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Old 09-22-08, 11:09 PM
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Edit\: Oops, totally misread that.

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I got that, too--which is weird, because I haven't gotten a blu-related email from amazon in quite some time.
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Originally Posted by Darknite39
I got that, too--which is weird, because I haven't gotten a blu-related email from amazon in quite some time.
I never got the initial B2G1 free e-mail in the first place.
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I'm going to shoot them another email and see what happens.
So weird...they adjusted the price on this order for me, but on the first email I sent, they said that the email was inadvertently sent and that the Blu-Ray deal they were referring to isn't on the site yet. At least I got one free.
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Amazon has a "Save up to 55%" sale going on now with some decent prices:

Nightmare Before Christmas - $22.99
Short Circuit - $8.99

and a bunch of $13.99 & $14.99 titles

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...rd_i=193640011
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Originally Posted by mattysemo247
Amazon has a "Save up to 55%" sale going on now with some decent prices:

Nightmare Before Christmas - $22.99
Short Circuit - $8.99

and a bunch of $13.99 & $14.99 titles

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...rd_i=193640011
That's a decent sale on most titles, but I already own what I need from that list. But I did sent a price adjustment email asking for the lower Nightmare price -- I bought it before they changed their policy, so hopefully they will honor it.
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Amazon has the Sony S300 for $199 while supplies last

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...nandscathed-20

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Blu-ray_Players/Hardware/Sony/High-Def_Retailing/Amazon/Amazon_Offering_Sony_BDP-S300_for_Under_$200/2105
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Originally Posted by bookcase3
That's a decent sale on most titles, but I already own what I need from that list. But I did sent a price adjustment email asking for the lower Nightmare price -- I bought it before they changed their policy, so hopefully they will honor it.
What was the policy change?
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They won't do price protection after the purchase anymore, as of 9/1.
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An AVS member named cinemasquid has a website that tracks all of the price changes at Amazon for blu-rays.

http://www.cinemasquid.com/PriceAdjustments.aspx

It makes tracking the increases and decreases easy and he also has captures from about 60+ movies on the site.
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Great website! Thanks for sharing...
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That's cool.
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Brilliant site. Thanks!
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Great deal on the Sony. But I learned my lesson last year. I jumped on a $199 HD-DVD player last September, only to find them much cheaper come Black Friday. I expect the same to happen this year. Although I own over 125 HD-DVD's, I'll get a BR player for $150 or less...
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How about this:

SONY BDP-S300 Blu-Ray Player for $125 when you purchase 3 movies and PS3 remote + Free Super Saver Shipping

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...light=bdp-s300

Old player, but a cheap way to get started in Blu-Ray.
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Originally Posted by bookcase3
That's a decent sale on most titles, but I already own what I need from that list. But I did sent a price adjustment email asking for the lower Nightmare price -- I bought it before they changed their policy, so hopefully they will honor it.
Same situation as you, the order was placed prior to 09/01 and they did honor the old price guarantee. So I got my $5.00 back.
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Originally Posted by bookcase3
That's a decent sale on most titles, but I already own what I need from that list. But I did sent a price adjustment email asking for the lower Nightmare price -- I bought it before they changed their policy, so hopefully they will honor it.
My refund request of $4.96 for Nightmare was approved today. Their email stated, "Only orders placed before September 1, 2008 are eligible for a price difference refund under the Post-Order Price Guarantee policy. As of September 1, 2008 we are no longer offering discounts if prices change on our website after you make a purchase."
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Costco has several FOX BDs for $12.99. Titles seen are The Sentinel, Predator, Chain Reaction, Kiss of the Dragon and Commando.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-bargain...thread-15.html
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Originally Posted by Jericho
Drexl is correct. These are the same prices that Amazon had a week ago when they were running the same B2G1 sale (well at least after they adjusted the MSRPs and lowered some of the prices). The only title on that list that went up from last week was Predator, which seemed to have an incorrect MSRP before.

Don't go hating on Amazon for made up reasons. If you're going to hate on Amazon, at least do it for real reasons.
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Amazon had Predator listed with a $19.98 MSRP, which by all accounts was an error. I don't see any other e-tailers with that MSRP, so that low price by Amazon seems like an error. You'll see that Predator is back up to "normal" Fox MSRP.

As to the other prices, I don't follow Amazon every day. So I can't say what happened this weekend. But I know I was looking at this exact same sale last week. And these prices are all pretty much the same. All the $39.99 MSRP titles sold for $27.95. All the $34.98 MSRP titles sold for $23.95. All the $29.98 MSRP titles were either $20.95 or $19.95, I can't remember. Since they're $19.95 now, the price didn't go up. Unless Amazon dropped their prices on all these titles for a weekend, they didn't raise anything. And even if they did, these are the same prices they normally have and I'm reasonably certain they're no higher than they were last week during the same sale. Either your memory is off or Amazon returned to "normal" pricing after last weekend's weirdness.
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Costco has several FOX BDs for $12.99. Titles seen are The Sentinel, Predator, Chain Reaction, Kiss of the Dragon and Commando.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-bargain...thread-15.html
Toldja!

Rgeardless, good deal. This spells good news for other Fox titles like Mr, Myself and Irene, ID4, Amityville and Carrie! I pre-ordered Young Frankenstein from Amazon...one of my first Fox titles in a long, long time.
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Toldja!

Rgeardless, good deal. This spells good news for other Fox titles like Mr, Myself and Irene, ID4, Amityville and Carrie! I pre-ordered Young Frankenstein from Amazon...one of my first Fox titles in a long, long time.
I do see that Amazon dropped the price on some of the titles in its sale on Friday (after the sale was over) and did raise a few of them again on Monday (when the sale was reactivated). So for that you were right. Although I still maintain that the current prices are the normal "standard" for Amazon and they're not doing anything really shady in regards to pricing and their sale(s). And everything I stated in my posts was accurate.

You'll notice on September 15, they dropped the price on almost all the titles part of the Buy 2, Get 1 sale. And this was during the sale! The point of the post was that Amazon's not trying to rip people off, they just do weird pricing, and sometimes that pricing overlaps a sale.
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Originally Posted by dx23
Costco has several FOX BDs for $12.99. Titles seen are The Sentinel, Predator, Chain Reaction, Kiss of the Dragon and Commando.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-bargain...thread-15.html
Fox has dropped the MSRP on these titles to 19.99. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.
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Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
Toldja!

Rgeardless, good deal. This spells good news for other Fox titles like Mr, Myself and Irene, ID4, Amityville and Carrie! I pre-ordered Young Frankenstein from Amazon...one of my first Fox titles in a long, long time.
Come on I, Robot!
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FYI, free shipping is back at Columbia House and stacks with the B1G1 on Blu-rays. The code 805639.
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Oh man...does CH have tons of BD discs? Never ordered from them before.
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Oh man...does CH have tons of BD discs? Never ordered from them before.
About 300 movies and 15 TV series.....a few good titles, and pre-orders count for BOGO.
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