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Since the topic starter mentioned about DVD sales between the two titles, here are the numbers as of late November (I figured the timing was good enough since the figures for the Marimite OVA came out).

Release Date Sales Title
2004/04/02 12,372 Maria-sama ga Miteru 1 (One episode only)
2004/05/13 *2,650 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 1 (One episode only)
2004/05/13 *6,861 Maria-sama ga Miteru 2 (Two episodes up to Vol. 7)
2004/06/04 *2,513 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 2
2004/06/04 *4,918 Maria-sama ga Miteru 3
2004/07/09 *2,232 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 3
2004/07/09 *3,737 Maria-sama ga Miteru 4
2004/08/06 *2,219 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 4
2004/08/06 *3,633 Maria-sama ga Miteru 5
2004/09/10 *3,073 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 5
2004/09/10 *5,348 Maria-sama ga Miteru 6
2004/10/08 *3,070 Maria-sama ga Miteru Collector's Edition 6
2004/10/08 *5,328 Maria-sama ga Miteru 7
2004/10/22 *3,803 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 1 (Two episodes up to Vol. 5)
2004/10/22 *2,836 Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 1
2004/11/25 *3,992 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 2
2004/11/25 *2,591 Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 2
2004/12/22 *3,868 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 3
2004/12/22 --------- Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 3
2005/02/09 *3,733 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 4
2005/02/09 *2,369 Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 4
2005/02/25 *3,396 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 5
2005/02/25 *2,160 Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 5
2005/03/25 --------- Maria-sama ga Miteru Recap
2005/03/25 *2,835 Maria-sama ga Miteru Recap Limited Edition
2005/04/01 *2,997 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ 6 (Three episodes)
2005/04/01 *2,210 Maria-sama ga Miteru =Haru~ Collector's Edition 6 (Three episodes)
2006/03/24 *2,020 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ Fan Disk Rosa Chinensis
2006/05/25 *1,866 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ Fan Disk Rosa Gigantea
2006/07/21 *1,587 Maria-sama ga Miteru ~Haru~ Fan Disk Rosa Foetida
2006/11/29 *1,883 Maria-sama ga Miteru OVA 1 Kohitsuji-tachi no Kyuuka
2006/11/29 *3,445 Maria-sama ga Miteru OVA Collector's Edition 1 Kohitsuji-tachi no Kyuuka

Release Date Sales Title
2006/06/23 *1,918 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box I (Two episodes)
2006/07/25 *2,814 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box II (Three episodes up to Vol. IX)
2006/08/25 *2,464 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box III
2006/09/22 *2,074 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box IV
2006/10/25 *2,595 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box V
2006/11/24 *2,146 Strawberry Panic Special Limited Box VI

Interestingly enough, until the OVA, Marimite sales concentrated on the regular edition (mostly because the limited editions for the first series were sold a month later), which I construe to be a sign the female dominated sales target don't care much for the extras, whereas the male dominated Stopani customers want the full feature (none of the Stopani standard version volumes have charted in the weekly top 100).

Actually, the 5,000+ sales for the Marimite OVA was sort of disappointing, considering Mai Otome Zwei sold 12,000 and Shakugan no Shana OVA sold 10,000 copies respectively. I suppose the long interval from the TV anime had some effect.