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OOP Anime now commanding Big Bucks??

Were either of these sites the site in question?

A lot of Sailor Moon DVDs are going for high prices, since they're all expired-license OOP series. Even the 14 discs of the edited dub of the first two seasons are fairly pricey--some are as low as $20, many are $30-$59, and the last two are nearly $100 While a few of the individual S and SuperS discs are still reasonable, most of the collections are pricey, like SM R for $200 or the movies for $100

Martian Successor Nadesico was such a fun series in my book. I don't typically enjoy Sci-Fi. I don't typically enjoy mechs. But, I still really enjoyed Nadesico. It was just too cool for words and I was actually a little surprised when I realized it was long since out of print. Back in the day if somebody asked me for a recommendation I often started with Nadesico. These days I don't think about it that much anymore but I'm glad you brought it up. I really need to pick up the rest of the series that I'm still missing. "You get to burning..." I can already hear the opening song in my head as I type this. Count me in with the folks who complain about good series going OOP too early. I wonder how much it would cost to re-license some of these older series.

If the company you were talking about was the one linked to by NGE1113, they've stopped taking requests so if the show you want a box for isn't on their list, you're screwed. I E-mailed them a while back about that issue and that's basically what they told me.

Sucks too considering how great those boxes they've made look and how much money I would have been sending their way.

Richard J. wrote:

Bootleggers are the bane of eBay. Why no one seems to be trying to clean them out is beyond me. I know it would be hard but you'd think someone at eBay would be just a little concerned about facilitiating so much piracy considering all the crackdowns that are starting to happen lately.

Ebay doesn't care, they get plenty of revenue from commissions or whatever from these bootleg sellers, so they'll let them stay as long as they can.

Plus neither the licensors or the actual copyright holders can't be "bothered" to do a simple C&D to eBay to stop them from allowing sellers like this.

Abarenbo Shogun wrote:

Plus neither the licensors or the actual copyright holders can't be "bothered" to do a simple C&D to eBay to stop them from allowing sellers like this.

A part of me want's to try suing them just to see if it would change eBay's policies, but I have neither the money nor the time to try something like that. Why the companies losing money don't seem to want to is a complete mystery to me.

Would a C&D order alone fix the problem? Probably not, but it's a good place to start. It couldn't really hurt either.

hehe I've been looking for a manga that i want to get my hands on thats not around anymore, and i see it on ebay for like $5 tops. ill get it when i can, but considering they sell now normally for about $14 and up, im going for ebay. really rare, and not well known.

I don't wanna steal your auction though