UK Charity Shop Finds

[samdvd1]

Originally Posted by huntauk

You can search a specific stores stock at Cex online and flick through the HD categories, which may save a wasted trip.

Yeah, I had a look through already, but I'll be in town anyway to buy some new furniture!

[Aclea]

£2.50 - apparently it was originally marked up as more but it kept on being returned by people who didn't look at the region coding:

[stepeanut]

Wow, lucky find on the Criterion. It's so rare to find anything by them in a UK charity shop, let alone a recent BD release.

Who the hell goes to the bother of importing Watership Down, only to give it away a matter of months later? Perhaps the original purchaser didn't understand regional coding, either, in which case more fool them.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by stepeanut

Wow, lucky find on the Criterion. It's so rare to find anything by them in a UK charity shop, let alone a recent BD release.

Who the hell goes to the bother of importing Watership Down, only to give it away a matter of months later? Perhaps the original purchaser didn't understand regional coding, either, in which case more fool them.

Yeah, it registered high on my WTF scale as well. Maybe they picked it up in Barnes and Noble during the sale when on holiday? Amazon.UK's review pages are full of people kvetching about how no-one told them a disc they ordered wouldn't play in the UK.

[WilsonBros]

Went into my local charity shop today and came across the UK steelbook blu of Green Zone for £1.99.

[KRW1]

That's an excellent find!

[samdvd1]

Hit up a charity shop this morning in Carlisle.

Just a single Blu-ray for £3 (they had others but I had them already):
- Finally, Sunday (Artificial Eye, UK)

Then a bunch of DVDs from all over the place for 25p each:
- Collateral Damage (Japan)
- Batman Begins (Japan)
- Kramer vs Kramer (Hungarian)
- Scoop (Dutch)
- Life and Lyrics (UK)
- The Boys Are Back (UK)
- Killers Invincible (UK)
- Mission for the Dragon (UK)
- Secret Executioners (UK)
- All About My Mother (UK)

[unicron73]

had a great afternoon down in sunny devon
picked up both fantastic four films on blu ray-£1.50 each
and the criterion dvd release of house-for 50p-woman behind the counter said it was cheap because it was foreign and no one watches subtitled films.
it looks nice next to my masters of cinema release

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by stepeanut

Wow, lucky find on the Criterion. It's so rare to find anything by them in a UK charity shop, let alone a recent BD release.

Who the hell goes to the bother of importing Watership Down, only to give it away a matter of months later? Perhaps the original purchaser didn't understand regional coding, either, in which case more fool them.

I found a copy of Pirates of the Carribean or similar the other day ("Version francaise incluse"), Canadian Region 1. But I suppose it's better than the many times I've found bootleg DVDs in the charity shop with an obvious inkjet printer cover.

[Harwin123]

Originally Posted by Fnord Prefect

Today's finds. Nothing Earth shattering but at £1 each, well £1.50 for Beowulf, I'm very glad to add them to my collection.




Heard good things about World's End but again never got around to seeing it. Came with nice shiny slip cover.

The Worlds End for £1 is a great find!

My local charity shop has a deal on at the moment for any "DVD" you buy you get another one free, obviously i had to check if this included Blu-rays and it totally did, managed to pick up Senna (One of my all time favourite documentaries) and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas for only £3!!!

I was a happy consumer that day!

[samdvd1]

Okay, not a charity shop, but I hit Silloth car boot sale in Cumbria this morning. Not much in the way of Blu-rays, but did pick up a brand new shrinkwrapped copy of Kung Fu Panda for £1. However, that wasn't my find of the day. That belongs to the 9-disc Only Fools and Horses: Series 1-7 boxset for £1. Over the moon with that one.

[Ste7en]

I go to a large nearby boot sale most Sunday mornings (just to keep my pops company) and this morning a woman beat me, by seconds, to a dozen or so fairly decent BDs for two quid a pop. Stuff like The House of the Devil.

I think she was a dealer as she only checked to see if there were discs inside the cases, no looking for scratches or anything. Greedy *****!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Ste7en

I think she was a dealer as she only checked to see if there were discs inside the cases, no looking for scratches or anything. Greedy *****!

I see people like that in supermarkets when they mark items down, they literally put everything in their trolley and leave nothing for anyone else.

It still upsets me that a guy filled his trolley full of box sets of the Star Wars Saga BDs and other treasures when they were £2.50 in Tesco's a few years back, security asked him what he was doing and he said he was "on his way to Cash Convertors."

[Ste7en]

Originally Posted by chip75

I see people like that in supermarkets when they mark items down, they literally put everything in their trolley and leave nothing for anyone else.

It still upsets me that a guy filled his trolley full of box sets of the Star Wars Saga BDs and other treasures when they were £2.50 in Tesco's a few years back, security asked him what he was doing and he said he was "on his way to Cash Convertors."

I'll never understand the locust mentality... or fighting for a Polaroid LCD TV

I think I got a couple of seasons (1 and 2) of Game of Thrones in that sale at Tesco for less than a tenner for both. It was an amazing sale!

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Ste7en

I'll never understand the locust mentality...

We've seen people fill they're trolleys with reduced cooked chickens in Tesco, I wonder if they're cheap caterers or just greedy, but if they're a normal family it will be going funky in a few days!

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by chip75

I see people like that in supermarkets when they mark items down, they literally put everything in their trolley and leave nothing for anyone else.

It still upsets me that a guy filled his trolley full of box sets of the Star Wars Saga BDs and other treasures when they were £2.50 in Tesco's a few years back, security asked him what he was doing and he said he was "on his way to Cash Convertors."

Sharing is caring! Sometimes I leave a sale item I'm not entirely sure on so someone else can enjoy it more than me.

[Gizz]

Originally Posted by chip75

I see people like that in supermarkets when they mark items down, they literally put everything in their trolley and leave nothing for anyone else.

It still upsets me that a guy filled his trolley full of box sets of the Star Wars Saga BDs and other treasures when they were £2.50 in Tesco's a few years back, security asked him what he was doing and he said he was "on his way to Cash Convertors."

I remember that sale by the time I got to Tesco's there was nothing left just DVDs of old films. I wanted the Doctor Who DVDs they were selling.

[huntauk]

I'd recommend you get the Second Sight release of The Long Riders. It's decent.

[rapta]

Was hoping someone like Eureka might pick up The Missouri Breaks, if not then Second Sight or Arrow...

[CrockettandTubbs]

I've yet to go into a charity shop and find blu-rays

As per usual with the BBFC, there are 4 seconds of cuts to horse falls in The Long Riders - but I hardly notice the edit anyway, so no problems there.

Good extras list as well:

Outlaw Brothers: The Making of The Long Riders documentary (60.50, HD)
The Northfield Minnesota Raid: Anatomy of a Scene featurette (15.29, HD)
Slow Motion: Walter Hill on Sam Peckinpah interview (6.17, HD)