sotra

Wrong picture in Stop & Shop flyer. PM at WM, Best Buy or Circuitcity.

The No Man

I don't think BB would do a price match on the steel case though...

speedy1961

You would be correct.

laidbacklarkin

Leave it until the end of the Oscars and it will be $9.99 everywhere. I just don't understand this craze for picking up a disc the week in release.

TimeandTide

I HIGHLY doubt that the 2-disc will be $9.99 anytime soon. And as for the "craze" of picking up a disc the week of its release, unless you're willing to wait a couple months for a potential sale, the first week prices are generally cheapest. The Departed ONE-disc will probably rise to $19.99 after next week.

An example of a typical pricing cycle: My gf's daughter wanted John Tucker for Christmas. It was $16.99, IIRC, at Target the week of its release. The next week it was $19.99 and remained at that price until a month or so later when it was on sale for $14.99 for a week. It finally dropped to $10 THIS weekend.

speedy1961

EXTREMELY Well Said TimeandTide


I'm glad that someone else sees what I've been seeing.....

Jah-Wren Ryel

Seems like the John Tucker example just illustrates laidback's point - the first week may be cheaper than the next few months, but eventually the price plummets way below the first week's pricing.

Peep

I agree. This exact trend is an argument to hold off on new releases - at least the single-disc ones.

garmonbozia

the problem is...with releases that have separate one-disc and two-disc releases.....the two-disc version NEVER goes on sale 95% of the time. so if you want the two-disc version, your cheapest option is to get it release week. it's much more likely the two-disc version will go out of print in 2 months than it will EVER be cheaper than it was during release week.

zombeaner

I do have a 12% coupon and $5 rewardzone cash I'm planning on using on that steelbook, that should work right?

TimeandTide

Of course. And I'm a savvy enough DVD consumer to recognize this and there's very, very few movies I feel I need to own on release week. I mean, I was patient enough to wait until the Titanic 3-disc was below $5, but for must-have titles that I want to revisit RIGHT NOW, paying $14.99 for Saw 3 or PotC upon its release makes A LOT more sense to me than waiting two months for the inevitable couple-of-dollars price drop.

To each their own, I guess.

(And my apologies to the OP for sabotaging his thread.)

TimeandTide

Jah-Wren Ryel

And that is the crux of it all. The price is only tertiary to your desire for immediate gratification, that's the only response that stands up to laidback's argument.

PopcornTreeCt

Yes but it seems like World Trade Center just came out and that's already $10. I have so many movies I want to get but its much better to wait. However, I will be there Tuesday morning to get The Departed.

FangsFirst

the steelbook may also be limited, insofar as that SPECIFIC departed release...

Gara

This is a fairly regional and YMMV thread. That Stop & Shop store is only in six states. Good deal though if you can swing the metal case for that price.

If you are really brave try getting a printed copy and then PMing in your state. When that fao schwartz store was closing I remember printing the ad for the 50.00 clearance gamecubes and managing a PM here in California at bestbuy. $80.00 off the price and she didn't even blink.

speedy1961

If the 12% coupon applies to a new release, you'll be set.

sotra

Unfortunately that 12% off coupon does not work on CDs/DVDs.

wildman1037

Correct, but there is a new 10% off coupon (I received mine on Friday), valid 2/16-2/19, which should work.

fernsita

great! thanks.

theWitcher

FWIW, I think garmonbozia's argument is stronger.

Sweet Baby James

I've never had any problem getting BB to take the coupon on a new release, sale title, but the coupon is supposed to be taken off of regularly priced titles only.

skidmark

My strategy is to pick up the two-discers at Target on release week. Thanks to Target's liberal 90-day return policy I can hedge my bet on whether the price will drop, or the two-disc will go OOP as with "Jarhead".

I have noticed that the entire price cycle seems to be shortening. It's almost to the point where Columbia House will be superfluous in building my collection.

Wildo1966

I have the Stop & Shop sales flyer here. You can barely make out The Departed is the 2 disk edition. There is no way any of the big stores will price match with this crap. I would be embarassed to even try.

Sweet Baby James

The picture in the ad is clearly the cover art of the 2 disc set. If you have trouble price matching, I would take the 1 disc version up to the register to show them that it's the 2 disc version that's in the S&S ad. I'm going to check S&S first to see if it really is the 2 disc version for $16.99 before I attempt a PM elsewhere.