Here is the latest in my serious stupid sickness
A quick update on the last post.... a seller had offered me Disorderly Conduct for $3.50 including shipping. That deal fell through. The arrival date came and went and all the user had done up to that point was print the label. I reached out but did not hear anything from them, so I opened up a 'My item didn't arrive' ticket with eBay. The seller finally replied and said that they couldn't find it but that they would ship it. But of course the eBay wheels were already in motion, so after a couple of days, they saw that the seller had still not shipped the item and offered me a refund.
Even though I knew I needed to stop buying movies (especially after that crazy Aug 26th run), I had felt the itch to go check the local Big Lots and Goodwill stores for some good deals on movie pack multi-packs. I resisted for a week, but the itch got the best of me the other day. I was coming back from lunch with my co-worker and decided that 'since it was on the way home', I would stop at the Fairfield Big Lots and Fairfield Goodwill since they were right next to each other.
I first went to Big Lots first. Not much there interested me, but I did find a collection called '8-Movie All Action Collection' which was from the Shout Factory which was only $4.00. Coming from Shout! I knew that the quality was going to be good so that was the easy pick. I then poked around the rest of the shelves but wasn't finding anything of interest. I was about to leave when I decided to take a peak on the one side which had CDs one it and noticed that at the bottom there were a few other DVDs. And there is was, with a $1.50 clearance sticker... Canine Capers, a four movie pack with a dog theme. I.... could not.... resist.
I then went next door to Goodwill and their DVD (and CD) selection was pretty sad. I think gone are the days of the massive DVD collections at the Goodwill. Not sure if they are selling them off to somewhere else or what, but there isn't as much as there used to be. CDs I can understand, but DVDs are still a strong seller out there. I did manage to find one collection, Midnight Horror Collection Vol. 1 which was one I had been looking to get since I got the Midnight Horror Collection Vol. 2 at Half Price the other day.
A few days later, I was doing what I should not have been (looking through eBay) and in my 'Of interest to you' section was the Benji 4 Movie collection. I had seen this before and Benji was dog of the minute back in 1978 so it holds a place in my heart. And wouldn't you know it, it came from a seller who was doing a 'buy 2 get one free' promotion. You see where this is going. So I looked around their site and found a couple others to add to the collection, 'Law & Disorder' which is a collection from Maverick which is a company I have been buying from recently, as well as a Classic War 4 movie collection from Universal. Those arrived with no issue.
But the itch persisted....
There was another set from Maverick called 'Secrets & Lies' which was the latest item on my list. So the other day I found someone who was selling it and I picked it up for $6.50. Not a great deal, but not terrible. And it arrived as expected (actually a few days earlier than expected).
But still.... the itch...
Since the Disorderly Conduct offer fell through, I was looking around. There was one place which had a cheap copy ... but it was from the place that I had had issues with before, SecondSale. They had shorted me a disc on my Western Trios set and then totally botched half of the sets when I did the double buy 2 get 1 order.
So when I saw that they had Disorderly Conduct at price cheaper than anyone else... and it was part of the dreaded buy 2 get one sale, I knew i was in trouble. I looked around and found another Maverick set which was on my radar called 'Disturbing the Peace' which was also part of the same sale.
I had put those two things in my cart a few times but was having a hard time finding another item that was part of the B2G1 promo.
I was trying to be good. I really was... until this morning. I reached my goal on my passive income app, so I will be getting $20 in the next couple of days. Money to burn I guess. I be lying if I said I had not been doing a little more homework the night before. I had found some sets that might work to be the third, however I knew I needed to spend time doing extra homework because of the issues I had had before with that seller. I needed to make sure that the collections I picked each came in one case. That was the issue last time. I had three sets that were all multi-case sets and I got shorted on all of them. They sent only one of the two cases for each of those sets. They just do too much volume to actually look to see if all the movies are there. So I got up this morning and did my extra homework. I was looking at few different action movie sets (something I have been buying alot of recently) but eventually landed on a set called '10 Movie Mega Pack Vol. 2' since it looked like it had some non-action stuff that probably leaned more towards comedies from the 2010s. So that order cost me $11 I think.
So I still had $9 right, and there were still a few more Maverick set which I had been wanting, Feel the Heat and Misbehavior. So I poked around an found a few copies. Thankfully (?) I found a couple which had a 'Best Offer' option, so I submitted some offers, both which were pretty low to be honest, but it doesn't hurt to ask and the seller can still give a counter offer if they think that price is too low. As I was writing this, I got a counter offer on feel the heat and I accepted, so I'll be getting that one for $6.75 (I was aiming for $6). I guess we'll see what happens with the other offer. I offered $7.50 on a $11 copy of Misbehavior. Hoping to pick this up for less than $10 if I can.It would be fantastic if they just accepted, 'cause who else is going to want that set other than some collector guy with impulse buying and completist and 'quantity over quality' issues. (Edit: They declined the $7.50 offer, so I submitted a $9 offer which they accepted. It was free shipping so all in with tax it was $9.75.)
The 4 Movie Marathon sets seem to be pretty decent, so I had also been doing some additional research on those. The only ones which really caught my eye were the westerns. I have a few of the movie marathons sets; one western, the newly purchased classic war, and (quite by accident) a holiday collection which I got for the wife several years back to get 'Christmas in Connecticut'. I put some of the western collections on my Amazon list since my birthday is coming up.
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