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Big restock at the Santa Clara, CA store. I got:
Tootsie
Born on the 4th of July
Class of 1984
My Favorite Blonde/Star Spangled Rhythm
Going My Way/Holiday Inn
Creature Comforts season 2
Mysterious Island (Harryhausen)
Intolerable Cruelty +1
and a couple of others I can't recall at the moment

they also had :
Sabotuer
Munsters 2fer
Backbeat
Nutty Professor (Murphy)

What makes Grosse Point and Nowhere in Africa so highly recommended?

SLASHFACE

This set was just released last month! How did Big Lots get it already?

Brian T

The companion set, THE GOREHOUSE GREATS COLLECTION, was sold prior to Halloween for only $5 at Wal-Mart. Most of the titles in both sets have been available previously, so there could be a effort on to move 'em out at discount prices.

Drake

I saw Gorehouse Greats at my Big Lots the other day for $6.

bigjim25

I found Tabitha at the one in Charleston but it's been awhile. I also got a few extras if you have anything to trade.

Drake

Just got back from the W.Bridgewater MA, store ...NUTHING.....it's weird there were a few different ones from the other day but none of the titles that everyone else are finding.

They did have The Too Cool For School title ...it's funny they are getting a few dribs and drabs in, otherwise the 4 sided rack looks pretty depleted and it's been that way for 3 plus weeks.

Drake

Now I know why I can't find anything at my local Big Lots. I talked with a clerk at the store and he told me that a guy came in right before Halloween and loaded up 3 full carriages worth of DVDs !!!!
The funny thing is that the guy loads up one carriage and pays for everything leaves and comes back in 2 hours and then loads up another one and then comes back in another 2 hours and does the same thing!

They of course noticed this and are now talking about limiting DVD purchases
to 2 or 3 a customer for an individual title.
So anyway this is why I have not seen any of these new DVDs the clerk said they put up the Halloween display before 9 am and it was taken down by late afternoon cause this guy wiped them out!

I thought the resellers were gone since the box sets dried up but I guess I was wrong.

BobO'Link

^As long as there are $3 DVDs and someone thinks they can make a quick buck on 'em there'll be resellers/hoarders/leaches. That's also why you'll have problems getting those low priced/high profile "loss leader" DVDs on BF. A couple of years ago during a BF sale at WM I saw a guy empty the Star Wars display when they had the trade paperback in the package with the DVD. He had over a dozen copies of each title.

The "reseller" I saw a couple of weeks ago with a cartfull at BL apparently found out how unmarketable the "Evening with Kevin Smith 2" DVDs are 'cause over a dozen have shown back up... just about what he had in his cart. The "Stan Lee..." DVDs have not come back in... yet... but I expect to see ~12 of them show back up in the next week or so...

DeepSleep

I ran into a reseller at Biglots yesterday. He had a shopping cart filled with every copy of the following:

Out of Sight/Intolerable Cruelty and all the other Double Feature Universal titles
Red Dragon 2 disc Directors Edition
Nowhere in Africa
Significant Others: The Series
Hostel: Unrated
Saboteur
Gross Pointe

There should be NO limits on how many copies of a title you can buy. Biglots is in business to sell, sell, sell.

I think the problem lies with the Biglots return policy. With a 30 day return policy, the reseller can swoop into Biglots and buy every copy in sight and return it in 30 days if he can't sell it. With this kind of policy, Biglots is supplying the reseller with inventory for free during the 30 day period.

Biglots should change their return policy for DVDs, CDs and PC games.

If it were me, I would change the policy to:

7 day return policy for DVDs, CDs and PC Games.

or

30 day return policy for DVDs, CDs and PC games with a 20% restocking fee.

Just my 2 cents....

MooMooMooMoo

I basically agree with DeepSleep.

Big Lots is a liquidator & retailer. They want to sell. That's what they do: sell, Sell, SELL. Most of the stores are going to encourage resellers because they want to sell as much as possible & as quickly as possible. In fact, the entire chain is specifically set up to accommodate resellers of everything they sell, not just dvd's.

The reason some full price retailers limit purchases on blow out sales is because either

a. they're selling a specific item at a loss to get people in the store
or
b. They have a very limited supply of the blow out item & again they're using it to draw customers in.

NEITHER is the case with Big Lots. They are basically a liquidator that sells to the general public & they are there to move PRODUCT & make money.

On the other hand, this is just a guess but I suspect the quickest way a reseller can get them really angry is to return a quantity of unsold dvd's (or anything else that isn't defective).

hindolio

whether anyone agrees with allowing resellers (or hoarders or whoever) buying up all of the big lots stock or not, if big lots continues to refund mass quantities of "unsold stock" because the reseller could not sell within 30 days, its reasonable to think that big lots will change their return policy sooner or later. maybe they will have little choice but to do as deepsleep suggests?

creekdipper

They are both really, REALLY good.

Grosse Pointe is a great snarky fun look at the 'behind-the-scenes' shenanigans of a 'teen' show (like a funny tell-all about 90120). If you like 30 Rock, you should love Grosse Pointe.

Nowhere In Africa is a beautifully filmed, written, and acted drama. It is a foreign film, so be prepared for subtitles.

Drake

Well,.....the clerk I talked with last night told me that some guy wanted to buy all the stock of one particular dinning room table that they got in stock.
They turned him down and told him he could buy only 3 of them and there was a reason behind it and now I can't remember.

A reseller can hurt their business in the long run , lets say the reseller comes in a buys all the DVDs and this continues to happen for a month .
I as a customer go there looking for said DVDs and never find them and I don't purchase anything and every time I go I bring my wife and normally she finds something else to purchase towels,toothpaste,mirrors....etc.
Now if I stop going not only are they losing my sale (which I guess doesn't matter cause the reseller spends his money on the same merchandise) but they are losing the possible sale and extra customer in my wife.
My wife is looking for a new headboard for our bed ,what if one of these visits she finds one she wants and it costs $500-$600?......now they lost that possible sale.
All because this one guy is using BL as his wholesaler......it doesn't make sense for BL .

Torchur317

Picked these up today....

The Detonator (2006)
The Right Stuff- Two-Disc Special Edition (1983)

Too Cool for School Collection
- Beach Girls, The (1982)
- Cave Girl ( Cavegirl ) (1985)
- Coach (1978)
- Hunk (1987)
- Jocks (1987)
- Malibu Beach (1978)
- My Tutor (1983)
- My Chauffeur (1986)
- Pom Pom Girls, The (1976)
- Tomboy (1985)
- Van, The (1977)
- Weekend Pass (1984)

Absence of Light (2006)/ Exterminator City (2005)/ Willow's Way/ An6els

standbyme

The Danville, IL store got stock today of the titles that people have been mentioning for the last few posts.

Alan Smithee

Are the movies on the Too Cool For School collection each on its own disc side, or did they cram 2 each onto a single-layer side?

NCC1701E

Grabbed An American Werewolf in London and The Last Starfighter today.

JumpCutz

Thanks for the heads-up. I just returned from the Santa Clara store with...

Punch Drunk Love
The Lady from Shanghai
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Erik the Viking
Arabian Nights
Saboteur
Beyond the Mat
Universal's Wolf Man Double feature (Werewolf/She Wolf of London)
The Munsters- 2 Movie Fright Fest
Mysterious Island
Class Of 1984

abintra

http://www.allmovie.com/dvd/too-cool...cs-226887/menu

Two movies per side.

JohnIan

San Bernardino, CA (#04238)

Picked up two titles; "Captain Blood/Captain Pirate" and "Significant Others: The [complete] Series".

Saw no copies of "Too Cool For School Collection". *shrugs*

rhpsozzy

Went there and the had a huge restock. Got the following:

Basket Case 3
Beyond The Mat: Director's Cut
Born on The Fourth Of July (Last One)
Career Opportunities
Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams (Last One)
Class Of 1984 (Last One)
The Flintstones
I Know Who Killed Me (Last One)
Jabberwocky
The Last Starfighter
The Munsters: 2 Movie Fright Fest
My Little Eye
Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud
Red Dragon: Directors Edition
The Serpent And The Rainbow (Last One)
Street Fighter

Couldn't find:
Heavy Metal 2000
Fido
Flatliners
Punch Drunk Love

Ralph_Furley

Was looking for The Right Stuff (2 disc CE), but no luck.

Picked up Druids (with Lambert) and Vernon, FL (a documentary).

Saw a copy of Rollover and Liberty Heights. Lots of UFC videos. Barbara Streisand collections and the other collections people were talking about (comedy, horror, and something else).

GameOver

Picked up the following this evening at my local Big Lots,all titles are $3 titles in widescreen Anamorphic:

Running With Scissors

Hostel - Unrated Version

Shocker

8-mile

Empire

Formula 51

Still cannot find Class of 1984,been looking the last several weeks even though restocks have been few and far,hopefully soon.

MrSmearkase

Which version of Hostel? The single disc, or the 2 disc?

MooMooMooMoo

Burien Wa had pretty much the same stuff as everyone else. 3 items I haven't seen elsewhere:

There were two 2 film $8 boxes. One was 2 versions of Annie (original & sequel I think). I don't remember what the other was, but ithey were common films.

Also saw the $15 gangster box mentioned previously.