Outrageous Prices You've Paid for Dragon Ball Goods

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Outrageous Prices You've Paid for Dragon Ball Goods

Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Mon May 14, 2012 3:57 am

I paid $66 for Dragon Ball Z Kai Part 1...the next Kai DVD set I bought was $30. :P I know back in they day three episodes cost $20, but this was 2010! (Dear JB Hi-fi and Madman, Fuck you. :) )
I also paid $30 for a pre-owned copy of Budokai 3- I wanted it badly okay!

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Post by Gonstead » Mon May 14, 2012 4:03 am

Honestly? I really can't think of anything that I didn't get cheap or for just normal retail.

I do like JB Hi-Fi because they were the only store that had Part 6, Level 1.1, were willing to order in 1.2 for me at no extra charge and hold it for me for a couple days so that I could go in on Tuesday and get it then.

I'll need to see if they can order in part 7 for me.
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Post by BluezaBladeNZ » Mon May 14, 2012 6:02 am

lol At least you guys have a JB Hi-Fi, we don't (live in Christchurch), so our anime range sucks.

But on topic, mine would have to be US imports for DBZ Seasons 5 and 6 at $85-90 each back in 2008 before the Anime Store owner and myself became good friends and when the sets were recent. Heck I didn't even pay that much for the Dragon Boxes when I imported them myself.

Another one if you want to call it outrageous was $50 for the Broli Blu-ray Double Feature (2007).

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Post by VegettoEX » Mon May 14, 2012 7:33 am

$60 for Ultimate Tenkaichi.

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Post by Saiga » Mon May 14, 2012 7:46 am

VegettoEX wrote:$60 for Ultimate Tenkaichi.

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Oh boy, I bet you'd love the prices for it in Australian stores then. $99 RRP.
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Post by son veku » Mon May 14, 2012 8:05 am

not DB, but I paid 30 bucks for 6 eps of FLCL

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Post by Beji » Mon May 14, 2012 10:07 am

What comes to mind right now is I paid 6,000 yen for Shenron and Oozaru Ichibans together BUT the outrageous price of 10,700 on shipping x.x (they were totally worth it but still) and I'm about to spend 150$ on shipping too because all the kanzenban are so heavy to ship....stupid EMS these are the only two times I've ever used it.

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Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon May 14, 2012 10:12 am

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:I paid $66 for Dragon Ball Z Kai Part 1...the next Kai DVD set I bought was $30. :P I know back in they day three episodes cost $20, but this was 2010! (Dear JB Hi-fi and Madman, Fuck you. :) )
I also paid $30 for a pre-owned copy of Budokai 3- I wanted it badly okay!
That's so expensive for a set that comes with only 13 episodes, why haven't you decided to import instead?

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 - £14.95 they should've just sold it for £9.95 or less, I bought it thinking it'd have the original international soundtrack and also for the PtEtSS OVA. I'm happy with it overall, but don't play it very often.
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Post by Codarik » Mon May 14, 2012 10:13 am

All of FUNi's old DBZ VHS tapes (edited and uncut) for $300.00.

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Post by Chibi Gohan » Mon May 14, 2012 1:43 pm

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Which really isn't that outrageous when you look at the ebay prices for these figures. Still not cheap though.
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Post by OzzyApu » Mon May 14, 2012 2:17 pm

VegettoEX wrote:$60 for Ultimate Tenkaichi.

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Yeeesh. I paid more for a disappointing game, but it wasn't DB.

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Post by DarkPrince_92 » Mon May 14, 2012 2:35 pm

Raging Blast 1 ($50) and 2 ($60). Was NOT worth the money.
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Post by funrush » Mon May 14, 2012 3:13 pm

Codarik wrote:All of FUNi's old DBZ VHS tapes (edited and uncut) for $300.00.
That's actually a pretty decent price. Were the Ocean episodes included too?

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Post by Codarik » Mon May 14, 2012 3:18 pm

funrush wrote:
Codarik wrote:All of FUNi's old DBZ VHS tapes (edited and uncut) for $300.00.
That's actually a pretty decent price. Were the Ocean episodes included too?
Yes. The only thing that wasn't included that I wish it was, were those boxes to keep the sagas separated and together.

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Post by coola » Mon May 14, 2012 3:30 pm

Almost 100$ for bootleg Saiyan Saga DVD Half-Boxset, in 2004 :oops:
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Post by BrodieK41 » Mon May 14, 2012 3:37 pm

$700 for the Dragon Ball Dragon Box although I guess you could say that's a good deal compared to other prices you'd find elsewhere.

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Post by dprez » Mon May 14, 2012 4:31 pm

...180$ for Dragon Box 2 :oops:

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Post by Jawdrahb » Mon May 14, 2012 4:48 pm

dprez wrote:...180$ for Dragon Box 2 :oops:
That's probably a popular item of choice as of most recent purchases. $165 although in context I'm sure this volume set far higher standards for outrageous prices of 'Dragon Ball Goods'.

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Post by Raithos » Mon May 14, 2012 10:58 pm

I sold Dragon Box 2 multiple times for $200+/- (from 150 - 250)

One of the most expensive items was Ohzaru Kuji I got last summer, cost me 120$ (Nearly like $80 to ship) because of the beastly shipping. The box was enormous, way too large. You could fit a damn body in there...

Also spent 230$ to get all the Dragon Boxes in one go from Rightstuf's 29.99 sale they had last summer
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Post by Jackal puFF » Mon May 14, 2012 11:45 pm

I bought a few Dragonball GT dvds with like 3 episodes on it for $20.. :( It was a long long time ago though before I knew better.

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