A few words about...™ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- in Blu-ray - Page 2

Did you additionally incorporate some other amazon discount to get to that price?

The Amazon price is now $19.99 - $10 with code snowhite = $9.99 + tax & shipping (if applicable).

amazon went down to $19.98 - $10 snowhite code + $3 shipping!

^ Thanks for the heads-up. I just sent Amazon an e-mail asking them to correct the price on my pre-order.

Is that what you have to do, Travis?  E-mail them to correct the pre-order price?  I haven't been in this situation before. 

Question #2. 

The $5 drop (from when I ordered @ $24.99) means my total of the order drops to $24.98--effectively screwing up my Free Super Saver Shipping.  What do I do then?

 if your order are placed prior to price drop then they WILL send with " free super saver" and apply the discount as well
that IS part of their "price guarantee" :D

I've had them 'forget' to do that before so I contacted them. They said it would be taken care of once the disc ships.

FYI:
Received an e-mail yesterday that my preordered disc was shipped as of yesterday (Sunday, 10/5/09) and that the price was $24.99 with a credited $10.00 promotion applied and that my card was charged "Paid by Visa:     $14.99" (I already have Prime free 2 day shipping). 

Haven't received anything yet that they credited me the difference in the price drop.

Paul

^ Same here but I'm going to give them a day or two to see if they credit me. If not, I'll contact them again and I'm reasonably sure that they'll take care of it then.

The pre-order price at Amazon.com dropped to $19.99 - add the $10.00 'snowhite' code and it's a hap-hap-happy day! (Oops, wrong movie! )

I've ordered this and Craig Ferguson's book, and will see both for just under $40 US shipped to Canada.

I just placed my order. What a great deal!

I went to Walmart and the price was $19.86 but they do not accept online coupons. BestBuy would match Walmart price but not the coupon too. With coupon is was $14.99 plus tax. I didn't know about the Amazon reduction.

Interestingly enough the Snow White Blu-Ray + DVD is showing 19.99 while the Snow White DVD + Blu-Ray is 24.99. Makes me glad I stuck with the Blu-Ray version. I thought about switching for the other cover, but it wasn't that important.

I hope I get credited. I think I will send them an email to make sure.

Pre-ordered the Best Buy Steelbook, went back today for the Blu-ray package.

I had the $10 Movie Rewards coupon printed out.  This would make the Blu & Steelbook $15 & tax.

The fellow in front of me tried to use the coupon & get a Wal-Mart price match ($19.96 around here).  He was told that he probably wouldn't be able to do both.  Cue much tapping of fingers on keys - but the price match worked!  As we'd been talking in line, he turned around and gave me his Wal-Mart print out.

"Same again, please!"  I said when it was my turn. 

So - Blu-ray set with Best Buy Steelbook for $9.96 & tax!  What a deal! 

Give them a few days. I've had several pre-ordered items from Amazon just this year that had last-minute price drops, and they've never failed to come back within 2 days after shipping and issue a credit. No prompting from me necessary.

My order just changed to "Shipping Soon" and has the new lowered price and still has the original promo code discount as well! Bravo, Amazon!

That's good to hear. I look forward to my credit.

When I told my wife about it (and yesterday's Gold Box $18.99 price to boot), she hypothesized that maybe it's precisely the less appealing cover that's causing the price cut for one and not the other.  

And yes, although I debated upgrading at all, I ended up taking the dip as I couldn't resist the $8.99 + tax final price for it (to go along w/ a couple other titles).   Now, I gotta figure out whether I should sell the old 2-disc DVD even though they didn't port all the extras -- maybe I can just sell (or simply give away) the 1st disc(?) or something...

_Man_

PS: I wasn't gonna post about my own purchase here, but since everyone just keeps talking about that, I figured I might as well now.  Hope RAH (and some others) are not too bothered by all the gushing about a good deal (vs about the film itself)...

I was thinking the same thing.



Absolutely. I think it's a shame that studios are taking advantage of the "premium" format of Blu-Ray to use "premium pricing" tactics. Although I suppose I might be willing to pay more if sets contained both DVD and Blu-Ray versions like Disney releases. There are times it can be handy to have the DVD version - like for my portable player.

This makes me wonder what is the source for this restoration?  It is a restoration isn't it?  If it's the original cells, then they'd have to run them through the multi-plane again, wouldn't they?  If film, how did they get around the softness of lack of definition in Technicolor?

I'll be picking up my copy tomorrow.

My  walmart took the online coupon.

Thanks, RAH.  Good to hear you too personally benefited from the recent discounts.  And yeah, definitely agree about the pricing strategy here -- and actually, seems like Disney has been fairly active in exploring ways to do that for some time now, eg. occasional $10 print-your-own coupons for certain day-and-date new releases, BD+DVD combo packs in some cases, $10 upgrade rebates on certain relatively popular catalog titles that seem to even get Paramount to follow suit to some extent.


Agreed, especially for catalog titles where most folks have already bought the DVD, if they were at all interested.  I can understand a modest price premium for day-and-date new releases, but yeah, they definitely needed to overhaul their strategy for catalog titles *IF* they really want to sell them in volume.  I also don't mind though if they charge a bit more during the initial release period and then offer additional discounts some time later.  And some of them have started to offer various discount/rebate programs as well, especially for catalog titles, toward that end.

And yeah, I like that Disney's including the DVD version in quite a few of these (family-oriented) titles, including some day-and-date new releases.

FWIW, for some reason, I mistakenly thought the Monsters vs Aliens BD also came w/ the DVD -- and ordered it alongside the Snow White BD.  Had I realized it was just the BD, I would've probably debated on the purchase some more and *possibly* either wait for a better price or just get the DVD for less.  I guess I probably coulda canceled that portion of the order (and maybe still qualify for free shipping from Amazon), but decided I'd just stick w/ it this time since that title seems worthwhile enough to own on BD sans the DVD -- and my daughter really wants it (on whatever format)...

EDIT: Just wanted to add that I *really* wish they'd make it easier to do those upgrade rebates though -- although that doesn't apply to the Snow White BD -- so we don't have to cut up the BD covers to get the rebates...

_Man_

Edited by ManW_TheUncool - 10/6/09 at 5:15pm

I was going to skip SWATSD until I read here about Amazon's deal.  I should stay away from these forums....

Anways, when my set arrives, I'm probably give the DVD version to my office mate so that his wife and kids can enjoy it.  BD is all I need.

I really want the 149.99 collector's set....I just haven't made up my mind!

I bought the disc today, and while it looks glorious, I must say I'm disappointed in the missing extras from the Platinum edition.  Where is the deleted snippet of the first half of the scene with the witch dipping the apple?  Or the original RKO title card (something they restored to the film for the Blu-Ray of "Pinocchio," but puzzingly omit here).  EDIT: DOH!!  The RKO titles are integrated into the film.  That's what I get for reading an online review mentioning that the RKO title supplement was missing, and not checking myself.

Nonethless, another extra that's missing from the previous Platinum Edition is the dwarfs' argument in the bedroom about whether Snow White stays or goes.  Hell, I might just give away the DVD version of the film in the Blu-Ray set and replace it with disc two from the Platinum Edition.


Edited by Brian W. - 10/6/09 at 11:56pm

I originally got it with the snowhite code from amazon for 14.99. When they dropped the price I sent amazon an email, and without fuss it came all the way down to 9.99. Love amazon's price protection policy on some titles. 9.99 compares very favorably to the 24.99 typical of other retailers.

I wonder how amazon does this price. It seems like a classic loss leader to me. But I guess it drives volume to their site. I wonder if Disney does some amazing discount for amazon to keep this 70+ year old title number 1 in sales?

^ Amazon and the other retailers all get $10 back from Disney for those coupons. Nothing more than a guess but I think at $20, they're probably making a small profit on each copy.

Additionally with the $25 minimum for free shipping it pretty much guarantees that you're going to buy something else to go with it. You probably won't have as good a deal on the second item, so I think Amazon is going to do just fine on this.