did walmart take the bonus disc away from best buy?
01-26-05, 05:10 AM
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did walmart take the bonus disc away from best buy?
this is awful, i do not like walmart, i hope this is not the way it is going to be, hopefully walmart will only do the bonus disc with sky captain, which i missed out on
01-26-05, 04:04 PM
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I have no problem with this, but I do live in fear of stores like Costco or Frye's (it is called Frye's, right?) offering such exclusives, since they are more region-specific retailers, not to be found anywhere remotely near my state of residence...
01-26-05, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
Different stores pay big bucks to get exclusive material.
The wonders of a free market!
The wonders of a free market!
01-26-05, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by diespine
i hope this is not the way it is going to be, hopefully walmart will only do the bonus disc with sky captain, which i missed out on
01-30-05, 12:33 PM
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On Saturday I went to my Walmart and saw tons of Sky Captain full-screen DVDs with the bonus DVD, but not a single widescreen one with it. I think there was a ratio of 5 full-screens to each widescreen. I've always wondered if that many people actually buy full-screen over widescreen or if Walmart's system (considered a wonderful inventory system if I can believe some news articles I once read) is clueless when it comes to ordering DVDs. Perhaps there were equal numbers of each and people bought out all the widescreens. I just find it strange that so often at Walmart there are so many full-screen editions and so few widescreens. Wouldn't their computer inventory system have noticed this trend and have corrected it by now?
Anyway, I went into the electronics area in the back of the store and surprise surprise there was 1 widescreen left with the bonus DVD in the store on an endcap.
I noticed it just had the Walmart bonus sticker on the front (and not the gold star sticker saying "Includes the magic behind the groundbreaking special effects, deleted scenes & gag real" that all the bare Widescreen versions had). When I shook it compared to a regular Widescreen, it sounds like there is a flap for a 2nd DVD inside the one with the bonus DVD, so I don't think someone switched the stickers just to play a joke.
Even though that gold star sticker is missing on the bonus DVD edition, it still contains all these same features as the bare Widescreen version?
Anyway, I went into the electronics area in the back of the store and surprise surprise there was 1 widescreen left with the bonus DVD in the store on an endcap.
I noticed it just had the Walmart bonus sticker on the front (and not the gold star sticker saying "Includes the magic behind the groundbreaking special effects, deleted scenes & gag real" that all the bare Widescreen versions had). When I shook it compared to a regular Widescreen, it sounds like there is a flap for a 2nd DVD inside the one with the bonus DVD, so I don't think someone switched the stickers just to play a joke.
Even though that gold star sticker is missing on the bonus DVD edition, it still contains all these same features as the bare Widescreen version?
01-31-05, 07:29 AM
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DIgging had to be done, but I did find widescreen among the hundred or so copies of fullscreen. I even happened to have a Circuit City ad in my pocket (was going to Best Buy the next day to PM some $7.49 DVDs) and they brought the price down to $17-something from their $19. I'm a bonus disc whore. 
