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$14.99 if you can still find one at a Costco near you

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I'm gonna pass as well.

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Pass. < 50% discount is not what I'm hoping for on BF week deals.

Why am I delayed in seeing these? It's only a couple of minutes, but that shuts you out for really popular things.

I'm with you guys about being underwhelmed this year. I spent more than $750 at Amazon in 2011 and 2012 this time of year. Which isn't as insane as it appears ... movies and tv shows from Amazon are my "go-to" Christmas gifts for a few people. But I always ending up spending more for myself than for the gifts :) I'll still spend at least a couple hundred dollars for gifts, but I see very little for myself this year.

We haven't seen Black Friday itself though. And where Amazon really hit my wallet was when they price-matching everyone else's deals (less of a deal from Amazon with tax, but still saves me time and trouble not going to a store). Despite the name, Cyber Monday rarely has anything good for me so I'm not expecting much.

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Bit on Take Me Home Tonight for $8.99...not a great BF deal but I've waited for this for a while and it's never been sub $10 on Amazon. Oh well.

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Been kinda bummed out on the deals here. Times are getting tough for us, man.

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Updated the OP with 11/29 Lightning Deals

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I ended up pulling the trigger on SL. Didn't feel like it would be a movie that was ever really going to be discounted, at least at the level that I would want to pay. So, just bit the bullet and bought it.

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You have 15 minutes to redeem an LD, so you need to have other items saved in your cart if you want them.

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Any guess on the price for Arrow Season 1 Blu-ray on Thanksgiving at 12:20pm PT?

It is one sale for $16.99 this week at Amazon and Best Buy but wonder how much lower could it go?

http://kelly-hu.org/wp-content/uploa.../arrow_blu.png

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got that on my list. wondering that too. $9.99?

Is it worth multiple viewing to be worth it, is the question. lol

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There are a few items like that. For example, 2012 Les Mis Blu is currently $9.99 (66% off MSRP). It's on the wish list for my parents so I'm definitely getting it. But how much could I really save (for the price of having to stay up until 3:20 am tomorrow morning)?

Sometimes they play games where the regular "sale" price is removed, only for the lightning deal to restore it. Deep Discount does that a lot.

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Agree on all points. It's as if they have settled into their monopoly and are now just going through the motions of having "sales ."

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I'm going to guess $12.99 on the Arrow lightning deal.

Agree the deals suck so far...I spent over $300 last year...less than $30 so far this year.

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It wouldn't surprise me if it is $16.49, only 50 cents less.

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Django Unchained is only gonna be .03 cheaper >_> At least Pacific Rim is gonna be $6.

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How much cheaper are we thinking the 6th season of Big Bang Theory will be tomorrow night in the lightning deal?

I may just order it from BB and then just return it if Amazon turns out to be a few dollars cheaper than the current 16.99 but...

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DVD is gonna be 7.99 and blu-ray will be 9.96.

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Yes. In short, Amazon is getting very, very greedy and resting on their laurels. Piss-poor BF sales, combined with the free-shipping increase to $35, combined with charging tax in nearly every state, combined with $3.99 shipping charged on DVDs... No thanks. I hope many other customers are saying "No Thanks!" also.

It's not about being 'entitled' but about being screwed-over by Amazon's greed on appeasing their stockholders.

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So Pacific Rim will be $6 and it will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Arrow Season 1 at $9.96 is a great deal.

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Wait, are you guys all guessing the prices or do you actually know?

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Go to the calendar (link in the OP)
Hover your mouse over the DVD/BDs for Thursday
Price will pop up
Do touchdown dance


[edit]The Friday ones now show the price too.

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If they are, someone else will jump in.

Not an issue with Prime.

How is that their greed? They famously fought against it when they should have charged it all along. It's unfair to local retailers.

So it's hard to believe that someone doesn't have a sense of entitlement when they claim to be "screwed over" by Amazon over such items.

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I pretty much got everything I wanted. Best Buy's shipping has been very quick and accurate. Like others, most of my purchasing has been through Amazon, but over the last few years, not so much. I spent around $100 at Best Buy and $20 at WBShop.

As to these single titles being released for cheap, I'm passing up on those (unless Pacific Rim Blu-ray will be $4.99). There are many more sales on individual titles in a year than TV shows.

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Sales tax is collected on behalf of the state by businesses. It's not like Amazon.com pockets that money for themselves.

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I was interested in Sabrina: The Complete Series til I saw the price.

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Thanks!

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Tell Black Canary hello for me.

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Was hoping to see a deal on the Hobbit EE and Pacific Rim 3D releases, been holding out on them!

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Does anyone know what the price on the 11/29 Monsters University lightning deal is going to be? Debating going to Target on my way home tomorrow, but I'd rather not.

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$9.96

It was pointed out above that if you hover your pointer over the item, the price will show.

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Django Unchained Blu-ray is going to be $9.96 for the Lightning Deal...but it's $9.99 right now. Why wait? :)

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Will do ;)

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hoping to snag Revolution S1 for 9.96 and since i already have Arrow that may be it.

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We should hit the road again.:lol:

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Glad to see the DCU so well represented here in the midst of all these Marvel movie titles.

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Does anyone who has actually seen Arrow or Revolution have an opinion on them? The deals look great but I never really heard anything about those two shows.

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I am sooooooooooooooo bored of people who believe the only thing that affects prices is "greed." It's as if they know nothing about economics and/or were miseducated to hate capitalism.

Greed - you keep saying that word but I do not think it means what you think it means. Also, if they were truly getting lazy, someone could come along and challenge them like how Facebook wiped out MySpace.

But they sell out quickly despite "no one" liking the offers.

The first increase in over 10 years. Inflation isn't just for love dolls.

Here's a map of where they currently collect tax, where they will in the future and where they aren't:
http://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/image...-tax_large.JPG
I count 17 states currently collecting tax, meaning the other 40 states aren't. (Heh.) Besides, they aren't "charging," they're collecting for the states. Want lower taxes? Cut the size of government.

That's if you buy only one. Buy five and it's $8 for everything. It costs money to pack and ship stuff. Amazon should do it for free?

If they're losing customers, they will change or die.

How is it "greed" to make a return for your investors? If you owned stock in Amazon, wouldn't you want them to turn a profit or would you be happy losing your investment because they adopted a "No profits because it makes economically illiterate people sad" policy? Besides, Amazon ISN'T profitable. All those warehouses and stuff costs $$$$ and they aren't returning much to investors despite huge sales numbers.

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well said, DirkBelig...sadly, the whiners won't still get it.

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I can't speak about other states, but the chart is not up to date for Wisconsin. The chart says "no plans to collect" but they started collecting tax here almost a month ago.

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I know this is not a music thread but will there be a discount for Pearl Jams latest album Lightning Bolt or a thread on CD bargains?