Posted by Bill's News on 01/24/06 01:56

Bill Vermillion wrote:
> In article <dr188o$i0q8_002@det.sbcglobal.net>, Bruce P. Burrell
> <bpb@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a better supplier of "decent" (not too
>> flimsy) full-size DVD cases - or did I already find the absolute
>> best price of around 50 cents in batches of 10 and 20 cases each?
>
>> I googled for where to find DVD cases for less than roughly 50
>> cents per full-size case in quantities of 50 or so and the best I
>> could find on the net was http://www.inetdvd.com/store/cases.asp
>> with tax and shipping but at the local Fryes I can buy 10 and
>> 20 full-size DVD cases for the same price without having to pay
>> shipping so the InetDVD isn't any better or worse than the local
>> Fryes ( http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4292864 ).
>
>> I realize these fifty cent prices are for "barely adequate"
>> DVD cases, but, for a DVD that is only intended to be shelved
>> as a backup, 50 cent cases suffice - but in the interests of
>> frugality, it's always better if we can find cheaper cases (I
>> mean, they're just plastic dohickeys that sit on a shelve 99.99%
>> of their nearly infinite lifetime).
>
>> Did I already find the best price of around $.50 per fullsize DVD
>> case?
>
> 20 cases at 50 cents each is $10.
>
> If you have any friends that might want some you can get a case
> 0f 100 from Supermediastore.com for $25 - with free shipping.
>
> That takes you to 25 cents a case. Find some friends and sell
> 80 at 40 cents each and you have taken your twenty cases
> down to -$.35 each. A bargain any day of the week :-)
>
> Or sell 80 at 30 cents each, and that brings you final cost
> per case down to 5 cents each.
>
> I've been using their slim-line double cases - which are rather
> lightweight but two of them let me store 4 dvds in place of one.
> I'm now slowly relabeling the case to get more space.
>
> This week it's $23 for 100 double slimline with free-shipping.
>
> They usually have the free shipping as a special ever month or so
> and I wait until those come along.
>
> And the day I received my last shipment they had a 3-day special
> of $21.50 for 100 shipped free.
>
> Bill
>
> [ps - I had to remove the alt.video.dvd.software as that is not
> postable from here - I restored the original links].
>
> Bill

Well, some folk are hard to convince Bill. On my last order of TYs
from SMS they sent along a sample of 10 black, two disk, full cover,
half depth DVD cases. I didn't need them, as I already use 1/2 depth
colored jewel boxes (less than $11 per hundred) - but I brought the
samples to the local library which is pressed for space with their
3,000+, rapidly growing, DVD collection. No evidence of the librarian
seeing the wisdom of this yet. I seem to recall that 5,000 cases were
merely US$800 or so and that color-band-coded alpha edge labels were
maybe $0.03 each in quantity. NIH doesn't only stand for National
Health Institute, eh?

I might mention too, that the cases included in retail purchases are
often user-unfriendly and can be quite problematic for library
patrons. The DVD cases we've noted here (based on the samples) are
much more friendly to extraction and replacement of discs.

The only drawback to these particular slim cases is the lack of
internal storage for included printed materials - which I already keep
in a separate folio, should I ever want access to them.

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