Alternatives to Amazon for Blu-ray Discs?

[Bobby Henderson]

I'm getting pretty fed up with Amazon these days and looking for good, reliable alternative online merchants to use instead of Amazon. Please post your favorites.

My annoyance is centered on the Phoenix, AZ distribution center for Amazon and the USPS office they use there. I ordered a couple of BD movies back on 10/18 (one of them was a pre-ordered disc released on 10/28). The order "shipped" Monday morning, 10/27 and then showed an arrival scan later that evening at the Phoenix USPS center. Here it is, nearly noon Friday and the tracking shows the damned package still sitting in Phoenix going absolutely nowhere. WTF?

I've seen much better and faster service from Amazon distribution centers in other parts of the country. The one in Phoenix sucks.

Amazon is spamming this "prime" program of theirs to everyone who visits their web site. I'm not interested in a $10 a month program just to get some discounted priority mail shipping.

Lots of people take advantage of the free "super saver" shipping on orders over $25. Usually the free shipping orders get processed quickly and arrive in a reasonable amount of time -well ahead of those "estimated arrival" dates. At least that's usually the case if the order doesn't ship out of Phoenix.

I can't help but wonder if Amazon is doing something to make USPS delay those free shipping orders as a means of discouraging that shipping choice and getting more people to sign up for "prime."

If you have to pay a big premium to get a package shipped in a reasonable amount of time it cancels out much of the savings, which is one of the main reasons people order online in the first place. If the difference in the end is only a matter of sales tax then I'll just end up buying from a retail store to get the damned disc immediately.