FWIW, those dismayed at the uptick in pricing for certain Warner catalog titles in the Amazon B2G1 sale, Costco still has them priced at $12.99 each.

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Transporter 1 and 2 are region free, UNCUT and have better PQ than the domestic releases. Got both shipped for $43 USD. Confirm the details for yourself incase the info I got was wrong. Don't be mad at me if they aren't region free or something.

Amazon has some real balls to announce the sale a few days ago with low prices and then jack them up when the sale goes live.

Do what I do... Boycott Amazon's BD's. Don't buy any BD from them.

If it isn't a real sale (raising prices and then offering a discount on multiple purchases is not a real sale), don't order from them.
George

If there's a movie I want, I'll buy it if the price is right no matter how that price is obtained. I don't see what the big deal is. Amazon still ends up being the cheapest price for me for a lot of movies, so just because they raise prices to keep them in check for this sale doesn't bother me.

Completely agree, except on this sale where they announced it with lower prices. That's a pretty shady tactic there, but I still order just about every BD from Amazon.

I think that's the only reason it annoyed me. I usually don't see the sales until they start, so seeing the prices higher isn't a big surprise. This deal did indeed seem pretty shady, for Amazon anyways.

I agree with that, it's weird for them to announce the deal days beforehand. Although everyone kind of expected the prices to go up anyway, so I don't think it's too big of a surprise.

True. However, from my experience Amazon's pricing is still cheaper than any where else.

For me, it's the principle of the thing. Prices are always going to go down at some time in the future, probably even on Amazon. I'm not saying don't buy anything from them ever, just don't buy any of their BD's during this sale. There's nothing I absolutely have to have right now.

They want to jerk their prices up and then offer a 3 for 2 'so called' sale and expect me to patronize them, they have another think coming.

I think it a bit absurd to claim that raising prices before a %off or 2 for 1 sale is 'ok'. You can't honestly raise prices 25% and then start a 25% off sale, it's pretty simple stuff. I mean, if it doesn't bother you, buy their stuff. It bothers me and I hope it bothers most people and eventually/hopefully Amazon gets the message.

George

I agree. The whole point of a SALE...is well, a sale. A sale is not baiting consumers in by offering low prices, then advertising you're going to do a B2G1 on them as well, while slipping in higher prices. Amazon knew everyone was getting their lists together. And it's a shame, really. While I will buy from them (I placed one order before the prices took effect but highly doubt I'll be ordering again unless they lower prices), this will leave a bad taste in my mouth, and my respect for them was just lowered a notch. What this means is normally I buy something from Amazon, even if it is a few bucks more. But shit like this, I'm going to be using alternative sources and double-checking to make sure Amazon is the only source, versus just automatically ordering from Amazon.

Come on, Amazon. Blu-ray consumers don't need to be played with at this point. Especially in this economy.

The whole point of a sale is to get items at a discounted price. Generally, with most of the titles in the B2G1 you'll get them cheaper on average then on a regular basis so in that case it most definitely is a sale. That shouldn't be a question. It's not like Blu-rays advertised in Best Buy's flyer for $29.99 or anything.

The complaints here remind me of those that still complain year after year about Deep Discount pricing during the 20% off sales.

I like Amazon and their Black Friday sale kicked the shit out of everybody else, but it still always comes down to where to get it cheapest and most convenient, regardless of the retailer. Loyalty means a lot, but if things like this really irk you, then honestly there would be very few retailers that you would shop at

Amazon.co.uk has better sales than Amazon.com right now it seems. Look at some of the deals I got today:

Delivery estimate: 16 Jan 2009 - 22 Jan 2009
Dispatch estimate for these items: 8 Jan 2009

Paranoid Park BD
Mad Detective: Masters of Cinema BD
Terminator 2: Judgement Day Director's Cut BD
Total Recall BD
The Tudors: Complete Seasons 1 And 2 BD
Predator 2 BD

Note that none of these are available here with the same kind of presentations.

Grand Total: £80.99

Approx $120.

One thing to consider is that these prices Amazon is raising were technically "sale" prices to begin with (or, at least, discounted from their alleged "regular" prices). So, really, they're not raising their "regular" prices; they're going from one sale to another. And in almost every case, the prices of the B2G1 sale are utimately lower than those of the previous sale.

In retail we used to call it the undertakers discount. Raise the prices then discount it to call it a sale. It's a good thing your husband died this week Mrs. Jones because we have this sleek beauty in Oak or Black for 25% off this week only.

Truth in advertising: buy 2 get 50% off a third choice.

So if you want all 3 B2G1 is better, if you only want 2 but were will to take a third, get the 2 you want before the sale.

1/7/09
Toldja!

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Thanks for the update. Besides Sin City, I'm pretty pumped about Lost, Pulp Fiction and Monsters Inc..

^^Don't care about any of the others, but Monsters, Inc. is my favorite Pixar movie. Thanks for the good news.

Damn, that announcement means a lot of spent money for 2009, but in a good way!

Yup. This is probably the best way to look at it. I bought 3 movies yesterday using this sale. My first purchase in a long time.

Nice. Really looking forward to that. And also Rounders.

Monsters Inc and Sin City will be 2 eventual upgrades. Greatest Game Ever Played is on my most wanted list so I'm sure I will break my recent habit of waiting and pick that one up release week.

Looking for these two to drop on the same day!

You know, I should be more excited about Sin City, Good Will Hunting, and Pulp Fiction ... but the only thing screaming out at me from that list is Lost: The Complete First and Second Seasons.

Same here!