Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
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OOP, eh? I guess I got lucky not being able to unload it for $4.99 a couple years back. I got it on clearance at Target for about $6. Time to try again.
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I loved this sale and hope they bring it back again. Here's what I got:
Airplane ($15)
Naked Gun ($15)
Kick-Ass Combo ($5)
Bad Teacher Combo ($15)
Horrible Bosses Combo ($10)
Just Go With It Combo ($15)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Combo ($13)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure ($10)
50/50 ($13)
Three Amigos! ($8)
Knocked Up Combo ($5)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Combo ($5)
There's Something About Mary ($5)
Superbad ($5)
Bruno ($5)
I also used one coupon at Walmart to get their exclusive 3-disc Moneyball for $15.
Airplane ($15)
Naked Gun ($15)
Kick-Ass Combo ($5)
Bad Teacher Combo ($15)
Horrible Bosses Combo ($10)
Just Go With It Combo ($15)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Combo ($13)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure ($10)
50/50 ($13)
Three Amigos! ($8)
Knocked Up Combo ($5)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall Combo ($5)
There's Something About Mary ($5)
Superbad ($5)
Bruno ($5)
I also used one coupon at Walmart to get their exclusive 3-disc Moneyball for $15.
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
made my final trip of the sale and grabbed Constantine. I can't even remember all the titles I got during this sale vs other stores in the last week. Maybe I will try to figure it out later tonight.
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
I went out in style. On my very first trade-in, they gave me the coupon back. In my area, the coupon by itself is worthless. But on my Friday trade-in, they gave me the trade-in slip back, but kept the coupon. So I paired up my extra coupon and trade-in slip, and went for one final purchase. I finally scored Cloverfield with the $9.99 sticker, so got it for $4.99. Overall, I had a great haul. About 20 trade-ins, including 2 sampler discs, and got rid of a lot of crappy DVD's. Only spent $3 on DVD's purchased solely to trade-in...
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
Well, I loved this sale. I already owned most of the $9.99 movies, but no where else can DVD movies like Nomad: the Warrior and Full Contact fetch you a $5 coupon.
From my days of shredding Columbia House, I have a ton of DVDs still waiting to find their new home at BB during the next sale (whenever that will be).
Maybe next time, the new crop of $9.99 movies available wont match whats already in my archive and I can hit the sale as hard as many of you did.
Happy hauls.
From my days of shredding Columbia House, I have a ton of DVDs still waiting to find their new home at BB during the next sale (whenever that will be).
Maybe next time, the new crop of $9.99 movies available wont match whats already in my archive and I can hit the sale as hard as many of you did.
Happy hauls.
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First, flix said BD and not DVD, and second, I'm guessing flix was referring to BB's prices specifically.
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Between this sale and the Blockbuster one of 5/$20 I've added like 50 titles alone at that price since this summer. And obviously lots of the great prices of $5 or less during Black Friday added another 10 from that. If you are not patient though and want to spend $10 or more than by all means go ahead of course.
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
That's because it is, unless it is Disney/Pixar film or some MAJOR release I refuse to pay over $10 anymore for anything. I have plenty in my collection that I can wait on say purchasing for example 50/50 until it hits probaly $8 during Black Friday in about 10 months for example. Only other exception would be a Criterion, which unless used good luck getting for less than say $13 even with the great B&N sale.
Between this sale and the Blockbuster one of 5/$20 I've added like 50 titles alone at that price since this summer. And obviously lots of the great prices of $5 or less during Black Friday added another 10 from that. If you are not patient though and want to spend $10 or more than by all means go ahead of course.
Between this sale and the Blockbuster one of 5/$20 I've added like 50 titles alone at that price since this summer. And obviously lots of the great prices of $5 or less during Black Friday added another 10 from that. If you are not patient though and want to spend $10 or more than by all means go ahead of course.
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I absolutely understand how you feel. It seems the cheaper I am able to get Blu Ray discs for, the less I want to spend for them overall in general. A few months ago, I was happy to find discs for $10. Now, being able to get them for only $5, has left me feeling a bit spoiled. It's hard not to pass up getting stuff at that price point.
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There are some things I can't wait on. I'll get them the day of release, or wait for them to hit $15 or so. I'm a sucker for bad horror movies. But yeah, it's easy to get spoiled on this sale.
I stopped at BB the last day and got:
Stripes 4.75 (corrected)
Dead Snow 6.99
Three Amigos 7.99 (sew, sew like the wind!)
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil 14.99
...which brings my total to 24. Looking forward to the next one!
Did I see someone say that they are just trashing the DVDs that were traded in? I should've asked them, but didn't bother.
I stopped at BB the last day and got:
Stripes 4.75 (corrected)
Dead Snow 6.99
Three Amigos 7.99 (sew, sew like the wind!)
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil 14.99
...which brings my total to 24. Looking forward to the next one!
Did I see someone say that they are just trashing the DVDs that were traded in? I should've asked them, but didn't bother.
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
It's just kind of sad that we have to jump through hoops to buy the movies we want at a price we want. Meanwhile, I'm sitting on my list of 30-ish other titles I'm waiting to buy as soon as the price drops to a reasonable level.
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
At one of the Best Buy's, they had a specially marked DVD recycle bin (about the size of a 32 gallon garbage bin with a slot on top that they dropped the discs/cases I turned into them.
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I absolutely understand how you feel. It seems the cheaper I am able to get Blu Ray discs for, the less I want to spend for them overall in general. A few months ago, I was happy to find discs for $10. Now, being able to get them for only $5, has left me feeling a bit spoiled. It's hard not to pass up getting stuff at that price point.
EDIT: can't believe I found 3 upgrade and save coupons in a stack of receipts. Probably leftovers from a cashier's attempt to appease me when I stood at CS for an hour while they figured out how to apply the promotion. 3 nickel DVDs wasted!!
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Very YMMV but my local store was allowing us to trade in dvds today and they just marked 5 bucks off each blu ray. I had no idea they were doing it until a guy in front of me had three dvds in his hand and they did it for him. Needless to say I set my movies down and went home and grabbed some dvds and returned to get 5 blu rays.
I got:
The Thing (2011) 14.99+tax
To Kill A Mockingbird 12.99+tax
Transformers 3D 9.99+tax (After 10 off manufacturer's and the 5 dollar dvd trade.)
Red State 7.99+tax
Polar Express 3D 14.99+tax
I got:
The Thing (2011) 14.99+tax
To Kill A Mockingbird 12.99+tax
Transformers 3D 9.99+tax (After 10 off manufacturer's and the 5 dollar dvd trade.)
Red State 7.99+tax
Polar Express 3D 14.99+tax
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save, Jan 8 - Jan 28, 2012
Yeah, this deal has made me re-think buying any BD's over $10 now. $8 or less seems about right. I know I'll never stick to that, but that's my goal (excluding 3D titles, Disney, and Criterion, of course). Even more, I don't think I will ever buy another DVD, if the title is available on BD. I'll just wait until the BD is cheap enough. Even $3 Big Lots DVD's don't seem as worth it anymore (not counting TV seasons, of course). I can't remember the last time I perused the $5 bin at WM. I won't pay 5 bucks for a DVD anymore...
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Very YMMV but my local store was allowing us to trade in dvds today and they just marked 5 bucks off each blu ray. I had no idea they were doing it until a guy in front of me had three dvds in his hand and they did it for him. Needless to say I set my movies down and went home and grabbed some dvds and returned to get 5 blu rays.
I got:
The Thing (2011) 14.99+tax
To Kill A Mockingbird 12.99+tax
Transformers 3D 9.99+tax (After 10 off manufacturer's and the 5 dollar dvd trade.)
Red State 7.99+tax
Polar Express 3D 14.99+tax
I got:
The Thing (2011) 14.99+tax
To Kill A Mockingbird 12.99+tax
Transformers 3D 9.99+tax (After 10 off manufacturer's and the 5 dollar dvd trade.)
Red State 7.99+tax
Polar Express 3D 14.99+tax