Just got this e-mail:

We’ve got some big news. We’re launching a new website on November 25, and we’re moving warehouses in the process. To clear the way for the new site, we’re selling everything on our current site at 40% off the retail price. That includes clothing, posters, mugs, totebags, and of course every Criterion DVD in stock! You’ll still get free shipping on orders over $50, and your purchases will still count toward our loyalty program if you create an account on our new site. We won’t be taking new preorders or back orders—this sale is strictly “while supplies last,” so shop early and often. Come on down, browse around, and stock up on holiday gifts at unbeatable prices, while you also help us move to our new digs! Sale ends Monday, November 24, at midnight.

Criterion.com

The only thing that's better than dvdplanet during the sale is
Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films for a cool $510.

If I had the dough that is a decent deal. The book alone used to be availabele.

Here's the book - not sure if it was discounted though.

I wish their store had director mugs, like MoC does with Ozu and Murnau. The Criterion logo ones are pretty dull.

Wow thats a great deal on the book. It shows in the cart for 39.00 I had already bought the book at near full price a year or so ago.
It also say you get a fifty dollar gift certificate for every 500 you spend, if any takers on the full set.

Yeah, I hate that big fat nondescript C . The Janus Films logo looks pretty cool on merch though.

This is true; however, note that DVDPlanet doesn't carry every single Criterion. The Andrzej Wajda box set, Black Narcissus, and Under the Roofs of Paris come to mind, and I know there are a few others.

Incidentally, I ordered Divorce Italian Style from DVD Planet when the current sale started, but I got a "We're sorry, this item has been discontinued" email the next day.

I ordered the Wajda box and Divorce Italian Style from Criterion today.

Thanks OP! I am going to order some things I missed at the Buy One Get One Free sale at DD.