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Hi,

I came across this earlier

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It`s seasons 1-5 of Simpsons quite cheap when you convert dollars to pounds even after the shipping.

Anyway, the seller says they are the original Asian releases and are exactly the same as our releases apart from some text on the covers.

Is that right? They worth getting? Any other differences I should know about?

Cheers

This item was edited on Thursday, 6th January 2005, 16:56

given that he`s plastered "any region" all over the place i`d say they are bootlegs, and once you add the shipping it all mounts up (shipping to england is $45)

but thats not to say they won`t be any good, my "asian collectors editions" of Taken & X-Files have much nicer packaging than the "official" releases and the picture quality is just as good :) but you pays you`re money & takes you`re chances ;)

Is still works out cheaper tho even after the shipping.

Do you think it`s worth it?

Thnx

thats up to you :) but be aware, if it gets stopped by customs, you will get another charge.

Do you really want to own pirate DVDs though?

Sure they might be cheaper and may look good but unless they are DVD9s they will have reduced quality and if any of them happen to be faulty, good luck getting a refund/replacement.

So they defo aren`t originals like he claims?

given that he`s plastered "any region" all over the place i`d say they are bootlegs,

I emailed some buyers from Ebay who purchased from him and they all said they were originals and everything was perfect?
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It`s been confirmed by 6 people now that they are originals.

I might give it a try, the same guy is selling a 68dvd box set of every season of XFiles for around $160 including sjipping, so only work out at about 75 quid.
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I emailed some buyers from Ebay who purchased from him and they all said they were originals and everything was perfect?

to the untrained eye, they will look spot on, they will have been produced in a "proper" pressing plant & will be on"proper" dvd`s (although they may be dvd-5`s rather than dvd-9`s) so they probably wouldn`t know, but they will still almost certainly be bootlegs, if in doubt google for the original dvd`s from that region and compare the artwork ;)

and with a "fairly" big release, if it where original would almost certainly be region coded.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 5th January 2005, 17:24