How much have you spent on your Blu-ray Collection this year?

[b2thafuta]

Well, the year is half way over. It's time to look back and see how big of a dent your Blu-ray collection has made to your bank account. Go through and list the movies you've bought in the past year and the prices. See who's done the most damage!

In order of purchase, beginning in March when i first bought my BD player.

March

1. Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
2. Chicago ($29.99 - Best Buy)
3. Casino Royale ( $29.99 - Movie Stop)
4. Hairspray ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
5. Big Fish ($22.99 - Movie Stop)
6. Edward Scissorhands ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
7. Sleepy Hollow ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
8. Nacho Libre ($27.99 - Movie Stop)
9. No Country for Old Men ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
10. Pearl Harbor ($27.99 - Movie Stop)
11. Cars ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
12. Enchanted ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
13. A Knights Tale ($22.99 - Movie Stop)
14. The Prestige ($19.99 - Movie Stop)
15. I Am Legend ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
16. Terminator 2: Judgement Day ($14.99 - Target)
17. 300 ($29.99 - Target)
18. Weeds: Season 1 ($22.99 - Movie Stop) I guess you can tell we like Movie Stop..lol
19. Weeds: Season 2 ($29.99 - Guess where)
20. Ratatouille ($29.99 - Yep, you guessed it right)
21. Across the Universe ($29.99 - Movie Stop, again)
22. The Patriot ($15.99 - Movie Stop)
23. High School Musical 2 ($14.99 - FYE)
24. Independence Day ($24.99 - FYE)
25. Planet of the Apes ($24.99 - Back to Movie Stop)

Number of Titles: 25
Total for March: $655.75

April

26. Unbreakable ( $24.99 - Birthday Gift)
27. Close Encounters of the Third Kind ($34.99 - Movie Stop)
28. Troy ($23.99 - Amazon.com)
29. Unforgiven ($19.95 - Amazon.com
30. 50 First Dates ($19.95 - Amazon.com)
31. 3:10 To Yuma ($29.99 - Target)
32. Juno ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
33. Arlington Road ($19.99 - Movie Stop)
34. Superman: The Movie ($17.99 - Movie Stop)
35. 27 Dresses ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
36. The Devil Wears Prada ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
37. Memento ($22.99 - Movie Stop)

Number of Titles: 11
Total for April: $299.80


May
38. The Chronicles of Narnia ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
39. The Jane Austen Book Club ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
40. V for Vendetta ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
41. Die Hard ($19.99 - Movie Stop)
42. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($19.99 - Movie Stop)
43. Mission: Impossible ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
44. Reservoir Dogs ($22.99 - Movie Stop)
45. Goodfellas ($19.99 - Movie Stop)
46. Live Free or Die Hard ($24.99 - Movie Stop)

Number of Titles: 8
Total for May: $217.91

June

47. Celine Dion: A New Day...Live in Las Vegas ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
48. Signs ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
49. I, Robot ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
50. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
51. Weeds: Season 3 ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
52. Mrs. Doubtfire ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
53. Twister ($24.99 - Movie Stop)
54. Superbad ($29.99 - Movie Stop)
55. Blood Diamond ($15.00 - Wal-Mart)
56. The Last Samurai ($15.99 - Movie Stop)
57. Men in Black ($19.99 - Target)

Number of Titles: 10
Total For June: 280.90

Total for 2008 so far: $1454.36.
Woof, and that's only 4 mos. worth.

Get out your calculators and join in on the fun!

[AlexCruz]

Well, I started collecting in January of this year and I've been keeping my receipts. Men In Black makes my 68th title and I'm almost at $500 I will officially go broke on July 8th which will be my next purchase day with Batman Begins LE, Gotham Knight, and Batman The Movie SE.

[toef]

I don't remember the exact dates, but here goes:

Casino Royale (free - Wal-Mart)
Ratatouille (free - Wal-Mart)
Cars (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Hard (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Harder (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Hard w/ A Vengeance (free - Wal-Mart)
Live Free or Die Hard (free - Wal-Mart)
300 (free Wal-Mart)
Shinobi ($10.95 - Amazon.com)
Kung-Fu Hustle ($11.99 - Sound Garden)
A Scanner Darkly (free - gift from Sound Garden)
Chronicles of Narnia (free - gift from Sound Garden)
Planet Earth (free - Birthday gift)
Blade Runner ($11.95 - Tower.com)
John Legend Live @ House of Blues ($12 - Blu-ray.com Trade thread)

I think that's it. So all in all, 15 titles (22 discs in all) for $46. Add in a few $ for shipping, to round it up to $50, and that's still under $3.50 out of my pocket for each one.

I like BD's, but not enough to pay more than $15 for anything, and even then, that'd only be for movies I feel like I really need (or really need to upgrade from DVD).

I think I lost.

[JJ]

$1000 on 65 Blu-rays for 2008 so far, according to my detailed figures. I keep good books,

Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, jwbbud on the Trade Thread.

All these movies and pre-orders:

Shoot 'Em Up
Simpsons Movie
HP 2, Chamber of Secrets
Live Free or Die Hard
Shooter
Day After Tomorrow
X-Men, X3 The Last Stand
Dinosaur
HP 1, Sorcerer's Stone
Rock, The
3:10 to Yuma
Blade Runner
Underworld
Crank
Planet Earth
Sunshine
Tears of the Sun
Pan's Labyrinth
Appleseed ex Machina
I, Robot
Independence Day
I Am Legend
Transformers: The Movie
Relentless Enemies
Open Season
Superbad
Alien vs. Predator
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem
Predator
Commando
Orphanage, The
Terminator 2
Twister
Condemned, The
Golden Compass
Die Hard
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Master and Commander
Narnia, Chronicles of
No Country for Old Men
Con Air
Crimson Tide
Short Circuit
V for Vendetta
Rambo IV: Fight Continues
National Treasure 1
National Treasure 2
Signs
Days of Glory
Hancock Bonus Disc
Men in Black
Patton
Hitman
Rambo I: First Blood
Rambo II
Rambo III
Spiderwick Chronicles
Batman Begins
Top Gun
End of Days
Miami Vice
U-571
Transformers
Iron Man

[BigFoot]

I'm not totally sure whether I got some of these titles in '07 or in '08, but here's my best guess:

30 Days of Night - $20,00
300 - $15,00
50 First Dates - $10,00
Alexander - Revisited - $15,00
Appleseed: Ex Machina - $24,00
Black Hawk Down - $10,00
Blade Runner - Five-Disc Complete Collector's Edition - $28,00
Face/Off - $20,00
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer - $25,00
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within - $15,00
Gattaca - $15,00
Good Luck Chuck - $21,00
Hellboy - $15,00
I Am Legend - $19,00
Independence Day - $25,00
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut) - $20,00
National Treasure - $20,00
National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $20,00
Ratatouille - $25,00
Rock, The - $20,00
Shoot 'Em Up - $25,00
Shooter - $18,00
Sunshine - $20,00
Superbad - $18,00
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - $13,00
Terminator, The - $10,00
Terminator 2 - $14,00
Troy - $15,00
Weeds - Season 1 - $17,00
Weeds - Season 2 - $22,00
Weeds - Season 3 - $21,00

Tota: $575

[That Purple Stuff]

137 BDs at an average of $27

$3700

[BluPayne4400]

To: Topic Creator
From: Blupayne4400


I'm not the one to break news or say whats one to do with his own money but most of them movies you got you paid waayy too much for at retail price when you could had either search the internet at either this site,Amazon,Ebay,Half.com,Buy.Com,etc and saved you hundreds of $$$ by not going to MovieStop and overpay for your Blu-Rays. You prolly made that store the number 1 blu-ray selling MovieStop in the company.

Sincerely,
BluPayne4400 and whoever else that agree with me

[b2thafuta]

Over 75% of those titles were trade-ins of original DVD versions. So, the money out of my pocket was of little expense. But it is a great store...It's kinda like "Cheers" to me. Everybody knows my name.

[Blaumann]

i bought maybe 50 BD's and they should average at about ~17 Euros, so that ~ 850 Euros.

[theone1287]

I've spent about $365 this year (actually more like the past 1 1/2 months) in the following order. More recently I've been buying smarter and it cost me a whole lot less. I need to stop though .

1. Planet Earth ~$55
2. Apocalypto ~$20
3. Shoot'em Up = Free
4. Spiderman 3 = Free
5. Troy ~$20
6. Blade Runner ~$20
7. Happy Happy Feet ~$15
8. A Knights Tale ~$15
9. Conair ~$15
10. Pan's Lab ~$15
11. Kung Fu Hustle ~$15
12. Underworld ~$15
13. Cast Away ~$15
14. Shinobi ~$11
15. POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl ~$17
16. POTC: Dead Man's Chest ~$17
17. I Am Legend ~$14
18. Brothers Grimm ~$14
19. POTC: At Worlds End ~$13
20. The Patriot ~$10
21. Corpse Bride ~$8
22. Resident Evil ~$8
23. Resident Evil Apocalypse ~$8
24. Resident Evil Extinction ~$9
25. Face/Off ~$8
26. Underworld Evolution ~$8

[Carlsberg19]

OMG, now i just realised i spent about €1,200, about 40 BD's on average 30 a disc

[Beta Man]

I don't know......

Not sure how much I paid for them, not sure how many I have

[fatediesel]

I really haven't spent a whole lot this year because I bought most of the catalog movies I wanted last year. I've probably only spent around $400 this year. There really haven't been many releases yet this year I've wanted.

[jj5206]

April
Crimson Tide ($20) BBY
Spiderman 3 ($15) Target
Ratatouille ($15) Target
Speed ($20) CCity
2001 A Space Odyssey ($20) Target

May
I Am Legend ($18) Amazon
First Blood ($13) Amazon
No Country for Old Men ($24)Walmart
Rambo ($24) Walmart

June
The Rock ($15) bby
300 ($15) bby
War ($15) walmart

Total=$214
Total i spent=$176
Total per movie=$17.83
Total i spent per movie=$14.66
Total at Amazon=$31/$15.5 per movie
Total at Best Buy=$50/$16.66 per movie
Total at Target =$50/$16.66 per movie
Total at Circuit City=$20/$20 per movie
Total at Walmart =$63/21 per movie

Thats probably going to go all up though because im getting The Shining for 11 bucks on buy.com with GCO and will probably buy a ton of movies throughout the rest of the year

[ZackL]

About $200

[richieb1971]

I don't know all the titles as I'm at work. But with over 70 purchases its kinda scary. I've done $300 in one go before. I've also ordered from Hong Kong, UK, Australia and USA and had my bank cancel my card because they suspected foul play.

To be honest, I feel somewhat cheated by my purchases. I want a projector to really bring BD to life.

[kamenriderrx]

Since buying a PS3 I've spent about $1000 replacing some of my favorite DVD movies on Blu Ray. It's becoming an addiction cause I told myself not to replace everything. Of course that flew out the window when I saw how great the PQ looked. Now I want everything replaced. I'm doomed.

[cartman781]

I woud rather not add it up, it may make me cry

Although I never pay retail price.

[Chris60119]

Originally Posted by toefer

I don't remember the exact dates, but here goes:

Casino Royale (free - Wal-Mart)
Ratatouille (free - Wal-Mart)
Cars (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Hard (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Harder (free - Wal-Mart)
Die Hard w/ A Vengeance (free - Wal-Mart)
Live Free or Die Hard (free - Wal-Mart)
300 (free Wal-Mart)
Shinobi ($10.95 - Amazon.com)
Kung-Fu Hustle ($11.99 - Sound Garden)
A Scanner Darkly (free - gift from Sound Garden)
Chronicles of Narnia (free - gift from Sound Garden)
Planet Earth (free - Birthday gift)
Blade Runner ($11.95 - Tower.com)
John Legend Live @ House of Blues ($12 - Blu-ray.com Trade thread)

I think that's it. So all in all, 15 titles (22 discs in all) for $46. Add in a few $ for shipping, to round it up to $50, and that's still under $3.50 out of my pocket for each one.

I like BD's, but not enough to pay more than $15 for anything, and even then, that'd only be for movies I feel like I really need (or really need to upgrade from DVD).

I think I lost.

How do you get then free from Walmart?

I'd rather not know how much I spent this year. I know it's no where near 1000. This is not a thread I want to win or will ever win.

[cartman781]

I just realized today is my 1 year anniversay in blu-ray. I have bought around 225 bu-rays in 1 year