Firstly, thank you for your support over the years. It has been vital to our existence.

I think it is kind of funny that I am sitting writing this in a very cold room - my poor allocation of meager funds (buying Blu-rays to review) left a hole in the payment to heat this space where I work. It's not too bad - I can't see my breath or anything.

We had an abysmal month of September, in a financial sense, and actually the entire year to date for a few reasons:
While numbers (hits) to the site have always grown over the 18+years. The commissions payout has dropped by 69% (ie. 8%->4%->2.5%) I thought I would do like always and 'work' through it... it didn't overcome the deficit this year.

People are, understandably, buying - sometimes cheaper - directly from the Blu-ray or DVD production company's online stores (these include Criterion, Arrow, Indicator, Kino - well, many of them) Unfortunately, although I have encouraged them - these companies do not offer an affiliate commission structure.

Despite DVDBeaver selling 10s of 1000s of $ worth, to over 6 figures in a couple of cases, of their product - they do not send us screeners (these include Shout! Factory, Network, Studio Canal and Warner Archive) - so to review them - we must buy their discs.

Colin, bless him, still helps out but needs a real job. I wish him the very best. We also sell old Blu-rays to scrape together cash.

Without boring you with more details - we need your financial help... desperately. I am so grateful for those who give us a few dollars each month through Patreon or PayPal (gary@2ze.com). By my calculations we need about double the number of patrons we have now.

I don't want to oversell this - but it is like buying DVDBeaver a coffee once or twice each month. I'd dearly love to meet each one of you and buy YOU that coffee one day.

If you feel the site is worth saving please become a patron, for any amount you feel comfortable. I will be indebted to you for the rest of my life.

Regards,
Gary Tooze