Price of Anchorman at Target
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Price of Anchorman at Target
What will Anchorman cost at Target opening week?
All I see is 'Low Price' is that usually $15.99
Any help would be fine, if not I'll just bring some cash tommorow and find out myself.
All I see is 'Low Price' is that usually $15.99
Any help would be fine, if not I'll just bring some cash tommorow and find out myself.
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Might want to check the bargins forum for store prices. Usually when "low price" is placed there, look at the nearest price on the next item closest to it.
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OK, let's go over this lesson again.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
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Originally Posted by TheKing
OK, let's go over this lesson again.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
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Originally Posted by TheKing
OK, let's go over this lesson again.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
Open Water is $15.99. Anchorman and RE are both "Low Prices". Most of the time these "low price" gimmics are $14-$17. It just says that as it forces you to actually go in said store and check it out for yourself. It doesn't say that each are $15.99.
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Originally Posted by devynal
How about a lesson in reading comprehension?
Open Water is $15.99. Anchorman and RE are both "Low Prices". Most of the time these "low price" gimmics are $14-$17. It just says that as it forces you to actually go in said store and check it out for yourself. It doesn't say that each are $15.99.
Open Water is $15.99. Anchorman and RE are both "Low Prices". Most of the time these "low price" gimmics are $14-$17. It just says that as it forces you to actually go in said store and check it out for yourself. It doesn't say that each are $15.99.
Every single time I've gone into a store for as long as I've been buying DVD's, the "Low Price" is always the same price as whatever the item closest in the ad to the Low Price item is. It never fails, this is how the stores tell you their low price without "really" telling you. Many people on this forum know this, and it's been discussed quite a bit. There's no need to go into the store, it's right there in the ad. Try it for the next few weeks, and you'll see the person you were trying to make fun of is actually correct, and that you may need to take your foot out of your mouth.
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yup. That's the logic I've always gone into the store thinking. Look at the nearest price. On some items they aren't allowed to advertise lower than a specific price, but they do so by just tagging it along with the other items near it.
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Exactly, they can't name the prices for some of these DVD's, so they put them next to ones that they can. It's not done to confuse people, it's done so you actually know what the price is without them actually breaking the rules of the studios.
They want you to know what the price is. Don't blame the stores for this, blame the studios. If stores could, they'd slap those prices on there because they want you to see that low price and come in. If you don't know the price, why would you bother going there?
Sometimes, they do confuse people by not being clear, but that's not their goal.
As for the Best Buy ad: Anchorman will be $14.99, that one is pretty obvious. The Simpsons one is actually one of the more misleading I've seen in a while. The $29.99 from Seinfeld hangs over a bit to where you could take it to mean The Simpsons is going for that price. But look where the Low Price box is...it's over on the other side, near the South Park DVD, which is $39.99. A quick check of their website confims that Season 5 is $39.99. This is a rare case where I think BB did actually try and mislead people.
Still you could possibly use that to your advantage. If BB is charging $39.99, maybe you could use the confusion in the ad to do a price match elsewhere for $29.99.
Now that I look at the BB ad again, I see alot of potential misleading of people. That big $14.99 above Garden State, that big $15.99 over Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, they have $19.99 slapped on them, but a quick look might give different ideas.
Could this be Best Buy's newest attack against devil customers?
They want you to know what the price is. Don't blame the stores for this, blame the studios. If stores could, they'd slap those prices on there because they want you to see that low price and come in. If you don't know the price, why would you bother going there?
Sometimes, they do confuse people by not being clear, but that's not their goal.
As for the Best Buy ad: Anchorman will be $14.99, that one is pretty obvious. The Simpsons one is actually one of the more misleading I've seen in a while. The $29.99 from Seinfeld hangs over a bit to where you could take it to mean The Simpsons is going for that price. But look where the Low Price box is...it's over on the other side, near the South Park DVD, which is $39.99. A quick check of their website confims that Season 5 is $39.99. This is a rare case where I think BB did actually try and mislead people.
Still you could possibly use that to your advantage. If BB is charging $39.99, maybe you could use the confusion in the ad to do a price match elsewhere for $29.99.
Now that I look at the BB ad again, I see alot of potential misleading of people. That big $14.99 above Garden State, that big $15.99 over Napoleon Dynamite. Yeah, they have $19.99 slapped on them, but a quick look might give different ideas.
Could this be Best Buy's newest attack against devil customers?
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Originally Posted by DJ_Longfellow
Yeah, but how much is the 2-Disc edition 

that's what I'm thinking. Can't wait to watch that jazz flute scene. Man, that shit's brilliant
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Originally Posted by TheKing
OK, let's go over this lesson again.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
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Originally Posted by TheKing
OK, let's go over this lesson again.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
The Target ad has Anchorman, Open Water, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse right next to eachother.
Open Water's picture is smaller than the two on either side of it, and a price of 15.99 IN BIG NUMBERS is placed above it.
This isn't rocket science. Do you think the stores are really trying to confuse you?
It's $15.99. That price is for each of those DVD's above.
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I paid $15.99 at Target today for Anchorman. Of course I had one of the $2 Entertainment coupons and a $10 gift card for transferring my prescription to Target so I wound up paying $3.99 plus tax ....




