WHERE Do YOU Purchase your DVDs?
 

Okay, I realize that this is an age-old debate, but I have heard so much back and forth, that I would be interested to know what the company line is between all of us.

Personally, my breakdown is:

40% of them at DDD
20% Wal-Mart
20% BB B&M
10% BB.Com
7% DVD Planet B&M
3% eBay

In the last 6 months, it has been primarily DDD, but overall, it is the above.

--LVM

80% Columbia House
8% DVDEmpire
8% Amazon
4% other discount places

90% Columbia House
8% Best Buy
2% Target, Circuit City, etc.

I am going to start researching CH through this forum, as it looks pretty interesting.

Back in the day, I was a member of CH for VHS :lol:

--LVM

rough estimate

70% DDD
20% CH
9% Bestprices.com, amazon, others
1% B&M (bb, walmart)

50% Amazon
30% Costco
20% (Target, Walmart BB)

i try to shop more at amazon and costco. gift cards and the 2% rebate from costco. hee hee. :)

For new releases I go to Best Buy.

Catalog titles are from Deep Discount (as long as I'm not in a mad hurry to get them).

Criterions are from DVD Planet (thanks to the 35% discount and free shipping over $25).

I also use Columbia House, though not to the extent of some of the folks on this forum.

A rough approximation of where I get my DVDs:

50% Columbia House
10% DDD
10% Amazon
10% ebay, half.com
10% DVDEmpire
5% B&M
5% DVDTalk exchange forum

40% DDD
30% Best Buy (Only NR or Discounts)
20% Costco
5% Circuit City
5% Amazon

It depends, If a DVD is a new release, I am most likely to pick it up from Target or Best Buy.

But if a disc has been out for a while and I want the lowest price, I go to Costco. Since they don't have the greatest selection, I will check Fry's and CC next.

(BB probably has the highest non-sale prices!)



But this is now it usually breaks down:

30% Fry's
20% Circuit City
20% Best Buy
10% Costco
10% Target
10% Other (mostly online trades)

Probably close to:

2% DVDEmpire
23% Media Play
25% Circuit City or Target
50% Best Buy

50% Circuit City/Best Buy
20% The Wherehouse (used section)
20% Costco/Target
10% Online

50% DDD
25% Columbia House
20% Best Buy, Circuit City, Taget (New releases)
5% Other (Amazon, Ebay)

For the next 12 months, I will be buying DVDs exclusively at FYE, Amazon, and Virgin. Don't ask...

<i>just say no to shilling</i>

40% Amazon
45% The Right Stuf, International (TRSI)
5% DDDVD
5% B&M (Best Buy>Circuit City>Blockbuster)
5% CH

Yes, I am a stat geek:

(Total 674 DVDs)
Columbia House 18.2%
Deep Discount DVD 9.3%
DVD Talk Exchange Forum 9.1%
Blockbuster 7.9%
Best Buy 7.4%
Bookmans 7.4%
eBay 7.1%
Amazon 4.6%
Rockaway Records 4.3%
HKFlix.com 3.9%
FYE.com 3.0%
Target 2.1%
Zia Records 2.1%
Sam's Club 1.9%
Overstock.com 1.2%
OTHER 10.5%
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228 "in-person" 33.8%
446 "online" 66.2%
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101 "traded/sold" 15.0%
573 "current collection" 85.0%

Right now I am stocking up on used DVD's so I am 98% Movie Trading Company. I will buy New Release's at Best Buy or Target if the price is right.

I think "Wow" just about covers it.

Very impressive!

--LVM

70% DVDEmpire
10% Amazon
10% CD Japan
5% JJ Anime
4% BlackStar
1% YesAsia

My purchasing has changed dramatically over the years. From the early days I used to be fairly exclusively between Ken Cranes and DVD Express and probably 50% off my current collection was purchased from there. Then I switched to DVD Empire for many years and I would estimate 40% of collection is from them and still purchase occassionally from there until finding DVD Pacific recently and now use them for probably 95% of current purchases but that would equate to maybe 5% of collection to date.

20% DDD
30% BB
30% CC
10% Costco/Bjs
10% Wallyworld

All of my anime DVDs (60%+ of my collection) are purchased from RightStuf.COM. The rest are purchased from either Amazon.COM or DeepDiscountDVD.COM. Which is based on price since sometimes Amazon.COM is cheaper after ShareTheLove is taken into account.

I'd say 40% CH, 15% Target, 15% Circuit City, 15% Best Buy (online only, no Best Buy for 60 miles), 15% Wally World.

Although BB B&M is only about 3 miles from me, I still shop predominantly from BB.com. The service is better, shipping is free, and shipping is very quick (at least compared to DDD).

B/C of the FS, it is exactly like buying in the store, regarding price, and that is hard to beat.

--LVM