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Gaffer Tape
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OT Blu Rays: Buying it Used
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Date created
21-Sep-2011, 6:08 PM

Xhonzi's logic is sound, at least as far as resellers actively attempting to get a "piece of the action" is concerned.  You're just adding one more middleman and effectively spreading your money to more sources.  However, if you're genuinely buying it used, as in buying it from someone who originally bought it and then decided to no longer have it, then that's a different story.  You're not creating any more demand the product.  You're not creating a new middleman.  You're simply creating a situation wherein one unique copy is being effectively shared between two or more people, when it would previously have only been meant for one.

So for those people who feel compelled to hold out and buy it used, it would be more beneficial to wait, like Bingowings suggested, until the reseller market begins to dry up, prices drop, and chances improve that you're actually getting a "legitimate" used copy.

Doesn't effect me either way, since I have no intention of ever buying it, new or used, but it's good food for thought, xhonzi, especially since I have somewhat begrudgingly advocated that method without really thinking through all of its implications.