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Old 04-22-13 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by vietduckboi
If you don't care about the packaging, I feel like some thrifty shipping could get you most of those titles for $5 each. I think I saw 6 or 7 of the titles from that set at BB for $9.99 each this week.
Yeah, you can buy all of the movies individually for cheap, but the Tarantino XX set also includes two discs worth of bonus content that's only available in the set.
Old 04-22-13 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by kenbenobi
I traded in 5 titles, then bought:
I got Willow, with slipcover (7.99), Silent Hill 2 3D (14.99), Coyote Ugly (4.99), and The Sitter (4.99)
I purposely only bought 4, hoping that I’d get my receipt back, unmarked, with the last coupon. Sure did!!! So now I can get 5 more! I turned my 5 into 9!
Took my voucher to another store, bought 4 more, and once again got my receipt back to use for another 5! So that's 13 titles I'll get for my 5 trade-ins. I probably won't need any more than that...
Got The Sandlot, Hotel Transylvania 3D, Rise of the Zombies, and The Collector.
Old 04-22-13 | 10:34 PM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
Yeah, you can buy all of the movies individually for cheap, but the Tarantino XX set also includes two discs worth of bonus content that's only available in the set.
Exactly that's why I prefer getting that set.

Even when the set was 1st released late last year the release week price was $69.99, which was still on the high side.
Old 04-22-13 | 11:04 PM
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Can't find a Willow slipcover to save my life.
Old 04-22-13 | 11:07 PM
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I can't come up with 5 titles. It's really too bad we can't get credited to our online Best Buy RZ accounts, and then just apply the U&S credits to qualifying titles online. I would be so thankful.
Old 04-22-13 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
Yeah, you can buy all of the movies individually for cheap, but the Tarantino XX set also includes two discs worth of bonus content that's only available in the set.
Whoops that's right, I forgot that the set had exclusive content.
Old 04-23-13 | 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
Yeah, you can buy all of the movies individually for cheap, but the Tarantino XX set also includes two discs worth of bonus content that's only available in the set.
That's why I hate this set and the Marvel Phase One suitcase: It punishes the fans who have dutifully purchased each release as they came out (or waited for a sale), rewarding those who came late to the party and thus get to pick up all the movies AND the extra stuff real fans would want to see, leaving the fans with the choice of double-dipping everything to get the last bits or doing without. Pffft.
Old 04-23-13 | 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by DVD Polizei
I can't come up with 5 titles. It's really too bad we can't get credited to our online Best Buy RZ accounts, and then just apply the U&S credits to qualifying titles online. I would be so thankful.
Order what you want online, return and rebuy with the coupon. Did it and just waiting for my order to do it again.
Old 04-23-13 | 06:01 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Haul #1:

Seeking Justice - $4.99
The Day - $4.99
Maximum Conviction - $4.99
The Package - $6.99
Deep Blue/Long Kiss/Snakes triple - $6.99

Haul #2:

Gone - $4.99
Abduction - $4.99
Hulk - $4.99
Shark Night - $4.99
Limitless - $4.99

Everything has gone pretty smoothly so far.
Old 04-23-13 | 07:11 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Obi-Wan Jabroni
Trading in your DVD's before you look at the blus is a waste of time. Walk in with your DVD's (if you get hassled at all by the guy at the front door, he can put a sticker on them that shows they're yours), pick out your blu's, walk to customer service, and do the exchange and purchase in one transaction. That way you don't have to wait in line twice, and you don't trade in anything that you you can't find a blu to replace it with.
Completely agree. Heck, I don't even walk in with my dvds, I leave them in the car. Then I take the time to look and then either hide the blus (quick temp place) or give them to my wife while I go fetch the dvds. But yeah, I always do it in one transaction (unless CS is completely clueless), they don't have to give me slips of paper, and I don't have to go to multiple checkout desks.

Oh and props to DJariya for Police Story/Police Story 2, I wanted that one too as well, but couldn't find a copy. Hopefully that changes.
Old 04-23-13 | 07:23 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Kedrix
It was on my receipt as $15 after U&S, the sticker said $20 on the case as well. Now, if they went and changed it in the night, I'm not sure but at least I was lucky yesterday.
A similar thing happened to me the last time around. I found a copy of Criterion's Brazil Blu-ray marked at $27.99, even though the website listed it at $32.99 and that's how the computer scanned it. But I was still able to get it for the lower price as well as use the additional $5 U&S coupon.
Old 04-23-13 | 08:09 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Pizza
Picked up:
Django BB exclusive $20
Hotel Transylvania 3D $15
Green Lantern 3D $10
Space Jam $5
Skyline $5

I don't know how they're handling it other BBs, but they only gave me one coupon and wrote "5 for" on it. What do you do if you don't do all five at once or want to go to another store? Or, do you just don't?
They'll cross out five for and Write in the lower number.
Old 04-23-13 | 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by kenbenobi
I purposely only bought 4, hoping that I’d get my receipt back, unmarked, with the last coupon. Sure did!!! So now I can get 5 more! I turned my 5 into 9!
I don't get it. Don't you need one of those coupons per disc? Every time I've trade in DVDs, I've gotten one $5 coupon off per 1 dvd traded in. Nowhere on the coupon do I recall seeing it noted that you can use 1 coupon on up to 5 discs. I traded in two dvds and only used only 1 of the 2 coupons and I still have the receipt. Does this mean I can still use my 1 remaining coupon to buy 2 discounted discs.

And oh yeah, I also got Willow
Old 04-23-13 | 09:07 AM
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No Sandlot BDs in my area... except for one 15 miles in the opposite direction I normally go. The gas and time would be more than it's worth. If I have time next time I go I might attempt to see if they will Express Lane Sandlot with U&S and take the $2.50 mfg Q. Always YMMV.

I was going to get Hunt for Red October which used to be $8.99 and then $9.99 but I guess they raised the price to $12.99 so I passed. I also saw a large stack of Willow BDs and no slipcovers. While I'm not a slipcover or steelbook fanatic like many others are, when something is newly released and they are supposed to come with slipcovers it does bother me that somebody removed virtually all of them at BB (in the warehouse I assume) for some reason.

I love how several things I found plenty of copies in the store (including Wild Pacific for $9.99 after U&S) show up as "not available in stores" online. Do they purposefully disable their store inventory checkers on a bunch of items? I used to pre-check stores for what I wanted to see if it was in stock, but now almost half of the items I check show not available in stores when in fact they are.

Also unfortunate is that 1 of the 2 nice people at my mean store said she is leaving. Apart from her and 1 other person, everyone else will strictly enforce and deny everything possible, i.e. only 5 U&S per day and if you want to return an U&S item you just lose your $5 discount whereas these 2 will let you apply it to another item as long as U&S is still active. Most BB employees in my area will deny simple stuff like that just because they can.

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Old 04-23-13 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by E_v_i_l
Abduction - $4.99

Shark Night - $4.99
Shark Night? What an awful movie. I wouldn't recommend that to anybody...

Was debating Abduction myself. It would be a blind buy for me...
Old 04-23-13 | 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
They'll cross out five for and Write in the lower number.
Or, if you're lucky like me, they won't cross anything out, and you'll still get to use it for 5 in the future...
Old 04-23-13 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by JTKenobi
I don't get it. Don't you need one of those coupons per disc? Every time I've trade in DVDs, I've gotten one $5 coupon off per 1 dvd traded in. Nowhere on the coupon do I recall seeing it noted that you can use 1 coupon on up to 5 discs. I traded in two dvds and only used only 1 of the 2 coupons and I still have the receipt. Does this mean I can still use my 1 remaining coupon to buy 2 discounted discs.

And oh yeah, I also got Willow
Every store does it different. And even then, employees may do it differently. Sometimes I get 5 coupons. Sometimes I get one coupon with a 5 written on it. When I traded mine in, she asked me if I was going to be redeeming all 5 titles that day. I told her "probably not" so she gave me 5 coupons. I know if I told her yes, she would have given me one coupon with a 5 written on it. They always run out of coupons, which is why they are trying to conserve. And then when I checkout, I am basically banking on their ineptitude to follow proper procedures.

In your case, if nothing was crossed off on your receipt, and I know you are from Milwaukee, write a 2 in the upper right corner of the remaining coupon, and circle it. Now you'll be able to get 2 discounted titles with that coupon/receipt, even though you used one already.
Old 04-23-13 | 11:39 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Manzana
No Sandlot BDs in my area...
FYI, it is in the kids titles area. My store only had 1 copy, but a buttload of the Sandlot DVD's, so it is definitely the proper section for it.
Old 04-23-13 | 11:40 AM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Manzana
Also unfortunate is that 1 of the 2 nice people at my mean store said she is leaving. Apart from her and 1 other person, everyone else will strictly enforce and deny everything possible, i.e. only 5 U&S per day and if you want to return an U&S item you just lose your $5 discount whereas these 2 will let you apply it to another item as long as U&S is still active. Most BB employees in my area will deny simple stuff like that just because they can.
It is not a manufacturer's coupon so they are not supposed to refund your $5 if you return it and are not supposed to apply it to another movie. Also it very clearly states limit of 5 per day. So basically, you don't like the fact that the CSRs at that store follow the rules set forth by Best Buy corporate regarding this promotion.

Makes sense.
Old 04-23-13 | 12:19 PM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by goblin23
Was it something rejected by the computer/register or a case of a clueless cashier offering their interpretation of "not valid with any other offer"?

The terms and conditions link off of bestbuy.com/upgradeandsave (which is where is says to go for details in the print ad) does not appear to have been updated. It still has "offer valid through 2/2/13."

I'd try again at a different store or with another cashier if you have time to go back.
I just went to that website and it has 'offer valid through 5/11/13"
Old 04-23-13 | 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by SoonerDoc
It is not a manufacturer's coupon so they are not supposed to refund your $5 if you return it and are not supposed to apply it to another movie. Also it very clearly states limit of 5 per day. So basically, you don't like the fact that the CSRs at that store follow the rules set forth by Best Buy corporate regarding this promotion.

Makes sense.
Although I agree with you that the store is not entitled to apply it to another movie, I am 2 for 2 in the store letting me do so. So it is possible, but definitely YMMV.
Old 04-23-13 | 12:48 PM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by Steve
I just went to that website and it has 'offer valid through 5/11/13"
Well then clearly they finally updated it.

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Old 04-23-13 | 04:25 PM
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Re: Best Buy Upgrade & Save 4/21/13 - 5/11/13

Originally Posted by SoonerDoc
It is not a manufacturer's coupon so they are not supposed to refund your $5 if you return it and are not supposed to apply it to another movie. Also it very clearly states limit of 5 per day. So basically, you don't like the fact that the CSRs at that store follow the rules set forth by Best Buy corporate regarding this promotion.

Makes sense.
Yeah, but it's also not just a store coupon either, you gave them something for that coupon. If they won't give you back $5, or give you another coupon, or give you back your DVD, that's kinda shitty.
Old 04-23-13 | 06:09 PM
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1st haul:
Arthur 1/2 - 4.99
Firefox / Heartbreak Ridge - 4.99
MI4 w/ movie cash - 4.99 (rings up as 12.99 - took me a good 10-15 minutes to get this straightened out. Not my normal BBY and they almost always are a problem).

I cleaned out a DT that I never frequent of .25 and .01 DVDs on my way to the store. The BBY above told me that they are not supposed to take DT DVDs anymore - even though a CSR did as the manager was telling me . I hope this is not a new policy

This BBY usually has a good stock, but it does look like they cleaned the shelves, esp. in the Family section. I have an online order for a return/rebuy coming, but I don't see myself buying too much more.
Old 04-23-13 | 06:39 PM
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Picked up Jurassic Park 3D $25, Ghost $5 and Inglorius Bastards $5.


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