Buy.com Offers up to 40% off Oscar-Nominated DVDs

Business Wire, March 17, 2003

Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003

Buy.com Inc., The Internet Superstore(TM), today announced the addition of its Oscar(R)-nominated film store. All Academy Award(R)-nominated films for this year are on sale at prices up to 40% off manufacturer's list price.

In addition to the Oscar(R) store, Buy.com brings back its popular, annual "Oscar(R) Wizard" to help customers zip through past Academy Award(R) winners dating back to the very first awards show in 1928. Using pull-down menus, customers can select a particular year and have access to information ranging from Best Picture nominees to Best Actors, Best Supporting Actors and Best Directors for that year.

Buy.com's Oscar(R) sale features such hot box office hits as "Catch Me If You Can," "Far From Heaven," "Road to Perdition," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Ice Age," "About A Boy," "Minority Report," "8 Mile," "Spider Man" and "Lilo & Stitch."

"Last year was an outstanding year for movie lovers," stated Doug Marrs, director of Buy.com's entertainment division. "A variety of great Oscar(R)-nominated films -- something for every age and preference -- have been released on DVD, and we are offering all of them in Buy.com's Oscar(R) film store. Even more of this year's biggest titles will soon be available for pre-order, so keep checking the site."

The offer is effective immediately and will run until the 75th Annual Academy Awards(R) show on March 23, 2003.

About Buy.com's entertainment division

Buy.com's entertainment division features more than 1 million catalog titles in a variety of categories, including books, magazines, music, games and DVDs. As part of its selection of more than 1 million products, Buy.com's entertainment division offers 250,000 music titles including Avril Lavigne, Eminem and Norah Jones and 50,000 movie titles available in both VHS and DVD including all of the latest releases.

Buy.com also has one of the largest online book catalogs featuring best-selling titles such as "The Lovely Bones," "Good to Great" and "The King of Torts," and by authors including Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz and John Grisham.

About Buy.com

Buy.com, The Internet Superstore(TM) and low price leader, offers its more than 5 million customers more than 1.5 million products in a range of categories including computer hardware and software, electronics, cellular products and services, music, DVDs, books and more. Individuals and businesses can shop quickly and easily at Buy.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Buy.com was the top performing site on Gomez Inc.'s E-Holiday Shopping 2002 Index in the music, electronics and books category (December 2002), "Best Overall Place To Buy Mobile Devices" (January 2002), "Best E-Commerce Site" by PC World magazine (June 2001), "Best Overall Place To Buy" by Computer Shopper Magazine (January 2001), a "Best of the Web" in the computer and electronics category by Forbes Magazine (spring 2000 and fall 2000), and the No. 1 electronics e-tailer in the PowerRankings by Forrester Research Inc. (November 2000).

Buy.com, founded in June 1997, is located in Aliso Viejo. For more information, visit www.buy.com.

Note to Editors: Buy.com(TM) and The Internet Superstore(TM) are trademarks of Buy.com Inc.