> > > The best example of this would be, in my opinion, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Extended DVD. Yeah, it was $70 when it came out, but it had over 30 min. added to the movie itself and many hours more added to the extras.
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> > If you have a SAM's club they sell the special editions much cheaper.
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> > I hate to know someone spend sooo much money when they could have saved twenty or thirty dollars.
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> Actually, because it's Lord of the Rings there were actually *two* Extended Editions: one retailed for about $30 (and could be found for about $20), while there was also a gift set that included a bunch of extra fanboy stuff and went for about $70.
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> If Sam's Club was selling the gift set (with the bookends and stuff) for $20 or $30 less than $70, then that was a really, really good price.
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> Stephen

"Let me 'splain.. no, too long. Let me sum up." The reason I just said $70 is because I'm a LotR nut. I have to get the nicest things and keep them nice. I need the collector's edition to just say I have it. So, naturally, I bought the Extended DVD Gift Set. The other seems, to me, to be too little for what you pay for. With the gift set I got a documentary on the area that the Fellowship of the Ring was filmed, the 4 DVD's, the free movie pass, and very detailed and cool-looking bookends. Don't ask for a logical reason why I wanted that stuff because all of it is sitting on one of my stereo speakers in my room and still in the box. Yes, there are cheaper versions of this particular DVD set, but, to tell you the truth, I didn't remember that until Mrs. Grishny said something about it. I'm the same way with Star Wars and Nintendo stuff. Ok... well... maybe I'm just crazy.

Wedge