No issues with the discs
We purchased this set for Christmas after the bad reviews the first thing I did was check the discs. All were brand new and in great shape. If you can get this for on sale it's a great deal considering the single season sets would add up quickly. Overall pleased with my purchase and sorry that others had a bad experience.

Excellent Condition, Good Packaging
I purchased this item directly from amazon because I was afraid of buying disks from another seller. The box season collection arrived faster than expected and the items were in good condition. I would recommend!

Not that great
The only thing that pleased me about this item was that the discs were perfect. I buy a lot of items from amazon and am almost always satisfied with my purchases.......not the case with this one. I bought this item directly from amazon rather than a 3rd party seller hoping to avoid some of the same things that other purchasers had experienced but I didn't pass unscathed. Like I said, the discs were perfect but that was the ONLY redeemable quality. All other reviews I read were correct. This is a repackaging scam. I thought perhaps this was just the case with 3rd party sellers but no. The images posted for this item on amazon (there are 2) are misleading. There is one that shows the blue box the item actually comes in, but the second image that looks like an office supply portfolio of some sort is pretty much false advertising.......if not an outright lie. The first image is what the item really looks like. The blue box is nothing but a near-paper thin box that contains each individual season exactly how you would buy them off the shelf, except that they aren't even individually sealed. The only one that was sealed was the first season which is in the single dvd-style case as it is only one disc. I can understand a business throwing all of the individual seasons into some new packaging to try and make some sales, but to throw some items into a box that may as well be near-mint used items and call them brand-new is not right. Also, the item was shipped as to provide no protection at all. It was so banged up that it damaged all of the individual seasons.

Like I said, the discs were perfect and I love this show so that's the important thing. Not too mention if I were to buy each of these items individually it would have been more expensive than the price I paid, but I still have issues with this purchase. While I understand the risks of internet shopping and 3rd party purchasing, I bought this item from amazon and this was the first time they have let me down. HEY AMAZON! DO ME A FAVOR AND HAVE THE 2ND PRODUCT IMAGE REMOVED, YOU KNOW, THE ONE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE WAY THE ITEM LOOKS AND IS ACTUALLY PACKAGED. I really enjoy buying stuff from you guys and coming home to see a package on my doorstep, it makes it fun, but it is ruined when I start opening a package not even worried about quality issues because I bought it directly from you, just to find out that its all banged-up and not what I thought I was paying for. It also was unfortunate that I just got an amazon.com/chase credit card and was excited to use my credit towards an item that wasn't really worth getting.

Anyway, if you don't care about false packaging images, unsealed items and horrible shipping protection then get this item. If you're going to get it, I would still suggest buying from amazon versus 3rd party sellers. My discs were perfect and I've read horrible things about scratched/unplayable discs from the 3rd party sellers. BUT BE AWARE THAT THIS DOES APPEAR TO BE A REPACKAGING SCAM FOR POSSIBLY USED ITEMS..........i'm sorry, I have to say it again, IF YOU'RE GONNA GIVE ME WHAT I COULD BUY OF THE SHELF IN SOME DIFFERENT BOX, AT LEAST MAKE THEM INDIVIDUALLY SEALED SO I KNOW THEY ARE NEW AND TAKE THE LIE-OF-AN-IMAGE OFF OF THE SITE PLEASE!

Not sold by amazon
I was really disappointed, amazon has always been a reliable and trusted shop and they should be clear and fair on that aspect,the blue box was in really bad shape. I'm pretty sure this is not a brand new DVD set. really low price but at the end the cost was really high

Great Show, Mostly Great Boxset
How do you review "the office"? It is some of the best comedy writing I've ever whitnessed. I stopped watching television after "Angel" ended several years back, and had become bored with the endless selection of reality crap that flooded the market, as well as the quality of written shows that were once good, like the last few seasons of "Friends". I'll probably get a lot of flack for that comment, but I honestly defy anyone to watch a random episode of "Friends" from the first two or three seasons, then an episode from the last two seasons, and not see a decline in writing that defers to having Phoebe say nonsensical comments for the sake of nonsense, Monica yell every line, Chandler no longer being funny, and Ross making inferred comic comments as opposed to the actually intelligent statements a paleontologist (or whatever he was) one would. It was once my favorite show, and absolutely fell.
Whatever.

"The Office" reinstills my faith in the ability to make new television for written production. Anyone that has worked in an office can instantly identify with several of the situations that make this program spot-on the mark. Having a crush on someone you work with, sharing a workspace with someone whose habits are different than your own, having a boss who is rediculously clueless, and so many more that I can't even think of them all.

It is also incredibly funny just on its merit, and really does not require you to have ever worked in an office. Believable character that find themselves in situations that truly make one laugh out loud.

As for this DVD pack, I'm mostly impressed and happy with it. I have been without television connection for a few years, and only caught a few episodes of this show in syndication on TBS from time to time at a friend's house before I purchased this boxset. Apparently, the show continued to a sixth season, whereas this boxset ends at season five. Not that big of a deal, since the enclosed packaging are actually just the individual seasons' sets previously released individually. But it's a little bit of a drag that this boxset doesn't clomplete a collection. (I suppose I didn't make it clear, but the sixth season is currently being broadcast, and hasn't been released on dvd yet) I have two other problems with the discs. One is that one of my discs came with an episode completely unwatchable. It looks like there was some kind of error in the production of the disc; which is not that big of a deal, anyone whose burned a disc knows that not every one will be perfect. I've been meaning to contact the dvd company to see if they'll replace my disc. The other is that the compression quality is rather shabby. Seasons 1 and 2 show definite artifacts, suffering from, I assume, a low bitrate. I've only watched season 3 of the rest, so far. But even that one has not improved much. I did notice that some of the later seasons were released on Blu Ray, which will look much better. I've seen one eppisode of season 4 on Amazon on demand's high definition playback, and it looked great.

As a quick hit to get your "Office" fix, this set is fantastic. It is packed with a lot of extra features, including several videos made by characters within the show that you can watch full screen. But if you really want everything, you might want to wait to get all six, or however many they come out with.