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I was ordering the last of my son’s Christmas presents for the year, and decided to go ahead and get him some of the National Geographic Video’s he enjoys so much.
Two problems came up – first the Really Wild Animals series has moved to DVD. Only they are not all available on DVD, and the set they do have on DVD in no way matches either of the VHS sets from before. We already have the first VHS set of 6 videos. The DVD set would replace 4 of those. The second set–the one we were going to buy–has 4 more episodes, 3 of which are on the new DVD set. I have a real problem paying to get the 4 VHS tapes, when I can get the DVD’s for a lower price. But because they don’t even come close to matching the previous sets with so much overlap–but not complete.
I would really like them to just be honest about it. Make the same set’s available on DVD, or make a super set with the whole bloody series available. If they had matched the current sets. I would buy the next set in the series for my son, and then when the tapes from the first set wore out (he watches them an average of once a week) or when his birthday comes round we would replace them on DVD. I would have even budgeted for the super-set for him – that would have been worth my drinking “French Roast Coffee” for a week or two.
Then I couldn’t even add the video’s or DVD’s to my shopping cart in Firefox. I verified cookies, security setting, all Firefox options, Windows security options. Went to Salsa Express and placed an order – worked. Went to Amazon to order – worked. Cleared all cookies, cleared cache, shutdown Firefox and restarted it. Tried again. No luck again. “View Page in IE” worked. Now that really bugs me.