Advice on buying DVDs on e-bay please

susanmc

Hope this is the right place for this question and if anyone can help I'd be really grateful.

I'm trying to find an animated Mr Bean dvd for my daughters christmas. I've searched all the usual places - amazon, play.com, cdwow, hmv etc but the only ones I could find were region 1 on Amazon. My dvd player only plays region 2 and I'm told it's notoriously difficult to hack my particular model.

I found 3 listings on e-bay but I'm a bit wary as all 3 are in Singapore and either region 2 or region 0. Will region 0 play in a region 2 machine? I'm concerned if there really are region 2 dvds available then surely they would be available to buy in this country. Are these likely to be copies and could they all be from the same seller using different id's?

The details of the listings are

User id - gosellergo
Buy it now price - £6.90
Postage - £6.90
Feedback - 100%
Score - 27
Region - all


user id - nippo7889
Buy it now price - £9.90
Postage - £6.90
Feedback - 99.3%
Score - 277
Region 2 & all


user id - born_bidder
Buy it now price - £9.90
Postage - £6.90
Feedbacl - 98.6%
Score 356
Region all

If anyone could give me any advice I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks

soolin

It does look like for some reason the animated series hasn't been released on region 2 DVD. That almost certainly means that you are buying pirate copies, and if you have an older DVD player it might not play copies.

I also note that the seller born_bidder has only 98.6% positive feedback which is not good, they've also had several other negatives removed in the past which would make their feedback even worse.

If you are happy to buy knowing these are probably pirate copies then stick with the seller with the better feedback.

Soo

susanmc

My dvd player does play copies but I'm don't want to buy something advertised as brand new if they're pirate copies. I certainly don't want to £15/£16 for copies

Thank