TV series) to binders so they'll take less room.

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I can't really say I've had buyers remorse as I tend to get at least something out of every film I've bought and watched. I enjoy my collection immensley. I do agree with the space issue though especially now that I have another child on the way. My wife wants to convert the media room into another bedroom for the baby but I can't figure out where to temporarily store over 2000 dvd's...besides I don't really want to... without sounding too selfish! My 2 kids can easily share a room for now-

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I don't regret spending the money I spend on DVDs - people often look at me sideways when I say that the movies are my religion - but I've felt a bit of remorse when I've purchased the deluxe editions; for example the Wizard of Oz UCE. I was going through all the swag with my wife and felt kind of silly; I would have been quite happy with a disc only set.

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meh, what can you do?

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Ahh dude, just point out that it's only going to get worse as they get older and start wanting things on DVD themselves!

Tough spot though.

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I don't know if it is buyer's remorse but when I look at my collection and realize the insane amount of money and time that it took collect everything I wonder what I could have accomplished if I set my mind on something else.

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I often think that I should purge a chunk of my collection, but then I look at my discs and just can't part with anything (unless I've upgraded). I don't dislike anything in my collection.

I do get remorseful though when I buy something when it first comes out, and then I see it really cheap down the line... and I still haven't watched it yet.

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I love how the only alternative to dvd collecting for some of you is apparently drinking and doing drugs. LOL is there no inbetween?

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THIS...I find myself noticing this way too often.

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I don't mind the lesser titles in my library, because those were generally 1) dirt cheap impulse buys and 2) my wife's selections. What does bother me, periodically, is seeing my wishlist stay stagnant. It's not that I have a problem with us having, say, Accepted, Night of a 1000 Cats and Ghost Rider in our collection. It's that the $15 we spent to acquire those could have, instead, bought Being John Malkovich. But, yes, like many of you I'm hopeful that our Blu-ray library will be more streamlined.

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1) I only blind buy REALLY cheap
2) I rarely open a DVD until I at least make sure I want to keep it
3) I either resale or return it if I decide I don't want it. ALWAYS, no matter what keep EVERY receipt until it expires.

I'm still going through Wal-Mart $3 DVDs from October and will probably return the few I don't want.

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I don't blind-buy all that much, no matter the price. Big Lots is my obvious weakness though. 75% of the movies I've blind-bought there have turned out to be at least decent enough to keep though.

That being said, I have...pre-buyer's remorse. I walk around a store for an extended period of time, DVD/blu-ray in hand trying to decide if I really want (or need) to own it. This is especially true with blu-rays what with their higher prices and all.

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I own approximately 1500 DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-Rays, and would not dream of giving up any of them or feeling any remorse for having bought them. Having a DVD library is no different from owning a library of books--one collects familiar works that one loves enough to keep in easy reach.

I don't blind buy movies and I don't pay ridiculously inflated prices for new releases. I bargain hunt when I shop, and my usual price point is ~$5=$7 for an individual release and no more than $10 for a TV season set.

Checking my DVDProfiler, I have spent a total of $11,773.16 over the past 10 years on my collection, giving me an average cost of ~$7.85 per disc. I could easily have spent $12,000 on a swankier than usual cruise, and all that I would have to show for that would be some pictures and a t-shirt or two. My DVD collection will last me the rest of my life, and give me many, many hours of entertainment for years to come.

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I don't have any remorse. I've been collecting movies since 1998 and I am proud of my collection. I love knowing that all my favorite movies, TV shows, documentaries, etc are owned and ready to watch whenever I want

As for all the money I've "wasted" as certain friends and family love to remind me of, well it's my hobby. Some friends like to bar hop every week and blow $100. Others buy clothing they will wear once. I buy DVDs. I could think of worse things to do with my money.

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I see this going really well for you in the future. Please post updates in the Other forum so we can all be entertained.



I'm with Gobear. I have extremely strict price limits on what I will buy. I almost never violate those limits, and if I do, it's a matter of $1 or less. If you're blind-buying stuff on release day, then yeah, I'd expect you to feel remorse a lot more often.


Basically, the only times I have experienced remorse were when I didn't research something well enough, and learned that there was a better version of the DVD available elsewhere or that the one I bought was some kind of edited version.

Other than that, I have experienced it with TV season sets when the studios decided to release a complete series set with bonuses I was interested in that were previously unavailable in the individual season sets I had purchased. Similarly, when Battlestar Galactica Season 2.5 came out with Razor included, after I had just bought Razor (albeit through Columbia House, so only paid $5 for it), I was pretty pissed. And this came after I had (a couple years prior) purchased the BSG mini-series before they released Season 1 with the mini-series included. So, basically, I was screwed over twice by BSG (plus their habit of splitting seasons into .5s sucked). BSG actually made the decision for me that I won't start buying any other TV shows until the shows are finished and enough time has passed for me to determine whether a complete series set is coming or not. And I sold my BSG season sets before season 3 came out.

The only other time I can think of having remorse was when I bought the Ultimate Superman 14-disc set from Columbia House using my FunCash. This was when I was still relatively new to the ins-and-outs of using various codes and cycling accounts. A few months later, I determined that I had basically thrown away my FunCash and had spent a few dollars out of pocket more than I needed to, compared to what I would have paid if I had cycled an account for the purchase (apologies to those who don't know what I'm talking about with that jargon).



OP, you're having remorse about the Miami Vice series? Those are some of my favorite DVDs. I watched Season 1 and was blown away by how much I enjoyed it. Of course, I paid less than $15 for each of the 5 seasons. And The Outer Limits? Man... You and I have different tastes.

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HELL YEA! My wife and I current live in a 2 bedroom condo. The spare bedroom is my media room. And i already told her that when we are ready to have a kid we need to buy a house with at least 3 bedrooms, because I'll be damned if my kid is taking over my media room. Its not selfish its prioritizing! -wink-

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ditto,ditto,& ditto!!!

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Sometimes I'll think - "Jeez, does anybody really need to own all these movies?". Then again, I'm firmly in the camp of "at least I've got something to show for the money I've spent". It's not like I wasted it all on cigarettes or booze, or something else that wouldn't reflect where the money went. Know what I mean?

Before Netflix, I used to blind buy too many movies. Now, unless it's something I absolutely know I want, I'll just rent it first. I've also discovered that it pays to wait to buy stuff, especially TV on DVD sets, because they can almost always be found cheaper 3 months to a year after they've been released. Eight times out of ten, it's a suckers bet to pay full price on a brand new release on street date/week.

But, I'm also a sucker for cheap DVD's, too. I finds it hard to pass a movie for $3 to $5, even if it's only an OK one, and not a great one. When I really realized I had a problem was when I spent three weeks visiting every Big Lots in a three state radius that I could, on almost a daily basis, in search those super cheap box sets they had this past summer. When I woke up to the craziness of that, I had to rethink my buying habits, and haven't bought nearly as much stuff as I previously would have since.

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I'm a Big Lots bargain bin diver as well. Just recently found "Stander" with Thomas Jane and "Gosford Park" for $3 a piece.

I honestly don't see myself purchasing BR discs (even though I got a player Black Friday) until they start heavily (I mean HEAVILY) discounting them the way they do DVDs. If I'm renting on Netflix I of course grab them for the extra image quality, but I won't play $15-$30 for them.

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When did Season 2.5 ever come with Razor included?? And another question: WHY would they even put that film with that season? Maybe going strictly chronologically a lot of it takes place around that time frame, but you are not supposed to watch it until the end of Season 3/beginning of Season 4 (unless you want to be spoiled on things that are not revealed until later)....

Are you sure you didn't just mean Season 4.0 (which includes Razor as disc 1 of the set)?

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This. It also helped that I unloaded a huge chunk of my collection a while back.