Do you suffer from "Impulse Shopping Disorder"? If so read me.

[RossMAN]

Well I don't have the cure for you since I'm also inflicted with this terrible terrible disease.

I went to Best Buy with my roommate only intending to buy Cast Away on DVD for $17.99, an hour later I walk out there with a total of 5 DVD movies spending $77.95

$17.99 Cast Away DVD
$14.99 Love Jones DVD
$16.99 Space Cowboys DVD
$12.99 Bruce Lee: Enter The Dragon DVD
$14.99 Bait
0% Oregon sales tax
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$77.95

I swear, if Best Buy had the Gameboy Advance available for sale a day early I would have bought it for $89.99 along with Super Mario Advance and F-Zero for $29.99 each. Phew thankfully they didn't.

 

[Tominator]

I feel your pain! My habit is limited to the For Sale Forums....so far....gulp...

 

[Spoooon]

Geez. I don't go to stores anymore unless I'm buying food. At the very least, if I have to spend money let it be on stuff that will keep me alive.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I do, but it's not so bad anymore. RossMAN you want my Amazon $5 off for DVD?

 

[Viper GTS]

I do, but I also suffer from another disorder:

Broke.

Trying to fix both those, though.



Viper GTS

 

[RossMAN]

Here's the great part, of the over 230 DVDs I own about 90% of them are STILL IN SHRINKWRAP I justify my DVD shopping addiction by calling it a "hobby" you know I "collect" DVDs

 

[jaybert]

hardrives
cdrs

UH YES????! sad part is, those are both all for personal use!

 

[Viper GTS]

Still in the shrinkwrap? What are you, mad?

:Q

Viper GTS

 

[RossMAN]

Viper GTS - I still do not understand how you could go broke but I hope you get unbroke soon. Enjoy your new WEGA.

Yo_Ma-Ma - Sure, can ya PM it to me?

 

[kami]

<< Here's the great part, of the over 230 DVDs I own about 90% of them are STILL IN SHRINKWRAP >>


damn! I own 75 DVDs and none of them are in shrinkwrap.
BTW, today I picked up some DVDs too...but not as many as you!
I picked up..
Cast Away
2001: A Space Odyssey (new remastered version)

 

[RaoulDuke]

i stopped entering the hot deals forum. i kept buying stuff.

 

[RossMAN]

2001: A Space Odyssey (new remastered version)

$17.99 for Cast Away 2 DVD set is an awesome price! How much did you pay for 2001?

i stopped entering the hot deals forum. i kept buying stuff.

Hot Deals is the first place I visit on AT every morning then onto Off Topic.

 

[FriedToast]

I have to admit, I have the problem, too
BUT....I try to do it cheaply. Got 5 DVDs at a pawn shop the other day for $50 (Untouchables, MI2, Shanghai Noon &amp; 2 others). Had to pick me up a 28-210mm Vivitar zoom lens for my Minolta Maxxum, too. $75. Then Wally World hit me up for a couple new DVDs- King Kong vs Godzilla (gotta have it!) and Secret of NIMH. Picked up Red Dawn at Suncoast for $15 (thought that was a GREAT deal til I saw it at Wally's later for $10). The Rock found it's way into my possession....

And that's not mentioning the stoopid FS/Trade Forums here :| I wish ev'one'd just quit selling stuf that I want!!! I'm going to be poor soon if they don't stop.

I'm doing my own counseling and trying to limit my time on FS/T. Even cutting back on Hot Deals. It's a good thing I don't have a g'friend right now. I'd definitely be in the poor house!

 

[moks78]

The Hot Deals Forum is my Home Page...just couldn't refuse buying bargain stuff.

 

[RossMAN]

Picked up Red Dawn at Suncoast for $15

He sure has lowered his rates ...

 

[luv2chill]

hahaha RossMan!!!

All I got this week was the new Kubrick Collection (including the awesome newly mastered 2001 kami spoke of). However, at $100 for the set that was enough to spend this week (although it is nine DVDs so that comes out at just over $10 a pop!).

Haven't watched 2001 disc yet, but I did just finish &quot;A Clockwork Orange&quot; (probably my favorite Kubrick film) and the new transfer is excellent!!! Not to mention newly re-mastered 5.1 sound! I had hoped for anamorphic, but alas, it was too much to ask. Maybe in the third incarnation of the set they'll finally get around to re-mastering in anamorphic and adding some supplements.

l2c

 

[Imaginer]

<< hardrives
cdrs

UH YES????! sad part is, those are both all for personal use! >>



I gladly take one or two 60GB off of you then.... What AM I SAYING!!!! Now I am hooked!!! Curse this atmosphere!

Seriously, I have a KK266R and two 60s would be very nice.

 

[jaybert]

sorry, they're all gonna be in use soon

 

[Imaginer]

<< sorry, they're all gonna be in use soon >>



All of them???!!!! :Q

 

[iamfried]

Yeah, I went into walmart the other day to get some cleaning products. 20 minutes later, I walked out with cleaning products, 4 DVDs(Fight Club, Cadyshack, The Matrix, and Total Recall), and some gum(I don't even like gum).
Stopped on the way home at CompUSA needing a new game. Bought a box set game for $60 and a cable modem for $200???

 

[Imaginer]

My athlon rig was impulsive on my part partly because I am fine with the pentium II. And I should have waited til this summer for DDR but noooooooooo.... And to think I was also impulsive on the 512mb memory too....

 

[Elledan]

I'm immune for bargains I don't need, luckily

It seems to me a pretty weird idea that you enter a shop, wanting to buy just a few things, but then you suddenly buy 'some' more things

 

[RossMAN]

And to think I was also impulsive on the 512mb memory too....

Same here although I'd like to think when I upgrade from Win ME to W2K since it'll use RAM more efficiently this is less of an &quot;impulse&quot; buy for me. A few months ago I was thinking this is crazy 256MB RAM will never go lower than $89.24 per stick, boy was I wrong.

 

[Goldfish]

Not having a job solves this equation for me.

 

[AaronP]

I went in to BB today to get 5 dollars back, since they had a 5 dollar discount on Superman and Superman II dvd this week, and I bought em both last week.

I simply went there to get 5 bucks, I walked out 45 bucks lighter because I bought Cast Away, O Brother where out thou, and the 2001 rerelease that's anamorphic.