The good news: TVD Season 2 is currently on sale at Amazon for the unbelievable price of $9.99. The bad news: something screwy is going on at Amazon and no one seems to be able to buy it. The set is one of the Lightning Deals from 8:30am PST to 12:30pm PST, but when you try to order it, the order does not go through - and if you try to go through the ordering process again, Amazon tells you that you've aready claimed the deal even though you haven' because your order didn't actually go throught. And the reason I know mine isn't an isolated case is that I have several friends who've also tried to order the set and we've all experienced the same problem - and I just got off the phone with Amazon support, who said they are aware of the problem, they're trying to fix it, and we should all try to order the set again in about 2 hours. And we should disregard that it says that such and such a percentage of the sets are already sold because those are sets that are attributed to order attempts that have never actually gone through. The whole situation seems to be a big mess.
However, if all this is too much for anyone to deal with, TVD Season 2 will supposedly be on sale for the rest of the day at Amazon for $12.99 starting at 12:30pm PST (3:30pm EST). And that's the same price that Season 1 went for during Amazon's Lightning deal last year. And that's a great deal. But who's to say the same sort of problems won't still be going on if they're not actually fixed by the time the Lightning deal ends?
But if you want to abandon Amazon altogether TVD Season 2 is also on sale today on Target's Web site for $12.99. However, there you will have to pay shipping (even on orders over $25) - and you will also have to pay sales tax if applicable in your state. Though it might be worth it if the same hassle continues to go on at Amazon. And even with tax/shipping, the final cost will still be cheaper than Amazon's and other Web site's and store's regular prices.