Upgrade & Save Returns 7/14-8/10!

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List of $4.99 titles (after coupon) thanks mvp!

30 Minutes or Less
A River Runs Through It
Almost Famous
American Pie
American Pie 2
Anchorman
Another Year
Aquamarine
Assassin's Creed: Lineage
Atlas Shrugged 2
Bad Boys
Bad Teacher
Because of Winn-Dixie
Bigfoot
Bitch Slap
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Casino
Chasing Mavericks
Chronicle
Clue
Code of Silence
Collateral Damage
COnfucius
Cop Land
Crank
Crazy on the outside
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Crooked Arrows
Cyborg
Damage
Das Boot
Death Wish 3
Death Wish 4
Dodgeball/There's Something About Mary
Double Impact
Drive
Drive Angry
Eraser
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fifth Element
First Blood
Five Year Engagement
Flicka
Fool's Gold
Force 10 from navarone
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Friday the 13th (2009)
Friends with benefits
Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy
Gamera: Trilogy
GI Joe The Rise of Cobra
Gladiator
Glory
Gone with the wind
Grease
Green Mile
Groundhog Day
Grown Ups
Heavy Metal
Hide and Seek
Hope Springs
Hunter
Hurt Locker
I hope they serve beer in hell
In Time
Inglorious Basterds
Jack & Jill
Jackie Brown
Jerry Maguire
Jumanji
Kick-ass
Killshot
Lars and the real girl
Late Quartet
Lawrence of Arabia
Layer Cake
Legally Blonde 2
Life As We Know It
Little Shop Of Horrors
Lone Wolf McQuade
Love Actually
Mac & Devin Go To High School
Mamma Mia!
Men In Black
Men In Black 2
Michael Clayton
Middle Men
Midnigth In Paris
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
National Lampoons Vacation
Network
Night at the museum collection
Nim's Island
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror
Oceans 12/ Oceans 13
Of Gods and Men
Paul
Peace Maker
Pirates Band Of Misfits
Predators
Premium Rush
Priest
Queen of the Damned
Raid: Redemption
Raising Arizona
Rambo: First Blood Part 2
RED
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Role Models
Rudy
Rum Diary
Rust and Bone
S. Darko
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
Shine A Light
Shutter Island
Smashed
Snakes on a plane
Spy Kids: All the time in the world
Star Trek
Steo Brothers
Stitches
Strange Wilderness
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Student bodies
Tango and Cash
Taxi Driver
Tekken
That's My Boy
The 6th Day
THe Big Lebowski
The Big Year
The Blind Side
The Change Up
The Company Men
The Fighter
The Green Hornet
The Hangover
The Illusionist
THe Josephine Baker Story
The King's Speech
The Man From Snowy River
The Mechanic
The Natural
The Pagemaster
The Reef
The Sitter
The Skeleton Key
The Ultimate Gift
The Wedding Singer
Three Days of the Condor
Tomorrow You're Gone
Top Gun
Troy
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Universal Soldier
Unstoppable
Up In The Air
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
War/The condemned
Water For Elephants
We Bought A Zoo
What's Your Number
Winter in Wartime

Here's is the ad for the week of 7/16

New Releases available Tuesday 7/16

42 (Blu+DVD+UV) $17.99 w/U&S coupon ($22.99 regular price)

Evil Dead 2013 Best Buy Exclusive Bonus disc (Blu+UV) $17.99 w/U&S coupon ($22.99 regular price) (Thanks to Britnasty & Prelude2Elude for the heads up on the exclusive content)

Bullet to the Head (Blu+DVD+UV) $17.99 w/U&S coupon ($22.99 regular price)

Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day Director's Cut Best Buy Exclusive (Blu+UV) $9.99 w/U&S coupon ($14.99 regular price)

Hell On Wheels: The Complete Second Season $19.99 w/U&S coupon ($24.99 regular price)


Should be the same gig as last time, but will update the OP if there are any changes. Let the madness begin! :D

Confirmed for 7/14/13 thru 8/10/13!

$5 off Blu-Rays $9.99 and up.

DVD Upgrade Details:

Bring in your original DVD (no burned copies accepted) with the original case to Customer Service and receive a $5-off coupon valid on any Blu-ray movie priced $9.99 or more. See a Customer Specialist for more details about the Upgrade & Save promotion. Limit 5 coupons per trip for DVD upgrades. A recycling receipt must accompany the coupon at time of redemption. Once you have received your coupon, if you do not find a Blu-ray movie, you are unable to get your turned-in DVD back. Not valid with any other discount or package. Limit one coupon per Blu-ray purchase. Markdown taken from original price or promotional price. Your original DVD must have been commercially packed and with the original case. Adult content DVDs not accepted. Not valid with any other offer. Valid on in-stock Blu-ray movies only. No cash value. Offer valid through 8/10/13.

$5 U&S Coupon through Mobile Phone Upgrade Eligibility

Get a $5 coupon good toward any Blu-ray movie $9.99 & up when you have a Mobile Phone Specialist check for upgrade eligibility on your mobile phone. Learn more at BestBuy.com/UpgradeAndSave.

Fine Print: See a Mobile Phone Specialist for upgrade check. You do not need to be eligible for a phone upgrade in order to receive $5 coupon. Markdowns taken from original or promotional price. Limit one upgrade check/coupon per person. Not valid with any other discount or package or on No-Contract phones. Valid only on in-stock Blu-ray movies available in store. Offer not available on BestBuy.com*. Best Buy employees ineligible for upgrade check coupon. No cash value.

BEST BUY UPGRADE AND SAVE PROGRAM (Begins January 13, 2013 through the end of business February 2, 2013)

1) Trade in ANY DVD for a $5 credit toward purchase of any in-stock blu-ray $9.99 and up.

* Limit 5 per visit. Per visit is most often interpreted as 5 per day per customer, but many people have just walked out and come back in immediately or later the same say with 5 more discs. Plenty of people have done far more than 5 at a single visit as long as the store allows the exception.

* No stacking of coupons. A Single $5 discount coupon is allowed per blu-ray or blu-ray boxset. A boxset of 3 movies will not allow 3 coupons, for example.

2) Trade-in DVDs do not have to be same title as blu-ray to be purchased.

3) DVDs must be a commercially produced discs (no burned copies).

4) No adult DVDs that are specifically XXX content; whether they are rated XXX or not.

5) Discs are supposed to have the original case and artwork. Discs are meant to be at least presentable - should look playable. Many stores require the UPC to be intact. Some stores check things pretty closely (right disc, right case, right UPC, disc condition) and others just toss the case into the recycle bin without any screening (some people swear they traded in an empty case). [In reality discs in anything that look like regular case are often accepted by some stores including those is Blockbuster/3rd party cases with rental stickers and and nowhere near original artwork and UPC]

* Are HDDVD or HD-DVD combo packs eligible? This has been a YMMV issue and some places people have been given credit for both type discs, others only if it was a combo, and some stores refused to consider it at all for the trade-in. If you run into this issue either try a different store or call 1-800 BESTBUY and see if they can clarify the issue for you or your Store Manager.

6) Blu-ray - all current and new release Bluray priced $9.99 or above should be included. Music Blurays were included in the April 2012, but weren't in previous U&S sales.

7) Each store in the past had their own logistics of how to work the program. Most stores would make you stop at the entry and have your used discs stamped/marked/taped.

* Many stores had you bring the used DVD to the Service desk, check them out to make sure they met criteria and gave the customer a preprinted coupon(s) with a receipt attached to the coupon/barcode. Some stores gave the customer a Copied sheet of paper with the UPC bar code and attached receipt to 'activate' the sheet of paper. The coupon could them be exchanged at the regular register for the blu-ray you were purchasing and the barcode automatically deducted the $5 at sale. This allowed you to take your coupons out of the store and purchase later. The expiration date on the official coupon is usually the last day of the sale. If you are given a coupon with a receipt attached, do not detach them or your coupon may well be disallowed.

* Some stores required you to bring/leave your DVD at the Customer Service desk, then bring your blu-rays to the Service desk to complete the purchase. No coupons were given out so you had to exchange and purchase the discs the same day.

* Some stores would allow you to trade your DVD for a coupon at the Service Desk, but each coupon was marked/dated and you were told it was only valid for the date on the coupon and in that specific store. [Only had this happen once and I have no idea what would have happened if I took the coupon to a different store or brought it back to the same store later.]

8) Discounts are most often taken from the actual Selling Price of the blu-ray on the day of purchase despite the fine print on the coupon saying "Discount taken from Regular Price." This has and will likely continue to be a contentious point until corporate absolutely clarifies the issue or changes the language. BBY ads often show discs with Sale Prices and then subtract the $5 U&S coupon so logically that should apply to all other discs.

9) Price matching and using $5 coupon is a big YMMV since this can be most certainly considered combining offers or double dipping much in the same way that PM and getting a gift card for purchase is often considered doubling up. This is one argument I actually find hard to argue with though it's worth trying. Since the U&S is considered a Store coupon it should be applied to the price before trying to PM unlike a Manufacturers coupon (this difference is spelled out very specifically in Target and other stores coupon use policy).

10) There should be absolutely no arguments about using Reward Zone certificates during purchase.

11) Additional Manufacturers Coupons SHOULD BE allowed and should be considered the same as cash or a gift card on top of the $5 Promo. This doesn't mean it won't be argued and it certainly doesn't mean it will be accepted, but according the Best Buy own Corporate Reps, the use of MQ should never be questioned whether it's a sales price or price-match or promo.

Multiple times the Best Buy Corporate Employees have had to repeat the phrase

"The store should honor the coupon, even with the price match. Any valid manufacturer’s coupon displaying the manufacturer’s address, a barcode, and labeled as a Manufacturer’s coupon at the top should be accepted on the product listed, regardless of the price."

12) Buying a disc this week and in hopes of applying the coupon next week will work, but it should work as a return/rebuy so if the price is higher next week it may not always save you money. As usual there is some YMMV whether some stores will allow you to repurchase the same disc unless the store has current stock. The same can be said of ordering discs online for pick up at the store -- some stores have allowed a return/rebuy to add the coupon and some stores have refused to do this.

13) U&S coupons obtained for this promotion period can only be used during this promotion period.
 
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I made my first run on Monday, took a while to find what I wanted, the Bloomingdale store selection is thin and the organization of movies is scattered.

Army of Darkness 4.99 a/c
Se7en 4.99 a/c
Skyfall 14.99 a/c
Big Lebowski steelcase 9.99 a/c

Now it was at this point I asked for a gift receipt for my last blu, Wall-e. It should have been 14.99 a/c but the guy from geek squad processing all this got called somewhere else. The girl from geek squad took over and ended up putting on the manual discount too so I got that for 9.99. I saw something similar to this mentioned earlier, ymmv. The employees I talked to in the movie section didn't even know U&S was back on, so oversights may happen.

Considering going back for both original Evil Dead flicks. Trying to round out with some Anime, my Best Buys selection was incredibly weak. Has anyone seen the Evangelion 1.11 or 2.22 in store?
 
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I tried to price match and then use the U&S coupon at two different stores and at each store they said it should work but when they scanned it, it would only give me the better of the two deals. It wasn't a big deal, but it would have been nice to get dark knight rises for $6.50 and Workaholics for $10

 
I ran into the same Clueless Supervisor again at Independence, MO store.  Limit 1 per coupon per transaction.  I show him the receipt trade-in 5 dvd's. Finally, he gave up &  rang up 5 movies instead one.  Cabin in the Woods is rang up $15 instead $10 (showed the cashier the sale price). Price adjusted down $10 & didn't take the coupon ( I know what happened).   Clueless Supervisor show up again.  Oh, i can't adjust down $4.99 if the computer did not take the coupon & you can't use the coupon on sale price.  I show clueless supervisor all 4th the movies is on sale this week and the computer accepted.  "Been told Computer GLITCHES". I gave up on this dude .. just took off Cabin in the woods and out the door with  4th movies and 1 coupon. 

 
Lord_Kefka said:
Trying to round out with some Anime, my Best Buys selection was incredibly weak. Has anyone seen the Evangelion 1.11 or 2.22 in store?
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Best Buy has really cut down on their anime overall, and what anime they have are usually far more expensive than Amazon, eBay, etc.
 
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On Sunday I picked up (after coupon):

X-Men trilogy with $10 The Wolverine HMM $19.99

Drive $4.99

Chronicle $4.99

I also had a $5 RZ cert to make each of these even more cheap.  Good deals!

 
cbulas1 said:
On Sunday I picked up (after coupon):

X-Men trilogy with $10 The Wolverine HMM $19.99

Drive $4.99

Chronicle $4.99

I also had a $5 RZ cert to make each of these even more cheap. Good deals!
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And this Sunday you can go back and get $5 back on the trilogy as they are dropping the price

 
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pretty good first run. had a 5 buck reward cert. so came to just over 43 for everything. I was thrilled to finally find vacation (it was never in stock). moonrise kingdom was my favorite film of 2012. getting it for 12.99 made my day.

evil dead-2013

evil dead (original)

vacation

moonrise kingdom

forrest gump

 
Kovorkian said:
How does one do this?

I was told they could not order movies in store
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I go to the customer service line and let them know I want to do an express lane order, then hand them one of the coupons. I've had a few employees not know how to do it but but for the most part it's a quick process. I almost always have the sku# of the movies I want which makes it go faster

 
pablo escobar said:
I go to the customer service line and let them know I want to do an express lane order, then hand them one of the coupons. I've had a few employees not know how to do it but but for the most part it's a quick process. I almost always have the sku# of the movies I want which makes it go faster
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I don;t know if my best buy has competent enough employees to handle this

 
Really weak ad for next week...

All X-Men movies will be $4.99 ate coupon and the set will now be $14.99 after coupon.

Also in the ad

Identity Thief - $14.99 after coupon

New Releases
Twixt - $9.99 after coupon
Trance - $14.99 after coupon
 
If those X-men Blu R's are $5 after coupon AND come with Wolvie movie money, well I might have to spring for the 2nd one. 

I wish to christ BB would stock up on all the stuff that's $5 AC on their site that's NOT in their store, I'm looking at you Death Wish 3 & 4 and Dark City. 

 
If those X-men Blu R's are $5 after coupon AND come with Wolvie movie money, well I might have to spring for the 2nd one.

I wish to christ BB would stock up on all the stuff that's $5 AC on their site that's NOT in their store, I'm looking at you Death Wish 3 & 4 and Dark City.



The ad shows a picture of Wolverine with the Hollywood movie money logo
 
jgiovanni said:
And this Sunday you can go back and get $5 back on the trilogy as they are dropping the price
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Thanks for pointing this out- do you have a link from BBY.com/more information on this policy? What's it even called?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Payment-Pricing/Best-Buy-Low-Price-Guarantee/pcmcat297300050000.c?id=pcmcat297300050000)- "We will also match prices post purchase if we lower our price within 15 days of your purchase."

Because of this policy, I think I'll go in tomorrow and pick up First Class with a coupon, then also get that adjusted next week in addition to my trilogy set.

 
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SonictheHedgehog1337 said:
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Rooker is the man)

2010- (I love 2001, so the sequel cant be too horrible.... right?)

THX 1138 (I still like George Lucas...)

Day Watch (I don't watch very many foreign films, but I heard these were good.)

Night Watch (I don't watch very many foreign films, but I heard these were good.)
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I remember Night Watch being kind of weird, but cool/interesting at the same time. Definitely something I need to watch again. Day Watch is pretty much the same type of film, but I never finished it for some reason. I tried watching Henry, but couldn't get into it. Michael Rooker is great, so I might need to watch it when I'm not tired. I might have to try that express thing to order Day/Nightwatch.

Grabbed Evil Dead Trilogy, Anchorman, and Raid Redemption(which was badass for a foreign film I've never heard of).

 
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Step Brothers $5

Anchorman $5

Night and the Museum collection $5

We Bought a Zoo $5

Parental Guidance $10

Also Tank Tank Tank for free. All in all, a very productive trip to best buy.

 
Jackie Brown $4.99

Inglourious Basterds $4.99

Groundhog Day $4.99

American Reunion $9.99

21 Jump Street $9.99

I was bummed that my Best Buy didn't have Terminator 2 or Resouvoir Dogs.  I'll have to try a different location.

 
The Jurassic Park movies are on sale for $12.99 each, making them $7.99 after using the coupons.  Any reason to not grab them and wait for the Trilogy box set to go on sale?  That set seems like it's always over $40 and I think it only comes with the Blu-Rays and maybe a bonus disc.  Buying seperately would get you the Blu, DVD, and digital of each one. 

 
SyxxHallNash said:
The Jurassic Park movies are on sale for $12.99 each, making them $7.99 after using the coupons. Any reason to not grab them and wait for the Trilogy box set to go on sale? That set seems like it's always over $40 and I think it only comes with the Blu-Rays and maybe a bonus disc. Buying seperately would get you the Blu, DVD, and digital of each one.
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I've seen the boxed set go on sale for $25-30 on amazon a lot, but it's still cheaper buying them at $8 each.

 
Today I got:

Samsara $7.99 (!!!)
Baraka $7.99
Dino King 3D $9.99
Sadako 3D $9.99
Life of Pi 3D $14.99
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter 3D $14.99
Finding Nemo 3D $22.99

Need to find Up 3D.
 
Every damn time this deal rolls around, the blus I was eyeballing disappear and magically dont show up on store locator anymore lol

 
anderson4145 said:
I've seen the boxed set go on sale for $25-30 on amazon a lot, but it's still cheaper buying them at $8 each.
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Went ahead and brabbed them for $8 each. I've been watching the trilogy and haven't seen it drop below $39.99 yet, not saying it didn't happen at some point, but I didn't see it. The trilogy doesn't look like it comes with anything the individual copies don't have. It's just 3 discs, one movie per disc. With the individuals you get the DVD version as well so it seems you get more with those. Also grabbed The Green Mile for $4.99. Best Buy is depleting my DVd collection while bulking up my Blu-Ray collection.

 
So I pulled the trigger on X-Men Movies today not realizing that they were going on sale in two days. Did I fuck up or is it possible to return them and get my coupons back? I assume not since they just take it down from the price. If not I wasted 5 dvd's which stinks.

 
So I pulled the trigger on X-Men Movies today not realizing that they were going on sale in two days. Did I fuck up or is it possible to return them and get my coupons back? I assume not since they just take it down from the price. If not I wasted 5 dvd's which stinks.



Price adjustment would honestly be the easiest
 
Snagged a few goodies for round 1

Big Lebowski 4.99
Heavy Metal. 4.99
Scarface steelbook 4.99
Star Trek. 4.99
Promethius. 9.99

Any word on sale blu rays starting tomorrow?
 
Do the core $9.99 movies usually stay $9.99 for the whole sale?

I wont have a chance to make another run till Monday and would like to get.

Green Mile

Vacation

MIB

MIB2

Gladiator

 
My BB seemed to have a pricing glitch on the 9.99 Blus. They all seemed to be BOGO. Bought 7 Blus and ended up using only 2 of my 5 coupons. Probably YMMV.

 
Is the Snowmen Doctor Who special the only thing missing from parts 1 & 2 of Season 7? I don't want to pick them up only to have the full release of S7 contain new content.

 
Whenever you guys need to buy DVDs from the dollar store for this, which one do you go to? All the major ones are around here, so I'm just wondering which store has $1 DVDs (General, Tree, etc.).
 
nccows said:
Whenever you guys need to buy DVDs from the dollar store for this, which one do you go to? All the major ones are around here, so I'm just wondering which store has $1 DVDs (General, Tree, etc.).
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I go to the Dollar Tree. Their dvds are usually marked at $1 but often ring up at .25 cents and on rare occasions .01 cent.



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All Dollar stores have $1 DVDs. Now, discount shops like Big Lots and Family Dollar are a different story.

As for Doctor Who, the sets usually have an extra bonus disc, but as far as full episodes go there's nothing new.
 
DNukem170 said:
All Dollar stores have $1 DVDs. Now, discount shops like Big Lots and Family Dollar are a different story.

As for Doctor Who, the sets usually have an extra bonus disc, but as far as full episodes go there's nothing new.
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As far as I know, that is the only one missing from the set.
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Thanks, guys. I'm debating whether to drop $25 on those three Blu-rays to have S7 now or hold out in the hopes that a complete S7 set will be $19.99 around Black Friday time like S5 & S6 were. :whistle2:k

 
Vigilante said:
Thanks, guys. I'm debating whether to drop $25 on those three Blu-rays to have S7 now or hold out in the hopes that a complete S7 set will be $19.99 around Black Friday time like S5 & S6 were. :whistle2:k
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Thankfully, no stores in my area have Series 7 pt 1 on blu ray; so I don't have to make that decision. If I had to though, I would ask myself two questions.

1) Do you care about uniform looking box sets?

2) Do you care about extra features discs?

If you said yes to either of them, then you'll need to wait :D

 
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Or you could do what I do is buy them cheap now, watch them, then sell them in preparation for the Season 7 set. Though in my case I will wait for the slimmer set released when the big boxset is released, assuming the upcoming Series 7 set is that bulky book crap packaging Series 5 and 6 were in.
 
My upgrade and save coupon was only to be scanned twice, but the cashier gave it back to me. So I went the next day and bought two more movies, and lucky me it was the same cashier.Guess I'll go tomorrow and hope I get the same cashier.  I only ended up trading in two dvds. 

Evil Dead

Evil Dead 2

Army of Darkness

Bugs Life

 
I got rejected on using it for an express lane purchase. They cited that the coupon is only valid on in-stock items.

 
littledude702 said:
So I pulled the trigger on X-Men Movies today not realizing that they were going on sale in two days. Did I fuck up or is it possible to return them and get my coupons back? I assume not since they just take it down from the price. If not I wasted 5 dvd's which stinks.
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Did the same as X-men: First Class was the only one I didn't pick up.

Sherlock Holmes $4.99

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $4.99

re-reading The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novels and watching BBC's Sherlock really got me thinking why did I not buy this sooner?

 
Vigilante said:
Thanks, guys. I'm debating whether to drop $25 on those three Blu-rays to have S7 now or hold out in the hopes that a complete S7 set will be $19.99 around Black Friday time like S5 & S6 were. :whistle2:k
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I wanted to watch them now so I got them since it won't be that much cheaper on BF.
 
I ordered more DVDs off Ebay cause I had eBay bucks. Paid a dollar piece for them. Gonna use 2 on Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, and possibly some Xmen movies.

 
Anybody have any luck returning a Blu-ray that they bought during the upgrade period with a coupon and returning for another? It seems the Forest Gump/Green Mile two pack is $9.99 this week. I would like to try and swap out the still sealed stand alone copy of Forest Gump I got last week for it.

 
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