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Is This A Good Offer?

Posted: 2003-03-02 10:36am
by Admiral Valdemar
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/cgi-bin/esh/g. ... t01:221700

I'm in the UK and I desperately want the complete boxset of NGE on DVD, since the bastards won't release it for gawd knows how long in the UK, I have found this little place in the land of Oz that lists this as a PAL and Region 2 DVD set.

I assume this is all real and not a typo because I'm not paying 70 quid to have a boxset shipped halfway around the globe only to be unable to play it and I have seen the perfect boxset of Cowboy Bebop on some sites with THREE DVDs, methinks that was bullshit, alas.

So, if you know any other places I can try feel free to mention them. :)

Thanks.

Re: Is This A Good Offer?

Posted: 2003-03-02 12:55pm
by Lurker
Admiral Valdemar wrote:http://www.ezydvd.com.au/cgi-bin/esh/g. ... t01:221700

I'm in the UK and I desperately want the complete boxset of NGE on DVD, since the bastards won't release it for gawd knows how long in the UK, I have found this little place in the land of Oz that lists this as a PAL and Region 2 DVD set.
It's due for release here soon but I think this will be a better offer, mine cost me $108 (£66) including shipping from the US so it sounds good and you don't need a multi region player either. Go for it :D
I assume this is all real and not a typo because I'm not paying 70 quid to have a boxset shipped halfway around the globe only to be unable to play it and I have seen the perfect boxset of Cowboy Bebop on some sites with THREE DVDs, methinks that was bullshit, alas.
I believe that it's common practice for Oz discs to be coded for more than one region because it's a smaller market.
And yes the Cowboy Bebop perfect boxset (bootleg, which I also have) only has 3 discs. Official products are always spread over more discs, typically 3-5 episodes per disc.
So, if you know any other places I can try feel free to mention them. :)

Thanks.

Posted: 2003-03-02 01:16pm
by Admiral Valdemar
IT'S BEING RELEASED HERE?!

MORE, TELL ME, MORE!

*Wipes foam from mouth*

Ahem.

I NEED NGE in a boxset and Cowboy Bebop before I die, since Bebop is already on a perfect bvoxset again for the Yanks and the Aussies have NGE in a boxset (which seems to be Region 2 and 4) then I may be okay anyway. :)

Posted: 2003-03-02 01:22pm
by neoolong
Admiral Valdemar wrote:IT'S BEING RELEASED HERE?!

MORE, TELL ME, MORE!

*Wipes foam from mouth*

Ahem.

I NEED NGE in a boxset and Cowboy Bebop before I die, since Bebop is already on a perfect bvoxset again for the Yanks and the Aussies have NGE in a boxset (which seems to be Region 2 and 4) then I may be okay anyway. :)
What? We have another boxset for Bebop? When did that happen?

Oh, and if you a DVD-Rom, you can always just see if you can set it to multiregion.

Posted: 2003-03-02 01:45pm
by Lurker
Admiral Valdemar wrote:IT'S BEING RELEASED HERE?!

MORE, TELL ME, MORE!

*Wipes foam from mouth*

Ahem.

I NEED NGE in a boxset and Cowboy Bebop before I die, since Bebop is already on a perfect bvoxset again for the Yanks and the Aussies have NGE in a boxset (which seems to be Region 2 and 4) then I may be okay anyway. :)
Ok, you might not be getting a box set but according to ADV's UK site NGE vol.1 was released here on the 20th January.

http://www.advfilms.co.uk/news/

Posted: 2003-03-02 02:01pm
by Admiral Valdemar
neoolong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:IT'S BEING RELEASED HERE?!

MORE, TELL ME, MORE!

*Wipes foam from mouth*

Ahem.

I NEED NGE in a boxset and Cowboy Bebop before I die, since Bebop is already on a perfect bvoxset again for the Yanks and the Aussies have NGE in a boxset (which seems to be Region 2 and 4) then I may be okay anyway. :)
What? We have another boxset for Bebop? When did that happen?

Oh, and if you a DVD-Rom, you can always just see if you can set it to multiregion.
Apparently so, there is the perfect sessions and the complete sessions, the boxset I eyed before was the limited edition complete sessions though which is out of print.
Lurker wrote:
Ok, you might not be getting a box set but according to ADV's UK site NGE vol.1 was released here on the 20th January.

http://www.advfilms.co.uk/news/
Ah, saw that, but at the rate they're going it'll be months before the whole series is out and I already have the two films.

I just need to confirm that the Aussie disc plays on Region 2 and then I'm game to get it.

Posted: 2003-03-02 03:35pm
by Exonerate
Good deal. My friend's costed him more than $100

Posted: 2003-03-02 03:35pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Exonerate wrote:Good deal. My friend's costed him more than $100
Hmm, I just hope this plays Region 2. :P

Posted: 2003-03-02 03:48pm
by Exonerate
Ahh, I forgot to mention that he lives in the US. I think it was off Amazon or Ebay...

Posted: 2003-03-02 04:22pm
by SHODAN
Hmph. I paid almost $200 for it.

Posted: 2003-03-02 04:25pm
by Lurker
Got mine off Ebay for $88 + $20 postage, but as the guy didn't have the decency to leave me feedback I can't and won't tell you his user i.d

Posted: 2003-03-02 04:35pm
by Datana
If legit, it's a pretty good deal. I had purchased each DVD separately for $25 each (so $200 total), and then just the box for $70 (damned overpriced; what was ADV thinking?). This looks like a different box than the one for the U.S. release, though. See if you can eBay it first, though, based on the prices listed above.

Posted: 2003-03-02 11:54pm
by neoolong
I take it it wouldn't be good to mention that I got it for free? :D

Posted: 2003-03-03 12:32am
by XaLEv
neoolong wrote:I take it it wouldn't be good to mention that I got it for free? :D
Depends. Was it pirated, or a legitimate copy?

Posted: 2003-03-03 12:55am
by neoolong
XaLEv wrote:
neoolong wrote:I take it it wouldn't be good to mention that I got it for free? :D
Depends. Was it pirated, or a legitimate copy?
Legit. Suck it. :D

Posted: 2003-03-03 12:57am
by XaLEv
neoolong wrote: Legit. Suck it. :D
You know that you must now share the details.

Posted: 2003-03-03 01:08am
by neoolong
XaLEv wrote:
neoolong wrote: Legit. Suck it. :D
You know that you must now share the details.
I ordered it online. It didn't come for over two weeks. They refunded my money. And it showed up a couple days later. Happened quite a few times with that company actually. :D

Posted: 2003-03-03 05:03am
by Admiral Valdemar
neoolong wrote:
XaLEv wrote:
neoolong wrote: Legit. Suck it. :D
You know that you must now share the details.
I ordered it online. It didn't come for over two weeks. They refunded my money. And it showed up a couple days later. Happened quite a few times with that company actually. :D
Ah, just have to delay the product and then get it free, like that episode of Men Behaving Badly where they do it with the pizza delivery.

Posted: 2003-03-03 06:11am
by Archaic`
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Hmm, I just hope this plays Region 2. :P
Madman release of an ADV series, hmmm......should be regions 2 and 4. As for the movies though, they're probably region 4 only.

Posted: 2003-03-03 06:16am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Heh, proud owner of R1 Cowboy Bepop Perfect Sessions Box #8131 calling in. :mrgreen:

Posted: 2003-03-03 06:22am
by Dalton
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Heh, proud owner of R1 Cowboy Bepop Perfect Sessions Box #8131 calling in. :mrgreen:
Cleaners, mobilize! Liberate that box set!

Posted: 2003-03-03 07:07am
by Admiral Valdemar
Fuck it, I'm going to get the 3 disc Hong Kong Bebop box set someday (I assume it's that). No way am I waiting for them to make a UK version, I'll be here till the next decade!

Posted: 2003-03-03 09:52am
by neoolong
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
neoolong wrote:
XaLEv wrote: You know that you must now share the details.
I ordered it online. It didn't come for over two weeks. They refunded my money. And it showed up a couple days later. Happened quite a few times with that company actually. :D
Ah, just have to delay the product and then get it free, like that episode of Men Behaving Badly where they do it with the pizza delivery.
I had it down to an art. After they switched shipping companies to a really bad one, I worked it out that the majority of their DVDs ship out of New Jersey. Thus, I order stuff so that it ships on a Monday. And since I live in CA, it's pretty much as far across the country as you can get.

Man, I hated that shipping company, they also lost like a fourth of the stuff I ordered.

Posted: 2003-03-03 09:53am
by neoolong
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Heh, proud owner of R1 Cowboy Bepop Perfect Sessions Box #8131 calling in. :mrgreen:
Is there any difference between that and the ordinary six disc set they sell on Amazon for a hundred bucks? I mean, besides that CD I hear was included in the box set.

Posted: 2003-03-03 09:54am
by Admiral Valdemar
neoolong wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
neoolong wrote: I ordered it online. It didn't come for over two weeks. They refunded my money. And it showed up a couple days later. Happened quite a few times with that company actually. :D
Ah, just have to delay the product and then get it free, like that episode of Men Behaving Badly where they do it with the pizza delivery.
I had it down to an art. After they switched shipping companies to a really bad one, I worked it out that the majority of their DVDs ship out of New Jersey. Thus, I order stuff so that it ships on a Monday. And since I live in CA, it's pretty much as far across the country as you can get.

Man, I hated that shipping company, they also lost like a fourth of the stuff I ordered.
You take the good with the bad, at least it was free. :)