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hi folks just a quick un to say i got my minato (only £85 as tesco lost my first one and gave me some compensation woohoo) also after reading through all the forums have visited a few retailers (play247,ezydvd etc) also made my first purchase from DDDHOUSE (bloody nice fellas) and am now seeking enlightenment as to other good retailers/sites to visit and any tips you guys/gals have must dash mate`s just given me a copy of drunken master 2 that wont play on his chipped samsung ho-hum cheers all and see you soon MATT AKA FJ 1200

This item was edited on Wednesday, 15th August 2001, 17:39

You can`t beat futurent.com for Region 1 - especially if you`re just starting your collection.
You have to manually trawl through the bargain section tho. , if you just search for a title it will bring up the full price one.

There were a couple of posts re "what sites have you got bookmarked" a little while ago - have a root for them... should set you up nicely. I highly recommend the Australian sites - some v. cheap prices.
Try http://www.ezydvd.com.au and http://www.devoted.com.au for starters.

also http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for currency conversions

Richard

Be V.careful with imports tho` and check shipping & delivery carefully.
Aussie sites also add sales tax (GST around 10%) to their site prices so if you deduct 9% from the prices you`ll see even cheaper deals. Buy R1 stuff in Canadian Dollars if you can - it sometimes works out cheaper.

Try to keep import buys to 1 or 2 - generally below £18 (or £36 if the package has `GIFT` declared on the label) or big bad bod from Her Maj`s (very fine) Customs & Excise will dump another 21% on top of the cost, with the Post Office charging a fee for paying it for you at Customs. If you`re going for bulk purchase or box sets try play247 or futureent first - no customs problems with either of these as they are posted inside the EU.

I generally test the water with a single purchase first, just to judge how good the site is. If you can, get a Credit Card that you only use for online purchases, with a low credit limit - about £200 or so. Then if your details get stolen or misused (fairly rare, but so is burglary!) they can only do a limited amount of damage.

Try to take this DVD purchase thing easy too. 99% of the bods here (myself included) are now DVD bargain junkies and have credit cards in meltdown! Believe me, it`s more addictive than crack cocaine! As a tip, buy the stuff you`re to going view again and again along with those films etc you consider classics. I have tried to limit myself to 1 dvd or so a month but it ain`t working! (I think I`ll have to go cold turkey soon or I`ll be working just to pay my DVD debts! ;-)> )

HTH

SN

hmmm...I`ll have to disagree with you on the comparison of DVD adiction to that of Crack Cocaine addiction...i spent 6 months in a drug re-hab centre, and do not take kindly to your comments.

I agree, theres no way you could stuff those shiny discs into your small glass pipe and smoke them.

Well I suppose you could, but you`d never end up in the crack house because of it...

hes got a point about the comparison bein way off mate,, i find its way harder to stop buyin DVD`s than doin drugs.. :0)... and to Haggis, im pleased u managed to sort uself out m8 but dont expect ppl to tiptoe about the subject and not make jokes just because u were addicted once.. after all... it was ur own bloody fault in the first place m8,, but well done for bootin it anyway..
Cheers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Chivalry

thanks for all the advice folks and please don`t take it to serious now lets get trawlin b4 the missus gets home regards all MATT AKA FJ 1200

sorry...i was takin the p**s...(perhaps my comedy is a bit Brass Eye for the forum)...nice to see you`re all liberal with your attitudes though (ha!)...

see YAH!

Damn, I was gonna ask you where I could score a few rocks from.....