On a mad search

[heavenly_pearl]

So, Mom handed me one of her credit cards today and told me to use it to order about $70 worth of Christmas presents for myself. I was hoping I would be able to order the last volume of Le Chevalier D'Eon that I needed from Right Stuf, but not only were they sold out of it again, it's apparently no longer available for purchase from them. That meant I had to try to find a copy somewhere else. (There was no way I was going to buy the upcoming boxset when I only needed one DVD to finish my collection.)

I tried all the usual places. Barnes & Noble wasn't selling it. Overstock.com wasn't selling it. Best Buy is still selling it, but it's currently on backorder and selling for about $25, more than I really wanted to pay when I had bought the rest of the DVDs for the same price at Right Stuf. Finally, I got lucky at Amazon.com. Amazon.com itself didn't have any for sale, but there were some copies available through the Marketplace, and one of the sellers was actually the head of Right Stuf (shawnek). I've never ordered anything from the Marketplace before, but I figured "what the heck?" and ordered a new copy from the aforementioned shawnek for about $11.

Not only that, but since catalina_bella was nice enough to give me her copy of Vol. 2 of SuperS that she no longer needed -- came in yesterday, thanks again! -- I decided to finish up my DVD collection of SuperS by ordering Vols. 1 & 3 through the Marketplace as well. Can you believe somebody was actually selling a new copy of Vol. 3 for $53?!  Man, if I had known back then how valuable they would become, I would have stocked up! *laughs* Needless to say, I ended up ordering a used copy of that volume that still cost about twenty dollars, but I think it'll be worth it to finally have the whole season on DVD. ^_^

Can it be Christmas yet? Please?

Comments

[catalina-bella.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got it! I've seen copies of SuperS vol.4 go for $70 (main reason why I snapped up the boxset instead), it's getting pretty crazy. Someone needs to call Toei and clue them into all the money they could be making if they sold the rights to SM again. I got my order today too, so I'll be having a Kaleido Star marathon tomorrow^_^ And don't worry darling, it will be Christmas soon enough.

[catalina-bella.livejournal.com]

Clearly someone forgot to close her HTML tag. Or technology hates me D:

[heavenly-pearl.livejournal.com]

Seventy dollars? *jaw drops* Geez Louise, that's ridiculous. Seriously!

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