My 17 year old step-daughter dearly wanted a copy of Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (Disney) but as it is out of print (and now presumably residing in the legendary Disney vault) finding copies of it for reasonable prices is next to impossible! At the end of November, used copies at Amazon were starting at $50 and new copies were over $70! At those prices there was no way we could justify filling this Christmas wish. However, I placed myself on the wish list for a copy at
SwapaDVD.com as soon as I’d registered with them and was amazed when my number came up on December 8th! I received it in the mail on December 18th – with plenty of time to spare and what amounts to a $2.00 cash investment. This was one of my first major “scores” at the site and my step-daughter was extremely happy on Christmas morning. As of the date of this post there are 77 members on the wish list to get a copy. They aren’t posted very frequently so I imagine that the folks at the back of that list may be waiting until after Christmas 2008 to get their copies, unless they rank it very high (top 5) on their list.
UPDATE – June 17, 2008:
As of today, there are 124 members wishing for a copy of this DVD at SwapaDVD.com. Of these, it appears that 41 of them have ranked the title within the top 5 positions of their wish lists . I counted 13 members ranking it #1 and 12 more at #2. No copies have been posted into the system in the last 7 days.
