buying anime

[psychosk8r]

ok so yall have 50 million+ episodes so i figure theres no place better than here to ask.... i used to live in illinois and we had a store called tomorrow is yesterday that i bought my anime from. well when i moved i gave it all to my older brother so he could have something good to watch in Iraq but the problem is there isnt a store thats dedicated entirely to anime here and F.Y.E doest really have a big selection. so does anyone know of some nationwide stores that have at least an average sized selection of anime?

[Corwin]

Well I usually got mine from Best Buy b/c they had a decent amount and they do carry some of the unedited, there's Fry's if there is one in your area, they carry almost nothing but unedited, at least out here they do, there's always online stores, that's another way I got a lot of mine, a good idea is look online for anime stores w/ good selections, especially if they carry more than just anime, then from there see if they have physical locations or if they are just web stores that way you can find something in your area

[Jack]

Yeah, Corwin, made a good point. It's typically a better idea to get your anime online since you'll usually have a better chance of finding what you're looking for because of larger collections and sometimes they have corresponding retail stores set up.

-Jack

[Corwin]

and if ur willing to take a risk on a subtitled version being legitimately licensed, and by this, sometimes it's fansub being sold, and sometimes, it's a legit version that's been copied, and new boxes/cases have been fabricated, then ebay is a great way to go for anime, some series are a lot cheaper, my sisters and I used to buy anime on there, I remember I helped a friend buy over $900 worth of anime for about $150

[psychosk8r]

ok thanks guys as for ebay how do you know if thats really what you gonna get. how do you know its not a empty case or something?

[silkshadow]

ebay is pretty strict on things like that so you won't find to many scammers on there anymore just keep the emails and stuff dealing with the purchase and if its wrong then they can do something about it

[Corwin]

pretty much what he said, closest I ever came to being scammed was some bootleg game boy advance games, heck you couldn't even tell they were bootleg, they looked legit, I found out b/c apparently someone else caught on and informed ebay, so I was able to return them after I had finished them all and get my money back, but as for anime, no problems on that, usually I try to only purchase from users w/ a good rating, 1000+ although once in a while I'll go lower if they are good reviews, but the problem w/ using someone w/ low ratings is they might be artificially inflating the ratings which while possible on the larger accounts is unlikely, and there are the ebay stores which provide another measure of certainty, no one is going to go through all the hassle of setting up an ebay store for a scam that's going to get caught on the first try


*Here is one of the stores I used to frequent on Ebay, he has since moved the store from ebay's site to his own, but we always got quality merchandise for decent prices, some of the series are a little closer to retail than a lot of us might want to pay, but most are much lower, I think he gets them wholesale http://www.sundevildvd.com/store/home.php
I mean, how many other places are you going to find the complete Naruto series w/ 3 movie for just over $100, more likely you'll see it for somewhere between $300-500 and for those of you who crave the subtitles it looks to be mostly subtitled works, even having 23 of the current Naruto Shippuden eps subbed on dvd

[psychosk8r]

ok but i dont like subtitles. i prefer eng dub. does he have any of those?

[Corwin]

I'm not sure but he should, I looked at the site and I think there was a section, if nothing else you can get stuff like that from the big stores online like Best Buy, just type a series you want in a search engine w/ eng dub and you should be fine

[Xeohelios]

Off-Topic here but...
Where is that store in Illinois!? Heh.
I wasn't aware of anything like that down here -.-

[psychosk8r]

i dont remember if its in illinois or wisconsin cuz i lived on the border there... im fairly certain its in illinois but ill double check and let you know

[yessir02]

You can try ebay. They sell used dvds there for a fraction of a price. Best buy is reaaally cheap too. Or you can tell your brother to watch here^