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I've really pulled back on the amount of stuff I've been buying over the past year or two. This year I've only bought 10 things off the AL shop (which they've recently butchered too) where I'd used to buy every release they'd put out.

This is partly for space reasons but also the CEs don't really stand up in terms of quality and value for money now. When you're paying so much extra for a little booklet and a fancy box is it really worth it? It also doesn't help that on-disc extras are pretty much non-existent now so you're getting basically the same thing that's on a streaming service. At least it's yours to own but just the overall quality of releases these days feels so bad, especially with all the errors we've seen industry wide over the last few years.

I tend to stick more just to series that I love or have been collecting for a while, and even then I'll sometimes just grab the JP release, especially if it has English subtitles on it.
 
I've bought nothing from the AtA webstore this year either. There's been a couple standards that I've picked up here and there (mainly from HMV), but I've just been filling in my backlog from CeX. Definitley running out of space on my end and what's the point in paying £50 for a release and waiting 6 (or more) months for discs that end up being faulty lol.

I still like what they do on the whole, but they're taking the piss as "Europe's Leading Botique Animation Distributor"
 
Similar story here really, I've not been deliberately trying to buy less since I didn't used to buy a lot anyway (just favourites) but the prices the last year have definitely been a big blocker.

There's a handful of things I'd have bought from AL had the prices been lower (and I appreciate that is not their fault, making these things is more expensive than it used to be!). I would have liked to continue with Re:Zero and potentially pick up Sacred Beasts, I skipped Kids on the Slope in last years Christmas sale for the exact reason Onosume mentions above re price vs what you're actually getting for it.

In fact looking back I've bought exactly 0 anime this year from anyone, whereas I'd normally be around 5~ sets. I did ask for Bungo Stray Dogs S4-5 for Christmas, so presumably will end up with one or both of those which I've desperately wanted but could not justify so much for standard editions but I don't think that really counts. 😅
 
Same story as everyone else really. General reduction in purchases overall made much easier by the declining quality of AL’s output.

Shame really because AL is what got me into building a physical collectors edition collection years ago but as pointed out above, so many releases are barebones these days in terms of contents, extras and quality that they just don’t appeal at all, even before you factor in the constant eff-ups and unwillingness to acknowledge or deal with them beyond offer empty promises.
 
I greatly reduced purchases myself from their webstore, although in my case, I wanted to save up for other things, such as this year's SLA (which finished a few weeks ago), plus car repairs, and I went through a fair amount of that (I won't be specific about it on here).
 
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