That $50 'director's cut' DVD I bought turned out to just be the theatrical version with a different menu screen

Back in 2006 I paid $50 for a rare director's cut of a 90s action movie from a guy on eBay who claimed it had 20 minutes of deleted scenes. When it arrived the only extra was a different font on the menu and the movie was exactly the same. Did anyone else get burned by those early internet bootlegs that hyped up deleted scenes that didn't exist?

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grace5087d agoMost Upvoted

I read an article a while back about how those early 2000s bootleg DVDs were basically a wild west of scams. People would just take the regular movie, slap on a new menu with some fake "director's cut" text, and sell it for a huge markup on eBay. It was like the wild west of online shopping before anyone really knew how to spot a fake. You probably got one of those, sorry that happened to you.

jordanc327d ago

So did @keith_rodriguez actually get scammed on one of those fake director's cut DVDs?

keith_rodriguez7d ago

Man I remember hearing about some forum post where a guy actually ripped the DVD menu files off some obscure European release and sold it as a "lost director's cut." The scary part is that back then people were still figuring out how to check if a DVD was legit or not, you couldn't just Google the barcode and find reviews. I think I even saw a thread where someone paid like $80 for a supposed "extended edition" of a 90s martial arts movie and it was literally just the regular movie with a different title screen and a fake commentary track that was just some dude reading the plot from Wikipedia. Total scam paradise.