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Sadly, coming by the real copies is difficult these days, however maybe you should take a chance and purchase them since they are at quite a low price?
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Yeah, I mean they wouldn't look right in the collection. Do they work just as well though ?
I bought Spirited away for £12 today in CEX, it's real but expensive.
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Yeah, they are really expensive to buy which is a shame. Is there a reason why they are so expensive ?.
I bought Spirited Away for £12 in CEX today, watched it with my Girlfriend we really enjoyed it. I am thinking of watching My Neighbour Totoro next.
I will just have to buy them as and when I can, I have seen Grave Of The Fireflies on YouTube. It's a tad hard when you don't have much money.
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Any special reason you going for a boxed set? You can get the individual DVDs quite cheaply. Are you in the UK? They sell for around £7 to £9 each here. High street music and video stores like HMV and Virgin always stock them.
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quote:
Originally posted by Saddletank
Any special reason you going for a boxed set? You can get the individual DVDs quite cheaply. Are you in the UK? They sell for around £7 to £9 each here. High street music and video stores like HMV and Virgin always stock them.
I can't seem to come across any boxed sets in my area, only individual films rarely.. But that was back in the day when they were more popular. I remember seeing a copy of The Cat Returns in a convenience store about 3 years ago and that's the last time I've seen a Ghibli title sold anywhere other than online.
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Koda
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quote:
Originally posted by Saddletank
Any special reason you going for a boxed set? You can get the individual DVDs quite cheaply. Are you in the UK? They sell for around £7 to £9 each here. High street music and video stores like HMV and Virgin always stock them.
Yeah I'm in the UK. All the HMV stores near me shut, Virgin I thought they didn't have entertainment stores anymore. I haven't seen on of those for about 5 years, we don't have anywhere here that sells new DVD's GAME sell some but not many. Only the new titles.
We have CEX, but they are £12-£15 per DVD and that's second hand.
The box set was £29.99 for all of them, definitely cheaper than separately, I will have to have a look as there is two HMV stores where my Dad lives, I am going in 3 weeks, just hope I get my birthday money early  .
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I'm surprised they were that expensive in CEX. In my experience they're normally pretty cheap. Anyway, if you want to get legitimate copies, a boxset isn't the way to go. I think there was one or maybe two official boxsets released at some point, but they're very hard to come by and I imagine you'd have to spend a lot on that.
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Try Amazon!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss...k%3Aghibli+dvds
I have 16 Ghibli DVDs and have purchased nearly all of them from Amazon (I live in the UK too). They always seem to have the most affordable prices, plus you can get free super saver delivery.
Regarding box sets, as far as I'm aware, only one legit set was ever released:
http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id...nside_small.jpg
It was released in China, and YEARS ago, so for one a lot of the movies aren't included in the set, and two it's super-expensive to buy.
The singular UK releases are awesome though - they're numbered so look very neat together. Here's my collection as an example:
Avoid the box sets on eBay at all costs, they are 100% definitely pirate copies - you can't guarantee the quality, and like Husky said, none of the money goes back to Ghibli.
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+1 to that last comment, avoid all box sets.
And if high street stores are not around you then as OneSummersDay says, Amazon is good. You can also try Tesco Online (Tesco Direct?) They have a monster warehouse facility in the Channel Islands and import to the UK from there so you don't pay VAT. They are very cheap and I have bought several DVD movies from there in the past.
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quote:
Originally posted by husky51
I first bought a boxset, but now just buy the individual movies. I didn't even know that Amazon sold Ghibli!!! 
I am going to have to go there or that other place, Tesco Online, and check them out.
I don't know why I have never even thought about Amazon before... and I have an Amazon account!!!
(no smart remarks about old age, etc)
lol
amazon means a-z ,easy 
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Yeah, I have seen them on Amazon. I guess I will just have to buy online.
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