WalMart Black Friday Sale - Got it in the mail
11-23-04, 05:10 PM
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I'm sure the dvd's will be a mess, and with Walmart, you usually get a LOT more crazy people who pick fights and so on, But with Wal-mart, mine in Turnersville, NJ, usually has truck loads OUTSIDE of the really good sale items. SO, if you just want the things that are really on sale, chances are you can get in line at around 5:15 (if opens at 6) am, most likely, employees will come up to you while you are in line and give you sheets of paper with bar codes for the sale items. Let all the idiots who actually want to shop for more than the sale items go inside the store. You walk RIGHT UP to the register and they scan your pieces of paper. You pay, and then you go outside to the trucks in the parking lot where you show them your receipt and pick up your item.
The first year they had the 27-inch TV and the dvd players cheap, seriously, within 5-10 minutes of walking into the store, we were out. and 15 minutes after that, we got what we came for.
And that's the key to Black Friday. ONLY buy what's on sale, and go with two peope: one to pick the stuff up and the other to go right to the register to stand in line as soon as you both walk in!
The first year they had the 27-inch TV and the dvd players cheap, seriously, within 5-10 minutes of walking into the store, we were out. and 15 minutes after that, we got what we came for.
And that's the key to Black Friday. ONLY buy what's on sale, and go with two peope: one to pick the stuff up and the other to go right to the register to stand in line as soon as you both walk in!
11-25-04, 02:03 AM
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I was thinking about buying the 20" flatscreen tv with dvd since the 10"? tv with dvd I got last year at Sam's Club (not a sale) for pretty much the same price didn't come with a caption decoder (*insert many curse words here*).
I suspect that they got around the requirement that all tvs have a decoder because of the size. But this one should have it... but I haven't been paying attention... is ~$130 a good price for a *flatscreen* 20" TV w/dvd? or is there something crappy about this particular unit? It seems good to me and I was going to be going early to Joann's anyways which is in the same center as my Walmart. Wouldn't be a problem to go fight the throng at Walmart first thing.
I suspect that they got around the requirement that all tvs have a decoder because of the size. But this one should have it... but I haven't been paying attention... is ~$130 a good price for a *flatscreen* 20" TV w/dvd? or is there something crappy about this particular unit? It seems good to me and I was going to be going early to Joann's anyways which is in the same center as my Walmart. Wouldn't be a problem to go fight the throng at Walmart first thing.
11-25-04, 09:02 PM
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Sounds like a good price to me. A typical good price for a 20 inch flat screen is 99.99. So one with a dvd player for 30 more sounds good. Don't know what the brand is, so I don't know about that.
11-25-04, 10:50 PM
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Ok board, heres wsome info I can give about Walmarts DVD's. Now this is for
my Electronics Dept, so YMMV.
$3.88, All WB titles, more than I can remember:
Simone
Ace Ventura
Goodfellas (original edition)
Demolition man
Dave
National Lampoons Vacation (original edition)
Vegas Vacation
Critters
You've Got mail
Pumping Iron
Fox $5.50 - Maybe less, more than I can remember:
Porky's
Romancing the stone
Thin red line
Anastasia
Where the heart is
Planet of the apes 1 disc
Say anything
$7-9 Titles All Columbia Tri-Star
Ali
The One
The Patriot
Hollow Man
$10 titles
Van Helsing
Garfeild
Day after tomorrow
I also saw a box of Buffy Season 7 and Simpsons but I do not know the price. I
assume they will be close to the Target prices.
So hope that helps anyone, who wants to fight the crowds!
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11-25-04, 11:34 PM
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Expect the Warner $3.88 titles to be from the following list.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...206277-3688006
A couple titles that most will pass on but I'd recommend are..
Joe Versus the Volcano (only for those that will go along with a whimsical, offbeat and not entirely succesful fantasy)
The Pledge
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...206277-3688006
A couple titles that most will pass on but I'd recommend are..
Joe Versus the Volcano (only for those that will go along with a whimsical, offbeat and not entirely succesful fantasy)
The Pledge
11-26-04, 06:59 AM
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Originally posted by ernestrp
That should be an interesting scene if the 5.50 bin is 3.88 a title!!!
That should be an interesting scene if the 5.50 bin is 3.88 a title!!!
11-26-04, 07:32 AM
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The $5.50 Bin titles are on sale for $3.88 as well as the titles from the ad.
I picked up/saw:
Big Momma's House, You've Got Mail, Thin Red Line, My Cousin Vinny, Blade Runner, Pale Rider, Blazing Saddles (Old Version), Goodfellas (Old Version), How To Deal, Blade, Space Cowboys, Big Trouble In Little China, Sleeping With The Enemy, Pay it Forward, The Client, Romancing The Stone, War of The Roses, 3000 Miles To Graceland, Police Academy,Rio Bravo.
My first black friday shopping experience, it was awesome.
I picked up/saw:
Big Momma's House, You've Got Mail, Thin Red Line, My Cousin Vinny, Blade Runner, Pale Rider, Blazing Saddles (Old Version), Goodfellas (Old Version), How To Deal, Blade, Space Cowboys, Big Trouble In Little China, Sleeping With The Enemy, Pay it Forward, The Client, Romancing The Stone, War of The Roses, 3000 Miles To Graceland, Police Academy,Rio Bravo.
My first black friday shopping experience, it was awesome.
11-26-04, 07:47 AM
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Just came back from Wal-Mart and they had no $3.88 bin, instead they had several shopping carts full of the $3.88 titles near the Electronics/ Food Department.
Very bad way of offering these.
Anways I saw what others have seen, I also saw Rio Bravo, Murder at 1600.
I picked up the following.
American Outlaws, Space Cowboys and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
The $5.50 bin was nearly half full, which ity normally is full all of the time.
The mob around the $3.88 shopping cart DVD "bin" was crazy, I saw one lady and she had about 20 titles in her hands.
This was also my first Black Friday experience in years, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would have been.
Very bad way of offering these.
Anways I saw what others have seen, I also saw Rio Bravo, Murder at 1600.
I picked up the following.
American Outlaws, Space Cowboys and Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.
The $5.50 bin was nearly half full, which ity normally is full all of the time.
The mob around the $3.88 shopping cart DVD "bin" was crazy, I saw one lady and she had about 20 titles in her hands.
This was also my first Black Friday experience in years, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would have been.
11-26-04, 08:41 AM
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Originally posted by stingermck
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$7-9 Titles All Columbia Tri-Star
Ali
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$7-9 Titles All Columbia Tri-Star
Ali
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*Saw it for myself today - just the original theatrical cut.*
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11-27-04, 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by cynthia
Are the $3.88 prices still in effect at Wal-Mart or was it a 6-hour/1 day thing?
Are the $3.88 prices still in effect at Wal-Mart or was it a 6-hour/1 day thing?
11-27-04, 01:21 PM
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I didn't brave the crowds till the evening and my local WM had a handful of the 3.88 titles sitting in their shipment boxes with very few people caring about them one way or another. A few dozen copies of Blade Runner, Dave, Rio Bravo, Hallow Man, Murder At 1600 and Ali......there was no way of knowing that any DVDs other than those were going for that price.
11-27-04, 06:35 PM
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Picked up a few 3.88 titles today, so I know they're still out there
Pale Rider to replace a really old P&S laserdisc
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me again, replaced an ancient laserdisc
Fear Dot Com It's awful, yadda, yadda. It was cheap
and two giftsets I wasn't aware Walmart was blowing out at what seemed like decent prices.........
Barbershop/Barbershop 2 Gift set - 9.87
Legally Blonde/Legally Blonde 2 Gift set - 9.87
They still had a ton of the other titles mentioned previously......
Pale Rider to replace a really old P&S laserdisc
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me again, replaced an ancient laserdisc
Fear Dot Com It's awful, yadda, yadda. It was cheap
and two giftsets I wasn't aware Walmart was blowing out at what seemed like decent prices.........
Barbershop/Barbershop 2 Gift set - 9.87
Legally Blonde/Legally Blonde 2 Gift set - 9.87
They still had a ton of the other titles mentioned previously......
11-27-04, 08:15 PM
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Originally posted by cynthia
Are the $3.88 prices still in effect at Wal-Mart or was it a 6-hour/1 day thing?
Are the $3.88 prices still in effect at Wal-Mart or was it a 6-hour/1 day thing?
11-27-04, 09:07 PM
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I went to Walmart on Friday around 7AM and it was not as crazy as last year. The 3.88s were in a bin next to the 5.50s and it was only a matter of time before this would cause problems at the register as I bet many shoppers were expecting to get some 5.50 DVDs for 3.88. I ended up picking up Fear Dot Com, Say Anything, Thin Red Line, Blade Runner, Dont Say a Word, Murder at 1600, 2 copies of Pale Rider, Rio Bravo,& Magnum Force, Went back on Saturday evening and picked up Space Cowboys for 3.66, so it seems that the ones that fell into the 5.50 bin are still ringing up at the earlybird price.
11-28-04, 01:02 AM
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I went at like 10 PM on Saturday night and they still had some stuff. I picked up Pumping Iron, Real Cancun (I'm sure that I'll get rid of this pretty quickly but I've always wanted to see it), Critters and Blade Runner.
11-28-04, 01:29 AM
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I got at Wal-Mart around 6:15-6:20 AM and it was not that crazy. I went in and proceeded to gather up all the merchandise I wanted from Wal-Mart, EBGames, Target, BestBuy and CompUSA's ads and took them to the electronics counter and then price matched each and every item I purchased. Only really needed to go to one store that day.
I did go to some stores afterward with the other person I was shopping with to get some items that were store specific, but all of my major shopping was done at Wal-Mart that day. I was out by 7:00 AM. Took about 10 minutes to ring up my whole transaction, but it was better than having to wait outside of my local BestBuy where I was told by an employee that I'm friendly with there that they had 2,000 people in line at 5:15 AM.
I did go to some stores afterward with the other person I was shopping with to get some items that were store specific, but all of my major shopping was done at Wal-Mart that day. I was out by 7:00 AM. Took about 10 minutes to ring up my whole transaction, but it was better than having to wait outside of my local BestBuy where I was told by an employee that I'm friendly with there that they had 2,000 people in line at 5:15 AM.
11-28-04, 02:10 AM
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..but it was better than having to wait outside of my local BestBuy where I was told by an employee that I'm friendly with there that they had 2,000 people in line at 5:15 AM.
..but it was better than having to wait outside of my local BestBuy where I was told by an employee that I'm friendly with there that they had 2,000 people in line at 5:15 AM.
Best Buy ain't no friggin' joke on BF. I went last year and I have vowed to never go back their again (as price matching at Wal-Mart is the option).
