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11-28-11, 10:27 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

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If you ordered this before it went on sale, I recommend emailing them asking for a price difference. It can't hurt.

I did. Denied.

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11-28-11, 10:50 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Fuck, I just couldn't resist 1 more Amazon order.

Let Me In BR $3.99
Transformers Dark Side Of The Moon BR $9.99
Cello $5.48 (An older K-Horror Title off my wishlist).

Some weird promo stuff happened to get me free shipping on this order, even with a total of only

$19.46

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11-28-11, 11:30 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

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Fuck, I just couldn't resist 1 more Amazon order.

Let Me In BR $3.99
Transformers Dark Side Of The Moon BR $9.99
Cello $5.48 (An older K-Horror Title off my wishlist).

Some weird promo stuff happened to get me free shipping on this order, even with a total of only

$19.46

Is this the one where the autobots do a whole lot of drugs and make an super weird movie?

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11-28-11, 11:31 PM

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I did. Denied.

I ordered it on Wednesday for $8.99. Called on Friday and got denied as well. The guy was reading off a script about their prices always changing and offering the best at that time. Which pissed me off more. Best Buy lowering their prices on the digibooks cost me a few bucks on each after Amazon price matched as well. Overall I did pretty well price wise though.

Not having a Prime trial like last year made me order things just to get that free shipping and spreading out my orders. But I still don't order enough to get Prime. Plus even though they charge tax in NY the items come fairly quick with free shipping.

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11-29-11, 01:35 AM

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Is this the one where the autobots do a whole lot of drugs and make an super weird movie?

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11-29-11, 02:07 AM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

My local Safeway had a selection of Blu-rays including The Lord of the Rings trilogy for $10 apiece, so I grabbed those. I managed to resist buying movies at the WBshop 5 for $50 sale, but I had to pick up Medical Center Season One for 25% off.

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11-29-11, 02:14 AM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Final Tally:

Amazon

49.99 LOTR: EE Trilogy
29.99 Jurassic Park Trilogy
20.50 Bourne Trilogy
4.99 Independence Day
4.99 Office Space
4.99 Hot Tub Time Machine
4.99 Inception
3.99 Let Me In (Best Buy)
3.99 Pulp Fiction
3.99 Jackie Brown
.99 Jarhead DVD
.99 Doom DVD
.99 Bruno DVD

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11-29-11, 03:55 AM

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Is this the one where the autobots do a whole lot of drugs and make an super weird movie?

I thought it was the one where a group of Transformers' lives are shattered after a mooning incident goes horribly wrong. Secrets, lies and a tragedy that would haunt them forever.

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11-29-11, 07:21 AM

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I thought it was the one where a group of Transformers' lives are shattered after a mooning incident goes horribly wrong. Secrets, lies and a tragedy that would haunt them forever.

Strangely, that IS an accurate synopsis, depending on how you interpret it.

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11-29-11, 09:49 AM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Final for Monday 11/21 through Sunday 11/27

BD unless otherwise noted; Ben Hur UCE was picked up in store, all others being shipped free:

Amazon.com
Beauty and the Beast Criterion $11.99
Gandhi $13.49
Jackie Brown $4.99
Jewel: The Essential live Songbook $9.99
King Kong (2005) $7.99
The King's Speech $10.99
The Lion King BD/DVD $16.99
Platoon BD/DVD $9.99
Pulp Fiction $3.99
Treasure of the Sierra Madre $9.99
Watchmen (DC) $5.99

Barnes and Noble.com
The Passion of the Christ $7.19 (with 20% off member's code)
Walk the Line $7.19 (with 20% off member's code)

Bestbuy.com
Ben Hur UCE $10.99
Citizen Kane digibook $10.99

Per-title average before tax: $9.52

Also bought a laptop on an amazon lightning deal.

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11-29-11, 10:02 AM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Final haul-

Amazon

Super 8 & X-Men First Class $24.98

Panasonic TC-P50S30 50" 1080P Plasma $599.99

Batman Arkham City PS3 $28

Uncharted 3(gift) $29.99

B&N

Drssed to Kill $9.29

American Dad 6(DVD) $8.50

Walking Dead Season 1 SE $20.09

Illusionist $13.05

Best Buy

Uncharted 3, Citizen Kane Digibook(BB exclusive), Unknown & Jackie Brown $57.38

Pulp Fiction, Mimic, Inception & The Crow(all gifts) $21.23

Ben-Hur Box Set $11.68

Bulletstorm PS3 $8.49

DD

Clannad 2, Princess Resurrection 2 & Divergence Eve(all DVDs) $17.47

Fox Connect

Simpsons 13 & 20, (DVDs)American Dad 3 & 4 $32

Next up- Rightstuf's Twelve Days of Savings.

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11-29-11, 10:08 AM

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Bought WAY more than I was expecting, mostly due to Best Buy having their deals online early for Silver members. Rounding prices and all are Blu unless noted.

Best Buy:
Ben Hur UCE - $11
Harry Potter 7.2 - $10
Fast Five - $10
Green Lantern - $10
The Crow - $5
Pulp Fiction - $5
Gran Torino DVD (for gift) - $4
Fletch DVD - $1

Walmart
Robots - $5
Robots (for gift) - $5
Robin Hood POT - $5
Walk the Line - $5
Fantastic Four - $5
Fantastic Four 2 - $5
(got all of these at around 10am. A few were already sold out that I would have liked, but oh well)

Amazon
Jurassic Park Trilogy - $30
Tron 5 disc set - $32
African Queen - $8
Mimic - $5

Deep Discount
24 Season 8 - $13
Jennifer's Body - $4

Buy.com
The Ten Commandments - $5

Total - $183 for 24 titles (21 Blu movies, 1 Blu TV season, and 2 DVDs). Average $7.63 each. Awesome!

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11-29-11, 01:44 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Thank You everyone for keeping with the updates on the price drops! I was able to get some great deals

and spend probably the most money on movies I have ever spent on any single day/wknd before. My only real regret was not getting Thor & Captain America in 3D-Blu from Frys.

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11-29-11, 02:48 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Amazon

The Year Without a Santa Claus - $13.49
Platoon - $9.99
Ghostbusters - $7.99
JFK: Director's Cut Digibook - $12.99
'Twas the Night Before Christmas - $13.99
Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy - $29.99
Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy - $25.49
Bonnie and Clyde Digibook - $13.49
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Digibook - $16.49
American Beauty - $10.49
All the President's Men Digibook - $13.49
The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration) - $39.99
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas - $13.99
King Kong Digibook - $12.99
Poltergeist Digibook - $12.99
Blade Runner Complete - $23.49
The Green Mile Digibook - $10.99
It's A Wonderful Life - $13.99

Best Buy

Citizen Kane Digibook - $6.51

Lots of stuff at prices I was willing to pay, some of the prices exceptional.

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11-29-11, 03:14 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Amazon

Super 8 - $14.99
Beauty & The Beast (Criterion) - $11.99

Bestbuy.com

Pulp Fiction - $4.99
Mimic - $4.99
The Crow - $4.99

Best Buy

Citizen Kane Exclusive digibook - $10.99
Exorcist digibook - $10.99

DVD Planet

Star Wars Saga - $57.92

WBShop.com

LOTR Extended exclusive - $49.99
HP Deathly Hallows Pt 2 3 disc - $17.40

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11-29-11, 05:27 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

I actually lost track of all my hauls, which may not be a good thing money wise, but sure will be fun getting to open all the gifts that come in the mail and being surprised.

Many thanks to everyone who posted during the mass consumption and for all the help in securing what Don Rickles so memorably calls in KELLY'S HEROES: "A DEAL deal!"

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11-30-11, 01:52 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Amazon:

Pulp Fiction 3.99
I am Legend 4.99
300 4.99
Jackie Brown 3.99
Stardust 5.99

Target
3:10 to Yuma 5.00

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11-30-11, 11:47 PM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Maybe I'm cheating by including my purchases from the DD 25% off sale, but they were on Monday of last week.....

Amazon:

Arkham City PS3- $28
Green Lantern Combo Pack- 9.99
Mad Men S4- 8.99
Office Space- 4.99
Pulp Fiction- 3.99
Quantum of Solace- 4.99
X-Men: First Class- 9.99

Best Buy:

Let Me In - 3.99

Deep Discount:

127 Hours- 7.04
Animals as Leaders- Weightless CD (not really on sale, but used to get free shipping)
Rifftrax: Shorts Vol. 1 DVD 5.64
Rifftrax: Shorts Vol. 2 DVD 5.68
Rifftrax: Shorts-a-Poppin DVD 5.42
Rifftrax: Wide World of Shorts DVD 5.62
Rifftrax: Planet Dinosaur DVD 5.62

And not really Movie/dvd/blu-ray related, but...

Relapse Records:

Dying Fetus- Stop at Nothing CD .01
Exhumed- Gore Metal CD 6.00
+ Shipping

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12-01-11, 01:30 PM

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12-03-11, 03:16 PM

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Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh, I hate Best Buy.

I ordered Mad Men on BR seasons 1-4 from Best Buy during their Black Friday sale. The order went through, with all items showing in stock.

A few days later, I get an e-mail saying 3 & 4 were back ordered, but that I could call customer service to discuss my options, including cancelling the order or picking the movies up in store. Unfortunately, the items showed not available for pickup anywhere in my area.

Today, I walked into Best Buy and they had at least 15 of both season 3 and 4 on the shelves (at full price... I think $30 for one and $40 for the other). I called customer service to ask if they could arrange for me to pick up the items I was already holding in my hands. The rep gave me the most nonsensical answer I'd ever heard ("they need those copies for Black Friday"... what?). He said my only options were to cancel the order (although he was nice enough to suggest I might buy them for full price in-store if I really wanted them), or wait for the backordered ones to come in.

Ugh.

I saw Amazon had them for the same price AFTER I placed my BB order, or I would have just ordered from Amazon in the first place. What a terrible fucking store. "Hey, we'll have B&M stores and a website and pretend they're totally synchronized, except when it's convenient for us to pretend like they're completely separate entities."

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12-03-11, 03:19 PM

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The rep gave me the most nonsensical answer I'd ever heard ("they need those copies for Black Friday"... what?).

They're planning for NEXT YEAR already??!?!?!

Just came back from the post office, where I picked up 40 packages. Seriously. I'm gonna be opening boxes for the next hour or so. It's like Christmas!!!

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12-23-11, 06:32 AM

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Re: Your Black Friday 2011 Hauls

Still waiting on a couple discs to arrive, but the majority of my post BF/Q4 purchases have come in and I can finally take stock of what I bought, spent, saved, etc

Some personal stats from Q4 2011

Blu-rays: 50
DVDs: 5
TV Sets: 11
M.O.D. discs: 46
Criterions: 11
Average MSRP: $28.32 (pre tax)
Average price paid per title: $11.85/ $12.89 (w/tax)
Average % off of MSRP: 58%

While I was able to take advantage of some Killer BF deals, especially from Amazon and B&N, I was still surprised I managed to average well over 50% off in total across the board.
That $11.85 average also applies to 15 sets that had MSRPs that averaged over $50 each (!)
Each year I say I'm going to cut back, and without fail each year I end up spending more than I ever have. This year was no exception- however I think on average I did much better this year, deal-wise, than I ever have before. Also, my out of pocket costs may actually come in less than years past thanks to some good sales I made on Amazon. All in all, a very satisfying BF/Q4 here.

So how'd everyone else make out?