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Amazon got 90% of my business this year, B&N about 9%, and BB got 1%. Just for the Wolverine Extended deal and guess what? My store doesn't have King of Comedy on BD, so I got fucked out of that one even after I the pick-up at store option was selected. Typical bullshit from BB.

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That sounds about right for me too. Numbers would be a little higher for Amazon and a bit lower for B&N.

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Contradictory, confusing and unsupported by reality.

1. If they didn't want to lose money on media items, they wouldn't have priced-matched, would they?

B. This: http://www.businessinsider.com/black...y-ever-2014-11

Which is it? Is Amazon DOOOOOOOMED because some people with hundreds and hundreds of Blu-rays couldn't find another hundred to buy or could the fact that they have hundreds make deals moot? I know I was scrolling through the miles of titles at Best Buy and could only find 17 I wanted and the definition of "want" was pretty broad. (I had Independence Day on it when I don't care for the movie, have had the Five-Star Collection DVD for a decade and never watched it. How badly did I really want it?)

Amazon got 100% of my money unless you count the five $5 double-packs I got today at Dollar General. Best Buy could've sold me King of Comedy, but didn't have it on my side of town. Oh well. I just don't get the eagerness to burn Amazon to the ground because they didn't do $10 Criterions or read your mind and deliver what you wanted. It's as if you feel they've somehow forgotten how to sell stuff.

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I ordered Stat Trek: The Next Generation. Basically a buy 1 get 1 free type of deal. I also used the 30% off to get a good deal on a pricey book. Other than that, nada.

I wonder if the $35 threshold for free shipping doesn't have something to do with it. Unless you're a prime member, paying shipping or meeting the $35 quota pretty much negates any bargains you get when you factor in the way Amazon staggers their deals. It would be nice if they had some kind of order hold in effect where you could keep adding items to an order over the week.

Prime also has to be kind of a bad deal for Amazon when you're looking at lots of low margin items being shipped out for free in individual orders.

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I rarely go to Best Buy but went on Saturday afternoon and most of what I wanted was gone. I did find three copies of Edge of Tomorrow that were labeled $24.99 while the bin for it labeled $7.99 was empty. I asked and it was indeed $7.99 so I bought it, though I'd forgotten it was going to be $6 in the Amazon lightning deal. It was about 20 minutes away when I was in BB and I thought about waiting there for it, but I'd already been there too long and wanted to leave.

I got most of the LDs I wanted from Amazon except Malificent. I didn't like the selection as much as previous years and I thought I might not get anything, but then I succumbed. :)

Yeah, in the past they've had a number of big hits, but most of this year's sale titles I had never heard of.

This is the first BF with the $35 threshold so I'm sure it had some effect, though it'd be impossible to measure. Obviously the idea is to drive more people to Prime so I'm sure they'll consider it a success if that number increased.

You mean it would hold the pricing in your cart as you compiled enough items for free shipping? It would be nice, but we all know that will never happen. :lol: I kind of think of it as tucking your selections onto a shelf at Best Buy and coming back to pick them up the next day. :)

It's definitely a big hit. That's why I laughed at the person who was saying in another thread that Prime was "pure profit." :lol: And that's just shipping cost, not the cost of Prime video and other stuff that people may or may not use.

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Amazon had a 30% off coupon this year? Or are you talking about B&N? I know they have one today for clothing/shoes/jewelry/watches, but I didn't hear about one for books. I remember they did that last year but I think it was 20% off...

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It was for books only, max $10. It expired yesterday.

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The simple fact is Amazon was not very competitive AT ALL. They offered no real unique deals, were slow to PM and there was no way to plan your purchases for those items they would PM in LDs (because they wouldn't reveal their calendar). It's hard to believe that any deal hunter would defend them, unless they were a fanboy. The only reason many of you were able to get the deals you did is because OTHER retailers had them first.

I can't help but feel this may hurt their Prime renewals. But I'm sure Amazon is anticipating that and is fine with purging their "devil" customers in favor of a clientele that will not be too concerned with price but with convenience and store loyalty.

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And now we've arrived at the part of the show in which the people who found plenty of good deals are told they're stupid fanboys for not knowing they were actually totally ripped off according to people who didn't get what they wanted. If they're not happy, then no one else could possibly be happy unless they were dumb. Yawn...

There's a lot of this going around lately. Some toolbox on a phone forum was howling about how defective he felt the phone was and how everyone was suffering from problems and if they didn't have complaints it was because they were either dumb fanboys or had no experience with quality phones before. Total presumptuous a-hole.

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And why should Amazon be offering unique deals or going above and beyond what B&M groups are doing? So that you'll bare the weather and the traffic to get to their stores? Because video is a strategic and growing category? Please.

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I just couldnt land any of the lightining deals, was never around at the time of the items hitting the market..

wound up buying $35 of stuff at BB to take advantage of some of the $3.99 deals and get free shipping

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I don't think this is correct.

I used the code last night because I thought it was expiring, but the wording is still on my Amazon account. The fine print actually says: The promotion is valid for a limited time only, from November 26, 2014 at 9pm PST to December 1, 2014 at 11:59pm PST. So it looks like it's still good based on that.

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They extended it. Good through midnight tonight.

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Probably why they raised the annual membership fee $20.

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We are used to having the deals calendar a week in advance. In some cases, we had it a day in advance. Not the worst thing ever. THAT would have been no calendar and no notice.

Becuz WE are media bargain hunters through and through, we want everything to be laid out in front, which gives us a chance to strategize. Only, we represent a small minority of movie shoppers (or hustlers date I say it), so the actual rules won't favor us, without loopholes or oversights that can be exploited or used to our advantage. If I was running a business, I wouldn't cater to us.

So, when Plan A is blown up, rather than complain about Plan A, you develop Plan B. And when that goes awry, Plan C, etc. In this case, some of us either braved the B&M store holiday traffic or we adjusted our plans to capture the LDs that interested us. Hell, I walked outside of a bingo hall outing with my mother-in-law three times ($350 purse for each game, at least, before you laugh) to get three LDs on an iPad through a rigged wifi connection. Others of us spent many parts of their holiday weekends watching deal countdowns on a computer screen, some of which were during very sporadic timeframes.

But, that's the life of any bargain shopper. In the past, we were able to stick and move how we wanted, when we wanted. Now, we have to grind just like the next man running around town, trying to find the deals of choice; only we do it from the comforts of home (or other places) at hours of the day and night that sometimes arent so convenient.

Live with it and deal with it. Otherwise, break out your big coat, sleeping bag and board games as you sleep outside a store in order for the right to be "first."

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Very true.

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Then WHAT IS IT, please..?!

Yes. If the deals are better or easier to acquire at Best Buy, or some place like that, feel free to shop there. Since the nearest Best Buy is 190 miles (RT) from where I live, I'd rather not. YMMV.

Amazon doesn't really "owe" us anything. While I preferred the LD calendar structure of previous years, I was able to accumulate an adequate calendar of BF deals this year (albeit with a lot more time and effort). Or so I thought. Can't please everyone and I am disinclined to try.

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This pretty much sums up BF for me. Well, without the bingo.

We appreciate your efforts, lizard! :up:

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i got the john mellencamp boxset two years ago when it was a LD for about 37, this year they had it for 57. i remember getting U2 deluxe editions the same year. this year was a pretty paltry music selection.

i cackled for years getting the bourne boxset for 19.99 on a LD. this year it is 14.99 and i feel like someone kicked me in the stomach. if only i had waited three years... (never even had a chance to open the damn bourne set either)

i also wish they matched more of the 3.99 offerings, like breakfast at tiffanys and kept titanic at 3.99

aside from Catching Fire i wasn't really excited about any of the lightning deals in movies this time around.

hopefully others got things they liked more, and thanks to Lizard for posting all these deals, as it looked daunting.

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The code is HOLIDAY30

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I'm not looking forward to my next credit card statement but thanks for the updates lizard! :)

Hostage $5.00

The Comancheros $5.96

Gettysburg: Director's Cut $5.99
Gods and Generals: Extended Director's Cut (Blu-ray Book) $5.99
Safe $5.99

I Love You, Beth Cooper $6.90

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) (Three-Disc Special Edition) $6.96
Harry Potter Double Feature: The Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2 $6.96

Hellraiser: Revelations $7.36

Pawn (Blu-ray + DVD) $8.20

Gamera: Ultimate Collection V1 (4 Pack) $8.32

Chicago in Chicago $9.16

Searchers / Wild Bunch / How the West Was Won (Triple-Feature) $9.96
Twister / Poseidon / The Perfect Storm (Triple Feature) $9.96

The Bible / The Robe $9.99

Duck Dynasty Season 1 $10.99

Duck Dynasty Season 2 $11.49
Duck Dynasty Season 3 $11.49
Duck Dynasty Season 4 $11.49

Duck Dynasty: Season 5 $12.49
Duck Dynasty: Season 6 $12.49

Camelot (1967) $13.89

Fringe: Season 4 $15.34

Orange Is the New Black: Season 1 $15.99
Mad Men: Season 6 $15.99

Duck Dynasty: Seasons 1-3 Collectors Set $29.49

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The Saw boxset is down to $16.99.

http://www.amazon.com/Saw-Complete-M...rds=saw+boxset

Reading some reviews though it sounds like a poor quality presentation in comparison to the individual releases. Still the best price on it so far though.

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It's PhantomStranger's MO. He seems to sincerely believe that Blu-rays drive a business like Amazon and will take any perceived problem with them as an example that the site is doomed and a husk of itself. If you see a post by him in this subforum, 95% of the time it will be some kind of complaint about Amazon.