ADV Films?

[hsapiens]

Has anyone ordered DVDs before from ADV Films? They've got this unbelievable sale on Farscape, Andromeda, and Mutant X. (Thanks for the heads up, rydra_wong!) I'd loaded up my cart with 4 seasons of Farscape and 2 of Andromeda when I see this at checkout:

All Sales are Final. Unless otherwise noted, defective products may be returned within 14 days of purchase, for EXCHANGE or IN STORE-CREDIT ONLY. NO REFUNDS. A 10% restocking fee may apply. Shipping charges are NOT refundable.

Products offered through this sale are clearance and close-out items. As such, product bar codes will be reconfigured, replaced or physically altered (including by means of cutting, punching or drilling). Some products may be open box. Some products may be delivered without full retail packaging. Except as expressly provided otherwise, products are sold as-is.
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1. ALL SALE ITEMS. Please allow 1 - 4 weeks for processing and shipping due to high sales volumes.

At these prices, I can accept that I won't have a bar code on the sets and I don't really care that it might come minus an insert...but those return policies make me leery of getting scratched, "as is" discs delivered a couple of weeks past the time when they'll even reluctantly consider accepting an exchange where I pay shipping and possibly a restocking fee. :|

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That flu that's rampaging through Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas right now? It sucks. Big, big time.

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

ADV Films is in Houston, just off Harwin between Fondren and Hillcroft. see if you can pick up.

If any of your friends are anime people, they may know them. They're big in Anime.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I think this is where I ordered my Farscape DVDs. I think.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your flu. I've been trying to get it, I think. I'm hoping I can manage to avoid really getting it instead of just kinda feeling almost but not quite sick.

[nialla]

We get our sampler discs for the library's Anime Club from ADV. I've never ordered anything directly from them, but they run sales pretty regularly.

I do remember someone on my flist ordering and it took a while, but I haven't heard of anyone receiving damaged discs. I figure the "as is" relates to the packaging -- overstocked items often have marked or drilled barcodes, but they're usually otherwise unopened unless it was returned to a store after someone opened it.

My only caveat on Farscape is whether it's the old editions versus the "Starburst" editions. They had a really bad habit of putting only a few episodes per disc with little in the way of extras on the original version. They made a slight improvement in the Starburst editions by having more extras and selling two-disc packs, but they still didn't have the number of episodes you'd expect, IIRC.