Originally Posted by laidbacklarkin

Stanley Kubrick - The Masterpiece Collection (Region Free) - $42.78 shipped to the USA

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LUNV2RQ

10 disc BD Set with a 78 page book

Originally Posted by MooMooMooMoo

It appears they are no longer willing to ship the Kubrick box to the USA.

Originally Posted by hariseldon

Man I wish the vigilink software from this forum would quit butchering Amazon UK hyperlinks back to Amazon.com

Originally Posted by BobO'Link

Use a different browser? I use Firefox (with AdBlock Plus and NoScript) and never have problems with the Amazon UK links. It could be the plugins "fixing" the links but I'm not willing to disable them to find out.

Originally Posted by hariseldon

That usually indicates that your being routed through a 3rd party/marketplace instead of Amazon.
Switch the seller back to Amazon UK on the right side of the page (backorder 10 days) and you should be fine for shipping


Man I wish the vigilink software from this forum would quit butchering Amazon UK hyperlinks back to Amazon.com

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I use FF so may have to install the plug-ins b.c none of the UK links seem to go to Amazon UK after the first hour or so.

EDIT: seems to work. Hopefully that will help a couple other websites as well.

I pretty much keep flash, java disabled anyway so yet another level of interception/interference hopefully cut out

Originally Posted by BobO'Link

Using NoScript is a real eye-opener to the amount of 3rd party JAVA crap some sites deal up. I've hit a few where allowing *1* site then brings in a list of several more (at times up to 20!) pulling in trackers/helpers/images and more. It's amazing how much faster some sites work with all that 3rd party crapware disabled.

Ghostery is also a good one to use.

If you want to get a somewhat disturbing view of just how sites are interlinked install Lightbeam and let it gather data a few days (you may want to use it with it's "Disable tracking" ability disabled). Right now, my visual report has a *huge* "G" in the middle... and that's with most of Google's tracking junk disabled leaving only what's necessary for some sites to work properly.

Originally Posted by DVD Polizei

Definitely.

However, Amazon might increase their product prices to offset, so everyone will have to choose wisely and at the right time.

Currently, the Kubrick set dropped about $3 USD.

Originally Posted by goblin23

I finally bit on the Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection today (though I do own 2 of the 14 titles already):

Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection [Blu-ray]

It's been down to 25 pounds since 6/15 per CamelX3 UK:

http://Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection [Blu-ray] on CamelX3UKY

It's out of stock from Amazon and the pound may well recover a bit before it ships, but it still should be a decent deal.

Reminder for links - Hold the Ctrl key and click on the link if you actually want to, you know, see the actual page that you are clicking on!

Originally Posted by goblin23

I finally bit on the Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection today (though I do own 2 of the 14 titles already):

Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection [Blu-ray]

It's been down to 25 pounds since 6/15 per CamelX3 UK:

It's out of stock from Amazon and the pound may well recover a bit before it ships, but it still should be a decent deal.

Reminder for links - Hold the Ctrl key and click on the link if you actually want to, you know, see the actual page that you are clicking on!

Originally Posted by movieguru

Doubt they would do this due to falling Pound prices. U.S purchases at Amazon UK are a very small % of their overall sales that an increase in their prices would decrease theor own domestic sales. Now increased demand on certain titles likw Doctor Who may affect some of their prices but the effect overall will likely be very small/

Originally Posted by hariseldon

It appears that Visa Exchange rate has a delay in catching up to these massive swings. Normally I've always found the rates mirrored almost exactly xe.com bank rate, but after hearing a couple stories like this from you and at Bluray I checked VisaExchange site and found earlier todya the VISA exchange registers at 1.437 (even with 0% Forex fee) when xe.com was under 1.32. Since the rates never change more than a penny or so day it never crossed my mind that Visa/XE used different numbers. I'm not sure if the weekend had an effect as well, but it will be interesting to see how long the catchup takes. That number hasn't changed in several hrs so I'm guessing it's not real time


From an old VISA FAQ on how they calculate their rate -- mastercard, etc may have slightly different methods but it appears to be slightly separated from the market which isn
t really noticeable except crazy times
"Every day—except weekends, Memorial Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day—Visa calculates the rate for the next day’s transactions. The Visa rate is selected from a range of rates available in wholesale currency markets or the government-mandated rate in effect one day prior to the applicable central processing date. Visa makes this rate available to issuing banks, which may adjust the rate when billing cardholders by applying a foreign transaction fee. The rate Visa makes available to issuing banks may vary from the rate Visa itself receives. Most consumers find that using Visa is a convenient and cost-effective way to make purchases and obtain cash when traveling internationally."