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Old 12-25-08 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor
Total BS.

Best Buy has great deals all the time.

Just on TV sets, I've purchased at least 50-100 various season sets over the years for $5-10. I've bought over 30 blu rays there for less than $10 each.

I'm a pretty saavy shopper, using Amazon and CH all the time, and always comparing prices. But I spend just as much at Best Buy than anywhere else.

If you believe Best Buy doesn't have great deals, then you aren't shopping very well.
Blu-ray deals at Best Buy has been so-so since March 2008. During the holidays of 2007 and into early 2008, I scored tons a great deals on B1G1 and B2G1 deals at Best Buy stacked with coupons or credit or price matches.

Since then, there's been a $10 coupon, rebates, price matching, and Black Friday specials to make the deals better. I'm a very saavy shopper -- and I'd say that deals at Best Buy on Blus are not common, yet.

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Old 12-26-08 | 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevor
Total BS.

Best Buy has great deals all the time.

Just on TV sets, I've purchased at least 50-100 various season sets over the years for $5-10. I've bought over 30 blu rays there for less than $10 each.
Dismissing others claims by saying you got great deals on standard def DVD season sets has no relevance to the topic at hand....
No one here is saying that Best Buy's prices on EVERYTHING is always bad...what we ARE saying is that their standard pricing on BLU-RAY DISCS is!
Earlier this year I got a great price on some AA batteries there on sale, but it doesn't change the fact that their everyday regular prices on most all of their Blu-ray Discs are much higher than what you can find them for online...

Also, I'd like to know what 30 Blu-ray titles you have managed to pick up from there at less than $10 each....
Old 12-26-08 | 07:52 AM
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Also, I'd like to know what 30 Blu-ray titles you have managed to pick up from there at less than $10 each....
Truth. BB is the worst when it comes to pricing. I'd prefer to see some scanned receipts myself.
Old 12-26-08 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by WMAangel
Dismissing others claims by saying you got great deals on standard def DVD season sets has no relevance to the topic at hand....
No one here is saying that Best Buy's prices on EVERYTHING is always bad...what we ARE saying is that their standard pricing on BLU-RAY DISCS is!
Earlier this year I got a great price on some AA batteries there on sale, but it doesn't change the fact that their everyday regular prices on most all of their Blu-ray Discs are much higher than what you can find them for online...

Also, I'd like to know what 30 Blu-ray titles you have managed to pick up from there at less than $10 each....
I obviously wasn't saying that their standard pricing was great. I was just discounting the blanket statements that nothing is ever competitively priced there.

Read the post above yours to see the easy ways we acquired multiple cheap BR titles at BB.

Scanning my shelf, here are some of the $10 or less titles I bought in store at Best Buy: Land of the Dead, Apocalypto, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Road Warrior, March of the Penguins, Bullitt, The Fugitive, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead (both original and remake), The Aviator, Wyatt Earp, Day of the Dead, DVE HD Basics, The Gauntlet, Shinobi, and The Perfect Storm. Also a few BR TV sets were $15-20 earlier this year.

Obviously, for a non-DVDtalker who just walks in and buys what they want, pretty much all B&M stores don't compare to CH or other online pricing. But for people like us, there are good deals to be found.
Old 12-26-08 | 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by WMAangel
Also, I'd like to know what 30 Blu-ray titles you have managed to pick up from there at less than $10 each....
I got the following 9 Blu-rays for under $10 from Best Buy --

Untouchables
NIN: Beside you in time
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Reservoir Dogs
Road Warrior
Die Hard 1
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3
Day After Tomorrow

This was during various sales (B2G1) and I had three $20 off 3 Blu-Rays coupons -- and they stacked them. Three trips. Total was just below $10 each in the end.

It would have been very possible to score movies under $10 with the $10 Magnolia coupon and price matching as well. There's simply been nothing I've wanted that wasn't easier to just pick up online or at fry's for cheap.

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