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The hoarding in widely known sales is very unfortunate... I'd have been willing to pay more on the highly sought after sets if it made
them less appealing to hoarders.
But part of the blame lies in the cheap prices BL set for this sale... Ten bucks for some of them sets is incredible... As three for season sets is awfully hard for hoarders looking to make a quick buck... I feel fortunate to have scored all the Flintstones as well as the first five Tales from the Crypt seasons, along with some other sets. Very few stores had anything of note yesterday... Hit maybe three or four decent stores out of about 20 visited over the past week...praying my local stores get some of the best sets this week.

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I stopped by a BL earlier and someone just looking around the DVDs told me that he went to a local flea market over the weekend and saw TONS of these titles there where people had bought out BL, and were trying to sell things for $20+ each.

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Found today at my local big lots:

BCI stuff:
Prince Valliant Vol 1
Prince Valliant Vol 2
Defenders of the Earth Vol 1
Defenders of the Earth Vol 2

Very nice stuff...they had alot, but didnt see them at my other BL locations.

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After going to 5 big lots today in northern ohio around cleveland, did not find much:

Brookpark: NOTHING

Parma Heights: NOTHING

Fairview Park: NOTHING

Elyria: Huckleberry Hound, Johhny Quest, TopCat (tons of these) and all the Tales from the crypts seasons, murphy brown(?!)

Lorain: All the flintstones seasons, Adventures of superman seas. 1-4, Batman animated series 1-2, wacky races

Spent 4 hours out today running around on my day off to look for popeye for 3 dollars and couldn't find it. I think most of these BIGLOTS are holding off putting this stuff out. Very mixed bag of sightings today.

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In the Country Club Plaza-East Rochester Big Lots as of this afternoon

Wacky Races
Top Cat
Lois and Clark Seasons 1-3
Everwood Season 1
Flintstones Seasons 1-3
Tales from the Crypt Seasons 2, 4-5
War at Home Season 1
Pinky & the Brain Vol. 2
Jacques Cousteau River Explorations
Larry King Live: The Greatest Interviews

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Are these $10 sets on the 4-sided rack or are they with the electronics?

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Didn't find much? Sounds like a good trip to me!

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I ran into a couple of "just became resellers after they saw the $3 price tag".

I hit my last store 25 minutes before closing. They had a ton of $3 sets (no $10 sets in sight).

Got the following $3 sets for $2.40 with coupon:

Flintstones 1,2,3,4,5
Lois & Clark 1,2,3,4
Tales of the Crypt 2,3,4,5
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
God The Devil and Bob
Birdman & The Galaxy Trio
Jacques Cousteau River Explorations
Adventures of Superman S5/6
Veronica Mars S2
Wacky Races
Jonny Quest
Josie and the Pussycats
Pebbles & Bamm Bamm
Huckleberry Hound Show
Top Cat
Bad Influence (guilty pleasure)

10 minutes after I walked into the store (now 15 minutes before closing), an employee blares over the loudspeaker "the store is closing, please bring your selections to the cash registers."

I've gathered up almost everything I want, a couple starts looking at the $3 boxsets and starts pointing at the $3 price sticker. They are talking in a foreign language, but it was easy to figure out what they were thinking/talking when they guy runs away and quickly comes back with a shopping cart. Both of them start loading up the cart with all the $3 sets they can grab.

I wanted to wring their slimy little necks with both of my hands!

I got what I wanted and went to go stand in line at the cash registers. 5 minutes later these clowns have a FULL shopping cart of $3 sets. They are the last in line. Both were talking on their cell phones.

You can bet that those sets will end up at the local swap meet/flea market.

At least they did not have the 20% off coupon!

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I hate to break it to you, but Big Lots corporate isn't going to give 2 shits about anyone suggesting they limit sales. It is very seldom that you see a retail store put limits on certain items and when they do it is either for legal reasons (otc meds) or supply reasons (ammo, whatever tickle-me-furby Christmas item is popular). Big Lots is very different from these stores in that they buy bulk items at a huge discount (I wouldn't be surprised if they paid WB less than $.50/set for these) with the intention to sell them at a very low price point in order to move them quickly and reinvest that money in other bulk purchases. If they were to limit these sales to 2 per title, they would sit on the shelves for weeks or months and Big Lots would be unable to use that capital to take advantage of other potential purchases.

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Since all BCI stuff is already being sold at "remainder" prices elsewhere, I was wondering if any of it would start turning up at Big Lots.

I already have pretty much everything I want from BCI (their Filmation catalog titles and game show releases), but I might be willing to pick up a "back-up" set of each to salt away if they start turning up at BL stores nationwide.

Now, if BBC Video titles start turning up at BL for $3 or $6: I'll probably have a coronary! They're distributed by Warner, so who knows...

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I just went to the BL by my job on my lunch and they must've just unloaded the truck because they had almost everything people have found. Unfortunately, no Looney Tunes, but I did manage to grab Crypt S1,2, and 5 along with Batman TAS v3. Not bad for my lunch break.

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And that's pretty much the only place, in my opinion, that resellers will have any luck turning any kind of profit on this stuff, by selling to people who don't go to to Big Lots and also don't shop for this kind of stuff online, because the people who're trying to flip these online are just driving down the selling prices of these sets anyway (from what little I've noticed on Amazon marketplace and eBay), so there's not really any profit to be made from these by e-selling.

Unfortunately, some of them will probably do quite well for themselves, but others may end up holding the bag, so to speak. I guess it remains to be seen.

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I DO NOT THINK FLORIDA HAS SEEN ANY PART OF THE $10 sets. Its a real shame too. :(

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Location, location, location?? -pray-

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It seems all these box sets have made everyone more aware of Big Lots which is a shame because now there will be more competition.

Just a few months back I would wander in and there would be no one looking at the DVDs,yesterday they were buzzing like bees around the pile of DVDs.

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Agreed, except for Looney Tunes 1-5, that would be easy money, nice profit... flipping is a waste of time to me, but I would make an exception if I ever found that lol.

I did find Wacky Races at Glen Burnie which was the main one I was looking for (thanks for the previous heads-up)... BIG Muttley fan here! :lol: <- Muttley laugh

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Despite everyone complaining about resellers, I think a lot of people would do it if they found the right set. Notice how many swaps are being made in the exchange thread, yet nobody is trading the Looney Tunes set even though it's on everyone's want list and is being found in plenty of people on the board ;)

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If things make it to the floor at all. In chatting with a friendly manager on Saturday I got the impression that one of her employees bought the Looney Tunes set before it was even put out.

If they're selling them this cheap, I wonder what BL paid to WB??

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I just came back from my local Big Lots in Allentown and Trexlertown, PA. The second one didn't have anything new (lots of Joey and OC), but none of the $3.00 sets. In the first one I finally found Tales from the Crypt S2, S3 and S5 (there were a couple left of this one), as well as the last copy of Top Cat. I am hoping they put the new sets on the Trexlertown store soon so I can complete my Tales of the Crypt series!!

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anyone else notice that with the tracey ullman box sets, that season 2 is $6, but season 1 is only $3

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Hmm, maybe mine with the sticker problem was a fluke. I am still glad to have them, though.

Peeked into BL this morning quickly to see the aftermath of the 20% off sale, like I expected the DVD rack was picked clean... only box sets left were a few Larry Kings and a lone Popeye (and when I left yesterday morning, there were about 20 Popeyes and Season 2 Flintstones left!).

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BCI animated sets are all "out of print", so, if you see it, and you want it, grab it!! love my "original ghostbusters" and "groovie ghoulies" sets

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Hatch Road in Modesto just put out some selection. She saw I picked up some Flintstones and she says "We got a lot of dvds in those boxes, wanna look?" Okay...so she opened them all in front of me. 5 boxes, one Flintstones seas 3, one Tracey Ullman, one War at Home, and 2 Popeyes. She did not know of any $10 box sets, nice lady though. I didn't buy anything from the boxes but she said they just got a truck in today and there could be more in a few days.

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I've thought about that. No one is saying that they're finding multiple Looney Tunes sets, but surely stores are getting more than just one. I asked a Big Lots employee about it yesterday and he said their store got 4 or 5 and he was crossing his fingers they'd get more (sounds like he wants one himself). If I walked into the store and saw multiple Looney Tunes sets, I feel certain I'd grab at least 2. And if I had one extra one, what would I do with it? There's dozens of folks here looking for one. I'm sure if I mentioned it, I'd be bombarded with PMs and it would almost turn in to who makes the best offer.

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I sent Big Lots an email yesterday but my angle was basically why do some stores put out stuff early before the 26th ad and others aren't? I told them the Dayton, OH stores, as far as I know, haven't put out the $3.00 sets but Cincy and Toledo, OH have. I also sent them a link to this thread.

I wonder if Big Lots, planned and on purpose, sent some stores the $3.00 sets early to get an internet buzz going and create more foot traffic to all the stores.