Does anyone have a GotAnime? membership?

[Scarface32]

Everything I seem to buy on RightStuf is excluded from the discount, so I don't feel the need to pay $12 a year for the GotAnime? membership. But I did hear you get access to an exclusive website only for members. What's it like? Is this "members only" website even worth it, considering everything I buy can't get a discount anyway?

[DJ_dub_XL]

I was wondering that too!

[alvarez468]

ive got the membership, for me i notice the savings whenever i buy manga cause i buy alot i always make my money back but the occasional anime always saves me like 3-6 dollars. ive noticed that a new release is always excluded but when a sale goes up it tends to work and save you a couple bucks more.

the gotanime site has a coupon you can use like the one right now says get 3 dollars off your order of 74 dollars or more but it just shows the release that are coming in the next months in all categories. nothing that amazing

[Tellymon]

My GotAnime just expired. It was great for the first year because I was just getting into anime and buying tons of stuff that qualified for the discount, but now pretty much everything is a preorder that doesn't qualify. It seems like they are heavily discounting preorders - if that's where you're at with anime collecting then it's not worth it really at all. If you have catching up to do with older shows then it will easily make up for the $12.

The GotAnime store is non-existent. Literally. It doesn't exist.

[Clark Kent]

I spend a fortune on anime Blu-rays per year and have never felt the need for the Got Anime membership. Half of the site seems to be excluded or almost anything on sale.

[Girls With Guns]

When Pre-order items go on sale due to a Studio's sale, that is usually when you can use your Got Anime towards those kind of items - the sale price will usually be about the same as the original pre-order price, but the sale will also activate the Got Anime deduction on the item. The only thing is, you have to catch this change on your own, and must contact Rightstuf every time to get them to manually take the GA discount off that item, or else you won't get it - it's not automatic. It's a PITA system, but it has saved me money - about $60 over the course of this year so far (7 months since I bought the membership) - but you're right, it really doesn't amount to that much when I'm buying $5K of anime from them in a year's time... but, every little bit helps, so even if I'm only saving $60, I'll renew it when it comes time.

[K i r a]

^ That. Every studio featured sale even advertises a "Price with GotAnime?", which then it may be used with pre-orders. I think I've received the last of my pre-orders from the last Funimation sale, and I paid $41.22 shipped on all the LEs. Fantastic deal, and well worth renewing yearly and shopping with RightStuf. Almost all of these LEs are like $55.99+ on Amazon, even as a pre-order or lowest price.

[honeylatte]

i think it's only worth it if you're going to be buying older stuff, or if you don't buy new releases right away.

i got a membership when i was buying a lot of old manga, and it was worth it. i don't think i would renew though because there's nothing old i want to buy.

[mikezilla2]

so the got anime membership went up to $18 .................................................. ....................................

[Girls With Guns]

No big deal - I easily save $4-$5 on many pre-orders with the Got Anime discount - so I get my money back with just a few titles. Since I'm usually buying 40+ titles a year from Rightstuf, I make out just fine.

[zrdb]

It's really not worth it unless you buy a lot of items that aren't on sale. If all you do is get stuff when it's on a big sale you can't use it anyway.

[gundamcero]

Originally Posted by zrdb

It's really not worth it unless you buy a lot of items that aren't on sale. If all you do is get stuff when it's on a big sale you can't use it anyway.

It applies to sales most of the time as well actually. For instance during the recent Funi sale it applied to items hence why I got Escaflowne and Code Geass so cheap. Even the current KODANSHA sale I would be able to save on every item.

[Nothing371]

Yeah if you buy a couple non-Aniplex box sets each year then it pays for itself. Stealth price markups are annoying, but I'm glad they have it.

[tehMTL]

This past year, i bought Psychopass S1, Darker Than Black, Haruhi UE and FMA: Sacres Star. I think i more than covered the Got Anime but i am Canadian. So i think i save quite a bit

[darkness2918]

I had it but I didn't renew it. After this holidayseason when I really start grabbing more anime on BD I may renew it again since its only $12 & I'm sure ill get some use out of it.

[neoz]

Well now that they raised it from $12 to $18 this will probably be the last time I renew.

[pikagreg]

Not stacking coupons for studio sales on pre-orders has definitely caused my impulse buys to drop this year for Funi and this last Sentai sale.

[Raye]

I should have renewed it sooner... Mine expired two months ago. I was waiting until early February when I intend to pre-order the Amagi CE since I doubt I'll be picking up anything that can be discounted in the next couple of months. Blah. I'll probably renew it anyway since there's still the next handful of Sailor Moon sets that are due to come out as well as the Kodansha Akira manga set I'm looking forward to.

[BigOnAnime]

I'm honestly not that annoyed over the increase, though I recently renewed mine before the price hike, and I order plenty from them (though 2016 has been a bad year for me for anime buying opposed to figures and merch). I don't get that bothered over things being cheaper during the Holiday Sale because I don't obsess over discounts and sales really. I take advantage of them when I see them, but I rarely wait for them. Also, sorry if I tick anyone off with this, but I honestly hate the mentality of obsessing over discounts coming later for things you already paid more for. I saw a good amount of it on MFC when people pre-ordered a figure only for it to later end up in the bargain bin.

[neoz]

All about saving money lol. Sorry but a dollar saved is a dollar used for other anime related things. To bad the stupid figures I want never go on sale and always end up oop ironically enough haha.