coladar

Wow, you know something's strange when I'm posting this via the ads delivered to my door a few minutes ago. Enjoy.

CIRCUIT CITY

"Low Price:"
Star Wars Trilogy

$44.99:
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Felicity Season 3
Popular Season 1

$29.99
MadTV Season 1

$24.99
Mr. Show Season 1

$19.99
Home on the Range
Scooby Doo 2
The Passion of the Christ
Man on Fire

$17.99
Mean Girls

$8.99
Blade
Blade Runner
The Core
Last Man Standing
Spaceballs
The Terminator
The Fugitive
The Abyss
Dungeons & Dragons
Predator 2


BEST BUY

No price mentioned for the Star Wars Trilogy that I saw.

Low Price:
Mean Girls (Bonus: Burns Book On-Pack)

$49.99
Popular: Season 1

$29.99
Mad TV: Season 1

$27.99
Mr. Show: Season Four

$22.99
Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

$19.99
THX 1138 Collector's Edition
Home on the Range
Kill Bill: Volume 2
The Passion of the Christ
Man on Fire

$15.99
Coffee and Cigarettes

$12.99
Pocahontas
Lilo & Stitch
Stitch! The Movie


TARGET

Low Price:
Star Wars Trilogy

$44.99
Felicity: Season 3

$34.99
Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 1
Sex and the City: Season 6, Part 1
South Park: Season 4

$29.99
Family Guy: Volume 1
Simpsons: Season 4

$22.99
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Volume 2

$19.99
Mean Girls (With Free 15 minute phone card)
In Living Color: Season 1

$17.99
Chapelle's Show: Season 1
Reno 911: Season 1

2 for $20:
Cheaper by the Dozen
Old School
National Lampoon's Animal House
Runaway Jury
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Cat in the Hat
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Master and Commander
Stuck on You

2 for $15:
Stand By Me
My Best Friend's Wedding
Mr. Deeds
Saving Silverman
The Wedding Planner
Ghostbusters
Panic Room (Not Superbit)
One Hour Photo
So I Married an Axe Murderer

Other notables:

CompUSA:

$39.99
Star Wars Trilogy

KMart:

Low Price:
Star Wars

$19.99
Mean Girls

2 for $10:

Daylight
The Cowboy Way
Forces of Nature
The Caveman's Valentine
Roughin' It
Held Up
The Big Easy
Going Overboard
The Quick and the Dead
Grumpier Old Men
Fire Down Below
Little Big League
Meet Angelina
Bob the Builder: Digging for Treasure
Barney: The Musical Scrapbook

ctyankee

Not that puzzling to me. Marketers are scared of pricing themselves too high or too low on a potentially huge selling item like Star Wars.

1. They want foot traffic but don't want to give away the farm.

2. They don't want to be too high and have their stores being empty and (adding insult to injury) having to pay even more to those that come to their stores only for pricematching.

Gutless, but understandable. This way, they see what other stores are doing and make their decision. And for those suckers that don't come to this forum get foot traffic by those that show up without knowing the price in advance.

DGibFen

HTF has a thread on the Star Wars prices at B&M's.

Best Buy - 42.99
Circuit City - 44.99
Target - 44.99
CompUSA - 39.99

You can read the rest of the linked thread.

GuessWho

I await the eventual Costco thread to see if SW beats any of the above

DVD Josh

I predict Costco at $36.99 or $37.99

D_N_G

The DFW Fry's ad on Friday has Star Wars advertised for 36.99

theMadness

And I suspect Fry's will undercut them the first day or two that it's out.

sataniko

Thanks for the prices!

romper

theMadness

The sale prices in the Fry's ad are only good through Tuesday the 21st. Wenesday you can bet they will crank it up several notches.

JPRaup

Do have prices for video games?

whitetigeress

How about X-men Legends? It comes out on Thursday 9/24

OldBoy

Looks like FYE was the way to go. Glad I pre-ordered there...no ship, cheapest price and get on Tuesday, nice!!

kevin75

glad to see tha my preorder for SW at amazon is cheaper and that i don't need to go through the hassle of cancelling. thanks for the ads.

Jergen

Runaway Jury and Once Upon in Mexico look pretty good to me, thanks alot!

Big Worms

Well if Comp-Usa has it for $39.99 that means Best Buy, Circuit City, and Wal-mart will have it around the same price. They are are all in the same strip in my area.

dan31655

I'm looking at the salespaper right now. It is the superbit so everyone knows.

nonametofame

BB $42.99 - 20% off coupon = $34.39. Nice

aspikes

BB $42.99 - 20% off coupon = $34.39 plus tax = 37.23 total

Amazon Stl 37.79 total

Not having to deal with trying to get a coupon, pushy sales people, incompetent cashiers, and giving Best Buy one red cent

Priceless

nonametofame

Being able to pick it up on release date, picking out your own set (nobody wants a dented box), earning reward zone points, and sharing the enthusiasm of buying it in store. Nice. And since when did Best Buy have piss poor customer service?

Amazon is definitely the way to go, but BB is a good option for us B&M shoppers.

Gizmo

Anyone know what the bonus REALY is?

jordb2k4

If they bother you so much just as long as you don't pay cash go checkout in another department. I've done it several times and I check plenty of people out in my department and none of the other people will give you all the hassles you speak of.

bhauge

costco.com is showing $43.49, so probably not much lower in the stores.

Dabaomb

it's a lil notepad like one of those ones made by Mead. It's pink too so if you're a guy and you buy this it's kinda fruity.

Also, at Toys R' Us they have a deal where if you buy the Star Wars Trilogy or Stars Wars Battlefront for PS2/XBox, you'll get a $10 gift card. So if you buy both, you'll get 2 $10 gift cards.

My guess is that they'll have it for $49.99. So it would be $39.99 + Tax + $10 (No Tax) for the Trilogy and the $10 gift card.

It might be possible to PM to Circuit City in which case it would be $29.99 + Tax + $10 (No Tax) for the Trilogy and the $10 Gift Card

Goldberg74

I've got $10 worth of BB Reward Zone coupons in my wallet... so if its $43, I can use both and knock it down to $33. Not bad.

Gizmo

Oh. Good, guess I won't be making a special trip for that one then.