DVD Planet Quote Machine
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DVD Planet Quote Machine
DVD Planet has a note on their Quote Machine that it will be down until August 31 for maintenance. Does anyone (such as DVD Planet employees) know for sure if it will be up and running by September 1st? I tried to sell some dvds on the first day it went down for maintenance so I've been waiting a while for it to come back up. Any help would be awesome!
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I'm actually more worried that the trade in values are going to be severely dropped. The trade in value they were giving was excellent. 2-3 times what you can get in trade locally.
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Trust me, I'm worried about that too. I put in a quote on my lunch break the day it went down (while it was still up) but didn't submit because I wanted to go home and confirm I had put them all in. When I got home Quote Machine was down. I'm betting I lose quite a bit.
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You will have to wait longer to trade in now
I remember it took for ever for the adult webite to go back online...
The Quote Machine is being taken down temporarily for a maintenance. We will be back up and purchasing discs on September 7, 2007.
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The Quote Machine is being taken down temporarily for a maintenance. We will be back up and purchasing discs on September 7, 2007.
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I would say prices will decrease, I ran a few through the Quote Machine direct links. I tried ones that were 7.48 the day before the shutdown, now they're 2.88. Could be just in some cases, but I seriously doubt the prices will stay reasonable and that means I can remove DVD Planet from my bookmarks.
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Can you post the direct link? I have a stack of DVDs I've been waiting to sell to DVD Planet, but may end up putting them on Ebay if it appears the trade-in prices on them are nolonger going to be reasonable. (I know that many of them were $8.98 and $7.48 before.)
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Originally Posted by karsten
Can you post the direct link? I have a stack of DVDs I've been waiting to sell to DVD Planet, but may end up putting them on Ebay if it appears the trade-in prices on them are nolonger going to be reasonable. (I know that many of them were $8.98 and $7.48 before.)
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What a load of baloney. I've never heard of a website taking down one of their major features for over a month like this. I guess I might as well wait it out to see if their trade-in prices still beat everyone else, but chances are that I will no longer be purchasing from dvdplanet once I used my remaining credit.
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I'm happy. Had 7 titles I was planning to sell. The new quote machine prices are better for every one of the titles in my order than they were before. And the DVD Planet quotes are significantly better than quotes from SecondSpin for the same titles -- in every case. DVDPlanet still has my business when it comes to selling used discs.
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I am satisfied with the changes. I am sure its better for business to not buy a ton of bare-bones, obsolete titles that have new versions. Some titles I sent were more, some less, but it seemed to balance out.
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Originally Posted by zombeaner
wow, a lot of items I want to sell are completely gone and other items prices went way down. Not an improvement.
Same here ... most of the titles I wanted to trade in for store credit are now gone ... and some that are there have trade-in prices too low to even bother to consider ... glad Ebay has that month long listing sale going on as that's where most of the DVDs I wanted to trade are headed.
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I'm glad I cleared out most of my DVDs to sell before this happened. I had a small stack to sell and checked some of the prices. HD DVD prices are good (not what I could get selling them myself though), but many of the DVD titles are now $2.88 instead of the $6 or so they were before and most are just missing completely.
I kind of knew this would have to end at some point, but I will definitely miss trading in stuff with them. Back to selling them one at a time on Half.com.
I kind of knew this would have to end at some point, but I will definitely miss trading in stuff with them. Back to selling them one at a time on Half.com.
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So are these quotes only good for store credit? One thing I liked about secondspin was the option to be paid through PayPal. I'd even take a check, but store credit means I'm stuck paying retail when I'm used to Columbia House prices.
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So are these quotes only good for store credit? One thing I liked about secondspin was the option to be paid through PayPal. I'd even take a check, but store credit means I'm stuck paying retail when I'm used to Columbia House prices.
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Originally Posted by darkside
I'm glad I cleared out most of my DVDs to sell before this happened. I had a small stack to sell and checked some of the prices. HD DVD prices are good (not what I could get selling them myself though), but many of the DVD titles are now $2.88 instead of the $6 or so they were before and most are just missing completely.
I kind of knew this would have to end at some point, but I will definitely miss trading in stuff with them. Back to selling them one at a time on Half.com.
I kind of knew this would have to end at some point, but I will definitely miss trading in stuff with them. Back to selling them one at a time on Half.com.
I also increased what we pay on over 10,000 dvds and that has also been noted in a message above. Paying $8 for a $25 retail disc that is on every closeout list for $5 just does not make sense.
I am sorry if some of you feel like we did this to take advantage of you. This was not my intent.