Spottedfeather

I know that there are people here that have massive dvd/blu-ray collections. I'd like to know if you have a collection so huge that you've been looking through it one day and see one or more movies that you forgot you had. Or you buy a movie (or more than one) and go to put it in your collection and find that you have so many movies that you forgot you already had the movie or movies you just bought.

LosingMyMind

That has happened to me 3 or 4 times, but only with things I've never watched.

MrSmearkase

Luckily, I haven't bought a DVD only to discover that I already had it on my shelf, but there have been instances where I think I have a title, and therefore don't buy it, only to return home to find that I must have sold it off long before.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Not so much movies as TV seasons. I've done it with Family Guy a couple of times.

I did buy a double feature where I already owned the movies but in a different set, so I do have that excuse. I can't be expected to know the names of all my movies on the go but I do remember distinctive artwork. Something like Family Guy always has the family on the cover, so I'll never remember anything as generic as that.

As for another tale, I bought The Brain and let it sit unwatched for years. I go to watch it and it's a bad disc. I go to remove it from my collection software and find I have another copy of it. That was good since it had long since gone out of print. At least I think it was The Brain, or something like it. The movie has a cover of an evil brain with a mouth on the cover.

Spottedfeather

I usually keep a good bead on what's in my collection. I keep a written list (well, written in NotePad) as well as a complete collection list in DVD Profiler, so I can look in just seconds to see what I do and don't have. I've bought multiple feature collections that had two or three movies that I already had because the one or two movies in the set that I didn't have was anamorphic now or I already had the movie but it wasn't anamorphic. Which was why I bought the Home Alone blu-ray. Not so much for the picture quality or for the extras, but because it didn't fit my tv correctly.

bigjim25

The reason I bought the Home Alone bluray set was because I got the set for $14.99 and also to get rid of sucky part 3 (I had the Home Alone Collection: 3 Pack 2001 DVD Set). I actually sold it on half.comfor around $28 after their fees. The version I had included the Home Alone (Family Fun Edition) instead of the barebones edition of the disc which I sold long ago.

EdTheRipper

That's happened to me a few times.

MovieMassacre

Nope. I'm obsessed with my collection. 75% of my day is somehow movie related. Buying, watching, looking up info on the web, etc. So I know every title in my collection of 4829. When your life is movies its easy to remember.

Regulus

This sometimes happens to me when I'm "Garage sailing". When it does, I give the Copy to a Friend.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Your collection isn't big enough if you can look in seconds.

Indy24LA

I have never bought a movie that I already have, but 2 or 3 times I've looked for something to watch and realized I have something that I forgot I had. So I probably would have bought it if I saw it cheap somewhere.

LosingMyMind

He keeps lists on his computer. ctrl f would find any particular title in seconds.

SterlingBen

I have only once bought a dupe it was something about Stan Lee. It was a movie hidden away in my spiderman box set and I saw it 5 or so years later at Big Lots for $3 and snagged it for the second time on accident.

Otherwise I don't really have a problem keeping track of what I own, I am around 2500 titles.

SterlingBen

There is an app for that.

MR Round

I'm always running across movies I forgot i had, Mainly because im always getting new ones and havent watched my older ones in so long

Ash Ketchum

I've done this often enough that I've learned not to buy something in question until I get home and check and see if I have it. Even so, I have done a couple of repeat buys in the last year or so, usually volumes of anime series or manga. I've taken to jotting down in a notepad which volumes of certain series I have so I can consult it when I'm in a store. Of course, given the ravages of age, short-term memory ain't what it used to be. What was your question again?

smurr05

Thankfully this happened to me only 1 time. I bought "Abres Los Ojos" twice because I had it filed under O for "Open Your Eyes" instead of A!!!

Numes

As forgetting I have a title, once in a great while I'll be looking for something to watch and see something that I forgot I had, but if someone asked me if I had that title, I would know 99% of the time. I'm closing in on 2000 titles and I can say that if someone asked me where "Title X" was, I could find it on my shelves within 10 seconds.

There have been 2 times where I purchased a title I already had. It's a pretty stupid feeling, but I have either been able to sell it or give it to a friend or something.

TheMovieman

Happened to me 2 or 3 times, but only once after I opened it. Otherwise I was able to return it to the store.

islandclaws

I've never bought anything twice, but I have had moments where I forgot I owned something when browsing.

bobert3

I'm around 1500 titles, and its happened to me too. Usually when I'm at a place that sells used DVDs or Big Lots.

Boba Fett

I'm around 500 films and although I couldn't tell you every one, I can look at a DVD on a shelf at a store and tell you if I own it or if I had owned it at one time, including previous or subsequent editions.

Doc Moonlight

It has happened to me a couple of times, but only on Big Lots $3 titles, which are bought on the spur of the moment. I'll go to DVD Profiler to enter them and realize that I already have them. Then I return them to Big Lots. Not a big deal.

GenPion

I'm the same way. I have a large collection -- one which would be nearly impossible to remember if I sat down and tried to list every film in the collection solely using my memory. However, I can recall having these films by simply seeing them in store or elsewhere. As a result, I have never made the mistake of having a duplicate order or purchase for any film. If I do re-buy something it's because I'm upgrading from DVD to Blu-ray.

Ish Kabbible

The few times it happened I returned them to the store unopened for a different movie