Buying Region Free DVDs

[MacGuffin]

Does anybody know the best place to do this where price conversions and ridiculously large shipping costs don't able due to ordering from other countries? I guess in other words, a company that sells DVDs from other countries by companies like Artificial Eye based in America that is reliable.

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Nevermind, I found what I was looking for. Feel free to delete this thread, mods.

[Spinal]

Xploited Cinema is pretty good. I've bought from them a couple times and the DVDs arrive quickly.

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Xploited Cinema is pretty good. I've bought from them a couple times and the DVDs arrive quickly.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking but then I noticed Amazon.co.uk sells for nearly the same price if you convert the pounds to dollars.

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How much is shipping generally for Xploited Cinema? They don't really tell you elsewhere on the site. They're seemingly more expensive then I thought they would be. I mean the DVDs themselves, that is.

[Spinal]

How much is shipping generally for Xploited Cinema? They don't really tell you elsewhere on the site. They're seemingly more expensive then I thought they would be. I mean the DVDs themselves, that is.

I honestly don't remember, but I don't recall it being out of the ordinary. The prices can be expensive if you're looking for something specific. They frequently have good sale items though.

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I honestly don't remember, but I don't recall it being out of the ordinary. The prices can be expensive if you're looking for something specific. They frequently have good sale items though.

Thanks.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Xploited Cinema has announced they are going out of business. They are horrible for UK DVD's as they jack up the price higher than any other DVD's they carry. Why? I don't know. They are great for Italian or French DVD's though and indeed have good service and fair price shipping that is quick.

2. use www.find-dvd.co.uk to search for the lowest price on a desired UK dvd. Usually Amazon.co.uk is the best option as they will remove VAT (taking off about 1-3 pounds of the price) depending on the intial price of the DVD. Their shipping is expensive if you only buy one DVD but very fair if you buy 3 or 4 at the same time. Amazon UK frequently has Artificial Eye sales where most titles are 7 pounds (14 bucks about)

Example: AE's Jean Vigo Collection (highly recommended):

lowest price about $18 at AmazonUK (around $16 after VAT tax removal). Then again, if you don't order 3 or 4 DVD's, they are going to charge you $8 shipping for that one item. If, for instance, you wanted just this DVD, then use thehut.com, where it is also $18 but they only charge $2 shipping on single items no matter the weight.

Xploited would charge you 50 for this DVD + shipping.

3. Other companies that ship to America and I've had success with: thehut.com(99p shipping per item even if it's a big box set), dvd.co.uk (now called base.com), cdwow (although now they are shit because a new ownership took them over.)

4. Also use DVDBeaver to check out a disc first if possible. Not all Aritificial Eye releases are great quality. some are horrific.

EDIT: Speaking of Artificial Eye sales, AmazonUK is currently having one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artificial-Eye-World-Cinema-DVDs-DVD/s/qid=1217516731/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=682603011&rh=n%3A682603011&page=1

[Yxklyx]

I've bought some region-free dvds from amazon.co.uk. facets.org also sells region-free dvds I think (I know they rent region-free DVDs - I rented Zentropa and some other films from them) and they're in Chicago.

That said, my region free DVD player broke and I ended up making limited use of it. Anyway, why buy when you can rent?