Circuity City 50% off HD DVD sale - starts 3/30/08

Patrick Sun · 03-27-2008, 07:47 AM

Just a heads up for those who want to finish off their HD DVD collection:

Circuit City will be having a 50% off sale on their remaining stock of HD DVDs starting this upcoming Sunday, 3/30/08.

The sale could go one of 2 ways:

1. It's 50% off MSRP, not that great a deal on the prices.

2. It's 50% off their everyday prices (based on their online pricing, we're looking at $7.50 and $10 for the usual titles priced $14.99 and $19.99, and a bit more for the recently released titles or larger sets).

I think it'll be option 2, but YMMV.

As most Best Buys and Targets have cleared off their HD DVD titles, this is probably one of the last retail opportunities to get HD DVDs at a decent price before the need to use online sources for them in the near future.

You may want to scope out your local Circuit City and see if they even have the titles you might be interested in for the sale on Sunday.

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Ric Easton · 03-27-2008, 08:24 AM

Thanks Patrick! Not sure what's left that I want/need. But this will probably be my last hurrah!

Malcolm R · 03-27-2008, 12:12 PM

At the CC I visited yesterday, all the HD-DVD discs were relegated to "dump bin" style kiosks, so they might be a little hard to browse.

Scooter · 03-27-2008, 01:36 PM

FINALLY!!!!

For Christmas I got $50.00 worth of CC gift cards. Been waiting for this to finally happen!!!!

Patrick Sun · 03-30-2008, 12:13 PM

So it looks like CC decides to milk their HD DVD for a little more by locking in the 50%discounted prices off the current stickered price, and not discount from price-matching their own website where the prices are predominantly cheaper, like most $24.99 titles are $19.99 online.

I had about 10 HD DVDs in my hands, waiting in line, and watched the person in front of me get shot down for an online price-match, so I returned to the movies area and put back my stack of titles. At this point in the game, I think I have a psychological aversion to spending more than $10 per HD DVD title.

Chris Gerhard · 03-30-2008, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun

So it looks like CC decides to milk their HD DVD for a little more by locking in the 50%discounted prices off the current stickered price, and not discount from price-matching their own website where the prices are predominantly cheaper, like most $24.99 titles are $19.99 online.

I had about 10 HD DVDs in my hands, waiting in line, and watched the person in front of me get shot down for an online price-match, so I returned to the movies area and put back my stack of titles. At this point in the game, I think I have a psychological aversion to spending more than $10 per HD DVD title.

I arbitrarily set my price at $10 a few weeks ago and I haven't been having much luck finding want I wanted. Right now I have three players and about 40 discs, I had hoped to have more discs when I decided on the hardware redundancy.

Chris

Jerome Grate · 03-30-2008, 07:07 PM

Unfortunately it might be the situation where the discs will go at the higher discounted prices and we won't get the opportunity to scoop them up cheaper.

Aaron Silverman · 03-31-2008, 04:21 PM

Yep, everything at my CC was stickered at $25-$35. Most of 'em are available for under $15 online already anyway.

Gregg Loewen · 04-02-2008, 10:40 AM

i was at Frys on Monday and got 8 titles at $10 each. The employee I spoke with said that the rest of their stock was going on sale later in the month. They had a really good selection, but just like Patrick, I dont want to spend more then $10 a disc for a dead format.

Jerome Grate · 04-08-2008, 09:12 AM

Well unfortunately, slim pickins so far. The only one I got was Duke's of Hazzards. (yes, Dukes of Hazzard). I did miss Dawn Of The Dead, it was gone the next day should have picked it up when I had the chance. Hopefully I'll do some Circuit City jumping this weekend.

Patrick Sun · 04-08-2008, 01:03 PM

I don't think the sale is is still on (unless each store decided to just remainder their HD DVD stock at half-price).

Jerome Grate · 04-08-2008, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun

I don't think the sale is is still on (unless each store decided to just remainder their HD DVD stock at half-price).

The two CCs I went to within the past three days, indicated that what ever was in the bins, was it. They don't have anymore, nor are they expecting any. I hope I Am Legend is still coming out at least.