If you can buy a DVD box set for £20, why pay £60+ for it?

[clumsymum]

DH is a trekkie fan (I know, I know....).

He has some of the star trek Voyager series on DVD. They were bought with birthday money etc. The ones he has are in big red plastic (ugly) cases.

He doesn't have series 6 or 7, which are now for sale, new packaging in printed cardboard slip cases, about £20 from ebay or Amazon.

But he wants to buy the ones that match his 'collection'. So he wants to pay somewhere between £60 - £70.

I'm trying to get our credit card bills down, and I'm very aware of how much our petrol etc is costing us.

I'm not the unreasonable one, am I ?????

just tell him to buy them when you can afford em

The red boxed ones are now out of production. Apparently if we don't buy them now, we'll never get them .....

Oh dear. He needs to detach from the "things". They're only worth money if he sells them on (is that the plan?) They don't have better acting and plots for being in a red box.

You're not being unreasonable, and he's being a collector, I'm afraid.

I've told him that the content will be the same, the red boxes take up too space anyway, they are ugly, and I haven't been econimising on face cream (Boots own brand instead of Estee Lauder), for him to fritter £40 away on a sodding plastic box.

This could get nasty....

can he get them second hand on ebay?

They will always, always be for sale on eBay.

Probably by someone going through an expensive divorce because he bought ugly expensive "special edition" DVDs.

You are not being unreasonable!
Its the same old thing 'big boys and there toys'sit him down and let him know how you are cutting back and that money is a worry,he's probably not even aware of the sacrifices that you are making.

Make a deal with him - he can buy them, but he has to ask for money for birthday / Christmas till he's "paid back" the difference?

(My DH is a collector too. I have a set of books that are all paperbacks, except one hardback - he wants to get rid of the hardback and buy a paperback. They're my books! I've told him if he can do it without incurring cost, be my guest.)

If you are trying to save money that YANBU.

They will probably end up in a cupboard somewhere anyway....so what does it matter what case they are in.

I've got all the Friends on DVD, and some are in the old style and some in the new skinny style...I don't care.

Then not that.

I need a spell check for MN

IMO it is reasonable to get the expensive one as a present (birthday/christmas) but not reasonable to just get it for no particular reason.

i dont think its unreasonable

but i do understand if you have a set of something you want to complete it as it is

tell him he can complete it if he finds them cheaper

i wouldnt want it being all different if i was collecting something

or tell him to save birthday x mas money to get them

and keep an eye on e bey in meantime to see if they are on there or buy the cases and put cheaper dvd's in them

I would be like him. My angel collection is incomplete because they changed the boxes and I had no money at the time.

BUT - it would be birthday/christmas money that I would be buying with, not normal stuff.

Have you tried Amazon

It's Amazon that have the new boxed ones.

Ebay have the new boxed ones, and some old boxed ones, but over £60.