It depends on what you redeem the coins for. Some of the GCs are 1:1 (sometimes more when they run some kind of deal)

I didn't know that. That is pretty cool.

Best Buy had Paul for $12.99 on Black Friday. Amazon didn't price match though.

If I'm not mistaken, I thought I saw Paul (BD) for the same price this week at Best Buy.

Wow, I've never heard of this coinstar thing. How does it work? You pour your change in a machine and it calculates it? How fast is it? And is the Amazon gift card always 1:1 or only for specials?

I think all GCs (there are several other than Amazon) are 1:1. Sometimes (rarely) they have a promo where you get a bit more. Not all machines support GCs as an option, you have to check their website for locations.

http://coinstar.com/FreeCoinCountingDetail/Amazon

When there are decent promos someone usually posts about it in the 'Hot Deals' forum. These are old, but you get the idea:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...light=coinstar

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...light=coinstar

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...light=coinstar

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...light=coinstar

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...light=coinstar

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals/5...ar#post8177032

You are not mistaken! I just checked on BB.com and sure enough, it is $12.99. Submitting the price to Amazon right now! If they don't match it, I'll buy it at BB on Friday or Saturday... Thanks for the tip!

For the past several Decembers, Coinstar had a promo where if you cash in $40 or $50 of coins and choose the Amazon GC option, you could mail away for a bonus $10 Amazon cert. I did this at least the last two years. This year, however, no promo.

Define MSRP because it doesn't look like you know what MSRP is.

Today's new lows and some old lows (sorry no links) (when the hell does Lizard get back )


GoodFellas $5.49

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Theatrical Edition) $6.99

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (Extended Cut) $7.49

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(3-Disc Edition) $8.49
The Wizard of Oz (Single-Disc 70th Anniversary Edition) $8.49
Sherlock Holmes $8.49

Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (Anchor Bay) $8.99
Halloween $8.99

Face/Off (Special Collector's Edition) $9.99
City Island $9.99

The Roommate $10.99

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz $11.99

Zookeeper $13.49

James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition) $13.99

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse $14.49

The Pool Boys $15.99

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop $17.99

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story $18.49
Cars 2 $18.49

WWE SmackDown: The Best of 2009-2010 $19.49

The Exterminator (Unrated Director`s Cut) $21.99

Dolphins and Whales 3D $22.49

Sharks 3D $22.99

Coraline 3D $25.49

The Slayers: Season 4 & 5 $35.99

Lully: Atys $40.99

The Holiday Classics Collection $53.99

30 for 30: Collector's Set Films 01-30 $69.99

Life / Planet Earth Collection (Special Edition) $75.49

From my experience, Amazon's "MSRP" changes and sometimes the sale price is only displayed, so you have to go to other websites to get a historical price graph of what kind of a "deal" it really is. It can be confusing.

Yes and No. If you take cash then the answer is Yes 9% I think? But if you use it for Gift Cards then the answer is No. I just take my change once a year and turn it into Amazon gift card.

Just a side note that might make this easier for some:

If you use Firefox, there is a CamelCamelCamel plugin that shows you the history graph for the Amazon page you are looking at (you don't have to navigate away) with a simple button click. Very nice plugin.

Amazon way of sales is odd if you want to look at it. They have a there price then they mark it down. Yet when they have a sale they mark it up to the MSRP and then mark it down from there. It's still a sale, it just a fake pricing sale or give it the name you wish to give it. Think of it like the going out of business stores. They mark everything up very high and offer you a taste discount. Where if you where to go there a week or even the day before it was lower.

All I am staying is. If the price is right I will buy it, no mather what the discount is. If its something I want. But to tell me its this price and we are going to mark it down to that price, why they hour before it was a lower price. Well.

No matter what as long as Amazon keeps selling their items at a good price I will buy from them. If a customer wish to think they are getting a better deal then so be it.

At times people post my post given them a headache or is hard to read. Try reading Amazon pricing reports some time.

I'm pretty sure you still win.

I did not know this! Off to find the plugin right now...

Beautiful man, beautiful.

I'm going to download that plugin as well. Thanks for the tip!

All right, I hesitate from jumping into the MSRP mess, but here goes. MSRP is the manufacturer's retail price. That is something that is pretty much constant. That is something that will not change from hour to hour. Yes, sometimes a MSRP will go lower, but it's usually after a product has been on the market for a long time and no longer has as much demand. When a manufacturer does that, that is not a sale.

Amazon always displays its prices based on the MSRP. It will show how much you "save" with their price in comparison. All sites do that. The percent off that it shows is based on the price that the manufacturer has said it should sell for. That is not something Amazon sets. Yes, you are right that Blu-ray prices can be like a yo-yo on Amazon, but you know what? Amazon isn't the only site that does that. Pretty much all sites now have pretty fluid pricing, but the constant across all of these sites is that all of them list a percentage off and it's all based on MSRP. Look at the same disc across several websites. The sites might be selling the disc for different prices, but all of them will have the same MSRP.

Part of the problem is that Amazon's regular pricing can be so good that when there are "sales" on Blu-rays, they can be disappointing because the prices have already hovered pretty low. Those prices can really fluctuate, though, but there are some good resources for tracking prices. Bottom line, I say you set your price point and hold off until it reaches there, buy it and forget it. It will always be cheaper later.

Tell that to the MST3K Vol 10, Midnight Hour and Chaplin Mutual Comedies (Restored Edition) that were on my mental wishlist since they were in print.

Perfect, clckworang.

Agreed. Well said.

We are buried in terminology... Amazon doesn't display pricing solely on MSRP. The don't even call it that. They call it List Pricing.

Straight from Amazon:



Also the firefox plugin is called The Camelizer

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ce-history-ch/

Lowest Blu-ray price on Amazon:

The Matrix $5.49
Goodfellas $5.49
Friday $5.99
The Gamera Trilogy $6.49
Menace II Society $6.99
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $7.49
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $7.99
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring $7.99
Blazing Saddles $7.99
Watchmen $7.99
Ghostbusters $7.99
Inception (Two Disk Edition) $7.99
The Dark Knight $7.99
Troy $7.99
V for Vendetta $7.99
Batman Begins $7.99
The Last Samurai $7.99
No Country For Old Men $7.99
Dark City $7.99
Caddyshack $7.99
The Transporter $7.99
American History X AND A History of Violence $7.99
The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Edition) $8.49
The Losers $8.49
Sherlock Holmes $8.49
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $8.49
Training Day $8.49
Forgetting Sarah Marshall $8.49
The Blind Side $8.99
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Extreme Unrated) $8.99
Twister $8.99
Terminator Salvation $8.99
The Goonies $9.49
Law Abiding Citizen $9.49
Goldfinger 007 $9.49
Face/Off $9.49
The Bucket List $9.49
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 $9.99
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $9.99
The English Patient $9.99
Clash of the Titans $9.99
You've Got Mail $9.99
Gone in 60 Seconds $9.99
Mission Impossible III $9.99
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights $9.99
Red Riding Hood $9.99
10 Things I Hate About You (10th Anniversary Edition) $9.99
National Lampoon's Vacation $9.99

PRE-ORDER:
The Piano $9.99
Frida $9.99

off topic but I cannot recommend the camelizer add on enough.

The one thing that I've never understood is how different sites differ as to what the MSRP/List Price of an item is. Ime, it doesn't happen often, and when it does, then it's usually because one online retailer (most often Amazon ime) is a few weeks to a month slower to adjust the MSRP/List Price in their systems. But in rare cases I've seen certain titles remain at quite different MSRP/List Prices for many months, if not years.

For example, there's a DVD called Niagra Motel. It's been out for nearly 4 years and Amazon and Half.com still have it at it's new release price of $28.98:

http://www.amazon.com/Niagara-Motel-.../dp/B000Z27HFE.

But B&N, Deep Discount, and DVD Empire believe that that price is $9.98. It appears that it's the same version everywhere, so I can't understand why the MSRP/List price would vary by $19.00?