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Old 12-08-10, 10:36 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Arghh, had to jump on the Mummy Trilogy...too hard to pass up. Good price anyway to upgrade to BD.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Ah, had to bite on The Mummy--have the first two on SD and never saw the third. And compulsively added Master and Commander to the order as well.
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Master and Commander hit my goldbox today. I had already bought it at UE for $6.99, but now I have a promotional credit on my amazon account, so I said screw-it and re-bought it for $6.64 in credit. I have other stuff I need to take back to UE anyway...
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The third Mummy, not a good movie, but one of the best surround mixes that I have heard in years. I'm happy to add it to my collection at this price. Now I'm stuck with a HD-DVD of the first movie.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated and Uncut) $8.99

Harsh Times $15.99

Boys Don't Cry $16.99

Toy Story 3 $18.99

Easy A $21.99

Life (narrated by David Attenborough) $35.49
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by joe_b

BTW, the copy of Let the Right One In they shipped me DOES have the corrected subtitles for anyone still on the fence.
As did mine. AND I was able to get $9 shipped for my dvd copy, so I'm only out the shipping cost of the dvd to upgrade to blu
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Toy Story 3 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) just dropped to $23.99 (not a new low)
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Goonies 25th anniversary Blu-ray now $28.99...

http://www.amazon.com/Goonies-25th-A...1917545&sr=1-1
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Toy Story Blu-Ray+DVD - $11.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030IIYWA/
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[Some of these are repeats from posts above but I wanted to consolidate them.]

New Lows:

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Unrated and Uncut) $8.99

Toy Story (Two-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo w/ Blu-ray Packaging) $11.99

Harsh Times $15.99

Boys Don't Cry $16.99

The Expendables (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $18.99Toy Story 3 $18.99

Beauty and the Beast (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) $19.49

Easy A $21.99

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps $22.99

Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector's Edition + BD-Live) $23.99
Toy Story 3 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $23.99
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $23.99

Never Let Me Go $26.99
Conviction $26.99

The Fast and the Furious Trilogy (The Fast and the Furious / 2 Fast 2 Furious / The Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift) $27.99

The Goonies (25th Anniversary Edition) $28.99

Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series $34.99

Life (narrated by David Attenborough) $35.49

The Universe Seasons 1-3 $63.99


New price drop but not a new low:

How to Train Your Dragon (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Dragon Double Pack) $18.99
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

and don't miss this thread

Toy Story 1 and 3 on Bluray For $25.98 shipped from Amazon!
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Strictly speaking not a BD bargain, but Coinstar is having their "annual" promotion where if you purchase a $40 e-gift certificate from one of their machines it will print out a mail-in form for a bonus $10 gift certificate. I've done it the past 2 years and it worked out fine although it did take some time. The offer ends on December 22nd.

On a sidenote I am tempted by Avatar extended which will be $23.27 after Amazon CC rewards. My purchase at Target ended up being $25.22 after taxes and redcard savings. Not sure if less than $2 is worth it although I go to Target at least once a week regardless.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector's Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2009) $23.99 new low

Still not cheap, but cannot believe how many deals creep up unannounced at Amazon in one day!
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

The coinstar bonus for amazon this year is supposedly only good for toys and games according to coinstar's facebook page and FW.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

A first just happened to me in all the years I've been using Amazon... my District 9 BD arrived today but it wasn't shrinkwrapped! It only had the sticker at the top of the case unbroken. The plastic on the case itself is wrinkly (looks like it needs to be ironed), though I don't know if that means anything. I've seen many slightly wrinkly plastic before, but this one is really wrinkly.

I'm kinda annoyed because I don't like thinking when I buy a new product that I may be getting used instead, even though the disc itself looks fine. Also, if I changed my mind and wanted to send it back, now I can't because they'd say I opened it when I didn't. I wonder if someone in one of their warehouse decided to take mine home, open it, watch it, and then stick it back in the inventory. I doubt that shrinkwrap falls off all by itself.

Do people think I should complain about this or just let it go?

Originally Posted by Andras
Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector's Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray] (2009) $23.99 new low

Still not cheap, but cannot believe how many deals creep up unannounced at Amazon in one day!
Avatar was $22.99 at one point when it was a preorder. I'm surprised it hasn't gone done more (since I already bought it from them for $24.99)... oh wait... with the extended return period through January it can't dramatically drop in price until after I could no longer return mine.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

If you contact them and explain the situation, I'm sure they will send a replacement if that's what you're after. A wrinkly cover usually indicates that an item has been re-shrinkwrapped in a warehouse somewhere. Orignal factory wrap usually doesn't do that to the case (apart from those extra thick Disney combo packs).

I complained to Amazon about copies of Angels & Demons and Hancock that had wrinkled plastic covers like you described, but they sent me replacements that were even more wrinkled than the first. I will be on the lookout for replacement cases, since the OCD in me remains annoyed with this.

EDIT: Apparently, I'm wrong. Though I'd never encountered them before,
wrinkled BD cases seem to be a trend these days - especially with Sony titles:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hd-talk/577...y-cases-2.html

Still doesn't excuse the missing shrinkwrap.

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I've had items arrive with missing shrinkwrap that were for me (non-gifts) - I've contacted Amazon and usually been offered a few dollars refund (depending on the cost of the item).
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Originally Posted by g
The coinstar bonus for amazon this year is supposedly only good for toys and games according to coinstar's facebook page and FW.
That blows. I buy a lot of toys, but Amazon hasn't had deals in that area for many years IMO... I can't remember the last time I bought a toy from them...
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by Manzana
A first just happened to me in all the years I've been using Amazon... my District 9 BD arrived today but it wasn't shrinkwrapped! It only had the sticker at the top of the case unbroken. The plastic on the case itself is wrinkly (looks like it needs to be ironed), though I don't know if that means anything. I've seen many slightly wrinkly plastic before, but this one is really wrinkly.

Do people think I should complain about this or just let it go?
I just received from Amazon a very expensive hardcover that should have plastic shrinkwrap on it, but was bare. Amazon uses a lot of automated machines to sort and fulfill their orders. My hunch is that occasionally the shrinkwrap gets torn off during that process, and that if the tear is bad enough an Amazon worker will rip off the rest. Amazon offered a refund of 20% to me, or the option of a replacement order and then return the unshrinkwrapped item.
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I had a Blu-Ray come from Amazon with a sticker from Wal-Mart on it (it was shrink wrapped). I must say I had never seen that before! The funny thing was the price on the sticker was much higher than what I paid for it.
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Originally Posted by Manzana
A first just happened to me in all the years I've been using Amazon... my District 9 BD arrived today but it wasn't shrinkwrapped! It only had the sticker at the top of the case unbroken. The plastic on the case itself is wrinkly (looks like it needs to be ironed), though I don't know if that means anything. I've seen many slightly wrinkly plastic before, but this one is really wrinkly.

I'm kinda annoyed because I don't like thinking when I buy a new product that I may be getting used instead, even though the disc itself looks fine. Also, if I changed my mind and wanted to send it back, now I can't because they'd say I opened it when I didn't. I wonder if someone in one of their warehouse decided to take mine home, open it, watch it, and then stick it back in the inventory. I doubt that shrinkwrap falls off all by itself.

Do people think I should complain about this or just let it go?



Avatar was $22.99 at one point when it was a preorder. I'm surprised it hasn't gone done more (since I already bought it from them for $24.99)... oh wait... with the extended return period through January it can't dramatically drop in price until after I could no longer return mine.
I cannot say I have had this happen to me. I had Avatar disc 1 that would not play. I called them up and they sent out a whole new set the same day. I did not know you cannot return a open disc to them. You could tell them the disc is bad or just replace the case. They do offer you $20 off the price of the day. So if the item is higher you get the higher price (I had this with a label printer).
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Just noticed the price for Toy Story... this thread is killing me.
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Little Man $8.99
Wild Things (Unrated Edition) $8.99
Stranger Than Fiction $8.99
7 Seconds $8.99

Curse of the Golden Flower $9.99
Daddy Day Camp $9.99
Flatliners $9.99
I Know What You Did Last Summer $9.99
Cruel Intentions $9.99
Tommy $9.99
The Exorcism of Emily Rose $9.99
Steep $9.99
Immortal Beloved $9.99
Anger Management $9.99
Seven Years in Tibet $9.99
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within $9.99
RV $9.99
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc $9.99

Big Fish $10.49
Quarantine $10.49
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition $10.49
Jerry Maguire $10.49
Revolver $10.49
What Doesn't Kill You $10.49
Identity $10.49
The Thirteenth Floor $10.49
Starman $10.49
Night of the Creeps $10.49
It Could Happen to You $10.49
The Benchwarmers $10.49
The Craft $10.49
The Professionals $10.49
Sex, Lies, and Videotape $10.49
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen $10.49
Arlington Road $10.49
13 Going on 30 $10.49
In Cold Blood $10.49
Catch and Release $10.49
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein $10.49
Fly Away Home $10.49

Warriors of Heaven & Earth $10.99
First Knight (Special Edition) $10.99

Skiing Everest Blu-ray DVD Combo set $13.99

Spider-Man 2 $14.99
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Three-Disc Collector's Edition+ Digital Copy and BD Live) $14.99

Across the Universe / The Other Boleyn Girl (Two-Pack) $15.99

The Sound of Music (45th Anniversary Edition) (Three-Disc 2 Blu-ray/ 1 DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) $17.99
Ramona and Beezus $17.99

Disney's A Christmas Carol (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) $19.49
The Search For Santa Paws (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) $19.49

Salt (Deluxe Unrated Edition) $19.99

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo+Digital Copy) $20.99

Toy Story 3 (Four-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $22.49 [Save $10 when you buy this with selected Pixar titles]

The Other Guys (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $22.99
The Last Airbender (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) $22.99

Case 39 $23.99

Disney's A Christmas Carol (Four-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy) $24.49

The Gangster Collection (American Gangster/Casino/Eastern Promises) $24.99
You Again (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) $24.99

Ultimate Unrated Comedy Collection (Forgetting Sarah Marshall / Knocked Up / The 40-Year-Old Virgin) $25.99
Nanny McPhee Returns $25.99

The Walking Dead: Season One $31.99

The Office: Season Six $36.49

Heroes: Season Four $42.99

Panasonic TY-EW3D2MMK2 Ultimate 3D Starter Kit (Avatar 3D + 2 Rechargeable Glasses) $331.52

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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

I have been waiting forever and 2 days for Exorcism of Emily Rose to drop below ten dollars so I am going to bite.

Sure as soon as I do it the price will drop to 5.44 but whatever. I am past ready to add this one to the blu collection.

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I've been waiting since they were released for I Know What You Did Last Summer & Baron Munchausen to finally drop in price. Seemed like they never dipped below $15.
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