DVD Planet Quote Machine
 

DVD Planet has a note on their Quote Machine that it will be down until August 31 for maintenance. Does anyone (such as DVD Planet employees) know for sure if it will be up and running by September 1st? I tried to sell some dvds on the first day it went down for maintenance so I've been waiting a while for it to come back up. Any help would be awesome!

I'm actually more worried that the trade in values are going to be severely dropped. The trade in value they were giving was excellent. 2-3 times what you can get in trade locally.

Trust me, I'm worried about that too. I put in a quote on my lunch break the day it went down (while it was still up) but didn't submit because I wanted to go home and confirm I had put them all in. When I got home Quote Machine was down. I'm betting I lose quite a bit. :(

You might want to try the store forum... Maybe the DVD Planet sucks thread. -rolleyes-

Mark from DVDP stops by every so often.

You will have to wait longer to trade in now :( I remember it took for ever for the adult webite to go back online...

The Quote Machine is being taken down temporarily for a maintenance. We will be back up and purchasing discs on September 7, 2007.

I would say prices will decrease, I ran a few through the Quote Machine direct links. I tried ones that were 7.48 the day before the shutdown, now they're 2.88. Could be just in some cases, but I seriously doubt the prices will stay reasonable and that means I can remove DVD Planet from my bookmarks.

Can you post the direct link? I have a stack of DVDs I've been waiting to sell to DVD Planet, but may end up putting them on Ebay if it appears the trade-in prices on them are nolonger going to be reasonable. (I know that many of them were $8.98 and $7.48 before.)

Someone posted the direct link in another thread as http://www.dvdplanet.com/quotemachine/, but Mark posted after that saying that those prices may or may not be correct, and that no quotes generated before the "normal" link is reactivated would be accepted, IIRC. :shrug:

What a load of baloney. I've never heard of a website taking down one of their major features for over a month like this. I guess I might as well wait it out to see if their trade-in prices still beat everyone else, but chances are that I will no longer be purchasing from dvdplanet once I used my remaining credit.

Quotemachine is back up, prices are lower. HD DVD and Blu-ray titles now show up in the searches.


dvdsrule

You beat me to it...They are Not
accepted alot of previous items.
Oh well....Fun while it lasted.

prices don't seem bad to me. some stuff I recently sold went up actually, like seasons of seinfeld from 14.98 to 15.45

wow, a lot of items I want to sell are completely gone and other items prices went way down. Not an improvement.

Looks like I'm off to Movie Trading Company

I'm happy. Had 7 titles I was planning to sell. The new quote machine prices are better for every one of the titles in my order than they were before. And the DVD Planet quotes are significantly better than quotes from SecondSpin for the same titles -- in every case. DVDPlanet still has my business when it comes to selling used discs.

looks like they got rid of older versions of movies and barebones releases. bummer.

examples: taxi driver, memento, apocalypse now, easy rider

I am satisfied with the changes. I am sure its better for business to not buy a ton of bare-bones, obsolete titles that have new versions. Some titles I sent were more, some less, but it seemed to balance out.

Same here ... most of the titles I wanted to trade in for store credit are now gone ... and some that are there have trade-in prices too low to even bother to consider ... glad Ebay has that month long listing sale going on as that's where most of the DVDs I wanted to trade are headed.

Wow. On all of the anime that I checked, they removed the individual volumes if a collected set has been released. That's too bad.

I really enjoyed using QuoteMachine the two times it worked before they screwed it up.

are the prices that appear online the same prices they will pay in-store? i'd much rather sell them off in-store than by mail since i have a dvd planet pretty close by.

I'm glad I cleared out most of my DVDs to sell before this happened. I had a small stack to sell and checked some of the prices. HD DVD prices are good (not what I could get selling them myself though), but many of the DVD titles are now $2.88 instead of the $6 or so they were before and most are just missing completely.

I kind of knew this would have to end at some point, but I will definitely miss trading in stuff with them. Back to selling them one at a time on Half.com.

So are these quotes only good for store credit? One thing I liked about secondspin was the option to be paid through PayPal. I'd even take a check, but store credit means I'm stuck paying retail when I'm used to Columbia House prices.

It has always only been store credit. It's the trade-off for getting (usually) better prices. You may want to use the credit on discs that you cannot get from Columbia House.

There was rationale in how I determined what to pay for DVDs. DVDs that had little to no sales history the past 12 months I opted not to buy or reduced the price we pay. Retail price drops also affect what we can sell a used disc for so the price we offer also dropped.

I also increased what we pay on over 10,000 dvds and that has also been noted in a message above. Paying $8 for a $25 retail disc that is on every closeout list for $5 just does not make sense.

I am sorry if some of you feel like we did this to take advantage of you. This was not my intent.

^ I'm with you... Glad to see the QM back. :up:

Mark, I don't think anyone thinks you're taking advantage, I think some people just feel that your present purchase prices are now just more in line with what most sites will offer for DVDs and they miss the great offers and range of titles accepted that were previously available.

Ah well, I still have some more DVDs I want to get rid of (and that are still listed); the stuff that I can't unload onto DVD Planet (like the old Kubrick discs, the earlier release ofInvasion of the Body Snatchers, etc.) I'll just give to friends.

I sold my old Kubrick discs to Wherehouse and got $4-6, PayPal plus shipping credit.

Believe me, I understand it from a business standpoint. You guys were giving 2-3 times what the stores around here give for used and some of the prices are still good, but obviously its all the good stuff I wouldn't trade anyway.

I'm not mad at DVD Planet at all and I'm thrilled I got to trade away my older low value stuff and get some good value while I could.

Unfortunately though I have to weight the hassle of boxing everything up and paying for shipping for only store credit in return. With my current stack the trade credit is just not worth it. When it comes to $3 a disc it is just easier to sell it for cash and make the buyer pay shipping cost.

I am glad that HD DVD and Blu-ray is now up for trade and your trade values for them are higher than anything offered locally.

In the end it all works out. Even if I sell them myself for cash I will probably still end up coming back to DVD Planet to buy. I'm really looking forward to some good deals on used HD discs and at least I know used products from DVD Planet are in very good condition.

The store credit only terms are a first for me, but my collection is now 50+ titles lighter averaging $4.13 per disc. I hope they have some good HD-DVD sales!

I considered craigslist, and I do have an active thread here in the exchange forum, but this is easier than selling 2-3 discs to 20+ people.. and all the communication/shipping to go with it. To see an employee posting here had an impact, too, especially since it looks like he's the man in charge of it all.

This is tremendously disappointing. Half of my dvd's which I'd hoped to trade in are no longer even listed.

I was looking forward to future purchases with DVD Planet but that unfortunately will not happen.

Okay, so I picked out a bunch of DVDs I want to trade. Now what? Do I just send my DVDs to the address listed in Contact Us? Is there a special address to use? Do I have to fill out form or something so they know it's my account to credit to? I've checked the website and I don't see anything at all to answer these general questions I have.

I print out the email they sent with the quote and put it in the box, then reference the order number on the box itself. I've traded in dozens and dozens of boxes this way and never had a problem.

So your shipping costs are refunded in store credit as well?

No

The trade-in value was still decent on many of the ones I have, so I went ahead and did it. But I will be researching other methods instead of blindly going with dvdplanet.com from now on.

By the way, Mark, are you guys not buying A Clockwork Orange? Because I couldn't get a quote on it.

Sorry in advance for the noob questions, but what is the "e-mail" you are referencing? I have some stuff that I will like to trade in after running them through the Quote Machine, but I do not see anything that would enable me to receive an e-mailed quote. Thanks.

EDIT: Also, does DVDPlanet accept un-opened, factory sealed DVD's (unwanted gifts) or should I open them before sending them in?

Maybe there's a step missing here but there's no place to submit an order for what you're sending in. Wherehouse has this set up like that but all you can do is check out quotes.

after you add in everything you want to sell to them, click on the button that says "checkout" then it takes you to a page where you either enter your customer number or fill in your info if its your first time.