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Nice haul, Jason :up: Looking forward to your next video, too

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Thanks! I'm trying to get it up as soon as possible. It's a mother and really should be a 3 parter, but we're whittling it down to 2, and might upload both parts back to back so there's little waiting for the reveal.

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I just went to my HW Video. For over 3 solid weeks their prices had remained unchanged at $5.99 for BDs and 50% off games. I bought nothing at those prices and the last time I called them was last Saturday. Apparently Sunday morning they jumped to $3.99 for BDs and 70% off games with nothing in between, and I forgot to call them until today. In those few days they went from 3 very large BD sections to half of 1 large BD section. I picked up 14 at $3.99 realizing that they'd all be gone by the time they hit $1.99 and there's nothing left I want to make it worth coming back again. I live in a populated area where even mediocre BDs won't last long at low prices.

For $3.99 each I got these BDs: Be Kind Rewind, Michael Clayton, Post Grad, Fame (new), Lyme Life, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Easy Virtue, Management, Labor Pains, The Reaping, My Bloody Valentine 3D (2nd disc missing of course), 50 Dead Men Walking, The Other Man, The Signal.

All except the first 3 were blind buys. I sure hope I don't regret them. If I don't like them, there's really nowhere to sell them to get my $3.99 + tax back as FYE offers so little on just about everything that's more than a few months old (BDs included). It's one of those few instances where I wish I had a phone with a Internet data plan so I could read reviews, but then I'd be in the store for hours.

I passed on these $3.99 BDs: The Rocker, Frozen River, W., Obsessed, Megafault, Transmorphers: Fall of Men, I've Loved You So Long, Mutants.

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Ok, so pt.1 of the video is up. Enjoy! And my advice after this trip would be -- Find every HV/MG within a 2 hr. driving distance of where you live ASAP. Watch the video, and especially pt.2 when it's up (that's when we break down the haul and the numbers). They're closing all the last stores now. Don't miss out if there are any stores left. I know the MG in Marion NC is still open. I've found that the better prices are to be had at the HV...so far. That will likely change as the last of the MG close. So, anywho here's the link to pt.1 of our on the rd. adventure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiJw0nI120Y

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here's my haul thus far. Last hollywood within 300 miles is closing next thursday, going to see what I can get on wednesday. but here we go so far. About 4 bucks average I think per disc. This finally put me at the over 200 club.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...n/IMAG0030.jpg

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T-mobile prepaid ($100 card gives you 1000 mins and 1 year of service and up until July 31st bing gives you 35% cb on card, and then you only need to top up $10 or more each year) has free t-zones, but you can get virtually unlimited internet for free too (search howard's forums). Just an option if you are a casual cell phone user who doesn't text alot, but want internet access.

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Alot of solid picks there. I wish I had picked up My Bloody Valentine 3D when I had the chance.

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KrazyJason: When is Part 2 going to be uploaded? I'm waiting to see those blu-rays.

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FYI
Hollywood video in Trenton, NJ (206) is closing tomorrow (sunday). I went there this afternoon. They only had 8 blu-rays left, and I bought 3 (for $2.99 each). The remaining blus were Synechdoche New York (sorry about the spelling), Milk, I've Loved You So Long, and Rudi y Cursi. There was a bigger selection of dvds, with newer releases being 10 for $20 and older ones 10 for $10 (or something like that).

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It will be going up Late tonight/early tomorrow morning. Thanks for watching!

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WOW... I went back to a small town Missisisippi location today that is closing tomorrow and they were up to 1.99 blus and 20 for 10 buck catalog titles... picked up a nice selection of movies today... will have to type out my entire haul so far... been pretty good...

Gonna be trading in some older dvds I either upgraded to blu or dont want anymore at my flea market and hopefully walk out with another couple of nice blu titles... now its time to pick up some cases online... might need 50 just in case

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OK. Pt.2 is up, check out the Motherload!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xud1vKXpNgg

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Hollywood Video in Madison, AL closing today - virtually no BRs left, but I got BRs of Surrogates, X-Files IWTB, District 9, Damned United for 49 cents each. The deal there is 20 DVDs for $10, so once you hit 20 everything above that is 49 cents each. Spent 90 minutes waiting in line, and getting check out as there were folks in line with huge tubs of disks. Checkout is very slow while they remove the locking tabs, scan disks, and then reprice each disk. Staff is working very hard, kudos to them for their effort on their last day.

Movie Gallery in Madison, AL has BRs down to $4.99. I bought Slumdog Millionaire in a BR case, and it even has the digital copy disk and code. Good selection still, I think they are bringing in stuff from other stores. DVDs are $2.49 and $3.99 with discounts for buying 5 or more.

David

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Nice amusing video... I saw alot of those titles at my Movie Gallery closing, but left them even at 2 bucks... along with some others like Tyson... I STUPIDLY passed on Sarah Connors series Season 1 for $6 for all three discs

Still ended up with... (all these below are blu ray)
Terminator Salvation
Blood: The Last Vampire
Halloween 2
Tenderness
Gran Torino
It Might Get Loud
My Life in Ruins (for wife along with any other chick flicks listed below))
Black Dynamite
Moon
Milk
Hostel Part 2
Friday the 13th nwe version
The Midnight Meat Train
Doubt
Doomsday
Paul Blart
Obsessed
Nick and Nora
Open Season 2
Paranormal Activity
House Bunny
Max Payne
Rachel Getting Married
The Messengers
Fighting
Mamma Mia
Valentines Day
Whip it
Marley and Me
Haunting in Connecticut
King of California
My Bloody Valentine
Fired Up
Whatever Works
Resident Evil Degeneration
Glory Road
Street Fighter Legend of Chun Lee (with all 3 discs)
12 ounds
What Just Happened
Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead
What Happens in Vegas


Nice dvd pick ups included
Life on Mars... whole series for about 2 bucks
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia Christmas
Jesus is Magic

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I found out that the one here in town closed about two months ago. Doh!

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Well, last day here. BDs were still $2.99, but for some reason they put out additional ones for the last day and quite a few good ones.
I grabbed the following for myself and buddies at work:

Speed Racer
Simpsons Movie
Enchanted
Hellboy II (2 disc)
AVP Requiem
30 Days of Night
Step Brothers (2 disc)
28 weeks later
Angels & Demons (2 disc)
Alvin Squeakquel
Bride Wars
War Zone Punisher
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Precious
Gran Torino
Zombieland
Apocalypto
My bloody valentine 3D
I Am Legend
Open Season 2
Madagascar 2
New Moon
The Proposal
Ice Age Meltdown
Fantastic 4
Fantastic 4 Silver Surfer
300
Brothers Bloom (DVD)

Previously picked up:

Reign over me
Rudo Y Cursi
Tyson
W.
Burn After Reading
Nacho Libre
Brothers Bloom
Damned United
Space Chimps

Also (for $5.99 since I knew they would sell out before further discounts):
I Love You Man
Shorts

Also picked up Bruno DVD for 99 cents and 10 catalog DVDs for $7.50 (mostly documentaries).
All in all pretty satisfied with my haul :)

Edit: Forgot these 2 $2.99 BDs also: Passengers and Milk.

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Wow.. great haul there on the blu rays... I picked up a few more last night from an out of town MG... cant remember everything, but a few were Julie and Julia, Harry Potter (newest), Stepfather, and about 6 more

Then picked up some more ASIP Christmas discs for flipping purposes

Wish I had found Zombieland and Step Brothers... it looked like the location I went to was the dump for other stores in the area that had extra merchandise after closing down, I recall seeing quite a few blus from the location I went to saturday morning... its just that they were now a couple bucks more

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ASIP discs?

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(It's) Always Sunny in Philadelhia. I believe the other poster was referring to the direct-to-DVD Christmas special they put out last year.

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I made it to a store that was a long way away.. 150 miles.. but we stopped on the way to our cabin.. Luckily they had a lot of stock left.. but they were still 5 bucks.. I had to jump on them cause I was not sure if I would be back into town before they closed.

so I picked up

Deadline
the Informers
Coraline 2 disc.. actually came with the dvd.. I was shocked.
up in the air
50 dead men walking
the Soloist
street kings
Slumdog Millionaire
Halloween II
the Express
Valkyrie -- fricking rental edition.. didn't notice until i got to our cabin err!
District 13


and then today we picked up a bunch of dvds.. cause their blu section was pretty gone.. but did get

whatever works.


props to you guys with the great scores..

only 1 question.

How do we get the marked #'s off the disc? I tried goo gone and it is not easy at all. Actually starts taking the stuff we want left on the disc too!

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That's too bad about #s on your discs. Not sure anything will take those off without ruining anything else. At my local store only games had writing on the discs.

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Really nice haul. Alot of titles not seen at the other stores. I picked up 10 docs at 7.50 too. That's about as fun as the Blurays. Perhaps because it's a DVD for .75.

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Howdy all. Just uploaded a new video addressing the whole issue of replacement cases for our MG/HV hauls. Feel free to comment on our vid with websites that have awesome deals on BD cases.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sqSAs5wmA

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Thanks for the videos. It's too bad you never got to film the chaos in the stores, but they probably wouldn't allow that. You got far better titles for better prices than were available in my area, but you were willing to drive hours to probably less populated areas whereas I was only I willing to drive an extra 10 miles in a highly populated area.

I ordered a set of 40 "Viva Elite" BD cases from Discmakers when I thought I was done with HW Video, but I ended up getting another dozen BDs and I'm bummed Discmakers only sells a minimum of 25 which would come to a couple bucks more than your Bay520 guy for 20 cases... still a better deal I think.

The other bummer with Discmakers is you have to order 25 of each type of case rather than just 25 cases. I really need 15 singles, 7 doubles, and 3 quadruples, but Discmakers requires you to order 25 of each and charges you shipping like each were a separate order. I don't suppose anyone has a solution for buying low quantities of these?

It would be cool if someone on DVD Talk wanted to be a middleman... buying from Discmakers in huge quantities and then allowing people to buy smaller amounts for a more reasonable shipping fee while still making enough profit to make it worthwhile.

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Here's another thing that bummed me out at these HW Video sales. Because I have occasionally had success at a few Blockbuster stores asking "do you happen to have any extra PS3 or Xbox 360 cases you don't need?" I asked about these and Blu-Ray cases at each closing HW Video each time I was checking out. Every time I got to hear the stories how within the first 1-2 weeks they knew they were closing that they threw out massive numbers of BD, DVD, game cases, Ethernet cables, and other stuff in the dumpsters. Oh how I wish I had known and gotten in on just 1 of those dumpsters. Since then they tell me they haven't had a single extra anything, and whatever gets damaged out they have to send back to the liquidator (cases included).