hariseldon

Criterion Sale 50% off MSRP - Barnes & Noble Fall Sale

Nov 1, 2019 Start Date
End Date -- December 1, 2019

General Rules -- assuming it follows recent sales
1) 50% price calculated from the official MSRP -- not from some other listed daily online or in-store price.
2) Online and In-store Sale for items released prior to the official end of the sale. Preorders of items released after the end date have not been allowed for preorder online nor as ShiptoHome items in the last several sales
3) Coupons unlikely to apply without a manual override.
4) 10% Member discount should work on In-store and Store generated ShiptoHome orders.
5) DVD, Bluray included. Eclipse and Essentials branded sets also
6) International Shipping is always an unknown. Some sales it seems to be allowed, others not, and still others one person can get it to work and another in the same country can't.
7) Backordered or OOS items generally can't be ordered online or ShiptoHome

8) For added saving many people use discounted Gift Cards from various resellers or B&N own Holiday Card sales which generally start this week. Assuming B&N runs that same promotion this year -- $10 Promo Gift Card for buying regular $75 GC -- approx 12% net Discount (online this is usually once per account, instore $10 card for every $75). Around BF weeked B&N often bumps this to $10 Promo Card for $50 purchase -- approx 18%. Disclaimer -- Promo Cards shouldn't activate until 12/26 and have had an expiration date of 2/28 the last couple of years.


9) Prices usually start changing online sometime after Midnight ET, but it rarely is immediate and often it can take a few hours for all the items to be marked down. The end of the sale, the prices can last a bit later than Midnight ET, but often the prices change back well before 3am ET.


Items released since the last B&N sale ended -- std MSRP 39.99 most items. I'll try to flag those at different levels
An Angel at My Table 715515233118 6-Aug-2019
The Inland Sea *715515233217 13-Aug-2019 $29.99
Magnificent Obsession *715515233613 20-Aug-2019
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (お茶漬けの味 / Ochazuke no aji) *715515233811 27-Aug-2019
The Koker Trilogy *715515234016 27-Aug-2019 $99.99
Insomnia *715515234412 27-Aug-2019 Re-release BD only
Fists in the Pocket (I pugni in tasca) *715515234511 3-Sep-2019
The Cloud-Capped Star (মেঘে ঢাকা তারা / Meghe Dhaka Tara) *715515233415 10-Sep-2019
Polyester *715515234818 17-Sep-2019
Cluny Brown *715515235211 17-Sep-2019
Local Hero *715515234610 24-Sep-2019
The Circus *715515235013 24-Sep-2019
3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg *715515235716 8-Oct-2019 $99.99
Häxan (Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages) *715515235617 15-Oct-2019
When We Were Kings *715515235815 22-Oct-2019
Matewan *715515236010 29-Oct-2019
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954-1975 *715515236416 29-Oct-2019 $224.99


Items releasing during the expected Sale - should be listed 50% off from the beginning of the sale
The Daytrippers *715515237116 12-Nov-2019
Betty Blue *715515237512 19-Nov-2019
Cold War (Zimna wojna) *715515238311 19-Nov-2019
Now, Voyager *715515237918 26-Nov-2019
All About Eve *715515237710 26-Nov-2019


Items releasing after the expected end of the Sale in case folks want to check the in-store computer for possible bonus prices.
Tunes of Glory (Criterion Collection) *715515238915 3-Dec-2019
The Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection) *715515238717 3-Dec-2019
Old Joy (Criterion Collection) *715515239318 10-Dec-2019
Until the End of the World (Criterion Collection) *715515239110 10-Dec-2019
Holiday 715515239813 7-Jan-2020
The Fugitive Kind 715515240017 14-Jan-2020
Le Petit Soldat 715515240215 21-Jan-2020
Fail Safe 715515240413 28-Jan-2020
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) 715515240611 28-Jan-2020

dex14

I will probably go light on this one. Just The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, Matewan, The Daytrippers and Cold War. Maybe Betty Blue.

Trevor

Godzilla!

milo bloom

Yeah, I'm going to tell my wife to get that for me for and hold it for Xmas.

BobO'Link

Gojira!!

I'd love to pick that one up - but the Monty Python BR and Abbott and Costello BR sets are also in early November... Gojira will have to wait.

Nate the Great

Shazzbat! Any chance there's an overlap with an Arrow 50% sale, as has happened a number of times previously?

Decker

Didn't the last sale just end? I know there's a ton from that one that I still haven't opened.

For this sale, probably just Local Hero. I love When We Were Kings but have it on DVD and don't think it's really worth an upgrade; we'll see.

I have the previous Godzilla Criterion release and just don't think I need the whole massive set.

hariseldon

Certainly a chance at some overalap like 2017 or a lot of overlap like last year. Arrow sales haven't been around long enough to predict all that well yet

Last B&N sale ended in early August like normal
Criterion.com Flash Sale was a couple weeks ago

Decker

So 2 1/2 months. Okay. Since it's a twice-a-year thing, I kind of expected it at the end of the year. This is too soon a turn-around for me.

hariseldon

It's always been July and November for whatever reason. We lobbied furiously for a March Sale even if only 2-3 weeks to even out the spacing, but B&N alway did it's own thing.

End date was 8/4/2019 so almost exactly 3 month from end to beginning.

Next Flash Sale should be near the end of Feb or early so not too hard to fill in some holes.

mike7162

I may just get the Godziila box, if I am able to whittle it down to $100 using various thingamabobs and watchamacallits; nothing else is really pressing to me right now. Like BobO'Link, the Python and Abbott and Costello sets will be the focus of my November.

hariseldon

Banner is up. No prices changed yet, but it often happens in waves over the next couple hours and in some sales it can be mid-day before everything in re-priced

END DATE 12/1 in store

Bill Needle

It's live. Just bought Godzilla at 50% off.

hariseldon

They were on the ball this sale. Most of the prices were active by 1:15 and I couldn't find an in-stock item that wasn't active by 1:30.

joltman

Arrow sale is up and includes a whopping 4 items! I assume more titles will get added through the day.

I already picked up the Godzilla set, after the gift cards I got at 17% off it came to about $93 which I'm happy with.

Dan

Got a Godzilla set on hold at my closest B&N. Will have to browse to see if there's anything else I want to grab today...

edit: Paid $109 after tax (50% off + 10% member discount)

PhantomStranger

The Arrow titles are now loaded.

foxjam

I went to my local B&N and picked up the Godzilla set, Haxan, The Circus, and Polyester Blu ray. Like Godzilla, the set towers over everything else. I didn't expect it to be so big.

hariseldon

Godzilla, 3 Silents, Koker Trilogy, When We Were Kings, Matewan picked up in store'

Just b/c I was lazy placed shiptohome orders for the 5 Nov releases for $18 ea

laidbacklarkin

Will get interesting when Amazon starts PMing randomly. The Bergman set last year took some time but did happen eventually. Looking at the Godzilla set

Trevor

Godzilla price matched at Amazon, its $112 now.

Paul_SD

There are still a few titles left that I didn't, or couldn't, grab in the Target sale that I would like to get, but I'm in absolutely no hurry.
I'm at least going to wait and see if they run another gift card promotion first.
Every year past, I've always jumped the gun and then I still grab a bunch of gift cards and have to justify them with purchases of things I could just as easily pass on.
I feel like I've already done that with the Target sales, so I need to be more circumspect going forward.

I already got WWWK from Target. The other three are the ones I'm likely going to get before it's over. Possibly along with One-Eyed Jacks, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and possibly an Ozu.
Happily, after binge watching a bunch of the closet videos, I'm more stoked to dip into my unwatched pile of treasures, than I am to pick up more stuff just now. That' attitude is probably going to shift by the end of the month, but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.

hariseldon

I'm a little worried about the lack of the GC promo being active already, but at one of the stores the manager "Thought" is might be scheduled to start next week -- she said Nov 8 though I still think the 5th. Both the clerk and manager knew exactly what
GC promotion I was asking about at least

The later the 10/75 GC promotion starts the less likely the 10/50 Black Friday deal might happen though with BF being very late this year that might explain why the 10/75 is a week late. If they start next week then that's 3 full weeks before the
enhanced deal might be offered. I always look at the expiration date of the GC promotion. The first couple of year it went right to BF-Weekend Sunday. When they started the 10/50, the 10/75 ended before Thansgiving on a Monday or Tuesday.

Boba Fett

I was stoked to get Godzilla during this sale, but the absolutely impractical packaging (hope you like figuring out how to store a Where's Waldo sized book on your shelf) pushed this way down my priorities list.

Dan