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Schweet!!!

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Time to make out my list. biggrin.gif

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Thank God.  Seems like FOREVER since the last one!

 

 

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i made a somewhat conservative list of titles as i'm not a blind buy kind o' guy.Although,i did for one here
after seeing that series on youtube called :3 reasons (pertaining to the Criterions )

The release of Criterion 's 8 1/2 was nothing short of spectacular,but since i see it as Fellini's masterpiece and
an homage to filmmakers everywhere,i have nooooo trouble double-dipping on this one.

Wings of desire
Days of heaven
and my one blind buy,Amacord,a buddy of mine told me the story and it seems to be well in my Fellini kind of tastes.
Boy was i surprised to see Alvaro Vitali in this clip,and he seems to be a huge part of the film

That film looks to me like,although the resulting film is probably one of Fellini's best,it was a pure joy to actually be part of it.
There is a " joie-de-vivre " kind of feel about it.hence the blind buy.

I haven't seen many Fellinis yet,maybe the guy is growing on me.

The next one i want to watch is I Vitelloni (1953 )

This sale is on till August 2nd ?
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Looks like I'll finally be picking up Kiss Me Deadly. smile.gif
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Yes indeed, that's #1 for me.  Fortunately, I've already acquired some other recent releases thanks to Amazon's sale a couple of months ago.  That takes some of the pressure off and lets me catch up on a few older items that have been on my list forever.

 

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I noticed that Amazon has dropped prices on some Criterion titles this morning. Blow Out was a little over $20 when I looked this morning.

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Hope I can get Something Wild during this sale.
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Originally Posted by Southpaw View Post

Hope I can get Something Wild during this sale.

Jason, B&N allows you to special order Criterion titles that are not in stock, and will give you the same 50%. I peeked in the box at our store here in Maine, and they had two copies of SOMETHING WILD. They will hold a title for three days for you if they have it in stock, or two weeks if it's special ordered (although I think the sale only runs for two weeks or so). They're very lenient about this, making the sale all the more a goldmine.
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Oh yes,knew i forgot one.

Put De Palma's Blow-out on the list too.
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Extra online coupon codes to decrease the misery. These codes should be available to everybody and does not require being a BN Member. Preorders are not eligible items.

I think these are single use per account codes:
L7C8F9D 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until July 13, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.

T9P8A9P at checkout. 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until August 1, 2011.



Note: The following coupon will deduct a percentage off each eligible item (your whole cart) and most importantly can be used multiple times

J3M9D8K 10% discount will be applied to ALL eligible items in your cart. Valid to July 19, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.


There are some other In-store coupons available to Members, but nothing real exciting -- no 25% off coupons and the $5 off $20 that was so useful in previous sales
seems to have been eliminated.

$8 off $40+ which eliminates most of regular Blurays though there are a few single movies it should work for plus the boxsets
$5 off $50+ total purchase.
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Is this in-store only? I'd pick up "Night of the Hunter" and "Diabolique" on blu.
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Originally Posted by MattH. View Post

I noticed that Amazon has dropped prices on some Criterion titles this morning. Blow Out was a little over $20 when I looked this morning.


Thanks.  That is one of the titles on my list.  Robinson Crusoe on Mars and The Great Dictator round out the list.
 

 

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Wings of Desire, Double Life of Veronique, and possibly 8 1/2
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Just look at my listing and I really don't have that many blu-ray titles from Criterion that I need in my collection.  Besides Kiss Me Deadly and The Great Dictator, I have to wait on preorders like Beauty and the Beast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by Randy_M View Post

Is this in-store only? I'd pick up "Night of the Hunter" and "Diabolique" on blu.

No, it will go online Tuesday morning (occasionally a little early if we are lucky) and begin in store Tuesday at opening bell.
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Coupon codes have not been allowed online on Criterion titles in the last few BN Criterion 50% off sales. Store coupons, in-store only.
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Originally Posted by David Norman View Post

Extra online coupon codes to decrease the misery. These codes should be available to everybody and does not require being a BN Member. Preorders are not eligible items.

I think these are single use per account codes:
L7C8F9D 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until July 13, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.

T9P8A9P at checkout. 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until August 1, 2011.

Note: The following coupon will deduct a percentage off each eligible item (your whole cart) and most importantly can be used multiple times

J3M9D8K 10% discount will be applied to ALL eligible items in your cart. Valid to July 19, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.


There are some other In-store coupons available to Members, but nothing real exciting -- no 25% off coupons and the $5 off $20 that was so useful in previous sales
seems to have been eliminated.

$8 off $40+ which eliminates most of regular Blurays though there are a few single movies it should work for plus the boxsets
$5 off $50+ total purchase.
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I had forgotten about that issue.

The codes have worked this week with the B2G1 sale do let's hope it will keep up.
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Online coupon codes do generally work for Criterion titles when it's *not* during their 50% Criterion sale.  They specifically tag all the Criterion titles for that sale so that online coupons won't work -- there are very few exceptions like Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

 

 

For those who won't have membership (to get the in-store membership discount, etc.) and are interested in the following few titles (marked at 30%-off MSRP), you might consider buying 3 of them online on one order using the above mentioned 10%-off-total-order coupon code w/ the current B2G1 sale, which ends today, instead:

 

* Solaris

* Diabolique

* Kiss Me Deadly

* Great Dictator

 

That would run you ~$16.80 each (before any applicable sales tax), and you'd qualify for free shipping whether you're a member or not.  You'd have to have B&N membership and shop in-store to possibly beat that during the 50% sale.

 

Also, if you have a Discover Card, you can get 10% cashback w/ it using their ShopDiscover portal.  There are probably other cashback/rewards deals you can do otherwise, eg. get double points for Best Buy's My Reward Zone via their shopping mall portal.

 

_Man_

 

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the great dictator is not included as 50% off?

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Originally Posted by dana martin View Post

the great dictator is not included as 50% off?



Why do you ask that question?

 

Also, the sale doesn't begin until tomorrow morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crawdaddy

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Originally Posted by ManW_TheUncool View Post

For those who won't have membership (to get the in-store membership discount, etc.) and are interested in the following few titles (marked at 30%-off MSRP), you might consider buying 3 of them online on one order using the above mentioned 10%-off-total-order coupon code w/ the current B2G1 sale, which ends today, instead:

 

* Solaris

* Diabolique

* Kiss Me Deadly

* Great Dictator

 

That would run you ~$16.80 each (before any applicable sales tax), and you'd qualify for free shipping whether you're a member or not.  You'd have to have B&N membership and shop in-store to possibly beat that during the 50% sale.

 

 

 

_Man_

 


this is why i was asking that,
 

 

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That was only meant to be an alternative suggestion for a good deal on those specific titles right now (before the 50% sale begins), especially for folks who either are not B&N members or don't have a (adequate) local B&N store for the sale.

 

If you're not a B&N member, you probably won't be able to beat my suggestion for those titles in the 50% sale, assuming you'd actually want 3 of those.  You probably also won't beat that if you have to shop online since the 50% sale will preclude use of online coupons (and you wouldn't get the in-store member's discount either).

 

_Man_

 

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Just look at my listing and I really don't have that many blu-ray titles from Criterion that I need in my collection. Besides Kiss Me Deadly and The Great Dictator, I have to wait on preorders like Beauty and the Beast.

I'm in the same boat. I have about a dozen Criterions on my wishlist, but they are all August and September released. It looks like I'll just be picking up "The Great Dictator" this time around.
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Am I misreading, or are there no coupons for in-store use as well?  I prefer in-store shopping for Criterion because of the additional 10% discount they discontinued last year for online purchases.  But I've also benefited from a couple of additional coupons like the ones above. 

 

At the store I most often frequent for this, the salespeople have always gone out of their way to accommodate every coupon.  I'm kind of looking forward to driving over there tomorrow evening.

 

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Originally Posted by Chas in CT View Post

Am I misreading, or are there no coupons for in-store use as well?  I prefer in-store shopping for Criterion because of the additional 10% discount they discontinued last year for online purchases.  But I've also benefited from a couple of additional coupons like the ones above. 

 

At the store I most often frequent for this, the salespeople have always gone out of their way to accommodate every coupon.  I'm kind of looking forward to driving over there tomorrow evening.

 


If you're a member, there's at least a couple $5-off-$50 coupons you can use, which works ok if you plan on buying 3 titles (or 2 plus something else).

 

Also, some 10-to-15%-off (or better) coupon or two might show up before the sale is over as is often the case although it's hard to be confident about that since B&N seems to be making gradual changes to their promos over the past year or two.  For instance, I noticed they've been sending out some unique in-store *and* online coupons by email to non-member accounts again lately, and these seem a bit different from the previous unique ones of this type.  Not sure if this type will start replacing the old non-unique kind for in-store use.

 

BTW, looks like the sale is already in effect online now... and interestingly, looks like they might be accepting online coupons this time afterall...

 

_Man_

 


Edited by ManW_TheUncool - 7/11/11 at 10:09pm
post #29 of 117
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Originally Posted by David Norman View Post

Extra online coupon codes to decrease the misery. These codes should be available to everybody and does not require being a BN Member. Preorders are not eligible items.

I think these are single use per account codes:
L7C8F9D 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until July 13, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.

T9P8A9P at checkout. 15% discount will be applied to the highest-priced item in your cart. Valid until August 1, 2011.



Note: The following coupon will deduct a percentage off each eligible item (your whole cart) and most importantly can be used multiple times

J3M9D8K 10% discount will be applied to ALL eligible items in your cart. Valid to July 19, 2011 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time.


There are some other In-store coupons available to Members, but nothing real exciting -- no 25% off coupons and the $5 off $20 that was so useful in previous sales
seems to have been eliminated.

$8 off $40+ which eliminates most of regular Blurays though there are a few single movies it should work for plus the boxsets
$5 off $50+ total purchase.

The online codes work--for now.

Also, for those interested, blu-rays of Beauty and the Beast and High and Low are available for pre-order at 50% off
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Well, I'm done with my six titles I ordered.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crawdaddy

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