Well, CH doesn't carry a lot of the discs I want, so it doesn't work that well for me. ;)

And yes, I miss the good old days of coupons galore, but what I miss more is online stores, like the old DVDPlanet, which have dropped off the cliff in terms of reliable service.

I just got a great deal through this forum on the 8-disc Claude Chabrol Collection. It was priced at $14.99 (now $71.99) at Best Buy, and I would have never known about it unless it was posted in this forum.
Along another line: so I should quit CH now that I have fulfilled my agreement, and rejoin?

Yes, and repeat as necessary....

You sound like you are new to the CH game, I'd HIGHLY reccommend that you hop over to the DVD clubs board, you will find more info on the topic than you can stand. :)

I remember the days when Reel.com would pump out coupons that were supposedly for $10 off $25, but more often that not, you could use those codes to get $10 off any single item. Ah, we sure ran them out of business...

Uh, the hey days of the etailler.

The modern day robin hoods,

Robbing the Venture Capitalist to give to Net-Savy...

Freedvds.com. 'nuff said.

Bargains?!
 

Bet when you posted your question you didn't expect to get dissed by all of the sarcastic folk that check out this sited. Bottom line? You're right! Bargains ARE much fewer than they used to be, and I don't see Columbia House as a viable alternative!

LOL CH is the only alternative, c/o the clubs forum rather than listening to people who don't know what they are talking about.

Re: Is it me, or we do not get nearly as many bargains as we used to?
 

Im with you. I remember the days of www.reel.com and www.bigstar.com where you could pickup dvd's shipped for $3-$5 each. Now we just have to search a lot harder to find deals out there. You can still find good deals but one thing to remember there are a lot of dvdtalkers that don't post deals.

Re: Re: Is it me, or we do not get nearly as many bargains as we used to?
 

Of course, how many of those DVD's you bought back then have since been re-release as new "special" editions! ;)

Columbia's selection is pretty slim unless you're only interested in typical Hollywood fare. The collector seeking out older, foreign, cult, and obscure movies is pretty much SOL.

Also, there are fewer "great deals" to be had these days, but we have to take into account that DVD prices have plummeted as well. DVDs that would have MSRPs of $30.00 can now be easily had for around ten dollars.

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Hello! Thank you for calling, how may I help you today? :)

.. Hello, uh, hi, yes, I bought a dvd earlier for $24.99.

Yes sir, I see you used a $20 coupon on it?

uhh. oh..did i? oh. . uh..yes.. ok

Yes sir,how may I help you?

Well I uh, just happned to be browsing buy.com and saw that dvd for $20.99.. -confused-

Oh OK sir, hold on let me load buy.com..... ... .. .... clk clkc clk clkc clk clk . . ... .. . . Yes sir I see it, let me adjust your order.

Mmmmm oooo kay... ..

Ok sir, I adjusted that price to 20.99.. and since you used a $20 coupon, your new price is 0.99. Thank you for buying from reel.com! Have a great..

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Yes?

umm..

Sir? Did you need something else?

There was this other DVD I bought for $16.99 last night ..

Or remember getting orders shipped multiple times. I seem to remember Reel.Com pulling that stunt on a number of items including Jungle book..... and then that copy went to ebay...

ok well that was fun, but can we move this to the correct forum now?

CH has about 3,500 titles now, and they are adding to it each week. Whatever your tastes are, I'm sure you would find enough titles at CH that are worth signing up for. And for the other titles that aren't available at CH, check out the Freedvds.com etc. thread in the store forum. I'd say the deals are better now than they've been in the past few years.

Q: What do you get when you put one of every DVD Columbia House offers, into one room?

A: Blockbuster.

:lol: Very true.

yeah, but CH actually offers movies in widescreen!

i dunno what blockbuster you shop at, but the ones I go to a) dont have prices even close to CH and b) have pretty much all WS movies.

the only time Block prices are comparable to CH is when you compare PV'd block stuff vs brand new CH stuff... and even then CH is cheaper sometimes. I have seen so many scratched to hell dvds from rental places, that Id much rather spend 50 cents extra per dvd and get them new from CH than risk it with da Block. Better selection at CH too... box sets etc.

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Somebody has to keep the economy going

I think what they really were trying to say is that he thinks that CH carries the same bland mainstream crap that BBuster is usually known for. It's true that there are many titles that CH will never carry, but it's only one source, not the only source. I will say that I've gotten the majority of mine in the past year from CH, and at an average of $6.37 for the 50 or so I've gotten, I can't complain at all. It the reason I can justify spending the extra dough on other movies like Sparticus: Criterion Collection.... :)

And that's why you are in the bargains forum? If that's your only concern, just go to Suncoast and pay retail, that'll really get the economy swingin'! :rolleyes: :)