Shopaholic!

I gotta stop, but it's sooooo much fun! I've 'discovered' both ebay and amazon to have such great deals on DVD's that I can't stop. It's amazing how overpriced things are now in Canada with the Canadian dollar stronger. I think it was Ruth that said that it seems that Canadian retailers are so used to marking things up, that they are still doing it, even though they shouldn't really need to.

I'm really spending most of my time looking for good deals on the sets of the Star Trek TV series. They're still all over 100 dollars for each season here. Then, over Christmas break, I was in a Wal-Mart in Bellingham, Washington and I saw the first season of Star Trek: The Original series sitting there for only $54! Well, I've waited long enough for the prices to go down and I bought it. I then began looking on e-bay and amazon (NOT Amazon.ca - the prices are still too high!!). I have a PO box in the US, so I have everything sent there. Another annoying thing about Canada is that the postage is so high, it's never worth buying things via mail here. I used to belong to book clubs, but I discovered that it can cost around $10 to mail just one book! I don't think that Canada post believes in 'book rate'. I even talked to a guy at a used book store around here and he says that it's cheaper for him to go to Washington state to mail his book orders TO CANADA! Canada Post is gotta be the biggest scam....grumble, rumble.