Picked up

The Getaway (Baldwin)
Terminator 3
Under Siege
Pulse
Derailed

$14 each after using a RZ certificate.

While the B1G1 sale this past week at Amazon was outstanding (especially when you add the use of the DVDSAVE5 coupon for Amazon Visa users), it was only on selected titles (not everything)....this is still a pretty good sale for those of us with lots of gift cards/store credit/reward zone certificates at BB....five $25 titles for $75 = $15 per movie...sure, that's only a $5 savings over most of the regular 19.99 prices at Amazon, but its still cheaper and Amazon doesn't accept BB credits as payment.

Was going to get all $24.99
Batman begins
Dragonheart
Excalibur
Under Siege
Watereorld

Yes the 5 for 3 offer is good, but after tax its $16.12 per title. My limit is $15 - 20 for a killer movie. For these I'll wait for another Amazon sale or a steal of e-bay..

I wanted to buy something at BB, but I couldn't justify it. Doing the math, it's more like buy four, get one free for me, when you factor my state's tax and BB titles being $5-10 more than what I can get them for online.

I did the math. If I bought the 5 titles, shipped free, with no tax, Best Buy is still a better deal by about $18.

Even if I had 10% off, Best Buy would still be a better deal.

5 $25 titles at Best Buy ran be $80.24 with tax.

5 of the same titles at Amazon (at $19.99) ran be $99.95 shipped free, no tax.

Which is a better deal?

Yeah, it's technically a better deal. But it's only truly good if you're getting 5 you really want rather than 2 or 3.

Yeah, of course. But we are discussing this deal which is Buy3Get2 Free. It makes sense to argue the fact that Best Buy IS cheaper if you want to take advantage of this deal buying 5 movies at Best Buy vs. 5 at Amazon. To say Amazon is cheaper is false, because in this deal, its not, if you planned on buying 5 movies right now, today.

I imagine for me, and nearly everyone else, Best Buy is simply a better deal because not everyone has Prime, not everyone wants to wait 5-10 days for 'free shipping', is in a tax free state (for Amazon) or wants to pay with a credit card vs. Cash/Giftcards etc.

But hey, I'm happy with my selection

Amazon also has the $5 off $50 coupon (with Amazon Visa). So if you managed to split the order into 2 and made 2 orders of $50 each you could save $10.

Picked up:

The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Wild Bunch

Thinking about going back for:

King Kong
Bourne Ultimatum
Eastern Promises
The Kingdom
Transformers

I got:

Alpha Dog
Apollo 13
Hulk
V For Vendetta
Trading Places
U-571
Forbidden Planet
Mystery Men
Out of Sight
Nutty Professor

Still haven't bought my HDTV, but picked up 15 titles today. Had a bunch of giftcards sitting around.

I picked up:

Eastern Promises
The Kingdom
Pan's Labyrinth
Stardust
Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix

Is Forbidden Planet $69.99? If so, how to make it part of this deal?

That makes more sense...I searched and didn't get a result on the AVS forum...I'll have to check it out.

I am going to have to pass on this...

The five titles I was planning on buying:

v for vendetta
batman begins
pans labyrinth
harry potter : OOTP
eternal sunshine

Amazon: 108.75
Best Buy: 102.36 (after tax)

Only saving 6 bucks, hoping that they will go on sale on amazon later, or buy them singally.

That's the gift set. I'm sure he got this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....&cp=1&id=21812

Tried going in store to pick some movies out but my local BB was picked clean from the holidays.

Ordered online instead and got:

Batman Begins
A Christmas Story
Clerks II
Mallrats
Shaun of the Dead

Still a few I'm on the fence about but I might use Amazon since it's only a couple.

dvdfansub...

Quake1028 is right - I only ordered the regular one, not the collector's set.

I had just bought The Bourne Ultimatum and Harry Potter 5 with a gift card on Saturday, so I went back today and added Superman Returns, Pan's Labyrinth and Blade Runner (the 5 disc version).

I also had to price-match The Orange Box for the 360 from $59 to $39 and also picked up TaxCut, which was available with a free DVD of my choice, so I got Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End for free as well.

It was the world's most complicated Best Buy transaction and took four CSRs to figure out correctly.

Draven.. "It was the world's most complicated Best Buy transaction and took four CSRs to figure out correctly."
only 4 csr's?? you are lucky no manager helped out. They would have just said "You can't do that!" Just to save themselves the trouble.

I just kept pointing to their ad and helping them read it. It still got messed up once and I had to go back to the counter and have them knock another $50 off.

Some people from other forums are saying Best Buy has killed this deal. Apparently some stores are saying it wasn't supposed to be ANY 5 movies, just from the ones listed. Also, the deal is completely gone from the website. Glad I got my order in yesterday.

I still have 5 titles (w/ 2 free) in my cart as I'm still contimplating doing another order and it looks like it will let me go through with the order. Problem is, I should slow down my spending but damn this is tempting...

They tried doing the same thing to me when the B2G1F deal was going on. One of the chumps in the video dept. said you could only choose from the titles on the list above the section.

I just ended up going to the front and had them check the prices after totaling out the purchase.