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Remember the Black Friday with TONS of box sets for $3?

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That year, and a few before/after, there was a 2nd cousin's former wife working at BL. We got along with her and she'd keep me posted when new displays would arrive (any time - not just BF). For those BF sales she'd let me know when those arrived and take me to the storeroom to look over what was going to be available. I was allowed to take out what I wanted and it would be put back for me to come in *anytime* that weekend to pick them up. That was absolutely the best - first pick and didn't have to fight crowds to get what I wanted.

And I'm *still* slowly working my way through some of those BF sets and those from the WB dump (that one was incredible!).

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I ended up seeing parts of the Eastern seaboard I would have never visited otherwise if not for the $3 DVD box set. Chased them over 30-40 different locations. Met a couple of people who claimed reading this site during the sale. Feeling generous one day, I let a man have the complete Wonder Woman DVD box set for $3 when he spotted it in my cart. I think that was somewhere near Richmond.

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Beacuase I purchased so much from them for resale, several stores gave me the same priviledge. I went in a couple days early, & pulled everything I wanted. I wish I would have bought more than I did, as every set sold (I ended up eating a lot of single disc really good titles, but I didn't eat a single one of those boxes).

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I got a couple copies of the WW set at that sale also. I don't think there was a single thing I personally wanted, but lots of stuff others did!

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Thanks for buying so many sets for resale, and keeping them out of the hands of the collectors on this forum.

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It's how I made a living. Beats living on the street. Besides, do you live in Seattle? And I'm sure they would have done the same for you, if you had spent$1500 a month for years.

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There was a guy on here back then with “Simpsonsfan” in his username who said he was doing that and got tons of sarcastic thanks. It’s just scummy to buy cheap stuff from a store just so you can sell it to someone else at a higher price. All the stuff I bought from Big Lots has been to actually WATCH, and whatever I didn’t buy I hoped would get bought by someone who wanted the same from them.

Still cracks me up when I see EBay auctions with price tags left on in the picture and the asking price is several times that. At least try to hide how little you paid for it.

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Read that 'Big Lot's" might indeed survive at some locations. I hope this includes my location. They are trying to revamp from what I read to survive the bankruptcy.

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Some distressed retail investor plans to keep a few locations open. Big Lots as we knew it under the old management is done. Probably enough sales left in the old horse to keep some locations around for another year or two.

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Big Lots had a idiot computer programmer(s). Unless you presented stacked coupons in the right order you would definitely not receive the proper discount. So you had to present a % discount coupon first, then the highest dollar off, such s $10 off $40, and so on. Such an easy fix I was always shaking my head at the retardedness. I did manage to have numerous purchases where I bought $50 worth of stuff for as little as $15 using several of the $5 off $15 coupons in addition to the aforementioned. I bought a ton of DVDs and Blurays over the years, many still unopened, but I would also stock up on nuts and coffee for dirt cheap. RIP Big Lots.

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Their "Going Out of Business Sale" is somewhat a joke - at least here. The signs say "Up to 25% Off!" - which is accurate but not as good as it may sound. My wife and I went in today to pick up a few things (some of which are "regular purchase" items for us at BL) to find there's *zero* % off food products (not that unexpected), 5% off Small Appliances (not worth bothering with for that little) and 10% on just about everything else with the exceptions being 20% off toys, 25% off Grills & Patio furniture, and 50% off Christmas (which is normal for that product at this time of the year). We picked up a few non-food items we'd have purchased anyway due to the "need" or normal price so an extra 10% was OK but not exceptional. As expected, they're no longer scanning the "Loyalty Cards" or accepting any non-expired coupons (I didn't have any but asked anyway).

And the store was pretty well picked clean in many areas - more than I expected considering the rather low % off being offered on most items.

My wife's wanting to go to the one in the neighboring town so I expect we'll make the trip in the next few days. It'll be interesting to see the differences as they have always had more/better stock of things since opening a couple of years back.

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They got that fixed over the past year or so. At one point you absolutely *did* have to hand them in the correct order but it was corrected to be the % off first, in descending order of amount, and then the $x off $y after. I still presented them in the "correct" order but it didn't matter at least this past year. And I *always* verified sub-totals before handing the next "correct" coupon and verified that it *was* applied properly before letting them scan the next. I know it got fixed as I knew one of the checkers well and we would experiment with the order if no one else was in line. Our last experiment resulted in identical results no matter which order they were scanned and the amount off was what I'd pre-calculated. That was around a year ago.

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And the person I asked was incorrect. I got an email from BL today that said *all* existing rewards coupons *will* be honored but no more will be given out.