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10/31/09 at 11:17am

Robert Crawford
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Hmmm...once again Amazon is taking its sweet time giving me the lowest price. Mine still shows $38.99

Which is why I don't wait on them by just reordering and cancelling my previous order.

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#992

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11/1/09 at 2:39pm

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Target 2 Pack Blu Rays for $22 (or $19.80 with code) -- some good movies, some better than usual prices, some pretty much not worth the discount, but .....

Online only
Free standard shipping
Sales Tax as appropriate

10% code for whole order -- TCHOLYD1 add late in checkout

www.target.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/191-0647849-3860135

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Seabiscuit/Cinderella Man
Inside Man/Children of Men
Do The Right Thing/8 Mile
21/88 Minutes
Field Of Dreams/Bruce Almighty
A Knight's Tale/The Other Boleyn Girl
Last Chance Harvey/Mad Money
Striking Distance/No Way Back
The Sentinel/Courage Under Fire
Total Recall/Punisher,the Tom Jane one
Rambo First Blood/Kickboxer
Happily N'ever After/Ultimate Avengers 1&2
Saw/Saw II
Donnie Darko/Silence of the Lambs
Revenge,Dir. cut)/We Own The Night
Halloween,1978 original/Hellraiser
Basic Instinct/American Psycho
Ninth Gate /Stir of Echoes
Cutthroat Island/Young Guns
NL Van Wilder/Waiting
See No Evil/Devil's Rejects
Rent/Across The Universe
Rambo 2/Rambo 3
Donnie Darko/Silence of the Lambs
Beowulf and Grendel/To Kill A King
Commando/Predator
Rocky/Hoosiers
Planet of the Apes(1968)/Planet of the Apes(2001)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer/Daredevil
The Transporter/Transporter 2
See No Evil/The Devil's Rejects
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/Entrapment
Lies and Illusions/Streets of Blood
Chaos/Reservoir Dogs
Men of Honor/Hart's War

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11/3/09 at 10:58am

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For those who still don't have the Planet Earth Blu ray, the best price I've seen on the BBC set has been posted at the Amazon UK. Once the VAT is removed and regular shipping is added, the price comes in a bit under $32USD. It currently lists shipping in 7-13 days with a typical 6-7 day delivery time. Most of the time when I've ordered from Amazon UK I find the package arrives earlier than I expect.

www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Earth-Complete-BBC-Blu-ray/dp/B000SKNIWE/ref=pd_ts_zgc_d_h__383380011_1

Quick answers to the inevitable questions:
Yes it is completely region free
Yes it is BBC version with David Attenborough, not the Discovery version with Sigourney Weaver
Yes it does have 5 discs instead of the US BBC box with only 4 discs.
Yes it is 1080p for the Planet Earth episodes (discs 1-4 are identical to the US BBC set) despite the box saying 1080i. The 5th disc is 1080i so the box takes the least common denominator truth in labelling approach.

Some CC do charge a currency conversion fee to pay in Pounds/Euro. There is an option somewhere in the checkout procedure to "Pay in US dollars," but I've never been entirely clear if that eliminates the fee or just shows the customer the price in Home Currency value.

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11/3/09 at 2:59pm

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HDScape is having a 50% off all their Blu-ray discs "Autumn Sale."

This includes the DVE HD Basics disc ($15!) and also all their aquarium, fireplace, star gazing-type discs.

CLICK HERE to check things out.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

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11/3/09 at 5:31pm

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Amazon $9.99 BD sale. Some good titles:

Interview with a Vampire
Silence of the Lambs
Phantom of the OPera
Superman - The Movie
Mongol
Blazing Saddles
A TIme to Kill
Wild Bunch
Pelican Brief
Risky Business
Being There
American Psycho
Halloween
Mr Brooks
The Wedding Singer
First Blood
Rescue Dawn
Freddy vs. Jason
Omega Man
Point of No Return
Saw
Every Which Way But Loose
In the Valley of Elah
The Devils Rejects
Rambo FB Part II
Cutthroat Island
Saw II
Rambo III
Van Wilder
Stir of Echos
Young Guns
House of 1000 Corpses
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
The Condemned
10.5 Apocalypse/Category 7: The End of the World
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Home of the Brave
Gothika
Rest Stop-Don't Look Back
Rumor Has It
Rest Stop: Dead Ahead
Amusement
Bam Margera Presents: Where the #$&% is Santa?
The Wicker Man
Salvage/Mortuary
Sublime

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11/3/09 at 6:31pm

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11/4/09 at 8:49am

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Send em an email! they will fix it. Plus, if you ordered Snow White Blu from Amazon you are eligible for another whole $10 off, taking it down to an AMAZING $27.48 shipped!

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11/4/09 at 1:41pm

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Posters at HardForum now reporting they can get the 2 four disk packs of Up/Monsters for under $35! My preorder still shows $27.48 with the Snow White discount, I'm hesitant to ask for the price to drop to $24.98, that would just be craaaazy.

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11/4/09 at 3:53pm

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Yep, my Up! is currently $12.99 and Inc. is still $24.99. I'm not going to ask for a further discount but if it goes down again with the price guarantee that would be very nice.

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11/4/09 at 7:50pm

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I asked for the further combo discount, down another $3-4 today depending on time. I don't very often, but I've been a bit annoyed lately with their dropping pre-order prices shortly after I order. I don't really understand their policy, or at least how they interpret it: you don't get the lowest pre-order price unless you call up and ask for it while that price is in effect...that's been my experience anyway. So yeah, about $10 for Up.

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11/4/09 at 7:58pm

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I asked for the further combo discount, down another $3-4 today depending on time. I don't very often, but I've been a bit annoyed lately with their dropping pre-order prices shortly after I order. I don't really understand their policy, or at least how they interpret it: you don't get the lowest pre-order price unless you call up and ask for it while that price is in effect...that's been my experience anyway. So yeah, about $10 for Up.

Your annoyed when they lower a price on something you ordered?

My experience has been they follow their own policy and lower a price without me asking

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11/4/09 at 9:30pm

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Thanks for the heads-up on Up!/Monsters Inc., y'all. $32.98 total as of 11/4/2009, 11:30 p.m. Central. Just placed my order.

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11/4/09 at 9:57pm

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Originally Posted by TonyD

Your annoyed when they lower a price on something you ordered?

Yes, I think I explained quite clearly why...

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11/4/09 at 10:03pm

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Craig: When the price of Snow White on blu went down after I ordered it, Amazon adjusted my order $5 without me asking.

Now that they have dropped the price on Up! from $22.99 (when I ordered it) to $19.99, I am expecting them to adjust my order on their own. If they don't, they'll get an e-mail from me about it then.

There's Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Bullseye, he's Woody's horse. Pete the old prospector. And, Woody, the man himself. Of course, it's time for Woody's RoundUp. He's the very best! He's the rootinest, tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild west!

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11/4/09 at 11:00pm

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They've been pretty good about updating lower prices for my few preorders so far as well although they do seem to take a day or so to do the update -- and I do wonder if an update might get skipped in cases where the preorder price only dropped for a day or less (before they get around to updating my preorder).

If the problem is w/ some sort of additional promo coupon discounts, that's probably gonna be different than standard preorder price drops anyway. Their general policy has always reasonably been to *NOT* apply promo coupons/certificates after the order has been placed. However, I can see them understandably make certain exceptions to that rule like seems to be done for the prior Snow White deal -- and in such cases where a specific promo coupon is required, it's sensible for them wait for you to ask them to apply it, not simply apply it automatically, since it's not something they would normally automatically apply (w/out you submitting the coupon code).

People can gripe all they want, but the customer is *NOT* always right.

BTW, nice to see the latest price drop on Up (and Monsters, Inc). Think I'm gonna go ahead and order Up now at ~$20+tax. Still kinda debating on whether I really want to upgrade Monsters, Inc. though -- hard to resist at essentially ~$13+tax w/ that $10 off deal. Guess I can just give away our old DVD to one of my siblings (and his/her toddler), especially since the BD comes w/ the DVD.

And oh, I now see that Harry Potter got knocked down to ~$17 -- that'd be another buck off for my preorder.

_Man_

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11/5/09 at 2:39am

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Amazon's FAQ for the Pre-order Price Guarantee says to allow up to 24 hours for the price change to be applied to your order. If it happens after your item has already shipped, you will be notified of the amount of your refund within 24 hours of the end of the day of release (if the street date is a Tuesday, you will be notified by the end of Wednesday).

In the past, Amazon has always honored those terms for me. Always.

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11/5/09 at 9:08am

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Originally Posted by CraigF

Yes, I think I explained quite clearly why...

yes you did, I'm still not sure what the hassle is.

Just in case amazon would accidentally forget to lower a price I put things I ordered back into my cart and check it every day or so just to see if anything was lowered then if they don't lower within a day i just shoot them an email.
I'm sorry you find it to be annoying, I find it to be a feature of using Amazon.

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11/5/09 at 9:18am

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Originally Posted by Mark_TB

Amazon's FAQ for the Pre-order Price Guarantee says to allow up to 24 hours for the price change to be applied to your order. If it happens after your item has already shipped, you will be notified of the amount of your refund within 24 hours of the end of the day of release (if the street date is a Tuesday, you will be notified by the end of Wednesday).

That's how it worked with me for Snow White. In fact, they issued a credit to my card, which they'd already charged at the higher price. And I also received a notice that the Columbia Film Noir set was being charged at a lower price after I'd received the shipping notice that listed the old higher price.

The only time I've had to contact Amazon customer service about a problem was an instance in which a 2-for-$10 sale price wasn't applied to an order, and they fixed it.

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11/5/09 at 9:50am

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I'm not seeing the "Pay in US Dollars" option on that Amazon.uk site. Anyone know how to get to it?

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11/5/09 at 10:43am

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AFAIK there is no such option on the UK site; it's different to the US site in many ways.

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11/5/09 at 12:35pm

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I'm not seeing the "Pay in US Dollars" option on that Amazon.uk site. Anyone know how to get to it?

Go to "Your Account" then in the section "Payment & GC" click "Turn On/Turn Off Amazon Currency Converter" then click the help link to find out how it works.

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11/16/09 at 3:36pm

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Best Buy has John Adams, the HBO mini-series, on sale for $24.99. This is currently $20 cheaper than Amazon. Price is the same both online and in store.

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