hariseldon

CRITERION FLASH SALE Starting OCTOBER 20, 2020 Noon ET for 24 HRS

Just received an email announcing the FLASH SALE starting tomorrow at Noon ET. In the last couple sales no PROMO CODE was needed and prices have automatically been changed to 50% after the sale starts.

50% off MSRP (not current/Usual price) all in-stock movies -- DVD, BD, Includes Eclipse set, but not general merchandise. Backorders and pre-orders usually haven't been allowed. Items will go OOS so don't wait too long though the last few sales, many things did come back into stock at least once if not several times during the sale.
The website usually gets hammered in the first couple hrs so be patient.


Free Shipping at $50 in the Lower 48 US -- otherwise $6.95 flat rate shipping USPS or $8.95 UPS
Shipping to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, PO Box, APO/FPO USPS PRIORITY MAIL
FREE SHIPPING has always been calculated before any promo rewards or Gift Certificates are deducted. It's also pre-tax so 49.97 + tax isn't free.

No International orders other than Canada. The last few sales, a CA site obstructedviews.com has run a parallel sale of 40-50% off items with lower shipping costs and shipped from within
the borders so faster and no worries about extra customs fees.
DHL Express $23USD Flat Rate
Customs and Brokerage fees added by Delivery Service/Collected at Delivery and are the responsibility of the customer

Sales Tax has been expanded and now required for Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C., and Wisconsin.

Criterion Loyalty program -- $50Gift Cert for every cumulative purchase of $500 even if it takes 5 years. In the past those loyal rewards certs are sent via email almost immediately and are eligible for immediate use.
If you are close to $500 and have enough total items, I'd suggest making an order just big enough to qualify for the Loyalty Cert plus FS, then make another $50+ order with the extra money rather than make one large order and then have to wait 6 months for the next flash sale though the GC/Rewards don;t expire. You can load them into your account and the $$$ will be there next sale.


Released since last Criterion Flash Sale -- all $40 MSRP except as noted
Salesman Blu-ray 715515241014 10-Mar-2020
Bamboozled Blu-ray 715515242615 17-Mar-2020
Leave Her to Heaven Blu-ray 715515242813 24-Mar-2020
The Cranes Are Flying Blu-ray 715515243018 24-Mar-2020
Show Boat Blu-ray 715515243216 31-Mar-2020
The Prince of Tides Blu-ray 715515243414 31-Mar-2020
Army of Shadows Blu-ray 715515244015 7-Apr-2020 Re-Release
Destry Rides Again Blu-ray 715515244411 14-Apr-2020
The Cremator Blu-ray 715515244213 21-Apr-2020
Me and You and Everyone We Know BD 715515245012 28-Apr-2020
The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray 715515244619 28-Apr-2020
Six Moral Tales Blu-ray 715515240116 5-May-2020 $100
The Great Escape Blu-ray 715515245814 12-May-2020
Dance, Girl, Dance Blu-ray 715515246217 19-May-2020
Wildlife Blu-ray 715515246613 26-May-2020
Scorsese Shorts Blu-ray 715515246415 26-May-2020
Husbands Blu-ray 715515246019 26-May-2020
An Unmarried Woman Blu-ray 715515244817 9-Jun-2020
The Cameraman Blu-ray 715515247313 16-Jun-2020
Tokyo Olympiad Blu-ray 715515247016 23-Jun-2020
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Blu-ray 715515247511 23-Jun-2020
Come and See Blu-ray 715515247719 30-Jun-2020
The War of the Worlds Blu-ray 715515248617 7-Jul-2020
Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits Blu-ray 715515247214 14-Jul-2020 $125
The Lady Eve Blu-ray 715515249010 14-Jul-2020
Marriage Story Blu-ray 715515247214 21-Jul-2020
Taste of Cherry Blu-ray 715515248518 21-Jul-2020


Released since last B&N Sale
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum BD 715515249812 4-Aug-2020
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda BD 715515247917 11-Aug-2020 $250
Town Bloody Hall Blu-ray 715515249911 18-Aug-2020
The Comfort of Strangers Blu-ray 715515250313 18-Aug-2020
Toni Blu-ray 715515250115 25-Aug-2020
Brute Force Blu-ray 715515250818 8-Sep-2020
The Naked City Blu-ray 715515250917 8-Sep-2020
Beau Travail Blu-ray 715515251013 15-Sep-2020
Christ Stopped at Eboli Blu-ray 715515251211 22-Sep-2020
The Elephant Man Blu-ray 715515251518 29-Sep-2020
Martin Scorsese's WCP No. 3 Blu-ray 715515251419 29-Sep-2020 $125
Pierrot le fou Blu-ray 715515241113 6-Oct-2020
Claudine Blu-ray 715515251815 13-Oct-2020
The Hit Blu-ray 715515252416 20-Oct-2020
The Gunfighter Blu-ray 715515252218 20-Oct-2020


Will release after the sale ends -- [EDIT] as expected, not part of the sale so this is just for planning future sales (Barnes and Noble hopefully in a couple weeks)
Parasite Blu-ray 715515252614 27-Oct-2020
Girlfriends Blu-ray 715515249218 10-Nov-2020
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai BD 715515252812 17-Nov-2020
Moonstruck Blu-ray 715515253017 17-Nov-2020
The Irishman Blu-ray 715515253215 24-Nov-2020
Essential Fellini Blu-ray 715515252515 24-Nov-2020 $250
Crash Blu-ray 715515253611 1-Dec-2020
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Blu-ray 715515252010 8-Dec-2020
Mouchette Blu-ray 715515253819 8-Dec-2020
Amores Perros Blu-ray 715515253413 15-Dec-2020

asianxcore

Thank you for posting this!

I got almost everything I wanted from the B&N sale a few months back.

If they allow pre-orders, I'll definitely pick-up some things but if not, I'll pass.

hariseldon

I reread the email from Criterion and it sounded like they are going to follow the usual rules -- no preorders, no OOS/Backordered titles.

B&N sale should start in a week or so. I actually did hear the 1st murmurs of Nov 6 tonight which wouldn't be totally unbelievable. I was thinking Friday Oct 30 or Nov 3 might be the date, but the 6th makes a little sense.

dex14

I’m ready.

hariseldon

SALE now live.

lumberjack

19.97 The Elephant Man
19.97 The Grand Budapest Hotel
19.97 The War of the Worlds
59.91
(50.00) reward voucher
(10.00) $10 promo from a few months ago
$0 total

Had a slight hiccup during initial checkout, but once I started over, it went through! Very happy the voucher and promo stacked; I was fearful it wouldn’t.

Brian T

Thanks for the reminder! I nearly placed an order before randomly skipping over to this forum and noticing this. Turns out I still had an active code. Not enough loyalty points for my next $50 certificate yet, but almost there. In for:

BRUTE FORCE
NAKED CITY
SHOW BOAT
SALESMAN
WAR OF THE WORLDS

Unobstructed View has a 'matching' Criterion sale up here, but the prices are far from equivalent even with the exchange factored in. Titles from the US site work out to about $27.00 CDN, while titles from UV are nearly $37 CDN each. Admittedly I'm shipping the US order to my US mailing address, but they continue to assure me that they're holding parcels without late fees for as long as it takes the border to reopen. Sure, I might be a senior citizen by then, but think of the money I saved!

kefrank

Just three titles this time from my backlog of wants to fill out my Chaplin and Lynch collections:
The Kid
The Circus
Blue Velvet

Without really thinking about it, I'd ordered The Elephant Man a few weeks ago and used $10 credit. I could have saved a few bucks if I'd waited, but given how much I love the film, it was still well worth what I paid.

Paff

I usually do the 3-fer as well. I'll definitely be getting Smithereens, just gotta decide what the other two will be.

kefrank

Dangit. My aforementioned order put me over the top for the $50 certificate. I was really proud of myself for feeling very content with the 3 I ordered and now of course I want to take advantage of the 50% off with my $50 credit.

clckworang

I usually have one or two horror movies I like to pick up when they do this sale, but I think I'm caught up with what I want. I might just wait until the next B&N sale.

Paff

Agreed! I got shut out of Don't Look Now on one of these pre-Halloween sales and had to get it later. Today I was hoping to add Videodrome, but it's sold out so I called an audible and went with The Blob instead.

Also got Smithereens and Mystery Train to get to free shipping.

Next assault on my wallet: Record Store Day 2020 pt 3 on Saturday.

MooMooMooMoo

I got the email. I could afford $50; but at the $19.97 it looks to me like one has to effectively spend $60 for free ship. I've been buying too much lately for my budget. Too bad for me, there's always great stuff there.

Captsmee.00

The Hitchcock movies aren’t 50% off??

dex14

It's over.

Paul_SD

Now you'll have to wait a whole three weeks for the B&N sale to start.

Hopefully stock will be better this time around since they've had months to prepare.

If not, there's alway the next flash sale in February.

Captsmee.00

weird at the time everything else was still 50% off when I was looking

hariseldon

Which Hitchcock movies were you looking at -- the singles or the Boxset? What time?

I didn't check after Tuesday evening, but they were 50% off then. Were they possibly sold out/backorder and returned to normal price.

If you checked after 12 Noon ET it's possible that all the prices didn't change back at the same time OR if you had items in the cart at 50% then looked at the Hitch after Noon, the items in the cart seemed
to stay at 50% while the website they were regular price. I'm not sure if anyone was able to checkout with discounted titles that were preloaded after the endtime of the sale.

g

Criterion should lower the free shipping threshold a few cents. I wanted a set for 49.97 but I skipped it because I was 3 cents short for free ship. And they had nothing cheap to order to reach it. Bullmoose.com lets you get free shipping if you are a few cents short.

Trev

I picked up

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Come and See
• Toni
• Pierrot le fou (new version)
• The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

I was on the fence on "Pierrot le fou", I have the 2009 version, but the new one looked like a bump up in visuals/subtitles (maybe), unfortunately it's still a 2K master.

Paff

This might be me inheriting my dad's paranoid nature, but I don't think this is coincidence in the slightest. They know you'll want the free shipping and will "throw in" one more disc to reach the threshold.

Paul_SD

Of course.

davidlynchfan

They might generate more sales with free shipping at 49.97 though. Who knows?

hariseldon

Possibly, but there are just so few ways to end up at that amount. I'm just guessing that it's a tiny, tiny number of sales.

2 Reg 49.99 titles or one 99.99 titles.

For folks that just want 1 or 2 items, it seems easier just to wait for the next BN sale

Ish Kabbible

I placed an order for 6 blu-ray titles for the Criterion Flash Sale and then left my home to run some errands. Upon my return, I saw 2 separate confirmation e-mails. Somehow my order was duplicated and I was being charged twice. Quickly sent them an e-mail, just 3 hours after I placed that order. Later that night, the reply came, saying they will refund the extra order within 48 hours but they couldn't stop the duplicate package being shipped.. A return label will be mailed to me in a short time
The refund occurred, both packages arrived and I left one un-opened. Today I got an e-mail from Criterion that they were having some sort of problem and I should just keep the extra order and either gift them or donate them to a library. .
WOW, thanks Criterion. You just took care of some Xmas gifts for friends and families. The blu-ray titles were
Police Story 1 and 2
Night Of The Hunter
My Darling Clementine
Brute Force
3:10 To Yuma
Straw Dogs