arbogast777

Over the past few years I went from ordering exclusively from DD, to only ordering during the 20% off sales, to now removing them from my bookmarks and not bothering with them at all.

Not only is this no sale at all, they have raised their prices higher than anyone else.

A look at a few titles from my wishlist:

Indiana Jones and the KOTCS: $32.96 vs. $31.99 Barnes and Noble or $25.99 Amazon
Poltergeist: $29.17 vs. $27.99 Barnes and Noble or $19.99 Amazon
Patton: $21.37 vs. $16.99 Barnes and Noble or $14.99 Amazon

Sad to see it go but the writing's been on the wall for awhile.

arbogast777

And to add insult to injury, I just looked up the one title I wanted to buy before Christmas, the "It's a Wonderful Life" Blu-ray. It will be $0.14 HIGHER than it is now during the "sale" :-)

Viper187

Yeah, I noticed that with a lot of DVDs. They don't even carry the one BD I tried to look up. Pisses me off Amazon, etc still want $20+ for Jingle All the Way.

bmoore

Well this sucks. I normally purchase a lot during their sale (mostly anime) and the boxsets I want end up being about $0.39 cheaper than they are now.

I hope they retract the ad but I doubt it will happen. Wish i'd known about this sooner- I would have written them off earlier instead of waiting for a sale that won't be coming and spent the money I saved elsewhere.

schbee

Sad I used to love shopping DD all the time year round. They have made it so Amazon is the only place for me to look online. I wish they would at least try and be competitive. Get the deals that Big Lots or Dollar Tree gets and try to take our money. At this point I have a hard time figuring who uses them anymore.

filmsoncon

After the late start and underwhelming discounts for the summer sale, I had mentally prepared for the fact that the usual 20-25% off might not happen; I've chipped away at my wish list over the last couple of months with Amazon, Wherehouse, CH, and Second Spin sales. My wish list is currently down to six items and less than $100, so no huge loss if I have to keep looking for deals on those titles.

As far as DVD Planet goes-- they've shut down the "Quote machine" after never putting any of the items they bought from us up for sale used, and it took them two days to activate the coupon after the summer sale started. I wouldn't hold my breath that they'll suddenly get this right.

Darknite39

Son of a bitch. I've been putting off some big purchases in anticipation of this sale.

Hopefully we can make this thread as long as the classic DDD sale threads in order to show them our disappointment.

hilts

Hey, 40% off the Warner Brother Archives MSRP should be one hell of a deal! Let's turn those those frowns upside down now... no, on second thought, let's not. Go look. I can't stand it.

NiCK Crush

DD is awful

JerryKILL

Hopefully DD will realize they've got a loyal customer base because of the semi annual sales. They are shooting themselves in the foot by not continuing to offer them.

MLBFan24

well that sucks. Was waiting for the 2nd big sale to buy some Magnum PI dvds for my dad for Christmas. Off to Amazon I guess. I'm sure they will drop to $23 again by December.

BKenn01

It seems to me they are targeting the sheep. The people who do not pay any attention.

BigShemp

I'm still waiting for my preorder of STEPFATHER from the end of September.

cdollaz

As someone who doesn't really care about dvds much, but buys a lot of cds, I've been waiting for a sale that includes them. I have barely looked but I already have found a bunch I will be buying. So I'm happy about this sale.

marty888

Hmmm..... WB sells these direct with a $19.95 MSRP, but has email sales for 25% off, and often bundles together titles to bring them down to around $10 each.

DeepDiscount has them listed for $29.95 MSRP, so at 40% off they will be $17.97 each.

There's just no end to the excitement ......

bsmith

Lets not forget about adding in the WB shipping charge of $5 per disk. While the package deals can get you down to around $10 a film some times and periodically they have free shipping at certain price levels. Most of the times the Insiders discount gets negated by shipping charges so $20 - $5 + $5 brings you back to twenty. As a result, some might find the $18 cost appealing when just buying individual titles.

bsmith

You compared three titles and the writing is on the wall?

I just compared the 30 titles on my wishlist and the totals would be if I purchased all 30:

from Amazon: $1150
from DD pre sale: $1124
from DD during sale: $1001

If you check DVD search:
- Amazon has the lowest price on 6811 titles
- DD has the lowest price on 8075 titles
- B&N has the lowest price on 1167 titles

To forecast their doom or compare them to B&N is ridculous. I'm not happy about the sale either, but not because they don't have low prices but because they set the bar so much higher in the past that just beating another vendor's price is not enough anymore, we expect them to stomp on the competition.

rmw650

Seriously, who in the hell at DD made this decision and first they close the store in Naperville, IL and now this wacko sale of theirs starting on 11/13/09...it's bad enough Best Buy tries to rip people off and Wal-Mart is diluting their inventory to only carry a few titles, so what's next now? Not a good year for Deep Discount but maybe there's hope they can overturn this decision and do what's right for all of us and bring the semi-annual sale back and leave it at 25% and that's that, just my opinion. This blows!

oldchuckles

This is really bad news for seniors like me. First, the government announces there will be NO cost-of-living (COLA) increase in Social Security payments for old folks like myself in 2010, and now Deep Discount gives us their middle finger for Christmas. On top of that, most health insurance premiums will be going up another 10%-25% in January. I guess I'll just watch more free TV and not buy as many DVDs as before.

Josh-da-man

Pretty weak. Most of the sort of stuff I buy is already about 40% off.

I'll most likely be sitting this one out this season.

Adrenaline

Agreed lets hope for another November of awesome Amazon Blu/DVD sale like last year!

E-Z-B

DD's annual revenue hinges on these sales. If they're projecting a huge drop in cash flow, expect them to turn things around quickly.

BuddhaWake

now as for this "sale" it sucks. maybe at 50% of MSRP i would bite.

jeffbase34

Wait, does this mean we're not getting the annual DD sale this year? It's been replaced by this shit? Unbelievable.

Al_Tahoe