Media deals this week - Page 95

These have dropped in price to $19.20.

It's like someone at Amazon pricing is watching this thread and playing with us, wondering just how many we can stockpile
Even at less than $20 shipped, and no tax I just have to call it quits! Great deal though on some very good DVDs, I'd suggest to anyone who has the room(and need) to stock up now!
I have to cry uncle! with at least a 2 year supply I just can't justify more
To think that B&Ms like BB, OD, OM and W/M try and pawn off junk media like Memorex and call $29.99/100 + tax a sale

If your previous order has not shipped you should be able to get Amazon to give you a prize reduction.

The Amazon Basics dvd+r are down to $11.38.

Saw this post earlier today and thought it may be a good time to snag in a few 100 more of these....then got off doing other stuff. Just logged in to Amazon and now they're down to $18.27 per 100. I've had a similar thing happen more than once, only the price went up! So I ordered 300.

Has anybody ever found an explanation as to why Amazon does this?

Also...

Picked up a dozen spindles of these from Supermediastore earlier this year. Seemed to be a one-shot, "when they're gone, they're gone," deal because I haven't seen them on the site since. Not sure why the price is so low because the disc quality seems quite good. At least, I've burned about 50 on my 3575 and Maggies without a blip. They were SO cheap, and the Funai machines were, after all, originally designed for the +R format. Usual disclaimers about long-term longevity, of course. I use these mostly for giveaways and backup copies of stuff I've burned to standard TY/Verb 8x.

OK $18 is just too cheap, I ordered another spindle
AFA Amazon pricing I have no idea, Amazon must employ a whole department of people that do nothing other than change prices, I have no idea other than I've learned when I see something cheap I jump right on it, no dilly dallying around. Of course in this case I lost a little(I didn't bother trying to get anything back from my previous order) but thats pennies compared to the regular price(which isn't that bad either).
If those $20 Ty discs were - format I'd have to order me a 300 pack but your right, they will go right along with your Funai recorders that are more + native.

I tried to place a order yesterday for one Verbatim Retail and another Amazon Basic Dvd+r. But it said I had reach my limit on the Amazon Basic Dvd+r.
Today I was able to place a order for both without any problems. Although it seems the Verbatim Retail is out of stock, even though it shows as in stock.
The Verbatim in the FFP Packaging has jumped all the way back up to $24.84.

Well, the Verb AZO 16x DVD-R are holding at Amazon at $18.27 per 100. Two spindles get ya Super Saver Shipping.....

The "TY" 16x DVD+Rs I have are actually in colorful JVC-branded commerical-packaging, no mention of TY, which was fine - we all know JVC = Taiyo Yuden. Normally +R discs are more expensive than -R, at least among the Verbs and TY that we like, so I stick with -R, especially since that's all my old Panny and Pio recorders will accept. I recorded a series of important programs on my Philips 3575, so when I dubbed them to disc, I did a "master" copy on TY 8x DVD-R, then a "backup" set on the JVC DVD+R. Both series of burns went equally smoothly, and the finished discs play in whatever I put them in. The irony will probably be that the expensive -Rs go to pot in a few years and I'll still be playing the "cheap" JVCs when I'm 87!

For all the debate over 8x vs 16x, I have to say that my 2004 Panasonic DMR-E85 accepted all the big box 16x media I fed it in the 2006-07 time period (granted, the quality of the mainstream retail brands hadn't started going down then), and my Funai-based machines seem completely indifferent to the two types. Citibear has warned so vigorously against using 16x in the old Pioneers, though, that I just don't do it.

Amazon pricing.....I'm thinking that it reflects the *absence* of human intervention; perhaps the retail price is determined by some formula based on what Amazon pays for inventory. Or maybe there's some algorithm that jacks the prices during peak buying times. Forgot about the problems with limits on how many you can buy. Let me have 3 paks, no sweat, but then I haven't bought any for months.

The Verbatim 97460 4.7 GB up to 16x Branded Recordable Disc DVD-R 100-Disc FFP (Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging) has dropped to $18.16 at Amazon.com. I brought to more spindles.

Amazon appears to still show $24.84 for the FFP.

Yes your right. Right after I posted this message. I called a friend I told about these being on sale. As we were speaking on the phone she went to Amazon.com's site & told me they were $24.84. I said no way. I told her she was looking at the retail version. She said no she wasn't. So I logged on bigger than crap it had gone back up in price. I was able to order 2 spindles. I guess that this just the nature of the beast with the way Amazon pricing goes. Sorry about that.

Yeah, $18.27 is just a little too cheap for even ME to ignore. That makes the price, after all is said and done, to be under $0.20 per disk! I broke down and ordered some of these, the first non T-Y disks I have purchased in many years. Anyway, like has been said, they arrived today, just thrown in an oversized box with a bit of packing, large plastic air pillows--completely useless. They had all burst, and the disks had all been freely bouncing around. They looked like they survived, but I am not pleased--and I had been warned, hadn't I? This is the first time I have ordered something from Amazon that has come so poorly packed.
Edited by Church AV Guy - 1/4/13 at 4:26pm

Both types are back up to $24.84
I still haven't received mine yet, should arrive tomorrow I'd expect....I hope they survive the shipping better than yours, I haven't experienced what you've describe although I did have a issue with a broken spindle of Tys from SMC, the discs were all fine though.

And good you ordered 'em when you did because yesterday the price shot back up to nearly $24.84 per 100-pak, even in the retail packaging. Funny, too: I've been keeping an eye on it just for the heck of it all week, and yesterday I checked in the AM and they were still in the low $18 range. By the evening, boom! Up to nearly $25.

Well, according to the UPS website, my order is waiting for me on my front porch. We'll see how the packing was done.... I agree that the Amazon folks are normally champs on the packing front. I don't recall there being a problem with the packing on the order for these same discs that I placed earlier last year. Now, Supermediastore seems to have perfected the fine art of just barely packing securely enough for something to get through with only minor damage.

Hmmm. I wonder if the broken-spindle rate is higher in the winter than in the warmer months. Plastic gets brittle in extreme cold, so maybe the spindles are more likely to shatter while being hefted in and out of UPS trucks and such.....

Well, with the Verb AZOs that I just purchased, I now have over 2000 blanks, cross reference DigaDo on "warehousing" blank DVDs. It might be a while before I get to these, unless I put them at the head of the use-queue. I opened a new spool of 100 yesterday, and I am over 1/4 into it already. Of course, 24 had a HUGE marathon (three seasons) so I was motivated.

The stash of Verbatim 16x AZO DVD-R retail spindles I just received from Amazon were made in Taiwan. In the past, the ones I received from Amazon were made in United Arab Emir.

The Amazon packaging was horrible, but the spindles appear to have survived unscathed. I requested USPS for shipping.

Mine came yesterday, 2 in one box and 1 in another. On one of the two the bottom part of the spindle cracked and the shrink wrap almost broke but did not, mine also contained a few air packs. I can see the advantage of the FFP and to think I thought the whole purpose of the FFP was for people that got frustrated trying to take the shrink wrap off not people getting frustrated because their spindles broke

About par with everybody else, my 3 spindles were shipped in a box that was too large, so they bounced around, largely unrestrained by the couple-three sad, deflated air pillows that were more like sarcasm than an honest attempt to protect the contents of the shipment. The funny thing is that the bottoms of the spindles have an additional clear shrink wrap, rather thick, whose sole purpose seems to be to contain the shattered pieces of spindle. So when I took the spindles out, they looked OK, but when I opened them, bits of shattered plastic fell all over the floor.

No big deal, though. The discs inside were fine, and I have spare good-quality cake boxes leftover from batches of discs I've used, so the Verbs will go in them. And I got some better-quality discs (I hope) for givaways.

I can understand the greater levels of damage that other folks experienced. The shipping point of original for mine was Hodgkins, IL, which is not *that* far from Doswonk's Enormous Underground Complex beneath the gently undulating landscape of Central Iowa.

I sense a pattern here.

Looks like.... Amazon usually does such a good job of packing their stuff, I'm wondering if this isn't coming from an Amazon warehouse and maybe shipped direct from some supplier. Do they do that?

This is why I have stopped buying the "Retail" Verbatims. As I posted before one of my first orders of 2 spindles. They were broken spindle bases and also the shrink wrap had also broken away. What few air bags they put in the box were deflated and useless. So I have stuck to the FFP Packaging. When I seen the Amazon Basics were also using the FFP Packaging I felt comfortable to order those also.

Get this though my recent order of 2 Verbatim spindles in FFP Packaging. Had the boxes on one side of the bigger box. On the other side there were like 28 air bags in a row. Everything was packed tight and no air bags were deflated. Why could they do the same with the retail ones.
Edited by Chingu808 - 1/8/13 at 10:00am

Amazon sometimes acts as a "go-between" , web-selling products that actually come from elsewhere. I'm not sure if the product is shipped to Amazon and then to the customer, or if Amazon just forwards the order information. Several major retailers sell through Amazon, so that could be the problem.

Has anyone else noticed that the AZO logo is missing on these newer purchases? Now it is just written as AZO. Could these be fakes?







Edit: The second photo courtesy of DigaDo here.
Edited by tomwil - 1/8/13 at 7:15am

The last 2 Verbatim AZ0 DVD-r spindles have the AZ0 logo on them. I am still waiting for my last 2 spindles to ship. Surprising they use to ship 1-2 days after I placed my order. This is has been about a week now. I notice you posted a picture of AZ0 "Dvd+r". I never brought dvd+r AZ0 Verbatims before. Maybe that is the way they come packaged.

I see the one on Amazon.com has the AZ0 Logo. Maybe they are fakes. I guess someone should check the Media ID code.

Edited by Chingu808 - 1/8/13 at 10:01am

I ordered 4 spindles of these AmazonBasics DVD+R discs. So far I have burnt over 150 discs with out any failures. I have given over 100 discs to family members and friends and so far no complaints about any play back problems. If these drop to those low prices again I will sure buy more of them.

The only picture I could find on the web showing the written AZO instead of the logo AZO, was the DVD+R sample. My DVD-R spindles show the same written AZO without the logo. I'll try to upload a photo later on.

From Amazon.com.

Maybe now they’re starting to use new packaging with big AZO letters instead of the little logo.

DVD+R DL with big AZO letters and no AZO logo


CD-R with big AZO letters and AZO logo


If you think about it the big letters are more noticeable than the small logo. Anyone do a media-id check yet?

Both the Amazon and Walmart spindles with the same packaging, AZO printed, w/o logo.

Nero CD-DVD Speed: Disc Info
Basic Information
Disc type: : DVD-R
Book Type : DVD-R
Manufacturer: : Verbatim
MID : MCC 03RG20
Write speeds: : 2 X - 4 X - 6 X - 8 X
Blank Capacity : 4.38 GB
: 4488 MB
: 4706076672 bytes

Thanks dleedlee.
That pretty well confirms the new Verbs are not fakes.