If I remember correctly there was a $100 coupon code you could use on ValueAmerica. And ValueAmerica would match that with another $100 off. So you got $200 off anything on their site.

They sold so many Sega Dreamcasts that they ran out of stock. They sent their employees to Toys R Us and brought the Dreamcast at full retail from them to fill all rest of the orders. I read that they lost a lot of money with that $200 off offer.

That Toshiba combo player/receiver was my first ever unit. It was a GREAT deal. I think it was $600 at the time and I got it for way under half price. I was the most popular guy in my dorm with my five movies, including Austin Powers and the matrix

I brought one of those Toshiba Combo Dvd Player/Receiver and one of my kids recently told me it still works.

What was the store that sent out a propeller type thing on a stick? I never did know exactly what you were supposed to do with it. I think maybe it was checkout.com but not sure there were so many back then.

-popcorn-

Does not surprise me. The player got used by me or someone in my family until 2003. That was five years of pretty hardcore use. When I sold it, it still worked like the day I bought it.

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Originally Posted by Fincher Fan
I used to score most of my discs from DVD North back in the day before using Reel.com. I forget which site it was but I used to get my international shipping rebated from them!


It was probably what lasermovies mentioned, Brandsforless.

I remember combining brandsforless (they had $25 rebates in addition to the free shipping rebates), reel coupons, and reel pricematching to get some great deals.

And my first DVD player, a Toshiba dual discer, was bought back in 1999 at 800.com. It still works great (knocking on wood)!

What was the website that had you do surveys to earn points which you could use towards DVD's and other stuff.
I miss the old coupon days, most of which I found out about at this site.

I'm still using the Panasonic DVD player I got from the ValueAmerica deal. Nothing like getting paid to buy DVD's from Reel.com either. Ahh the good ol' days.

This thread takes me back to my freshman year of college. I owe my first 100 or so DVDs in 1999 to Freeride, Reel Trivia, ValueAmerica, and others (got my first DVD player - a Toshiba SD 1200 which still works, has never not been able to play a disc, and has my favorite on-screen options of any player I've ever owned - on one of those group buy sites where the prices improved depending on how many people ordered the item. I think it was $125 shipped, a great price at the time. I used to spend and hour Freeriding every night while watching TV and collected hundreds in Amazon gift certificates. I once spammed e-cards back and forth between hotmail accounts, earning $10 at Amazon for every 10 I sent... I think I made $80 overall.

My worst addiction was Reel Trivia though. I was impatient so I would only continue with an account until I got a gift certificate, because you'd get one automatically or practically right away for referring five people. I wound up creating dozens if not a hundred hotmail accounts, which I kept in big lists all taped to my desk.

Oddly enough, I didn't make a whole lot of friends that year.

I never got in on 800.com, but I did get a lot of cheap shit via Orderbox. anyone remember them?

wow..a friend and i who were early adopters of the dvd format were just talking about the old online deals to be had at 800, Reel, BigStar, and Buy..
we would laugh at the people in Best Buy who would be buying stacks of dvd's at 20 bucks a shot

One of my fondest memories of reel.com was that they offered laserdiscs for a short time when lds were getting harder and harder to come by in retail stores. I was able to pick up an LD of THE MATRIX that I later sold for $80

No kidding. I bought my very first DVD at CC in 98. At $25 a pop, I had to find a better deal. This, of course, lead me to find DVDtalk. Aww the memories. :)

I guess it wasn't real wood.

My Toshiba has started giving me pixelation and freezing issues with every disc :(

I knew I shouldn't have posted that comment.

I should have posted about a lottery win or supermodel date instead.....

Ahh, Whoopi and the flooz, and William Shatner and priceline.com.

Find me a 4 star hotel room in New York City on New Years' Eve for 5$.

You can't? Aww darn, I'll take the 15$ to spend at towerrecords.com....

Ok, Whoopi, sure, I'll recommend 5 friends via email to get 5$ more in flooz...

we had a good time on wagerworks, i stayed at the Bellagio for 4 nights for free.

I remember all the "complaining on these forums" when the "rape and pillage" our internet stores until we go bankrupt coupons stated to disappear and were replaced with rather mundane coupons like $15 off $75 etc....

Yeah I scored a $1500.00 check for myself and and $725.00 check under my "mom's" account. They also had a huge contest where they gave out $5000.00 GC's to any of their stores but filed chapter 11 while the people were waiting their rebate checks from their shopping sprees.


Ah yes, Reel trivia and Freeride were also two of my favorite; I don't think I paid for a dvd all of 98 and 99. :lol: