Unbelievable prices

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Sun May 24, 2009 12:16 pm

I haven't looked at the Funimation releases of DragonBall two disc sets prices, since I purchased the Madman fatpacks a year ago, as I was going through my recommendations on Amazon.co.uk. I came across the Red Ribbon Army sets (This covers the early Red Ribbon arc up to just before General Blue) and the minimum price for that was £213.35 for 17 episodes and for the Tournament Saga sets, (This covers the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai and the training before that) £283.49 for 15 episodes!

I appreciate that these are rare but for over £200, really?

EDIT: One buyer is selling the Red Ribbon for over £600!

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Sun May 24, 2009 3:36 pm

I saw this topic, and I wanted to point out some reasonable prices for the complete DragonBall Region 1 releases of the series - if you happen to live in the eastern PA/western NJ area. There's a fairly large mall in Whitehall, PA (which, for those in the area, is near Allentown) called the Lehigh Valley Mall. There is a Suncoast in that mall that has a copy in apparently excellent condition of every DragonBall season set, including the edited Saga of Goku right up through Piccolo Jr. Part 2. The Saga of Goku set is about $8, and the rest of the sets were $21.99/each.

I know this isn't as universally applicable as an online price would be, but if you're in this area and wanted to pick those sets up, they were all there as of yesterday, along with a good number of the Z- and GT-series singles.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Sun May 24, 2009 3:57 pm

ssjcj wrote:I haven't looked at the Funimation releases of DragonBall two disc sets prices, since I purchased the Madman fatpacks a year ago, as I was going through my recommendations on Amazon.co.uk. I came across the Red Ribbon Army sets (This covers the early Red Ribbon arc up to just before General Blue) and the minimum price for that was £213.35 for 17 episodes and for the Tournament Saga sets, (This covers the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai and the training before that) £283.49 for 15 episodes!

I appreciate that these are rare but for over £200, really?

That is some really expensive! It's avalaible in UK that the price is in pounds??? I always reading some comments around message board, that it is impossible to get DB in UK.

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:24 pm

MCDaveG wrote: That is some really expensive! It's avalaible in UK that the price is in pounds??? I always reading some comments around message board, that it is impossible to get DB in UK.

In the UK, the manga and the video games are available to get yet there are no DVDs, except for 3 badly dubbed movies (DBZ 2,3 and 4). Manga entertainment tried to get the rights but they couldn't afford it.

So for me, I import everything.

saiyanprincess · Post by **saiyanprincess** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:26 pm

You can get them quite readily on market sites such as Ebay, but watch out as most are not legitimate copies. I purchased mine off Ebay from someone in the US and they cost me just over £40 if I recall. It was a couple of years back but I'm sure they are still available on there.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:28 pm

Yeah, some of the Dragonball 2-disc sets are really pricey! I'm happy that I have all of them with the exception of one. That being the RED RIBBON ARMY SAGA, which I lost in a move a couple years ago. I went to replace it the other day and I was faced with $174.99 USD at Amazon! Seriously, why do these prices get so extravagant? I can see maybe $60 for rarity's sake, but close to $200!? Goddamn!

I even checked eBay. There were only two auctions: One started at $2.99 and was $80.00 last time I checked. The other was brand new with a starting bid of $90.00! I really want to fill the gap in my collection but, Christ, I don't see it happening unless I get incredibly lucky at an old video or pawn shop!

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Sun May 24, 2009 5:12 pm

Be careful, I bought the tournament-Red Ribbon army saga sets off a website a few years ago and they turned out to be bootleg. The red ribbon stuff was actually decent quality, maybe equal to funimations, but the tournament saga stuff is really terrible.

Kaze no Mune · Post by **Kaze no Mune** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:07 am

I'm really glad that my hunch payed off with these sets. Got most of them for $20-25 before prices started to sky rocket.

Levlik · Post by **Levlik** » Mon May 25, 2009 2:04 pm

xzero wrote:I saw this topic, and I wanted to point out some reasonable prices for the complete DragonBall Region 1 releases of the series - if you happen to live in the eastern PA/western NJ area. There's a fairly large mall in Whitehall, PA (which, for those in the area, is near Allentown) called the Lehigh Valley Mall. There is a Suncoast in that mall that has a copy in apparently excellent condition of every DragonBall season set, including the edited Saga of Goku right up through Piccolo Jr. Part 2. The Saga of Goku set is about $8, and the rest of the sets were $21.99/each.

I know this isn't as universally applicable as an online price would be, but if you're in this area and wanted to pick those sets up, they were all there as of yesterday, along with a good number of the Z- and GT-series singles.

Oh man, the Lehigh Valley Mall has everything? I live a good 45 minute drive from it, but still, I'm tempted to go up there and grab them. Thanks for the tip!

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:25 am

I saw a 2003 FUNimation Fusion Saga Box Set on Amazon for over $650.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:58 am

Arg, I was hoping this was about unbelievably low prices!

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:09 am

SSj_Rambo wrote:Arg, I was hoping this was about unbelievably low prices!

Me too, I keep looking at this same thread on accident =/

Thanos · Post by **Thanos** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:34 am

On this note, does anyone know of a good place to get the DBZ Season boxsets at the lowest prices?

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:56 pm

Amazon.com normally has everything for about as cheap as you can find it, unless you get lucky and catch a sale or something.

SSJ Helldog · Post by **SSJ Helldog** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:08 pm

Thanos wrote:On this note, does anyone know of a good place to get the DBZ Season boxsets at the lowest prices?

Walmart, typically. They have the older sets (through season 3 or so?) for about $20 US, everything else is 30.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:46 pm

DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:I saw a 2003 FUNimation Fusion Saga Box Set on Amazon for over $650.

Might as well just buy a Dragonbox.

Edit: Dear God, you're right.

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 5:54 pm

Holy.

Crap.

I looked on Ebay a second ago, and there‘s a RR set going for $700.

I would never pay that ammount.

Also, there‘s one for bid as well that isn‘t insanely priced.

DragonBalllKaiHD · Post by **DragonBalllKaiHD** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:59 pm

Castor Troy wrote:
DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:I saw a 2003 FUNimation Fusion Saga Box Set on Amazon for over $650.
Might as well just buy a Dragonbox.

Edit: Dear God, you're right.

A Dragon Box has more episodes than Funimation's Box sets so i consider DBOX cheaper.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:54 pm

DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:
DBZGokuSaiyan wrote:I saw a 2003 FUNimation Fusion Saga Box Set on Amazon for over $650.
Might as well just buy a Dragonbox.

Edit: Dear God, you're right.
A Dragon Box has more episodes than Funimation's Box sets so i consider DBOX cheaper.

That's the point: more episodes, better quality, for the same price, so as Castor said, you might as well buy the DBOX.

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:03 am

Dayspring wrote:
DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:
Castor Troy wrote: Might as well just buy a Dragonbox.

Edit: Dear God, you're right.
A Dragon Box has more episodes than Funimation's Box sets so i consider DBOX cheaper.
That's the point: more episodes, better quality, for the same price, so as Castor said, you might as well buy the DBOX.

Indeed.

Dragon Box would be a beauty... but since I don't know Japanese much, I'll probably have trouble. But again, best quality for Dragon Ball Z episodes. I might as well just get all of the FUNimation's Saga Box Sets.

Kanzenshuu

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