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Old 01-21-11 | 10:59 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by Manzana
I'd be happy to discuss non-deal issues in another thread if there were a link on the first page of this thread for everyone to a thread about Amazon issues, but I don't know of one for general Amazon discussions. In the Store Forum there are only specific issues threads (like someone closed my account) that come and go about Amazon. Besides, I don't think discussing the risk of getting banned by doing returns is "bitching and moaning". It's more like "worrying and trying to find info". Again, I'd be happy to keep non-sale discussions in a separate thread if someone wants to make the Official Amazon General (Non-Sale) Discussion Thread and link to it here. I'm not going to do it because nobody will probably ever post in it.
Well that's an outright lie because you just said that you would.
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Old 01-21-11 | 11:02 PM
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Re: "Let Me In" BD at Amazon

As you can see I adjusted the phrasing in my previous response, -yes, a promotion was applied to the $19.99 price, though it doesn't say what it's for. Thanks to the original poster, by the way, - I hope this holds up, and I just wonder if the "promotion" works with any other title.

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Old 01-21-11 | 11:31 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by adam_omega
Considering Lost In Translation went down to $15, I'd think so. Maybe not immediately, but it will.


Question:
I ordered LET ME IN on blu-ray by itself for $19.99 and somehow got a $10 promotional credit, making it $9.99. I can't figure out what the promotion could've been, though. Any clues?
Did you add the Coinstar $10 code to your account? That counts as a promotional code... That's the only thing I can think of...
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Old 01-22-11 | 12:47 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

coinstar code? what? did I miss something?
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Old 01-22-11 | 01:18 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

I just figured out what must have happened, -at least in my situation:

A few months back I bought a Roku box, and with it I recieved a $10 credit for Amazon Video On Demand. I was thinking about using it the other day and the credit had disappeared. I called Customer Service and they told me there was an expiration date on the credit that I wasn't aware of. I didn't gripe or complain but the CSR very kindly restored the credit, -this time with a something like a nine-year expiration.

You can guess what happened, -it turns out the CSR gave me a general credit for $10 and when I placed the order for "Let Me In", I activated that credit (I checked my video account and it doesn't show the $10). In my case, the "Let Me In" order was just a coincidence, though it did tip me to $10 that I can apply to anything, which is far more useful to me than a video credit. I'm sorry if I helped confuse anybody, but I'm glad to have the information.
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Old 01-22-11 | 01:33 AM
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GAH!!!

lol...well at least we know wtf fuck happened.
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Old 01-22-11 | 02:33 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

I can say that neither of those things happened for me.

I did have a preorder for Let Me In from when it was a gold box ($1.20 off) that I cancelled and then immediately reordered for the lower $19.99 price... and for some bizarre reason, it gave me a $10 off promotional credit. No clue why. I'm not one to really email customer service and they only time I've ever gotten actual credits issued was for their huge preorder mix-ups with Dead Rising 2, but those credits are looong gone. So no clue. >_>
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Old 01-22-11 | 06:16 AM
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I actually had a $10 promotional credit applied yesterday when I purchased Arkham Asylum for PS3. I hadn't purchased a Roku, any digital media... Not sure why I got it either... But I'm not complaining...
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Old 01-22-11 | 07:20 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
coinstar code? what? did I miss something?
There was a thread on it somewhere. They do this every year in December. When you redeem in $40 in cash coins for an Amazon cert in a Coinstar machine, they send you a bonus $10 Amazon promotional code.
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Old 01-22-11 | 08:18 AM
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oh my.... now there is a mystery $10 off amazon credit....
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Old 01-22-11 | 10:42 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Decent price for Double Life of Veronique, if you want it ASAP.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by lizard
Ugh, are there two versions of this Blu-Ray like RED?

http://www.amazon.com/Date-Blu-ray-C...5714711&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Due-Date-Blu-r...5714744&sr=1-2
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by clappj
I figured it out.

Click "recommendations for you" (top of screen).
Then click "see all recommendations."
Select the checkboxes next to the items you already own.
Finally, be sure to click "Refresh your recommendations" to apply the updates you made.

Thanks for the tip.

In cleaning out my "Recommendations" I found this:

Megamind (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Blu-ray ~ Will Ferrell (February 25, 2011)

Recommended because you added Mesrine: Killer Instinct: Part 1 [Blu-ray] to your Shopping Cart


Makes one wonder about the algorithm Amazon uses.
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Old 01-22-11 | 11:20 AM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by adam_omega
Question:
I ordered LET ME IN on blu-ray by itself for $19.99 and somehow got a $10 promotional credit, making it $9.99. I can't figure out what the promotion could've been, though. Any clues?
I got a surprise $10 discount too on a different item. I think mine was from a promotion they had starting in November where if you purchased $75 or more worth of toys from a Holiday list with a MasterCard you'd get $10 off sometime after the promotion ended. I had recently called CS because I'd gotten no notification of that discount and they tried to tell me I wasn't eligible for it, but gave me a $10 credit to my CC anyways. I know 100% that I was eligible for it, so this may have been it.
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Decent price for Double Life of Veronique, if you want it ASAP.
I agree. I recently sold my DVD copy for $15 so I'm biting on this price.
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Old 01-22-11 | 01:04 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by Arpeggi
Decent price for Double Life of Veronique, if you want it ASAP.
Yes, I hope they lower the Blow Out pre-order to that before release, something that I must own on day 1.
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Old 01-22-11 | 05:57 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

No $10 promo for me, but it is giving me free shipping for Let Me In for some reason. Haven't ordered yet...
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Old 01-22-11 | 06:05 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by Artman
No $10 promo for me, but it is giving me free shipping for Let Me In for some reason. Haven't ordered yet...
Same here.
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Old 01-22-11 | 06:28 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

It says on the product's page that they're offering free shipping for Let Me In.
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

^

And I thought that I was special.
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And I thought that I was special.
lol, well you can still be special, just not specifically in this case.
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Old 01-22-11 | 11:50 PM
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Originally Posted by b2net
oh my.... now there is a mystery $10 off amazon credit....
hmm...is it the mastercard holiday toy list reward? it showed up in my account...it's not specific for Let Me In either
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Re: Amazon Discounts and Deals Thread #7 (is it #7? I'll pretend it is)

Tempted by the two Super Bowl sets, even though I don't need them or anything. But the Saints and Steelers are two teams that I've enjoyed seeing win.
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