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Copy and paste from another site, but I'm sure he doesn't mind

A lot of old favorites coming up today since Amazon US is asleep. Some nice deals on Complete or multi season boxes and I guess we'll see on Maleficent 3D what the deal is. Many others coming up as well, but some of these are known items.Amazon UK Lightning Deals on DVD/Blurays A bunch of nice Region Free Bluray boxsets in the Amazon UK Lightning deals coming up and as usual they are repeating a few from earlier for those who missed. I'm pretty sure most of these do not have 50HZ problems so they are completely compatible with US equipment, but I didn't check them all. Many them are Warner releases who has generally been clean for US equipmentFriends Complete is up now for around $75USD shipped -- not the best deal, but US lowest is around $90-- 1:10pm ESTUniversal Monsters Boxset -- earlier this week was $27 of soArrow S 1 and 2World at War2:10pm ESTMaleficent 3DBigBangTheory S1 -7Suits S1-33:10pm ESTBattlestar Galactica Complete (was a little than $40 the last time)Star Wars Complete SagaVampire Diaries S1-5True Blood S1-7Pirates of Caribbean 1-4Quick Payment primer for those who haven't used UK site:

1) You can use your regular Amazon account and all the information should be shared

2) You can't use Amazon US Gift Card or Amazon Credits on the UK site3) You can check out in GBP or USD, but it you allow Amazon to convert to USD for you they will use a padded exchange rate compared toletting your bank do it for use. The built in surcharge is usually around 4% compared to most US Credit Cards that will bump you 1 to 3% in Foreign Exhange Fee (Forex), If you have a CC that doesn't charge Forex fees then that it's significantly cheaper -- all Capital One cards are free, many Chase and Amex premium (annual fee) cards are as well, Discover is Forex free but Amazon doesn't accept.4) I don't know if UK will bundle items into a single package if you buy them all the same day like Amazon usually does. If they do, then that may save you shipping and make it even cheaper. Std UK shipping to US is around $5 for the first item and $1.60 for each added.Recently they have gone back to using Royal Mail for most shipping which has no tracking, but normal delivery time is around 5-10 business days. In the past, holiday traffic has been slower

5) Amazon Prime is only for domestic shipping so it won't be Free Shipping.

6) Unlike regular UK buys, for Lightning Deals the VAT is removed before they discount Deal price so you won;t get the extra saving, but the overall prices here are general about as good as or better than any previous prices at least on the items I've checked -- all teh prices are known yet.
 

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Picked up the Universal Monsters set and Sopranos complete set on top of a bunch of stuff I already had in my cart. Didn't realize the BBT set was also amongst the deals... although timing may not be perfect to include that anyway.

Didn't realize about the VAT rule for lightning deals, so I asked them to correct it. They explained it in their reply, but also offered to credit the £10 diff for the Sopranos set as a one-time courtesy exception. :thumbsup: Works for me... :biggrin:

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Looks some some repeats of the region free Bluray sets coming up again.Amazon UK Movie Lightning Deals SATURDAY Nov 2912:10pm Eastern StandardUniversal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection [Blu-ray]Product Link 1:10pm ESTVampire Diaries Bluray S1-5 Product link Sons of Anarchy Bluray S 1-5 Product Link Sunday will be interesting to see what they will repeat again -- I'd be a little surprised not to see BSG and Sopranos at least once more
 

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Which monsters set is that? The blu ray or the recently released DVD set? Region free?Never mind. It's the blu ray which I have. Wouldn't have minded a great deal on that new DVD set.
 

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Not a Lightning Deal, but the 8 disc Superman Bluray Anthology is back on sale and better than ever at around $16.50 shipped onceyou remove the VAT and if you use a Forex free Credit CardThis includes both cuts of S1, theatrical and Donner of S2, plus a lot of extras that the movie only set in missing Superman Anthology -- 8 discs
 

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Johnny Angell said:
Which monsters set is that? The blu ray or the recently released DVD set? Region free?
Sorry - it's the Universal Monsters Bluray set. It is completely region free and pretty much identicalto the US set with the exception of a single missing commentary track on Draculahttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Classic-Monsters-Essential-Collection/dp/B008H45YSO
Johnny Angell said:
What is a Forex card.
Foreign Exchange Fee -- many US Credit cards charge you a 3% fee to use anything other than US currency.Many cards like Capital One and quite a few of the premium cards do not charge an extra fee to buyin local currency (for Amazon UK it GBP/£).Amazon graciously lets you check out in USD so you don't get charged the Forex, but they don't tell you that they usually pad their £/USD conversion rate by 3.5- 4.5%. So even if you pay the 3% extra, it's almost always cheaper to check out in local currency. If you use the Amazon Converter you will pay $17.17
 

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SUNDAY Lightning DEALS in the UK:Bluray deals, all region free and US compatible as far as I know EXCEPT as noted9:10 am ESTArrow Season 1-210:10am ESTHouse,MD Complete S1-8 I've not seen this one on sale before though may have missed it and it's not available in the US at all. Previous LD was £52.99 -- around $90 shipped. 11:10amSuits S1-3Sons of Anarchy - Season 1-5 [Blu-ray]12:10 pm ESTFast & Furious Movie 1-6Disney Pixar Complete Collection [Blu-ray] -- NOTE Toy Story 1-3, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, Incredibles, Cars, Cars 2, Brave, Monsters Uni, Pixar Short 1, Pixar Shorts 2, Cars Toon, --- all are region Free BUT Wall-E, Bugs Life, UP, and Ratatouille are Region B locked This is it's own little Disney Movie Club deal even with the 4 Locked disc. Last Lightning deal this was £54 so around $90.1:10pm ESTLion King 1-3Friends S1-10 £46 last time -- around $77 shipped2:10 pm ESTThe Sopranos - Complete Collection [Blu-ray] [Region Free]
 

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Not too many Blurays today, but far more than Amazon US

8:10pm EST -- for those who missed it and wanted a Cool Packaging version of the Universal Monsters Collectiom
The Classic Monster Coffin Collection [Blu-ray] [Region Free]
 

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