Hit three different BBVs today to trry and trade in a total of about 110 DVDs.

The first one only allowed me to trade on 10 DVDs, but did also allow my girlfriend to open an account and trade in an additional 10. Scored $162 on a value card (got $10 for Dragon's Lair 2, go figure). They wanted to open the sealed ones I had, so I just dug through and gave them already opened ones. One surprise was that West Side Story was not in their system.

Second one took unlimited DVDs but were VERY picky. They would not accept any DVD that did not have a region code on the packaging, which excludes most Anchor Bay and Artisan DVDs. It also amusingly excludes DVDs made by DEJ, which happens to be BBV's in-house brand. She would also not take any that they had "0 inventory need" for. She wound up taking 17 of what I had left for $8 each. Those that were still sealed that scanned in to take she opened and inspected. After all that, she would not put it on a value card and gave me store credit only.

Third one also took unlimited DVDs but were much more helpful. She typed in titles that wouldn't scan and there was no issue with taking DVDs without a region code. I received a value card for ~$260. Sealed DVDs were not inspected. A few opened DVDs were rejected as being scratched (including 2 I had bought used at BBV and never watched. How amusing).

So, it really really seems YMMV with this promotion. I'll be trying some more stores tomorrow.

Same thing happened to me - since the DVD was still on sale for $7.99, I just planned to swap my scratched copy and eat the tax, but they wouldn't take it. Two passes through the DVD Doctor and it looks almost like new, so I decided to keep it. (There were a lot of scatches, but they were very shallow).

I originally traded in about 14 DVDs. The convenience store next to where I work rent DVDs, and also have a bunch of previewed DVDs for sale. They are about $8 each. I offered $150 for all 43 of em, drove over to Blockbuster, and 30 minutes later I have a Value Card for $321! And the convenience store still owes me 5 mroe DVDs that they had to look for. I have no idea what I'm going to buy though.

Wow - nice discount, $8 down to $3.50. I bought 20 $4 DVDs at a pawn shop to trade in, the bitchy manager wouldn't even knock off the tax

I would say no to the first question but you can always have the cashier in the store check for you. On the second question according to the online terms the answer is no. Right now I'm doing the free trial and would continue if I could use my value card. I emailed them last week asking why you can't and they never got back to me. Without being able to use it I will cancel and try Netflix next.

I'm looking around at Blockbuster.com, and granted I haven't looked at much yet, but searching for Akira Kurosawa and Takashi Miike films, many have similiar prices to amazon.com. So not all of Blockbuster's prices are that bad.

Has anyone found a BB in AZ that will allow trade ins? I've tried several and they've all said that dont do trade ins.

They emailed me back today why they won't allow a value card to be used for online rental. They want a credit card on file to keep billing you month after month if you don't cancel.

Damn, they won't take Troma's?? That is suck.

Got in for $280 in store credit...got rid of a bunch of junk DVDs that i got as gifts. My BBV said that the $8 deal ends on Halloween. Might give another pass through your collections for one last hurrah.

So does anyone know if they stopped doing the $8 minimum yet? I know that some were told it would be over on 11-1-2004 and others were told this past Tuesday (10-26-2004)... so which is it?

They are still doing the $8 minimum.

ENDS NOVEMBER 1


This is printed on their little flyers that were around early on.

Now, I'm trying to decide if it's worth dumping off the remaining 20 or so non-anamorphic dvds I've got.

Some of them are definitely going as i won't watch them or they have anamorphic replacements avaialble, but others are good movies but have no new version:

Pi, Last of the Mohicans, God Will Huntin, The Game, Grosse Pointe Blank, the Abyss, 2001, Office Space, and Last Emperor, for example, and I'm torn whether I should keep them, or get rid of them and replace them as anamorphics become available.

anyone face the same decision? What did you do?

I know there has been talk of the Abyss and Office space getting new anamorphic transers.

Last of the Mohicans DTS is anamorphic.

There is a Canadian release of Good Will Hunting which is anamorphic - Alliance is the studio IIRC. Also has some good bonus features.

Yep, still going strong...I traded in 2 more...F13th and Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I've traded in 54 so far, plus 2 to ebay that bb wouldn't take.

If I trade in all my non-anamorphic (which it sounds like would be a good move at this time), that'll be another 30, for a total of about 85 traded in total.

I only started with a little over 200 movies, so with this reduction, my collection is a lot cleaner and is weighted more toward the good but less known movies, just the way I like it.

To those in Hillsborough County in Florida, the Blockbuster on North 30th Avenue in Tampa Palms told me they would be running this promotion in January.

I might run back there one more time since the deal is supposed to end this weekend. I'm debating dumping all of my Matrix DVDs in anticipation of the boxset in December.

I'd do that, but none fo the extras included is the same, so I'll have both. I hate when they do that.

I'm contemplating whether or not I want to dump my Robotech Legacy box sets (though it's just $16 a box with the BB deal) and getting the new remastered ones. Since I doubt they'd give me credit for the bonus discs, maybe I'll just keep them.

the only BB that is doing this around here is 2 hours away so i was driving by and traded in 8 discs that i wanted to get rid of. then i hit a pawn shop and found some $4 DVD's so i bought a few of those to trade to bump my total up to $152. they wouldn't take discs that didn't have region codes on them and they told me that the sale was ending nov. 7 not the 1st.

Man.. one of the BB has Hellboy Director cut for $29.99.. should I get it? I'm sure they will come out with Hellboy 2 sometime in the future and I"ll probably have to get the boxset anyway..

I hope that's right...