What sites do you use for buying music/dvd's online?

[jaybird]

I'm exhausting myself comparison shopping at all the different sites. What sites do you find have the lowest prices on music & dvds? I'm a cdnow shopper mostly, but the prices are varying way too much this holiday season from site to site. And I've got a list of 3 cds and 4 movies I'm shopping for.

[socks1211]

i get all my cds online from bmg when u sign up u get so many free and just have to pay s&h

[jaybird]

Been there, done that. They don't have a couple I'm looking for. :(

[Tyt Budget]

This probably doesn't count JB but, er, Half.com. Ya ya I know, you want shrink wrap, new CD smell. Da woiks.

I'll bet you're even the type who has to have the case with no cracks in it heh. Well not me baby. I'm strictly bump and grind (and I'm not talking about my dancing heh). Merciless, too. One woman was so exasperated with my (hm, 10?) questions to her regarding her book she had one plaintive request: Please do not buy from me. Ha ha ha! I know I'm doing good work when that happens. :D

[jaybird]

For myself I don't really care if the cd or movie comes stuffed in a Kleenex box. But in the spirit of holiday giving, I imagine my picky*ssed sister would prefer a new, unopened, unused i.e., SEALED cd and/or dvd. My mom, I can get buy with half.com or ebay. But not the sister! ;)

Have you bid against me at ebay on books???? GRRRR...
:D

[Tyt Budget]

Originally posted by jaybird
Have you bid against me at ebay on books???? GRRRR...
:D

Not me Darling. I'm way too cheap to bid on fleabay. ;)

But the books I get at Half.com, in particular, are farkin' un farkin' believable (for the most part).

Gorgeous brand new firsts, mm mm. Yes maam. Six dollah. Amazon charge 17 dollah. Most excellent. ;)

You'll encounter the odd Creep of course, and Creepette. There seem to be a great number of them in the Carolinas. Go figure.

Got 3 in just today, yum yum.

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[jaybird]

What are you reading Tytie?

[eeigh33]

Jaybird, I have shopped a lot online in the past month or so for Christmas. The two I used most often were BarnsandNoble.com and Amazon.com. Generally they were comparable. One might be a buck or so cheaper than the other, but it was not consistently one site over the other. Good luck! Barns is offering free shipping when buying two items and Amazon has free shipping over 25 bucks. So, that might help you as well.

[Tyt Budget]

Originally posted by jaybird
What are you reading Tytie?

Well I am straddling three different Epic SF/Fantasy series — but I had to pause along the way to just polish off Rosemary Steven's latest hilarious Beau Brummel History Mystery series, The Bloodied Cravat. I tell ya I don't know when I have laughed so hard. This is her 3rd (and actually it's the weakest) but her first one Death on a Silver Tray and her second one The Tainted Snuff Box were just pee-in-your-pants hilarious. They're short little novels. Beau's vanity is just shameless and he appeals to your sympathies in the 1st Person. Add a finicky Gentleman's Gentleman (Robinson) and an imperiously ambivalent Siamese Cat — toss in the occasional royalty ("Prinny" that's the Price of Wales) — Jesus it's hilarious. The two former pigs farm boys who carry him around London in his sedan chair (twins, of course). Pick up The Silver Tray at the library if you can JB and tell me if you aren't laughing out loud at choice points throughout the book. You can polish it off in a couple of nights.

Now my latest serious Fantasy reading consists of
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN's A Song of Ice And Fire series
ROBIN HOBB
MARGARET WEIS & TRACY HICKMAN Dragonlance

I have to say, I am just in love with Robin Hobb's writing. I just finished her Ship of Magic series and it was sooooooooo good it killed me to have to end the third book! A sexy Pirate named Kennet takes center stage and, as per Hobb, her female characters are strong, sexy, and independent. :D

Whatcha reading JB?

[jaybird]

What am I reading???

Hehe. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold, just started) From The Corner of His Eye (Dean Koontz, almost finished) and Wyrd Sisters (Terry Prachett, for the upteenth time)

And Rumi. The Essential Rumi. On my nightstand.

On my list to read is my annual reading of "Grapes of Wrath."
:D

I'm not a sci-fi girly. Gave up on Stephen King when he got a little too over the edge for me. Read some Koontz, want to read more Prachett, the Discworld series, can't stand vampire books.

[chort1313]

I usually go to half.com---but if you are ever in Maryland Heights you should go to the 'old' CD Warehouse. They have the BEST prices on DVD's in the area. I picked up Band of Brothers there for $70 for Brian's Christmas present. I also got SITC Season 2 for $20 and Season 3 for $25---these are compared to $35 and $40 right now. OH,I also picked up Sopranos Season 1 there for $45 for a friend. This is $75 right now at Amazon.

[jaybird]

Chorty, where's that at? Near 270 & Page, or Dorsett??? That's ridiculously cheap for BofBros. My sister wants to buy that for our mom for Christmas (I have NO idea why!)

Brian & Chelle want Black Hawk Down, Monsters, Inc and ummm something else. Mom wants MIB2 and some old movies, "Any Wednesday" & "Sundays in NY." I need to make a trip out there!

[chort1313]

It's 270 and Dorsett. I was just there today! They also have a buy 10 get 1 free punch card for cd's and dvd's. You can call before you go out there and make sure they have it. I know they have BofB sealed for $70, I saw that today. The number is 314-590-0001. Also, they don't have a 'name' yet. There is a contest in the store. If they pick the name you choose you get $100 store credit.

[jaybird]

I'm heading to Crestwood tomorrow night, that's only 10-15 minutes down 270. How far on Dorsett, or is it 'right there?' You probably come from north, 70 to 270, right? I'm coming the other way.

Nevermind, I'll call in the morning and see what they have that is on my list!

Thanks for the headsup!

[janelle]

Half.com isn't half bad. the seller tells you if the CD or DVD is still in the shrink wrap and what condition it's in if opened. Like just played once or brand new and never opened. Good luck.

[Syrinx]

I've bought several dvds on Half.com that were still sealed, and really did get them for half price, shipping included. Best deal I've found!

[Tyt Budget]

Originally posted by Syrinx
I've bought several dvds on Half.com that were still sealed, and really did get them for half price, shipping included. Best deal I've found!

Ya know Syrinx, I agree with you about these mysterious people who seem to be able to abscond with perfect (fill in blank) and sell them for peanuts on Half.com.

I think there is a Secret Society of people who are either in warehouse thievery -or- bootlegged China.

This is just the most fascinating thing to me! No, seriously. And I don't doubt what you say about your DVD/CDs et al. being shrink-wrapped.

I for example just recently located a Brand New hardcover that dates back to 1992. It has long since been put out to pasture by any new book dealer, but one day it popped up on my Wishlist and the guy has a shrinkwrapped shipment of them. There everybody else is with their spine cocks, their yellowing, their coffee stains et al. . . . and, like Zeus, this fellow drops from the heavens with a newly-materialized crate of fresh 1st's . . . from a distant decade.

I mean what the ~ ??? This commercial trading capacity of long-out-of-print 1st's that materialize on Half.com is the most baffling thing to me. Because, of course, I want to know where they are getting these books etc. Won't get a peep out of them, that's for sure!! ha ha. I have created an entire plot out of them, and picture them bobbing in a skiff, tied up to an iron ring deep in the cavern of a sea cave somewhere, with bandanas and striped shirts, saying "arh arh arh! thought you'd never see this book again didja matey! we gots our ways, now don't we my precious? arh arh." :D :eek:

[Syrinx]

LOL! I've wondered about how people can sell new dvds for so cheap, especially when I find one for $10 that the retail price on is $30. I think warehouse theft is a real possibility!

That's pretty funny about those shrink wrapped books. You have to wonder if this guy has had them sitting around since '92 and just figured out what to do with them!

[Tyt Budget]

Originally posted by Syrinx
LOL! I've wondered about how people can sell new dvds for so cheap, especially when I find one for $10 that the retail price on is $30. I think warehouse theft is a real possibility!

That's pretty funny about those shrink wrapped books. You have to wonder if this guy has had them sitting around since '92 and just figured out what to do with them!

I tell you it is the damndest thing. Of all the great mysteries in the world to me (electricity, radio, Lycra etc.) these folk who come parachuting in to Half.com with cartons of brand new CDs, books, tapes — like 15 years hadn't just passed since these items were last cut — why, why . . . the next thing you know they'll be selling signed originals of the Bible. :eek: :D :D

Hey man. I want one of those T-Rex chicks you just got in from Taiwan :eek: heh heh. Yeah, get me a Stegosaur too. Do you ship overnight? What the hell. I've got room in my backyard. ;) Time I had a pet.

"Here Spot. Here Boy."
Woof. :D