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Avatar 3D Blu-ray Discs on eBay for $400

- By - Source : Tom's Guide US

It's a crazy world, especially on eBay.

Wednesday Panasonic announced that the Blu-ray 3D Disc version of James Cameron's AVATAR is now available exclusively in the Panasonic 3D Full HD Ultimate Pack that's currently bundled with Panasonic's new (2010) VIERA VT Series and GT Series Full HD 3D Plasma TVs.

What makes this deal so hot is that AVATAR fans can't find the 3D version on Blu-ray anywhere. It also means that it's the perfect time to throw those hard-to-find discs on eBay and charge an insane amount of money. As seen here, sellers are offering the "exclusive" movie for a hefty price-- one current listing has a bid for $246.50 while another has a solid "Buy It Now" price of $399.99.

Keep in mind that Panasonic's 3D Full HD Ultimate Pack is valued at $399.95, however the package also includes two extra pairs of rechargeable Panasonic 3D Eyewear shutter glasses. According to the eBay listings, buyers are only receiving the actual sealed movie and not the additional two sets of specs. One eBay seller even tries to stay somewhat true to Panasonic by selling the James Cameron movie along with a pair of Samsung 3D TV specs for a meager $359.00.

"The photo is not the item for sale but merely a picture I took of modern day real Tigers," the listing reads. "If you or your kids like Tigers at the Zoo they will love this Blu-ray 3D. The Blu-ray 3D has animated creatures viewable in 3D on your 3D TV."

Oh boy.

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jsheridan 12/02/2010 11:19 PM
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Avatar is over rated and people are still going nuts for it. $400 for a blu-ray movie, really?

ecnovaec 12/02/2010 11:22 PM
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I was mad at myself for spending $10 to see it in theaters....

festerovic 12/02/2010 11:28 PM
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lol I was mad after I wasted 3 hours of my life watching it.

makingoneup 12/02/2010 11:29 PM
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charging insane amounts doesn't mean anything if no one buys them, i think the main idea is that they want people buying a $400 panasonic set just for the movie. sooner or later it will come out to be purchased by itself, but they want to milk all the money they can out of it first.

knowom 12/02/2010 11:32 PM
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would have rather have seen star trek in 3D

jednx01 12/02/2010 11:40 PM
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Notice the article doesn't say that anybody has been stupid enough to actually pay this insane amount....

nforce4max 12/02/2010 11:51 PM
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applegetsmelaid 12/02/2010 11:56 PM
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otacon72 12/02/2010 11:57 PM
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Avatar was ok....nothing special.

dogman_1234 12/03/2010 12:14 PM
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I would'nt pay more than 20 bucks for a DVD alone! Blu-Ray is no different to me.

gto127 12/03/2010 12:22 PM
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Quote:"would have rather have seen star trek in 3D" Amen to that.

thechief73 12/03/2010 12:28 PM
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I cannot believe that anyone is willing to pay that much markup on anything just because they cannot wait a few weeks for something to be available in quantities the market demands. The same goes for xBox, Wii and PS3 launches. Only if I had $400 to blow on a measly Blu-Ray(Which ARE over priced at $20), I can only dream of the wealth and rolling in piles of discretionary income, like these people must have.

Some day I too hope to exploit these saps for my own financial gain.

belardo 12/03/2010 12:32 PM
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Nothing special? Yeah, thats why it broke all box-office records... and caused some suicides...

IzzyCraft 12/03/2010 12:44 PM
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nforce4max :
Only in America would someone spend any ware near that kind of money for One movie let alone it be 3D.


Someone is jealous of our moneyz. :D

Maxor127 12/03/2010 12:56 PM
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Avatar is overrated. I saw it once, and I think that's enough for me. Not something I'd watch again or recommend to anyone who likes good movies. It's a pretty tech demo, nothing more. The plot was generic, the characters were bland, and I stopped caring about what was going on. Box office records mean nothing. District 9 is a far superior movie in every way, and was made with a fifth of the budget and made less than a tenth of the revenue compared to Avatar.

skittle 12/03/2010 12:59 PM
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FernGully 2 3D

joytech22 12/03/2010 1:08 AM
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Funny how everyone went to see the movie, appeared to like it, and those same people are now bagging the movie?

What the hell is going on lol..

steiner666 12/03/2010 1:11 AM
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Meanwhile, the 3D version of Avatar has been available in 1080p online for, what, months now? Ridiculous and pointless delays in releases, high prices, and limited availability are what cause people to pirate things. The entertainment industry needs to learn how to supply the demand quickly and fairly if they want people to shell over their hard-earned $ for it. Like people will want to spend the money on all the required equipment as well as the content in addition to being forced to wait longer, all for the sake of doing things legit. Pshhh.

Anonymous 12/03/2010 2:10 AM
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Avatar is just Ferngully with special effects...and Ferngully was actually better.

BulkZerker 12/03/2010 2:11 AM
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I really wish I could thumbs up steiner666 here but I can't. He's right. If it isn't available people WILL find a way to get the new hot thing, learn its cheaper to do it that way and vola, a leacher is born

bobusboy 12/03/2010 2:13 AM
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IzzyCraft :
Someone is jealous of our moneyz.



What money? lol; America is going to be broke as can be in the next year or so.

America is a printing press that is all.

Anonymous 12/03/2010 2:32 AM
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most of europe and japan have worse debt to GDP than the usa.

dgre005 12/03/2010 2:49 AM
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Maxor127 :
Avatar is overrated. I saw it once, and I think that's enough for me. Not something I'd watch again or recommend to anyone who likes good movies. It's a pretty tech demo, nothing more. The plot was generic, the characters were bland, and I stopped caring about what was going on. Box office records mean nothing. District 9 is a far superior movie in every way, and was made with a fifth of the budget and made less than a tenth of the revenue compared to Avatar.




My exact same feeling lol...that's what I felt after watching Avatar. It just doesn't feel as special as movies like District 9. It's entertaining, but only in a superficial way.

allrock 12/03/2010 2:54 AM
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People either relate to Avatar or they dont , I found the movie to be a very imersive story with very unique ethics and moral values not often seen in films these days , as for making the 3D version of the film panasonic exclusive I am not impressed and it may backfire on fox to do so
as time passes and people simply decide they are no longer intrested in buying the film they have allready seen many times on 2D dvd or blueray, That being said I am a fan of well done 3D films and would like to see Avatar 3D do well but would like to see 3D blueray support higher frame rates then 24 fps.

soldier37 12/03/2010 3:33 AM
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The 4 people

soldier37 12/03/2010 3:35 AM
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The 4 people that actually have a 3DTV and a 3D blu ray player are happy about this release. I'm just fine with my 1080p downloaded version for many months now.

wotan31 12/03/2010 3:44 AM
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festerovic :
lol I was mad after I wasted 3 hours of my life watching it.


Amen! I don't why people go nuts over it. Yes, the special effects were great. But aside from that, it was a total turd of a movie. Cheesy (and predictable) plot, poor character development, etc. It's not even an 'average' or 'ok' movie, it's downright terrible.

wotan31 12/03/2010 3:49 AM
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bobusboy :
What money? lol; America is going to be broke as can be in the next year or so.America is a printing press that is all.


So true. America is no longer the land of the free - we are OWNED, (in the very literal sense) by China. We've sent close to 10 million jobs there and our entire manufacturing industry. And people wonder why unemployment is so high. And then there's that pesky $Trillion dollar debt that Obama has racked up. And his solution to it? Print more money. He's playing with out economy like its a monopoly game. We're going to be paying (again, in the literal sense) for these bailouts aka "Obama's Folly" for many many years to come. Hope all you 'hope-n-change' people, sitting there with no jobs in your foreclosed homes, got what you were, ahem, hoping for.

spectrewind 12/03/2010 4:00 AM
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There are current 32 idiots, er.. bids, attached to one of them.
.... and being an idiot is not illegal.

tical2399 12/03/2010 4:25 AM
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I never saw the movie and while it's currently like, American cars, game stop, and playing a FPS with a controller (i.e. popular to hate on) I heard from most people that it was pretty good. Even it if was the best movie of all time I can't see spending more than $25 bucks for a dvd/BR of any kind.

Baracubra 12/03/2010 5:18 AM
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I downloaded the full 3D blu ray ISO (44.9GB) over a month ago...simply use daemon tools to mount the disc image and play using cyberlink on my projector....can't believe people could be so dumb to buy it for so much...