asianxcore

The main thing I wanted from the Vinegar Syndrome sale sold out while I was going through Checkout

WillieMLF

Ha, the slip version of Star Time sold out and I had a devil of a time moving forward, even after removing the sold out slip version from my cart. Had to logoff and use another browser....

Brian T

In for:

Welcome Home Brother Charles / Emma Mae $16.49
Fugitive Girls $16.49
Demon Wind (Lenticular) $22.99
Sugar Cookies $12.49
Pets (Slipcover) $22.99
Orgy of the Dead (Slipcover) $17.99

Wish more of them were truly 50% off, but I'll survive.

asianxcore

Same with the LE of Blue Vengeance.

Funny thing is the LEs were the same price as they were before sale but I fully understand this sale brings in a ton of traffic to the site.

Chad

Nothing groundbreaking, but some decent deals.

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MooMooMooMoo

Eureka/MOC is currently running a 30 title sale. I'm considering the Early Murnau 5 Blu-ray box at 25 pounds. While I can play region B, I would prefer region free. Does anyone have any region info on this, or the regular price?

https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/ea...ilms-1921-1925

Here's the entire sale, ends Monday 10 AM UK time

https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/news/e...june-2018-sale

dex14

Nice. I'll pick up Junebug.

Tabletopjoe

Great deal, on Second Sight's limited edition of The Changeling. Price showed up as 17.99. When I checked out it had changed to 14.99. With shipping to the U.S. it's 18.07.

MooMooMooMoo

I'm still deciding on the Early Murnau blu box from MOC. I discovered my current dvd's almost all have bonus features not on the blu's, so I likely wouldn't be selling them.

laidbacklarkin

Junebug, The Rocket and Van Gogh for me. Can't beat worldwide FS. Thanks

MooMooMooMoo

I bit on the Murnau. It is region b, but 5 films of this quality on blu for $33 delivered from the UK.........

laidbacklarkin

Am not sure if this was posted in other threads and/or in earlier posts and/or if it was discussed elsewhere. For those that are used to ordering from Amazon UK for Non-Region A stuff, there's a storefront that belongs to Amazon.com (US Site) from which you can order specific Amazon.co.uk (non region A and/or Region Free) titles listed in that storefront - the seller/store front is called 'Amazon Global Store UK'. Here's Bluray media offered from this store at the time of this writing:


Pros:
1. You don't have to order from the Amazon.co.uk site and be subject to conversion rate fluctuations and/or exchange rate fees (if applicable on your payment method) - price posted is in USD and includes a nominal shipping charge posted upfront
2. Shipping is combined although not to the same degree of bulk shipping discount as it would, if ordering from Amazon.co.uk. Current shipping rates are $4.11 per title regardless of whether a single disc or multi-title box set (I put in three box sets into cart and shipping was $9.xx. Am also not sure if shipping is based on ship to ZIP)
3. You can use your Amazon.com card reward points and/or Amazon.com GCs - find this to be the biggest advantage, should you be able to find products with agreeable pricing and shipping.

Cons:
1. You are subject to the same sale tax policy as applied to Amazon.com purchases
2. There is no pricing reduction due to removal of VAT, as it would be if shopping on Amazon's Euro sites
3. Due to pricing updates, Amazon.co.uk pricing could be cheaper than thru the Amazon Global Store UK, specially with removal of VAT
4. Not all titles are available through this store but you could keep checking periodically

Hope it helps some and perhaps we can build some expertise around shopping strategies by sharing our experiences.

PhantomStranger

I've noticed that option appearing more and more with popular Blu-ray imports. I haven't gamed it out to see how much extra Amazon is charging for this privilege over ordering direct from the UK.

MooMooMooMoo

I finally broke down & started a Prime trial this month. Delivery was great. Without Prime, there were times I received orders from Amazon.UK faster than from Amazon.US! It depended totally on where in Europe Amazon.UK shipped a given order from. The UK has been very fast for me; Germany (which Amazon.uk also uses) has been very slow.

I qualify for the poverty Prime discount; but I won't decide until the last minute whether to cancel at the end of the trial. It rubs me the wrong way to pay over $70 a year just to get acceptable service; as I don't order a ton from Amazon. I also really can't afford it even with the discount; & I don't stream video at all. I either use physical discs or download files.

PhantomStranger

Prime service makes sense around the holiday season, when Amazon runs far better media pricing and delivery times get even quicker. The rest of the year it's hard to justify if you aren't using the video streaming.

MooMooMooMoo

I bit on the trial because:

1. A misprice on a cd box set down to $7.30 (it went back up to $31 right after I ordered it)

2. Prime Day; I'll see if it's worthwhile. My suspicion is I'll probably drop it.

Brian T

Just took a spin through those listings. There's some serious bargains to be had if you dig around, and their existence seems to have encouraged other U.K./overseas based Marketplace sellers to beat them on pricing, which is another bonus.


EDIT: One thing to note on their listings: "All import customs duties and taxes included at the time of purchase." This was probably mentioned more or less in larkin's post above, but the "true" shipping cost only appears once you go to the checkout page, and it's always higher than the cost they place on each listing. i.e. I had two items from them in my cart, but the $4.09 shipping for each jumped to $6.40, which effectively made both discs higher priced than their nearest competitor Rarewaves-Imports (which ships from the UK), so I went with Rarewaves.

laidbacklarkin

There's a phenomenal '4 Blu-rays for EUR 22' promotion going on on Amazon's German site until 7/8 - 90% of the titles are from Koch Media and Explosive Media (which have many Region Free releases despite labeling as Region B)


In the mix are Italian Spaghetti Westerns, Classic Films, Euro only releases, Steelbooks, Asian titles etc - around 389 titles at the time of this writing. Shipping from Amazon Germany to the USA entails the lowest cost from any of Amazon's Euro sites.

As is obvious, a minimum of 4 titles needs to be in the cart for promotion to apply. Additional titles from the promotion get discounted with a very nominal S/H charge - the final discount is seen on the last checkout page prior to placing the order.

For e.g, 4 titles from the promotion will cost $31.39 to ship to the USA with a S/H of EUR 3.92 averaging about $7.80 per title. I ordered 14 titles (some not from this promotion and more expensive) and the shipping was EUR 7.08 for a total of $112 averaging $8 per title shipped. If you stick to titles in this promotion, the average goes down to under $7.80 for each additional title due to very negligible additional shipping charges

My order of titles from this promotion:

Pelle The Conqueror (Region Free)
California - Digibook (Western, Region B), no US release at the time of this writing
Swashbuckler - Region B, , no US release at the time of this writing
Cromwell - Region Free
Showdown - Digibook (Western, Region B), no US release at the time of this writing
The Great Waldo Pepper - (Region B), no US release at the time of this writing
The Last Frontier - (Western, Region B), no US release at the time of this writing
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder) - Region B
The Rare Breed (James Stewart) - Western, Region Free, no US release at the time of this writing
Bend of the River (James Stewart) - Western, Region Free, no US release at the time of this writing
Night Passage (James Stewart) - Western, Region Free, no US release at the time of this writing
Breakout (Charles Bronson) - Region A/B

Many of the Region B titles have no further confirmation yet of true Region coding on Bluray.com. I am Region Free and almost always update the site with my own findings.

Paul_SD

Grrrrrrr.

I saw the Blu-ray.com review for Bend Of The River a week or two ago and noticed the price at the time was €7.99. That seemed a great price so I ordered that and Night Passage (which might might be a while before it gets restocked) along with Shenandoah just to leverage shipping.

Should have held off. Shenandoah isn't included, but I could have easily come up with two other titles to round out the order here.

I'm going to be paying just as much , if not more, for the three discs as I would have for four.

laidbacklarkin

Am a big western fan and many of those titles will probably never see a stateside release. Am also a completist of those Koch Media Western Digipacks and have been adding them to my collection over the years whenever I come by compelling pricing like this. Had to restrain myself from going overboard as there are many titles I need...scratch that, want.

MooMooMooMoo

Wish I could read German (I'm not just being sarcastic; I LOVE classic German film & there are titles that don't come with English subs).

laidbacklarkin

Made an error in my post above for the Amazon Germany 'Four for EUR 22' sale - the sale is valid until 7/8, not 8/8 as posted earlier. Have corrected the post.

ororama

Thanks. Placed my first Amazon.de order as a result of your post-eight items from the sale plus the 36th Chamber of Shaolin trilogy.

I've ordered from Amazon.uk and Amazon.ca, but this is my first order from Amazon in a country where English is not an official language.

MooMooMooMoo

I know there's an English entry point for Amazon Japan, is there one for Germany?

PhantomStranger

Amazon Germany has some customer service employees fluent in English if something goes wrong, which isn't surprising. A sizable portion of the German population have working knowledge of English.