Columbia House Sale Offer Codes, Part V

[DemonAlcohol]

Nevermind I'm retarded. Carry on gentlemen!

[SMART-ASS]

See, that was your problem. You went full tard. You should never go full tard.

[kotu]

Originally Posted by kotu

Would someone please post which codes are currently active? Thanks!

[kotu]

Originally Posted by thejester

Only when they are "known" will they be posted - no sooner -

Anyways, here are todays' recently activated codes -

801346 - b1 + 75% off (WOD)
801490 - b1g1 unlimited
801746 - b1g2 (WOD)
802334 - b1g1 unlimited + ??
802346 - b1g1 (unlimited?) (WOD)
802385 - b1g1 unlimited + ??
802445 - B1 + 50% + Free S&H on DVD Order (WOD)
802447 - B1 + 50% + Triple FC (WOD)
802448 - B1 + 50% + Extra 20% off (WOD)
805645 - B1 + 60% + Free S&H on DVD Order (WOD)
805647 - B1 + 60% + Triple FC (WOD)
805648 - B1 + 60% + Extra 20% off (WOD)
805686 - b1 + 60% off + Free S&H on DVD Order
805687 - b1 + 60% off -or- 50% off DVD Sets

For the uninitiated - WOD = Wheel of Deals


Just tried 1746 & it doesn't appear to work exactly as "advertised". It is doing the opposite - b2g1. Maybe in next day or so? It expires 4/19.

the first one i tried didn't work but the second did - thanks jester!

does anyone know any codes that are like permanently active?

[SMART-ASS]

No such thing as a permenent code.

[dedrose]

hey..
long time lurker, finally posting something.. honestly, you guys scare me when you yell at people for not posting in the precise way on the precise thread, etc . . . always makes me aprehensive.. ANYWAY..

used code 801746 to make my committment buys and finish off an account.. all said and done, cost per DVD was $4.75.. broke down like this..

7 enrollment titles = 12.89

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT S3 = 19.95
RENO 911 S3 = 19.95
repo: genetic opera = FREE
30 days of night = FREE
carrie = FREE
feast III = FREE
shipping = 8.96

so, total spent was $61.75 for 13 DVD's.. $4.75 each..

thankx for being the hook-up for the codes, jester!

[Al_Tahoe]

Originally Posted by kotu

does anyone know any codes that are like permanently active?

As long as I can remember, 801490 has always been active. However, at least for me, sometimes it works as a B1G1 - and sometimes as a B1G1 Unlimited.

[Bill Needle]

Originally Posted by dedrose

hey..
long time lurker, finally posting something.. honestly, you guys scare me when you yell at people for not posting in the precise way on the precise thread, etc . . . always makes me aprehensive.. ANYWAY..

Why, that's one of the most already-been-posted-thread-crappinest-off-topic-wrong-forum posts I've ever read! MODERATOR! Check his papers!

[Cheato]

When calculating these things, you can't average together sets and regular DVDs.

Reno 911 S3 and Arrested Development S3 are not regularly priced DVDs available as enrollments or as freebies in a B1G1, nor are they normally available with free shipping.

It's impossible to value them accurately since they're not good deals at the club without the special situation now where they bump up to the $19.95 level, and now can get us freebies and count as fulfillments.

The only way to really compare their value is to look at alternative retailers for a replacement value. I don't know what they go for or where you can find them, but:

In dedrose's example, he/she came out much farther ahead than originally thought.
$61.75 for 11 DVDs and 2 sets, not $61.75 for 13 DVDs. For example, if the sets can be found for $10 each elsewhere, that means 11 DVDs for $41.75, or about $3.80 each. Nice...

[drh4]

Originally Posted by Cheato

When calculating these things, you can't average together sets and regular DVDs.

Bingo. I have always put sets in a completely different optimization "bucket" for precisely this reason.

If only my latest application, sumitted Monday evening, had gone through. I'm only getting about 1 in 4 to work lately, and my timing here wasn't good. Too bad, because if you want any of those $20 sets this is a smoking good fulfillment deal.

[lizard]

Originally Posted by dedrose

hey..
long time lurker, finally posting something.. honestly, you guys scare me when you yell at people for not posting in the precise way on the precise thread, etc . . . always makes me aprehensive.. ANYWAY..

used code 801746 to make my committment buys and finish off an account.. all said and done, cost per DVD was $4.75.. broke down like this...

Welcome and well done! As Cheato mentioned above, you did even better than you realized since the sets have more value than regular DVD titles, although it is hard to quantify.

[Obi-Wan Jabroni]

Also worth noting with the B1G2 code, Your freebies don't necessarily have to be 19.95 or less when you buy one of the box sets as your B1, I've noticed that you can go up to 22.95.

For example, I just placed the following order:

John Hughes Too Cool For School Collection: $19.95
Tale of Despereaux (22.95): FREE
Role Models (22.95): FREE

Total With Shipping 24.93

[Cheato]

As long as you have a Club Price item setting the qualifying level to $26.95 or more, it appears that titles up to $26.95 will qualify as free with the B1G2. That is, as long as they are not titles in the 2-for-1 SE sale. Because of that 2-for-1 sale, most of the best SEs are excluded.
However, thanks to the data miner list (thanks again, guys!), I found a few:

All the $26.95 titles at CH (confirmed to work as free):
Maltese Falcon Special Edition (3 discs)
Mystic River Deluxe Edition (3 discs)
NFL Steelers: The Complete History
Oklahoma! 50th Anniversary Edition
Windtalkers Director's Edition (3 discs)

And here is a list of $24.95 titles that should work (ones not included in the 2-for-1 SE sale), but I am not about to try to check them all to see if they work as free in the cart:

Spoiler:

20 Million Miles to Earth 50th Anniversary Edition
24: Redemption
Afro Samurai: Resurrection Special Edition Director's Cut
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Barbie Diaries Gift Set
Batman & Robin Special Edition
Batman Forever Special Edition
Batman Returns Special Edition
Batman Special Edition
Billionaire Boys Club
Black Hawk Down Deluxe Edition
Body of Lies Digital Copy Special Edition
Breakfast at Tiffany's Centennial Collection
Bridge on the River Kwai Limited Edition
Carousel 50th Anniversary Edition
Commitments Collector's Edition
Das Boot The Original Uncut Version
Day The Earth Stood Still
El Cid Deluxe Edition
Encounters at the End of the World
Fiddler on the Roof 35th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Fire and Ice 2 - Disc Limited Edition
Funny Face Centennial Collection
George Wallace Special Edition
Guns of Navarone Collector's Edition
Hamlet Special Edition
Howards End
Lawrence of Arabia Limited Edition
Marley & Me Bad Dog Edition
Mission: Impossible 3 Collector's Edition
Odd Couple Centennial Collection
Psycho Special Edition
Rear Window Special Edition
Rocker Born to Rock Edition
Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific Collector's Edition
Roman Holiday Centennial Collection
Sabrina Centennial Collection
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Sound of Music 40th Anniversary Edition
Sunset Boulevard Centennial Collection
Supercop
Ten Commandments The 50th Anniversary Collection
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Platinum Series
To Catch a Thief Centennial Collection
Touch of Evil 50th Anniversary Edition
Valley of the Dolls Special Edition
Vertigo Special Edition
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Unrated
War of the Worlds Limited Edition
Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Special Edition
Yentl Director's Extended Edition
Yes Man Digital Copy Special Edition
You Don't Mess With the Zohan Fully Loaded Extended Version (Unrated)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

From the list of $24.95 titles, I should note that two of these are 3-disc (and not because of Digital Copy) editions:
Black Hawk Down Deluxe Edition
Ten Commandments The 50th Anniversary Collection

In the days before Digital Copy editions, these were considered "sets" by CH, and were never available as free selections and had big shipping charges. Once the 3-disc Hulk and Sarah Marshall releases were in the club, these changed to regular DVDs instead of sets, making them much better deals.

[j-bo]

Originally Posted by lizard

Welcome and well done! As Cheato mentioned above, you did even better than you realized since the sets have more value than regular DVD titles, although it is hard to quantify.

I disagree with the logic being used here.

You are buying from CH, the set price ($19.95) is what you are going to pay, thus, that is the value whether or not you can find each title in the set for more expense elsewhere and multiply by 2 or 3 discs in the set or just finding the set cheaper/more expensive is irrelevant or at best perceived value.

[BobO'Link]

^Actually, those were TV sets which, as Cheato and Lizard mentioned, have more value than regular DVD titles. On a TVonDVD membership with a properly optimized fulfillment they have a "value" of $15.33, but for a sale like this I always use the lowest current price I can find *or* $10/each for the sets to be able to better value the regular DVDs of such a membership... and yes, even if those sets are movie sets.

No matter how you stack it, this is a great way to fulfull and gives possibly the best optimization available.

[Cheato]

Originally Posted by j-bo

You are buying from CH, the set price ($19.95) is what you are going to pay, thus, that is the value whether or not you can find each title in the set for more expense elsewhere and multiply by 2 or 3 discs in the set or just finding the set cheaper/more expensive is irrelevant or at best perceived value.

As BobO'Link mentioned, these were TV season sets, which aren't available as individual discs to be purchased like regular DVDs, so can't be compared to $4.80 DVDs. In the case of a 2-pack or 3-pack where there are no additional bonuses, then yeah, you can do that--like the Jurassic Park set, for instance.

I'm not quite sure I understood your point, but as far as the logic of the math goes:

If you can cycle accounts and get DVDs for $4.80, and if you could get Reno 911 Season 3 and Arrested Development Season 3 for $2 each from another retailer, you would quite literally be throwing money away just to get those season sets at CH--there must be something else you could get instead that would still get you the discs you wanted but not entail you losing money on the season sets. Just because you're cycling accounts at CH to get great deals doesn't mean that you check your brain at the login page.

To take it to an extreme to get you to see the logic of that, if all DVDs were $3 elsewhere, you wouldn't buy any DVDs from CH at all. The limiting factor on purchases at CH is the fact that $4.80 is the base price for DVDs, and $15.33 is the base price for basic boxed sets. If your average is better than that, you're under par.

If you can get something for less than that elsewhere (or close to it, considering the cost of the hassle of cycling), then you're wasting your money at CH. Extrapolate that back into the situation discussed previously, and you should see the logic.

[riotinmyskull]

you guys are making my brain hurt.

[Trevor]

Originally Posted by riotinmyskull

you guys are making my brain hurt.

With a riot going on inside your skull that should be constant feeling.

[dedrose]

thanks for the clarifications, guys.. glad to know that i made out even better than i thought..
now, time to close out the account and see how lucky i am with getting a new one going . . . .

[BobO'Link]

^There's no need to close it in a hurry. You can have 2 open accounts of *each* type. Keep it open in case a really good offer comes up while waiting for a new one to get approved. Once you've gotten the new account open *then* close the fulfilled account.

And... welcome! Don't be afraid to ask questions, all we ask is they are in the appropriate thread and not double posted.

Ask questions about codes in this thread, TVonDVD questions here, and everything else here.

[Al_Tahoe]

801746 - b1g2 (WOD)

Has anyone used this code and had their order get shipped? I placed 5 different orders using 801746, and all of them are listed as "backordered".

[j-bo]

My free discs have shipped. My others were pre-orders.

[smashthesymbols]

Originally Posted by Al_Tahoe

801746 - b1g2 (WOD)

Has anyone used this code and had their order get shipped? I placed 5 different orders using 801746, and all of them are listed as "backordered".

Three orders here, every single item showing backordered.

[jkzahn]

My 801746 arrived today. Just checked this morning and it is dead now. I wonder what this week will bring........

[LKRUNNELS]

Originally Posted by smashthesymbols

Three orders here, every single item showing backordered.

Originally Posted by Al_Tahoe

801746 - b1g2 (WOD)

Has anyone used this code and had their order get shipped? I placed 5 different orders using 801746, and all of them are listed as "backordered".

I Placed 3 orders, 1 each on 3 accounts, and all three orders are now showing "shipped" status on the website, AND I did receive emails stating they were shipped as well. Should arrive today or tomorrow. All have ship date of 04/15.