Upgrade and Save coming back! 1/13 - 2/2
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I'm running out of stuff to buy for this. lol Hopefully, I can find 5 or 10 more things before it's done Saturday.
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Didn't realize the sale ended this Saturday... this one seemed to fly by. I've got a couple discs to trade in hopefully the store I'm trying has something.
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While we are complaining about Best Buy, what is up with their kiosks? For the past few months, anytime I look up an item on the kiosk the part at the top of the screen that says if the store has the item or not never works. It just sits there like it is loading but never stops. And this is at all Best Buy stores I go to, not just 1 in particular.
I have no idea why they would have disabled it, but that is how it seems to me. It forces me to have to interact with their employees even more often now, ugh. They can still take the SKU from the page I can get on and put it into their employee section and it still works fine. Oh Best Buy...
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It happens at the one near me as well. & the same store pickup that works from home usually shows unavailable yet they have sometimes 10 copies of an item in store..
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The Best Buy I went to today had a bunch of double and triple features on sale. I took a quick video. This is what I can make out.
$9.99
Date Night/Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Death Race 1 & 2
Dodgeball/There's Something About Mary
Fantastic Four 1 & 2
Friday Night Lights/The Express
Just Wright/Our Family Wedding
Me, Myself & Irene/Shallow Hal
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 & 3
Office Space/Napolean Dynamite
Predator 1 & 2
Smokin' Aces 1 & 2
Spy Game/State of Play
Walk the Line/Crazy Heart (I got this one)
*Eraser/Collateral Damage (on bestbuy.com but no sticker at the store I went to)
*Wyatt Earp/The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( " )
Other
Biutiful/No Country for Old Men $16.99
Brooklyn's Finest/Stone $14.99
Cop Land/First Blood/Lock Up $16.99
Marvel Animated Features: 3-Movie Collection $14.99
Matrix 2 & 3 $8.99 (don't you hate it when they make 'em $8.99 during U&S)
My Cousin Vinny/Back to School/City Slickers $16.99 (I think)
$9.99
Date Night/Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Death Race 1 & 2
Dodgeball/There's Something About Mary
Fantastic Four 1 & 2
Friday Night Lights/The Express
Just Wright/Our Family Wedding
Me, Myself & Irene/Shallow Hal
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 & 3
Office Space/Napolean Dynamite
Predator 1 & 2
Smokin' Aces 1 & 2
Spy Game/State of Play
Walk the Line/Crazy Heart (I got this one)
*Eraser/Collateral Damage (on bestbuy.com but no sticker at the store I went to)
*Wyatt Earp/The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ( " )
Other
Biutiful/No Country for Old Men $16.99
Brooklyn's Finest/Stone $14.99
Cop Land/First Blood/Lock Up $16.99
Marvel Animated Features: 3-Movie Collection $14.99
Matrix 2 & 3 $8.99 (don't you hate it when they make 'em $8.99 during U&S)
My Cousin Vinny/Back to School/City Slickers $16.99 (I think)
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Re: Upgrade and Save coming back! 1/13 - 2/2
Went by the Best Buy that rejected me on the infamous Master Card coupon and they tired to give me the not on sale price dance.
Took a bit of convincing but I was able to get them to do it, the asshat manager from the last time was hovering in the vicinity since he saw me come in and I was just waiting for him to step in and deny the whole thing.
Is this what it feels like to be Manzana?
Anyway caved on
Re-Animator for $5
&
Dredd for $15
Took a bit of convincing but I was able to get them to do it, the asshat manager from the last time was hovering in the vicinity since he saw me come in and I was just waiting for him to step in and deny the whole thing.
Is this what it feels like to be Manzana?
Anyway caved on
Re-Animator for $5
&
Dredd for $15
Last edited by SterlingBen; 01-28-13 at 11:59 PM.
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I actually know 1 employee at my trouble-maker store who is nice and witnessed some of the ridiculous denials by the manager, and he was sympathetic towards me, so whenever he is there lately he has helped me out to do a few things that I know nobody else there would do. The problem is I don't know his schedule.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I still use the kiosk to find prices and things on sale and all of that, but I used to use it to find in store stock as well. It used to work every time, but for the past six months or so it is almost as if they have disabled that feature entirely. Just like you said, the message at the top of the page just sits there and acts like it's loading but it never changes.
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I've never ever used the kiosk. I just use the Best Buy app on my Android. You can check any price on that by scanning the item.
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So there might be a pretty smoking deal on The Dark Knight Returns Pts. 1 and 2, but I would guess this is a YMMV situation.
Pt. 1 is $21.99 - $5 (UGS) = $16.99
Pt. 2 is $14.99 - $5 (UGS) = $9.99
Thing is, there's also a $5 manufacturer coupon on the slipcover Pt. 2 that works if you buy both copies at the same time. So, that's potentially $16.99+$9.99-$5 = $21.98.
YMMV because people have said there are issues using manufacturer coupons and other coupons at the same time. BB is supposed to honor a manufacturer coupon and the store coupon, since they are different, but many have reported they won't.
Pt. 1 is $21.99 - $5 (UGS) = $16.99
Pt. 2 is $14.99 - $5 (UGS) = $9.99
Thing is, there's also a $5 manufacturer coupon on the slipcover Pt. 2 that works if you buy both copies at the same time. So, that's potentially $16.99+$9.99-$5 = $21.98.
YMMV because people have said there are issues using manufacturer coupons and other coupons at the same time. BB is supposed to honor a manufacturer coupon and the store coupon, since they are different, but many have reported they won't.
Last edited by Deftones; 01-29-13 at 12:08 PM.
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So there might be a pretty smoking deal on The Dark Knight Returns Pts. 1 and 2, but I would guess this is a YMMV situation.
Pt. 1 is $21.99 - $5 (UGS) = $16.99
Pt. 2 is $14.99 - $5 (UGS) = $9.99
Thing is, there's also a $5 manufacturer coupon on Pt. 2 that works if you buy both copies at the same time. So, that's potentially $16.99+$9.99-$5 = $21.98.
YMMV because people have said there are issues using manufacturer coupons and other coupons at the same time. BB is supposed to honor a manufacturer coupon and the store coupon, since they are different, but many have reported they won't.
Pt. 1 is $21.99 - $5 (UGS) = $16.99
Pt. 2 is $14.99 - $5 (UGS) = $9.99
Thing is, there's also a $5 manufacturer coupon on Pt. 2 that works if you buy both copies at the same time. So, that's potentially $16.99+$9.99-$5 = $21.98.
YMMV because people have said there are issues using manufacturer coupons and other coupons at the same time. BB is supposed to honor a manufacturer coupon and the store coupon, since they are different, but many have reported they won't.
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Everything $4.99 except DKR pt 2
Trip 1
Beverly Hills Cop
Re-Animator
16 Blocks/Last Man Standing/Last Boy Scout
John Q/The Pelican Brief/Training Day
Glory
Trip 2
Restrepo
I Saw the Devil
Perfect Storm/Posiedon/Twister
Superman 1, 2, Returns
Trip 3
Get the Gringo
Got the Mastercard coupon rejected
Trip 4
Dark Knight Returns Part 2 with Joker $15
Mean Girls
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Trip 1
Beverly Hills Cop
Re-Animator
16 Blocks/Last Man Standing/Last Boy Scout
John Q/The Pelican Brief/Training Day
Glory
Trip 2
Restrepo
I Saw the Devil
Perfect Storm/Posiedon/Twister
Superman 1, 2, Returns
Trip 3
Get the Gringo
Got the Mastercard coupon rejected
Trip 4
Dark Knight Returns Part 2 with Joker $15
Mean Girls
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Last edited by cleaver; 01-30-13 at 11:07 AM.
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Besides the one poster above, did anyone else see Office Space/Napeloeon Dynamite; Something About Mary/Dodgeball?
It says not available for in store pickup online so I ordered them hoping to do a return and re buy, but in case they're not delivered in time I want to make sure I get the deal.
It says not available for in store pickup online so I ordered them hoping to do a return and re buy, but in case they're not delivered in time I want to make sure I get the deal.
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Pretty pleased with this deal. Over the course of the past 2 1/2 weeks picked up:
Eternal Sunshine
Friends with Benefits
The Breakfast Club
The Big Lebowski
Field of Dreams
Dick Tracy
Taken 2
Ted
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
Scrooged
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Dark Knight, Pt. 2
Moonrise Kingdom
Eternal Sunshine
Friends with Benefits
The Breakfast Club
The Big Lebowski
Field of Dreams
Dick Tracy
Taken 2
Ted
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
Scrooged
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Dark Knight, Pt. 2
Moonrise Kingdom
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I just got back from my, almost daily, visit to Best Buy. This time, it was the best and worst of what they have to offer. I went in with two $5 coupons but decided to go to the cell phone center and get one more. The guy was just awesome, and it only took a few seconds. He knew exactly what I was doing. After that I went to look through the movies. I decided earlier in the day to try to find the Spy Kids 3D/SB&LG3D combo pack to get it for $10 if for no other reason than for the 3D effects, which I hear are pretty great. I checked BestBuy.com before I went and it said "NOT AVAILABLE", but I still tried to find it.
Anyway, while I was looking for it the guy that did the cell phone upgrade thing for me walked around the corner, and said here ya go man, and handed me two more coupons just for the heck of it. Pretty cool! While he was there I asked him to look in the system for me for that 3D combo, and he looked it up and it said they had one in stock. We looked around for it together, and sure enough we found the one single copy on the shelf. I said many thanks, and I was ready to leave.
On my way out I thought about the Batman deal, and thought I'd give that a shot so I picked up Part 1 and 2 and went to checkout.
I don't really need to go into too many details, but here is where the worst of Best Buy comes into play. The guy couldn't wrap his head around me wanting to use the $5 off coupons on each BD, the fact that I wanted to use a few Reward Zone certificates, a gift card, and then of course the $5 off Batman coupon. He did something, it locked the system, so I had to wait forever for someone to come cancel that invoice and then we started over. Everything was going just fine the second time, but then the second guy started to say I could only use one $5 upgrade coupon per transaction, which is blatantly false. Then he started to say that "copies" weren't allowed, and I had to explain how those coupons were given to me directly from customer service and I had to point out exactly who it was, and he said well ok and finally let me check out.
So in the end, I got the 3D combo pack, Batman Part 1, and Batman Part 2 for $3.88 out of my pocket. After coupons and everything it was $32.88, but I used $20 in certificates and then around $9 or so remaining on a gift card.
Anyway, while I was looking for it the guy that did the cell phone upgrade thing for me walked around the corner, and said here ya go man, and handed me two more coupons just for the heck of it. Pretty cool! While he was there I asked him to look in the system for me for that 3D combo, and he looked it up and it said they had one in stock. We looked around for it together, and sure enough we found the one single copy on the shelf. I said many thanks, and I was ready to leave.
On my way out I thought about the Batman deal, and thought I'd give that a shot so I picked up Part 1 and 2 and went to checkout.
I don't really need to go into too many details, but here is where the worst of Best Buy comes into play. The guy couldn't wrap his head around me wanting to use the $5 off coupons on each BD, the fact that I wanted to use a few Reward Zone certificates, a gift card, and then of course the $5 off Batman coupon. He did something, it locked the system, so I had to wait forever for someone to come cancel that invoice and then we started over. Everything was going just fine the second time, but then the second guy started to say I could only use one $5 upgrade coupon per transaction, which is blatantly false. Then he started to say that "copies" weren't allowed, and I had to explain how those coupons were given to me directly from customer service and I had to point out exactly who it was, and he said well ok and finally let me check out.
So in the end, I got the 3D combo pack, Batman Part 1, and Batman Part 2 for $3.88 out of my pocket. After coupons and everything it was $32.88, but I used $20 in certificates and then around $9 or so remaining on a gift card.
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Re: Upgrade and Save coming back! 1/13 - 2/2
I just got back from my, almost daily, visit to Best Buy. This time, it was the best and worst of what they have to offer. I went in with two $5 coupons but decided to go to the cell phone center and get one more. The guy was just awesome, and it only took a few seconds. He knew exactly what I was doing. After that I went to look through the movies. I decided earlier in the day to try to find the Spy Kids 3D/SB&LG3D combo pack to get it for $10 if for no other reason than for the 3D effects, which I hear are pretty great. I checked BestBuy.com before I went and it said "NOT AVAILABLE", but I still tried to find it.
Anyway, while I was looking for it the guy that did the cell phone upgrade thing for me walked around the corner, and said here ya go man, and handed me two more coupons just for the heck of it. Pretty cool! While he was there I asked him to look in the system for me for that 3D combo, and he looked it up and it said they had one in stock. We looked around for it together, and sure enough we found the one single copy on the shelf. I said many thanks, and I was ready to leave.
On my way out I thought about the Batman deal, and thought I'd give that a shot so I picked up Part 1 and 2 and went to checkout.
I don't really need to go into too many details, but here is where the worst of Best Buy comes into play. The guy couldn't wrap his head around me wanting to use the $5 off coupons on each BD, the fact that I wanted to use a few Reward Zone certificates, a gift card, and then of course the $5 off Batman coupon. He did something, it locked the system, so I had to wait forever for someone to come cancel that invoice and then we started over. Everything was going just fine the second time, but then the second guy started to say I could only use one $5 upgrade coupon per transaction, which is blatantly false. Then he started to say that "copies" weren't allowed, and I had to explain how those coupons were given to me directly from customer service and I had to point out exactly who it was, and he said well ok and finally let me check out.
So in the end, I got the 3D combo pack, Batman Part 1, and Batman Part 2 for $3.88 out of my pocket. After coupons and everything it was $32.88, but I used $20 in certificates and then around $9 or so remaining on a gift card.
Anyway, while I was looking for it the guy that did the cell phone upgrade thing for me walked around the corner, and said here ya go man, and handed me two more coupons just for the heck of it. Pretty cool! While he was there I asked him to look in the system for me for that 3D combo, and he looked it up and it said they had one in stock. We looked around for it together, and sure enough we found the one single copy on the shelf. I said many thanks, and I was ready to leave.
On my way out I thought about the Batman deal, and thought I'd give that a shot so I picked up Part 1 and 2 and went to checkout.
I don't really need to go into too many details, but here is where the worst of Best Buy comes into play. The guy couldn't wrap his head around me wanting to use the $5 off coupons on each BD, the fact that I wanted to use a few Reward Zone certificates, a gift card, and then of course the $5 off Batman coupon. He did something, it locked the system, so I had to wait forever for someone to come cancel that invoice and then we started over. Everything was going just fine the second time, but then the second guy started to say I could only use one $5 upgrade coupon per transaction, which is blatantly false. Then he started to say that "copies" weren't allowed, and I had to explain how those coupons were given to me directly from customer service and I had to point out exactly who it was, and he said well ok and finally let me check out.
So in the end, I got the 3D combo pack, Batman Part 1, and Batman Part 2 for $3.88 out of my pocket. After coupons and everything it was $32.88, but I used $20 in certificates and then around $9 or so remaining on a gift card.
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Couldn't find much on my "wish list" a had made out before going in today.
No signs of The Thing '82 despite showing as available in store. Could not find the Eastwood 2 pack of Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can despite others saying their stores were restocking.
I did end up getting the Smokin Aces 2-pack for 4.99 and Hotel Transylvania 3D for 14.99 after U&S, $5 RZ cert via fb polls and $5 Applebees cpn.
No signs of The Thing '82 despite showing as available in store. Could not find the Eastwood 2 pack of Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can despite others saying their stores were restocking.
I did end up getting the Smokin Aces 2-pack for 4.99 and Hotel Transylvania 3D for 14.99 after U&S, $5 RZ cert via fb polls and $5 Applebees cpn.
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Couldn't find much on my "wish list" a had made out before going in today.
No signs of The Thing '82 despite showing as available in store. Could not find the Eastwood 2 pack of Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can despite others saying their stores were restocking.
I did end up getting the Smokin Aces 2-pack for 4.99 and Hotel Transylvania 3D for 14.99 after U&S, $5 RZ cert via fb polls and $5 Applebees cpn.
No signs of The Thing '82 despite showing as available in store. Could not find the Eastwood 2 pack of Every Which Way But Loose/Any Which Way You Can despite others saying their stores were restocking.
I did end up getting the Smokin Aces 2-pack for 4.99 and Hotel Transylvania 3D for 14.99 after U&S, $5 RZ cert via fb polls and $5 Applebees cpn.