>> Crazy Nate: OK, welcome back Gents and Gentlets, I'm your host Crazy Nate, and today
we're talking about something a little bit different because every time I get one of
these new movies from Disney Movie Club, or Target, or Walmart, whatever. Crack it open,
right inside you see get 5 movies for free, or buy one get one 50%, join our club. Is
this a cult, is this a good deal, or is it a scam? Let's talk about it.
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So right out of the gate I'm going to tell you this. No, I'm not sponsored by Disney,
and yes this is all my own opinion, and I actually spent my own money. I've been working
on this project for over a year now.
[sign says: Is it the cheapest?]
I'm going to talk about all the pros and cons of my little journey with Disney Movie Club.
First of all I'll mention I bought Hocus Pocus up here, and I bought it from the Club for
$13.17.
Then later on I saw it at Walmart for $9.96. Granted Walmart is going to charge taxes in
addition to that. Which I don't think I get charged taxes. Yeah, zero dollars for tax.
So you don't get charged taxes when you buy from Disney Movie Club, but you buy from Walmart
you're going to get taxes, regardless even with the taxes it would of been cheaper at
Walmart.
Sometimes, it's really hard to find a store that's selling a specific movie I'm looking
for, so I go to Target and Walmart or multiple Targets multiple Walmart, Amazon, and finally
I find one, or sometimes I don't even find one.
and one of the problems I have with Amazon. I bought Toy Story one two and three, I bought
a kit on Blu-ray, and it was going to be something I didn't really need, because I already had
it on DVD, and I figured eventually one day I'll open it. Well, one day like a year later
I opened it, and it doesn't work on any of my Blu-ray players, which I have like three
of them, and turns out it's a counterfeit. fake, and I went to Amazon, I'm like hey this
is fake, and they're like you bought this a year ago. So I was kind of up dodo creek
without a paddle.
So yeah, I lost my money on that one. So one of the problems with Amazon, I'm not saying
Amazon is all scam, I've gotten plenty of legitimate movies from Amazon, the problem
is if you're not going to open it right away, if you do they have a great return policy
all that, but you do have that risk that you have to worry about that you're not getting
authentic ones.
This, I just bought it from the Disney movie store, you know it's a real Disney movie,
because it came from the Disney movie club.
[sign says: What about broken movies?]
Speaking of Blu-ray, you might notice I have several Toy Story of Terrors. So basically
here's the story on that. How are their return policy, it's amazing, OK.
I will say that. It's great return policy. So this one came in the mail busted up in
a bunch of pieces like that and I was like hey, um not really cool. I mean I can use
this but I'd like to have one that's not jacked up.
and it came with a dust cover, that's what this is called. slides over all cool and everything.
They're like no worries, we'll send you a package with a new one and we'll give you
a return label so you can return it for free. You don't have to pay any shipping charges.
So they sent me another one, it's broken too. Right there it's broken. I was like come on
guys can I please have one that's not broken, I'd really appreciate it. They said don't
worry about it. We'll send you another one, we'll send you the return receipt and they
finally sent me this one.
If you notice though I have three Toy Story of Terrors, and I only have one dust cover,
so the very first one that I got had a dust cover, and the other two didn't, so I'm keeping
the dust cover and I'm going to, and I'm going to mail back these two with the return label.
The only downside is you have to buy an envelope. I buy in bulk so I have a lot of envelopes,
but if you don't and you're one of those people that buy them from like Target or Walmart
you're going to spend like 15 bucks for four envelopes which is a rip off. But none the
less, you have to cough up an envelope, so that's a drag.
[sign says: Is it too good to be true?]
One of the stipulations they stick you on is you have to buy 5 movies at full retail
price in order to stay in the club, and I think there's some sort of fee like they end
up charging you the full price for the original sign up deal that they gave you where you
get like 5 movies for a killer price.
Well those 5 movies you'll have to pay full price for them if you don't fulfill this contract
within a year. But that being said, if you're really into Disney and you like all their
new movies that come out like Cars 3 and stuff like that and you want to get it right when
it comes out they're going to send you a notice in the mail or by email however you prefer
and you basically say yes, I want this, or no I don't and you say yes five times, and
bam your contracts fulfilled. But any who so I bought 31 movies in this case. I'm sure
I bought more from them, but this is all the receipts I could find, basically out of the
31 movies I bought in this invoice, it cost $460.97.
$12.13 each. So granted the fact that most of them were DVD's I'd say about two thirds
of them were dvd's. I don't know, if you're not in a rush to buy them, a lot of times
you can find DVD's for like $10.
Also another thing with stuff like Cars 3 you end up getting multiple Blu-rays if you're
like me, I need to get it the day it comes out, because I need to start looking at it
with a fine tooth comb, so a lot of times even though you pre-ordered it. It doesn't
show up in your mail box till like the second or third day after it already came out on
Blu-ray and dvd at your local store.
[sign reads: Are there any other perks?]
One thing that's cool though is free stuff. Who doesn't like free stuff? They give you
stuff like this little to and from stickers to put on cards or authentic, authentic pens,
that you know aren't counterfeit... eBay.
and they give you these cool lithographs. I know this is Beauty and the Beast by the
way if you can't see it. I know she doesn't fit in frame, but it's the best frame I could
find for her. Here's I got a Cars 3 one, and then a Pirates of the Caribbean one, Guardians
of the Galaxy, and they're kinda cool high quality images, um so eventually I'll probably
get one of those big frames then put them all in there together, and then you get cool
letters from the creators of movies which is kind of cool to see.
I mean if you wanted to google it you could probably find someone leaks out the letter
so you can read it still, but it's cool that you get your own copy from them.
Also like during Christmas time they have black Friday cyber Monday sales which is what
I got most of this stuff from. And by the way, all the sales were for DVD's I couldn't
find any sales for Blu-ray.
But anyways they give you these cool little boxes I guess so if you want to get rid of
your DVD's now you can give them away as Christmas gifts which is kind of cool.
They don't go cheap, they give you enough for every single one that you had in your
order, so I bought quite a few in that order, so I got a bunch of envelopes But yeah, cute
little box with a cute little Mickey mouse ornament. Hidden Easter egg.
Probably wasn't really a hidden Easter egg. But yeah, your DVD fits in there perfect,
close it up, mail it away. That's kinda cool.
So at the end of the day do I think it's a good deal to get the Disney Movie Club. Well,
if you're a Disney fan and you have a ton of movies already and you're only buying like
the new movies when they come out, I don't know if you're going to see a benefit in it.
You might, I mean it's cool they get the free stuff every once in a while.
Like if you don't have to get the movie the day it comes out, and you can get i t like
in the mail in the next 1-3 days, then yeah, I would go to the club, because then you're
not going to get a custom pin from Disney when you buy it from Target or Walmart. OK
They're just going to give you the Blu-ray and say have a nice day and then security
is going to check your bags and take you in the back and be like did you steal this? and
you're like I have a receipt, and then they're like fine get out of our store! And you're
like uh, your welcome I'm glad I shopped here.
But yeah, when you buy it from here you're gonna get the cool pin, or you're gonna get
a letter or you're gonna get a book mark, for people who read haha.
[sign says: I don't have a lot of movies...]
I would also say if you are lacking in the movie collection and you want to build up
your movie library I think it's probably a good spot to go because most stores aren't
going to sell the Hunchback of Notre dame 2 or Dumbo.
Like who buys that anymore? Like nobody. And Dumbo by the way I only got for like $6. It
was the cheapest movie I ever bought from them. So that was cool.
So yeah, if you want to build up your movie Library, sure get it.
But another thing to keep in mind that I noticed the other day like a lot of these things I
didn't really read the details and then afterwards I'm looking in my receipts and I'm like oh,
they charged me for this and that. blah blah blah.
So here's the thing. So like they have a deal like as a member you buy one movie at full
price like lets say you're going to buy a dozen Blu-rays right?
You buy one movie, at full price and then all the rest of them are 50% off. Well what
they don't tell you is like so you pre-order like cars 3 right? It didn't come out yet,
so you preorder Cars 3 you also order like 3 other really cool Blu-ray movies, well they
don't count Cars 3 as your first one at full retail, they don't even pretend it's there.
They charge another movie as full retail and then they give you the discounted rates. Kind
of a drag. Also their shipping charges. Come on.
They're crazy.
[sign says: Is it free shipping?]
so for my last order I paid $21.83 for shipping. And that wasn't even over night shipping or
anything. So like they charge you I don't know what the fees are, it's like $3.95 and
then an additional $1.49 per movie, and then like if it's a movie set it's like $5.44.
And then additional $1.49 for each movie after that. So I feel like they're just trying to
rake in as much money as they can off each movie title which I get it they gotta stay
in business.
But at the end of the day you're looking for a deal so is it a deal?
It might be, it might be a deal for you, oh yeah, here's another one I got. Cool little
Bambi.
This one actually might of came from inside the DVD. Because a lot of times.... Sorry
Blu-ray. When you buy the Blu-rays a lot of times you get cool stuff that come inside
of them.
But yeah, at the end of the day, do I think it's worth it? It may or may not be, you have
to look at all the options and circumstances I brought before you here today and make your
own educated decision. Am I going to continue my membership?
That might help you decide weather or not you have yours.
Actually I probably will. Even with all the little hick ups. Like buying all these DVD's
thinking I was buying Blu-rays, that's my own fault. You just gotta be a little bit
careful when you're looking in the subject line like you're searching for something don't
just click the add to cart button, you gotta click on the image or click on the title and
then read the description and see if you're actually buying a DVD or Blu-ray. If you don't
care then buy the DVD it's cheaper.
But if you're like me and you're trying to get everything to turn to Blu-ray read the
description, make sure you're actually buying the Blu-ray, and chances are, don't expect
to get a deal on your blu-rays.
Any who, that's it for me, I know this is not as exciting and woo hoo as some of my
other videos because it's not an everything you missed. But I thought hey, you're watching
movies or me talk about Disney movies, so that probably means you're buying Disney movies.
So I thought I'd give you my unbiased opinion of the Disney Movie Club.
Now the Disney Movie Rewards, that's a whole different story, and that's a story for another
day.
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