Manzana

I think I exercised great restraint this time. I placed 3 orders totalling $73.50:

Legendary Jerry Lewis Collection (10 DVDs) - $21.35
War of the Worlds (1953) (SE) - $7.48
Three's Company Season 5 - $19.19
Star Trek: Nemesis (SE) - $10.84
Musketeer, The - $4.80
Ref, The - $5.04
Splitting Heirs - $4.80

I was very borderline about the last 3 DVDs, but as Doc Brown said "I figured what the h*ll".

What bums me a bit is that War of the Worlds (1953 SE) is $4.99 + tax at Target starting this week. Obviously I wouldn't have ordered from DDD if I had a crystal ball to see the upcoming week's ads. What's sad is I had bought it at Costco for $8.99 + tax until I saw the DDD deal for $7.43, so I have to return the Costco one and probably the DDD one.

I also received a previous DDD order (a $5.98 title before the 20% off sale) which was DOA. That is, I didn't even open the package and could hear it was not only a floater but the plastic hub was broken into several pieces.

What's the best way to deal with this? I generally don't order enough to get damaged DVDs that need returning, so I don't have experience with returns to DDD. Should I call DDD or email them to let them know what happened and send it back in its original unopened shipping package? Do I pay for return shipping, do I refuse receipt (and they'll cover shipping costs with USPS), or will they reimburse me for my return shipping costs for the damaged DVD?

I'm also tempted to return my War of the Worlds (1953 SE) because DDD will not price match Target's in-store price, and Target does not have it for $4.99 online. If I opened the shipping package of the damaged DVD and put it together with War of the Worlds when I receive it, that would save on shipping the second DVD, assuming DDD allows me to do that?

renaldow

The DVD for Serenity is not released. It comes out Dec 20th.

Spiderbite

I ended spening more than last time but I let myself only buy dvds that i thought were really excellent prices. By doing that I ended up doing even better at the J&R sale.

My DDD orders:
#1
FIREFLY-COMPLETE SERIES SHIPPED 1 $23.91
CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL SHIPPED 1 $9.49
Order Total: $33.40

#2
MADAGASCAR (WS) SHIPPED 1 $13.74
Order Total: $13.74

#3
WIZARD OF OZ (3D/COLLECTORS EDITIO BACKORDER 1 $27.87
FOLLOWING $4.80
THE CHANGELING 1 $4.79
Order Total: $37.46

Complete total - $84.60

ZakiHasan

Order #1:
1 WBD033672 DVD : MATRIX, THE-ULTIMATE COLLEC $ 33.55

Order #3:
1 ADV015312 DVD : ROBOTECH-PROTOCULTURE COLLECTION $ 62.39
1 ADV010482 DVD : FARSCAPE-STARBURST EDITION V.03 $ 13.29
1 ADV009972 DVD : FARSCAPE-STARBURST EDITION V.05 $ 11.99
1 ADV009982 DVD : FARSCAPE-STARBURST EDITION V.06 $ 11.99

Order #3:
1 ABD013290 DVD : MESSAGE (30TH ANNIVERSARY), THE $ 11.99
1 ABD013291 DVD : LION OF THE DESERT (25TH ANNIVERSA $ 11.99
1 HBD092429 DVD : CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM-4TH SEASON $ 22.37
1 WBD068141 DVD : WONDER WOMAN-3RD SEASON $ 22.29

Order #4:
1 BVD049346 DVD : DUCKTALES V.01 $ 19.11
1 FXD031290 DVD : BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER-CO $ 111.89
1 MCA027928 DVD : BATTLESTAR GALACTICA-1ST SE $ 32.55
1 WBD033671 DVD : MATRIX-ULTIMATE COLLECTION $ 31.19

Order #5:
1 BVD022285 DVD : HIGHLANDER THE FINAL DIMENS $ 7.48 k
1 FXD026089 DVD : OFFICE SPACE (WS/SE) $ 11.50
1 MGD006666 DVD : STARGATE SG-1-7TH SEASON $ 23.90
1 WBD011375 DVD : GREYSTOKE-LEGEND OF TARZAN $ 6.43

Order #6:
1 MCA022265 DVD : KOLCHAK-NIGHT STALKER $ 23.98
1 MGD006768 DVD : NIGHT STALKER/NIGHT STRANGL $ 7.29
1 WBD068890 DVD : LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECT $ 35.31

Total spent: $512.18

Thank goodness I was able to eBay a lot of my old DVDs before and during the sale, and make them pay for themselves.

nightmaster

What struck me about the sale was just how cheap the box sets were. Buffy, Alien Quadrilogy, The Matrix, Back To The Future, Live 8, Batman Movie Anthology, Ulitimate Jerry Lewis Collection, were all going for incredible prices, prices you'd do well to find them for used in pawn shops or other stores that sell used media. I wound up buying four box sets. I had just bought the Alien Quadrilogy a few months ago in R2 Japanese for the DTS tracks, but if I hadn't I would have jumped on the DDD price. EVERY title I ordered was in stock, and some of them (like The Matrix set) are obvious big sellers.

This is also the best I've seen their site run during their 20 percent off sale, the improvement over how it was every sale prior to this one is night and day- before this sale I wasn't impressed with their sales because of slow page loading and their site being unable to handle the heavy traffic. This time the pages loaded as if it were any other day no matter what time I was browsing their titles.

Scott27

Finally got shipping notification yesterday on the order I placed Tuesday. I also got a shipping notification on the backordered Wizard of Oz 3-disc set from my first order, which had an 11/21 expected ship date.

Now, my only order yet to ship is the one I placed last night just before the sale ended.

My mail carrier's going to hate me since all of these packages are going to be held at the post office for a couple weeks, since I'm leaving on vacation Wednesday. Whoever delivers my mail the day I stopped the mail holding will have a lot to carry.

Yesac35

As usual, I went pretty nuts this sale:

BATMAN BEGINS (2D/SE) SHIPPED 1 $17.99 1 11/18/05 $17.99
STAR WARS-REVENGE OF THE SITH (WS) SHIPPED 1 $13.10 1 11/18/05 $13.10
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (DELUXE) SHIPPED 2 $15.00 2 11/18/05 $30.00
NEW YORK YANKEES-FALL CLASSIC 1996-2001 SHIPPED 1 $38.37 1 11/18/05 $38.37
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN-1ST SEASON SHIPPED 1 $22.29 1 11/18/05 $22.29
BARETTA-BEST OF SHIPPED 2 $4.80 2 11/18/05 $9.60
MONKEES-1ST SEASON SHIPPED 1 $43.07 1 11/18/05 $43.07
U2-VERTIGO LIVE FROM CHICAGO (DE) PREORDER 1 $20.10 0 ~11/15/05 N/A
FRIDAY SET 3-PACK SHIPPED 2 $22.36 2 11/18/05 $44.72
SHAFT/SHAFT'S BIG SCORE SHIPPED 1 $6.43 1 11/18/05 $6.43
FAT ALBERT-GREATEST HITS COLLECTION SHIPPED 1 $18.47 1 11/18/05 $18.47
FAT ALBERT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL SHIPPED 1 $5.27 1 11/18/05 $5.27
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED/CHILDREN OF SHIPPED 1 $7.20 1 11/18/05 $7.20
SPIKE LEE COLLECTION SHIPPED 1 $15.59 1 11/18/05 $15.59
THE TYLER PERRY COLLECTION SHIPPED 2 $32.22 2 11/18/05 $64.44
COOLEY HIGH SHIPPED 1 $7.53 1 11/18/05 $7.53
NEW JACK CITY (SPECIAL EDITION) SHIPPED 1 $15.98 1 11/18/05 $15.98
SET IT OFF SHIPPED 1 $7.20 1 11/18/05 $7.20
LADY SINGS THE BLUES (CE) SHIPPED 2 $7.48 2 11/18/05 $14.96
LEWIS BLACK-UNLEASHED SHIPPED 1 $7.20 1 11/18/05 $7.20
THE WATERBOY SHIPPED 1 $7.48 1 11/18/05 $7.48
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER-COMPLETE 1-7 BACKORDER 1 $111.89 0 ~11/28/05 N/A
GALLAGHER-BEST OF GALLAGHER V.01 SHIPPED 1 $4.79 1 11/18/05 $4.79
CLUELESS WHATEVER EDITION SHIPPED 1 $10.84 1 11/18/05 $10.84
I "HEART" HUCKABEES SHIPPED 1 $11.71 1 11/18/05 $11.71
MADAGASCAR (WS) SHIPPED 1 $13.74 1 11/18/05 $13.74
R.KELLY-TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET 1-12 1 $8.63 0 N/A N/A
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (WS) SHIPPED 1 $7.91 1 11/18/05 $7.91
HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER AZKABAN (WS) SHIPPED 1 $9.50 1 11/18/05 $9.50
HERCULES (GC) SHIPPED 1 $15.36 1 11/18/05 $15.36
HILARY DUFF-LEARNING TO FLY BACKORDER 1 $6.24 0 ~11/28/05 N/A
FRIENDS-THE ONE WITH ALL 10 SEASON PREORDER 1 $163.19 0 ~11/15/05 N/A
PLANET OF THE APES EVOLUTION SHIPPED 1 $22.29 1 11/18/05 $22.29
WIZARD OF OZ (3D/COLLECTORS EDITIO BACKORDER 1 $27.87 0 ~11/28/05 N/A
LOVE JONES SHIPPED 1 $7.20 1 11/18/05 $7.20
OPRAH WINFREY SHOW COLLECTION (20T SHIPPED 1 $31.03 1 11/18/05 $31.03

Shipping: $6.95
Order Total: $876.13

kevmalone

Mail customer service and they will send you a pre-paid return label that you can print.
I had a bad disk in a box set and returned a complete box set - turnround was fairly quick.

Jack Straw

When I got started ordering, I quickly realized that I had better take advantage of my credit union's "skip-a-payment" option on my auto loan. The way I figure it, if my credit union charges me 3.99%, and I can save 20% from DDDVD, then I'm getting a net savings of 16.01% by ordering more DVDs. Is this what they refer to as "fuzzy math"? Anyone else in their point and click frenzy mess up by ordering a DVD already in their collection? I did so with "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". Oh well, I'll think about returning it or putting it on Half.com.

MovieExchange

Shipping isn't the bottleneck. It's waiting for the warehouse to pull & package everything. I went with regular shipping on my first order because I knew it'd get in before the warehouse got backed up. The 4 orders after that I went with 3-5 day shipping because with the holiday coming up the warehouse probably won't get to them until next week, and I want to make sure to get my stuff before Christmas.

MovieExchange

The Jerry set shot up by about $20 shortly after the sale started, but that first price was absolutely incredible.

Dalvin

While I love their prices, there are two titles that I wanted really badly to pick up but DDD didn't even carry them

1) The first was Showtime's classic 80's series Faerie Tale Theatre-hosted by Shelley Duvall. This was a great show, and one I definetly want to pick up:

2) Second Chances- This was an early Jennifer Lopez(GOD INCARNATE) TV series that I wanted to check out, as I heard it was very good. It was before Selena.

Bother are available at Amazon:

Faerie Tale Theatre-http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=WBD058594

Second Chances:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...s=dvd&v=glance

Snarff

4th order
BACK TO THE FUTURE-COMPLETE TRILOGY (WS) 1 $16.31 0
STEALTH (WS/2D) 1 $14.70 0
WIZARD OF OZ (3D/COLLECTORS EDITIO BACKORDER 1 $27.87

5th order
space 1999 mega set $95.97

Dalvin

5th Order:

Jennifer Lopez: J.LO is God(Complete Collection).-J/K


Did we ever find out if she did do a Porn Tape? I would be all over that.

Qui Gon Jim

I ordered on the Friday the sale started and got my order the following Friday, and there was a holiday in there as well.

Shagrath

It's only a couple bucks difference, and probably not worth the hassle of returning to DDD (it costs them money to restock it and do the necessary paperwork, when the disc is in perfectly good condition and doesn't need to be returned).

I'm sorry, but I have read many of your posts about how you didn't get the best deal possible, and you're mad, and whatnot.. We don't always get the best price on everything. Some of us get in on deals, and some don't. That's the way life plays out. If you want the absolute best price on dvds all the time, maybe you should wait until the next format (or the one after that), and you can probably find DVDs for $0.25 at yard sales and thrift shops.

Shagrath

And now, for the updated stats for the madness that is the DDD sale.. This is through Post #67.

Total Orders: 903
Total Cost: $145178.48
Total Discs: 7904

Average Cost per Order: $160.77
Average Cost per Disc: $18.37
Average Discs per Order: 8

I only made two orders, and kept my total under $100 this time around. I hadn't been saving up for this one, so I just got a few things I had been wanting. However, next time around (June?), I plan on dropping $500-700 and picking up all the Criterions from Jan-Jun, and a few other older ones if I have money leftover.

Matthew Chmiel

I got my first order delivered on Friday night. Everything was fine, except that the copy of Arrested Development: Season 2 I ordered did not have the orange slip case it comes in AND had two disc ones instead of disc two.



I have to call DDD up on Monday and either get a refund or a corrected copy sent out.

Mexican Menace

As long as you left the shrinkwrap on your order, you should be alight.

dfriedland

Has anyone's backordered Buffy Complete shipped yet?
I hope they come thru with this on the backorders.

HE Pennypacker

Whoa, AD season two comes in a orange slilpcase? I didn't receive one either...Now there is even more reason to send it back and go through the Amazon deal, assuming it's still alive.

Pasolini

Never got my confirmation email for the first order, so I didn't post my list earlier. Of course I forgot to copy the order page so i had to go back to my shopping list to cut & paste my order. I hope it shows up on their order page one of these days, since it was my big order.

I love this sale for obscure titles - where else can you get KM0, Morcheeba, RIP and Bodysong on sale?!

ORDER 1:
EURO HORROR DOUBLE BILL (2PK) $ 9.58 $ 9.58
CREEP SHOW 2 (SE) $ 9.59 $ 9.59
WIZARD OF OZ (3D/COLLECTORS EDITIO $ 27.87 $ 27.87
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (DELUXE) $ 15.00 $ 15.00
THE CAT O'NINE TAILS $ 4.79 $ 4.79
GEORGE HARRISON-CONCERT FOR BANGLA $ 15.96 $ 15.96
GRAND CANYON HIDDEN SECRETS-IMAX $ 3.19 $ 3.19
YELLOWSTONE (IMAX) $ 3.19 $ 3.19
RING OF FIRE (IMAX) $ 3.19 $ 3.19
DOLLS $ 7.53 $ 7.53
MA MERE (UNRATED) $ 11.98 $ 11.98
JUST BEFORE DAWN (SE) $ 9.57 $ 9.57
LIVE 8 $ 25.92 $ 25.92
MYSTERIOUS SKIN (UNRATED) $ 11.98 $ 11.98
LADY SINGS THE BLUES (CE) $ 7.48 $ 7.48
GLADIATOR EXTENDED EDITION $ 20.91 $ 20.91
NEW ORDER-ITEM [2DISC) $ 13.30 $ 13.30
OLDBOY $ 11.98 $ 11.98
YOUNG GODS $ 15.52 $ 15.52
TETSUO-THE IRON MAN $ 11.98 $ 11.98
ACACIA $ 11.98 $ 11.98
FACE (2004) $ 11.98 $ 11.98
STAR TREK: NEMISIS (COLLECTORS EDITION) $ 10.84 $ 10.84
BODYSONG $ 10.55 $ 10.55
EFFECTS $ 10.61 $ 10.61
THE LADY IN WHITE $ 7.53 x = $ 7.53
Your Subtotal: $ 318.38

ORDER 2:
BEN HUR (4D/COLLECTOR'S ED WITH BOOK) $ 20.91 1 $ 20.91
KM O-KILOMETER ZERO $ 7.19 1 $ 7.19
MORCHEEBA-FROM BRIXTON TO BEIJING $ 10.64 1 $ 10.64
RIP-REST IN PIECES $ 9.58 1 $ 9.58
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 2 $ 7.20 1 $ 7.20
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 $ 7.42 1 $ 7.42
TITANIC (SPECIAL EDITION) $ 16.98 1 $ 16.98

cinelion

here is what I ordered:

DDHVD001804D HANZO-THE RAZOR $31.89

HVD001812 AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Criterion) $17.24

HVD001855 PICKPOCKET (CRITERION) $23.00

HVD001858 RAN (CRITERION) $28.76

DDHVD001841D AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (CRITERION) $23.00

DDHVD001842D NAKED (CRITERION) $23.00

DDHVD001665D CURE $17.24

DDHVD001769D MAYA $14.36

DDCOL011065D THE BROWN BUNNY (SUPERBIT) $9.10

illennium

My final tally:

Order 1 (already posted in previous thread)

THE WIM WENDERS COLLECTION (3D) SHIPPED 1 $19.19
T.REX-BORN TO BOOGIE (2DVD) SHIPPED 1 $10.52

Order 2 (already posted in previous thread)

WERNER HERZOG COLLECTION (6D) SHIPPED 1 $33.59

Order 3 (already posted in previous thread)

CHUNGKING EXPRESS SHIPPED 1 $5.04
PARIS, TEXAS SHIPPED 1 $5.74
THE UNDERNEATH BACKORDER 1 $4.80
HOME MOVIES-3RD SEASON BACKORDER 1 $16.74
CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST (SE) SHIPPED 1 $7.88

Chungking Express is for my girlfriend (not a gift though). Christmas in August is the only title I picked up based on a recommendation in the DVDTalk threads. Usually I find more titles by reading these threads (Time & Tide, Ultraviolet, etc.).

Order 4

NEW ORDER-ITEM [2DISC) BACKORDER 1 $13.30
FLAMING LIPS-VOID 1 $7.98
DIRECTORS LABEL SERIES BOX SET PREORDER 1 $32.39

(Already sent an email to CS requesting a discount on the Director's Label set, although I couldn't tell from following the thread whether others were successful in receiving it or not. Either way, I already sold my copies of the three individual discs for $30, so at worst it's a $2.39 upgrade for the box and bonus disc.)

Order 5 (didn't actually order these myself, but made a trade on another site as part of which the guy ordered these for me)

BATTLE OF ALGIERS (CRITERION) $28.68
COLLECTED SHORTS OF JAN SVANKMAJER $16.77
AVANT-GARDE-EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OF $16.77
THE KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI SET $55.97
KNIFE IN THE WATER (CRITERION) $23.00
DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE (CRITERION) $23.00

My stats for the five orders (not including Chungking Express) look like this:

Total orders: 5
Total spent: $316.32 (out-of-pocket $152.13)
Total number of titles: 16
Average spent per title: $19.77 (out-of-pocket $9.51)
Total number of discs: 41
Average spent per disc: $7.72 (out-of-pocket $3.71)

brianglenn

My first order:

1 ABD011854 DVD : OPERA (LE) $ 14.39 In-stock
1 BLG001001 DVD : CRAZIES, THE $ 9.58 In-stock
1 BLG582008 DVD : BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMA $ 15.93 In-stock
1 BVD049346 DVD : DUCKTALES V.01 $ 19.11 Backorder
1 COL004015 DVD : SLC PUNK $ 11.12 New-Price
1 COL008084 DVD : SLACKERS $ 4.80 In-stock
1 HVD000163 DVD : PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (CRI $ 23.00 Backorder
1 HVD000419 DVD : AKIRA KUROSAWA-FOUR SAMURAI $ 57.56 Backorder
1 HVD001587 DVD : FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGA $ 23.00 In-stock
1 HVD001701 DVD : SAMURAI TRILOGY (CRITERION) $ 40.28 In-stock
1 HVD001730 DVD : VIDEODROME (CRITERION) $ 23.00 In-stock
1 HVD001849 DVD : LE SAMOURAI (CRITERION) $ 17.24 In-stock
1 HVD006000 DVD : M (CRITERION) $ 23.00 In-stock
1 LGE017897 DVD : AUDITION $ 9.89 In-stock
1 MBI005089 DVD : ZOMBIE PACK (3,4,5) $ 9.57 Backorder
1 MCA023652 DVD : PSYCHO 3 $ 6.76 In-stock
1 MCA023653 DVD : PSYCHO 2 $ 6.76 In-stock
1 NLD008445 DVD : HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY COLLECT $ 50.63 In-stock
1 PRD006830 DVD : ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WES $ 6.22 In-stock
1 PRD019494 DVD : PET SEMATARY $ 4.79 In-stock
1 PRD026394 DVD : WAR OF THE WORLDS (SE/1953) $ 7.48 In-stock
1 PRD338174 DVD : VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE $ 4.79 In-stock
1 TCM006686 DVD : THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, T $ 6.43 New-Price
1 TLA000049 DVD : SUICIDE CLUB (UR) $ 7.19 In-stock
1 WBD033534 DVD : RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 2 $ 7.20 In-stock
1 WEA108152 MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY $ 18.70 Backorder

Merchandise Total: $ 428.42
Tax: $ .00
Shipping & Processing: $ .00

Total for this Order: $ 428.42


My second order:

1 ABD011263 DVD : STUFF, THE $ 4.79 In-stock
1 PRD003091 DVD : TRUMAN SHOW (SPECIAL COLLEC $ 10.84 In-stock
1 PRD031384 DVD : WARRIORS (ULTIMATE DIRECTOR $ 10.84 In-stock

Merchandise Total: $ 26.47
Tax: $ .00
Shipping & Processing: $ .00

Total for this Order: $ 26.47