Wayne_j
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$5 more for a steel book I would pay if I liked the cover. $20 is crazy talk.
Well...I pick mine up at lunch today. Praying to karma gods it’s in decent shape.
$5 more for a steel book I would pay if I liked the cover. $20 is crazy talk.
No rush to get the box set since i viewed my Blu-ray set earlier this year plus i had some special discounts with the order so i can wait.cancelled my order from them when it was clear yesterday that my order hadn’t shipped and wasn’t even in a shipping soon status. Ordered from amazon who indicated my order could be here today and was the same price as my Target pre-order
But it looks perfect from the exterior packaging.
Picked up this book at Barnes And Noble on a clearance sale.
I think I paid $9.99. A few months ago.How much did you pay for that? I think I know why it is on clearance.
That original edition is from 2015. There is a new, revised and updated edition of same which will be released November 3. They're probably clearing out old stock to replace them with the newer version.
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The new one is currently pre-ordering on Amazon for its list price of $50, though. So if you got the old one on clearance, you probably got a better deal. I never got the old one so have the new one ordered, but I'd like it to come down some from that. We'll seee.
For those interested in BTTF books, I would also highly recommend this book by Caseen Gaines. It is a more traditional trade paperback type of book and isn't a coffee-table-size thing. But there's lots of great information in it and he writes in an engrossing, highly readable style.
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The new book has very little new content.
Nothing yet on my shipping info from Target. Have ordered from them before and they always ship close to the release date but not this time.
Nothing yet on my shipping info from Target. Have ordered from them before and they always ship close to the release date but not this time.
Fortunately my local store's employees seem to be more skilled with box cutters, as I have just opened it up and everything seems to be in good order. Bummer to hear about so many that were messed up by the one nearest you. They really should take greater care of these steelbook exclusives. Of course maybe they're thinking "hey they're made of steel, they're indestructible!"Good for you. I'm glad at least one of us got a clean copy. All of the copies I interacted with yesterday seemed really well packaged and shrinkwrapped. If it hadn't been for the spine slashes, I would have accepted them. I'd be really surprised if you had a problem with the rest of the steelbooks if you managed to get one that wasn't spine slashed. Let us know. But I'm guessing you're fine.
I'm no longer looking to get the steelbooks because I'm just done with the shitshow and accepted the regular release. That being said, I checked Best Buy's website again today. It now shows that all copies of the steelbook are sold out from my local store where I went yesterday. This means that other people went in there, bought and accepted the scratched copies that I refused. That's their prerogative, but it surprises me because I would think the majority of steelbook collectors want them to look nice. Oh well. Whoever bought them is certainly welcome to those copies since I didn't want them.
All of the copies I interacted with yesterday seemed really well packaged and shrinkwrapped. If it hadn't been for the spine slashes, I would have accepted them.
Bummer to hear about so many that were messed up by the one nearest you.
Dumb question, but are you sure the spines were actually damaged and it wasn't just the crease of the shrinkwrap, which happens to align over the spines on this release?
I wonder if the BTTF steels will be at closeout prices one day?