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

Trade in ANY DVD (non-porn, non-bootleg) for a $5 credit toward purchase of ANY $9.99+ Bluray in stock at Best Buy B&M. This is basically an instore only deal.

Upgrade & Save FAQ's
1)

-- 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 day 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 U&S coupons. One U&S Coupon, One Bluray . A Single $5 U&S coupon is allowed per Bluray or Bluray boxset (it may be the only rule I've never seen stretched). A boxset of 3 movies will not allow 3 coupons
and you can't use 2 or 3 coupons on a single Bluray under any circumstance.

-- Most of the time the coupons have an expiration date co-coinciding with the last day of the program so you can't save them and use them next month.

2) Trade in DVDs do not have to be same title as Bluray. Boxsets are most often counted as 1 DVD so if you bring is a set with 4 movies in one case then you will likely be given 1 coupon and not a coupon for each disc.
If your set has for cases in a boxset, just toss the box. If you have a TV series with 5 cases, bring them in as individual pack and not as a set. This works best if each case has a UPC code (S1, Disc 1). I've also found
that if you bring in a bunch of discs of the same season, same show then some clerks will balk so best idea is to bring 1 (slim)case from each set and make another trip later or be prepared to discuss the details.

-- If somebody pulls up a list off Google of 100 or 150 Old Blurays that are "Only Movies Allowed" then they are likely showing you the lists for May or October 2011 which were restricted to certain titles. The Google lists
get pulled up everytime this program is live either online or even instore -- check the dates on the list. If someone tries to tell you only same titles can be exchanged then they are incorrect. This is not the same of Selling/Trade-In
for Used Video Games and every time there are lots of people who get sent to the Video Games Department by employees thinking you are selling items. The Upgrade and Save program is separate and almost
always handled at the Customer Service Counter.

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

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

5) Discs are supposed to have the original case and artwork and the discs are meant to be at least presentable -- the disc at least should look like it can be played. 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. 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) Bluray -- all current and new release Bluray priced $9.99 or above should be included. Music Blurays have been included since the April 2012 program which is different than previous sales. Preorders are not included.
Discs not in store can sometimes be ordered from BBY.com and some managers will apply a coupon to that item, but ....


7) Each store in the past had there 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 Bluray 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 Blurays 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 should be taken from the actual Selling Price of the Bluray 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 also 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. 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, but not specifically in BBY 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's own Corporate Reps, the use of MQ should never be questioned whether it's a sales price or pricematch 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." If there are any issues call the 1-800 number in store and ask for a ruling (unfortunately
this often ends up being decided "Manager runs his own store in his own way" unless it just flat out violates some policy. BBY.com community forums are the best place to take issues and often will be decided in
the customers favor with credits and RZ given to cover the missed discounts. Yelling and screaming in the store is not going to win you any arguments in store even if you are correct and will likely get security involved
and irritate everybody else in the store.

12) Buying a disc this week 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) Only USED DVD or HDDVD movies are normally allowed as trade in. . Best Buy is only supposed to accept used DVDs, so make sure the DVD(s) you're bringing in to trade are unwrapped. They will sometimes
refuse to accept them if they're sealed. If you find some sealed DVD cheap and bring them to the store sealed, there have been issues. The easiest thing to do is just open them

14) Where to find cheap DVDs: If you don't have any spare DVDs laying around that you wish to part with, there are a variety of places to find cheap DVDs for less than $1-$2 each. Pawn shops, thrift stores, garage sales,
flea markets, dollar stores, and Ebay Several people have had success at Dollar Tree, where select DVDs can be found for 25 cents, and some titles even for 1 cent. *Disclaimer* Finding these 25/1 cent DVDs
is a YMMV situation. Some stores have them, some don't. Some BBY stores have balked at accepting these essentially throwaways in slim cases or cardboard sleeves though technically they are commercially manufactured and in their original cases so you should prevail.

Bringing 5 of the exact same item in for trade in -- often these cheapo discs can raise some eyebrows so if you can divide them up and bring in 5 different items it will go smoother though not to say it won't work

15) Most people have failed at trading in Blurays for coupons even if there is a DVD in the case.

16) If you have a multidisc DVD with those removable trays for extra disc, it is best if you just bring in the case with the tray out and you can keep the extra disc (cool for bonus material). Empty disc trays do raise suspicion
at the service desk.

17) Nobody knows exactly what happens to the old discs and cases. The official word is they are recycled at some national recycling center -- whether this means they are donated to charities for a tax deduction.


* credit to WV Matsui for the info regarding the $5.00 blurays A/C

1/13 - 1/19 $5 After U&S
Big Lebowski
Blues Brothers
Breakfast Club
Scarface
Inglorious Bastards
Dazed and Confused
Caroline
Flash Gordon
Casino
Fear and Loathing
Smokin Aces
King Kong
Fast Times
Apollo 13
Animal House

1/13 - 1/26 $5 after U&S
Dolphin Tale
The Town (extended)
Green Lantern
Horrible Bosses
Sherlock Holmes
Pulp Fiction
Hangover 1 & 2
Lincoln Lawyer

1/13 - 2/9 $5 after U&S
Sum of all fears
Italian Job
Goodfellas
Deep Impact
Beverly Hills Cop
Lord of the Rings 1-3
Casino Royale
Barbara
Sin City
Departed
Blind Side
Clear and Present Danger
Eagle Eye
Lovely Bones
Gangs of New York
Beowulf
Hurt Locker
Source Code
Requiem for a Dream
Kill Bill 1&2
Kick Ass
Chicago
I Saw the Devil
Disk til Dawn
Restrepo
Romeo & Juliet (Leo version)
Love and other Drugs
Princess Bride
Walk the Line
A-Team
Fight Club
Xmen Orgins Wolverine
Man on Fire
Knight and Day
 
The upcoming releases during that time doesn't sound that intriguing, hopefully they have some good sales or I probably won't be doing it this time around.
 
Last time's deals weren't TERRIBLE. I got Fight Club and Taken, both with Taken 2 movie money, for $5 each. Workaholics season 1&2 for $8, and a couple other goodies..


Definitely hoping for a justified season 3 sale, or that the triple feature packs will be on sale for $10 again during this time. That'd be really nice
 
Im hoping some of those steelbooks will still be there as i had owned every single one. Can cough up 5 bucks for a steelbook of a movie i own, but 10 bucks is to much. This will be my 3rd time I've done this. The first time I got a lot of good stuff, last time just a few.
 
[quote name='Tsel']Awesome news. I'm severely lacking on DVDs though.[/QUOTE]

If you have a big lots or a 99 cent store check them out, I bought a few dollar movies that I traded in last time, the best buy employees were even laughing at some of the titles
 
[quote name='karkyco']Wooooh it's about time! I could've used it all December...[/QUOTE]

Me too. I only picked up about 50 or so since black friday, including all the Box Sets I got. LOL, JK, most of what I purchased was $5 or less anyways.

[quote name='Tsel']Awesome news. I'm severely lacking on DVDs though.[/QUOTE]

I picked 4 of these up a few weeks ago for $.01.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=pcat17006&type=page&sourceId=2630953&sourceType=product&skuId=7175112&productId=2630953&itemId=1983467&pageMode=searchmode

Website shows they are $3.99 or free with HBO Season purchase, but they were marked $.01 on the shelf, so YMMV. They do have a UPC, so they should qualify. Last time I had no problem trading in the similar single episode Game Of Thrones disc.
 
As far as upcoming releases, only Seven Psychopaths, Fate/Stay Night, InuYasha Final Act, and the two Shana releases interest me, but most of them will probably still be too high. The new Die Hard set intrigues me. Anyone know if it includes the unrated 4.0 cut and if the special features are better than the DVD set?
 
WOOHOO!!! I have been running out of MovieStop credit with all the new releases. This gets me 4 or 5 $10 new releases and stocks my credit back up. I wonder if there's a limit on how many VUDU movies you can have?!? :)
 
[quote name='pablo escobar']If you have a big lots or a 99 cent store check them out, I bought a few dollar movies that I traded in last time, the best buy employees were even laughing at some of the titles[/QUOTE]

I bought 30 or so copies of some old assed basketball movie from Dollar Tree last time for a penny a piece. I'm set :)
 
[quote name='crazedracerguy']I bought 30 or so copies of some old assed basketball movie from Dollar Tree last time for a penny a piece. I'm set :)[/QUOTE]

It's go time!
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[quote name='WV Matsui']Notable releases during the U&S

Jan 15: Taken 2
Jan 22: End of Watch
Jan 29: Hotel Transylvania[/QUOTE]

&

Looper
Dredd
Frankenweenie
7 Psychopaths

It will be a decent U&S
 
[quote name='WV Matsui']Yes!!!!!!

:)

OP can you possibly help this time by adding deals and $5 titles for the three week sale?[/QUOTE]

Sure thing. This is my first post that I've made that really requires editing, but ill do my best! Might also Wiki it
 
Def. upgrading my DVD copy of Lawrence of Arabia. Not sure what else I'd be interested in at this point as I've been cutting down on the BD's I'm collecting.
 
[quote name='joshnorm']&

Looper
Dredd
Frankenweenie
7 Psychopaths

It will be a decent U&S[/QUOTE]

Looper's already out but yeah the rest as well :)
 
Good. Hopefully there will be a good deal on Dark Knight Rises. This is also good timing for Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

Do they track what titles you bring in? One of the Rightstuf blind box discs I ordered was something I traded in to Best Buy from a past Upgrade and Save promotion. Am I allowed to trade it again?
 
[quote name='Cage017']Good. Hopefully there will be a good deal on Dark Knight Rises. This is also good timing for Dark Knight Returns Part 2.

Do they track what titles you bring in? One of the Rightstuf blind box discs I ordered was something I traded in to Best Buy from a past Upgrade and Save promotion. Am I allowed to trade it again?[/QUOTE]

They don't usually track a thing. In all of the times I've done it, they never scanned a single DVD case and most of the time they didn't even bother to open the DVD case or print a formal receipt, just hand out the $5 off coupons that have a generic SKU. The times I didn't have enough DVDs to dump off, I just took one of the U&S coupons and made duplicates of it which had no hassles of problems being accepted. Oftentimes the store itself will even make duplicates and just hand them out.
 
So I got a old dvd or two I could trade in, but the only blurays I'd actually want now after black friday are:

Transformers 1
Star Trek (2009)

Anyone know if these are $10 anywhere? My local BB is really good about Price Matching and I'd love to pick these up at $5 a pop (especially with all my trade in credit)

thanks in advance
 
I trade in 5 movies I get 5 $5 off coupons for blu which DON'T stack on a total order say I buy a expensive boxset I dont get $25 off it.

I have to spend it like this

movie 1 - $5 Dredd
movie 2 - $5 something
movie 3 - $5 They Live
movie 4 - $5 Red Dawn
movie 5 - $5 Cyborg
 
[quote name='Cage017']Do they track what titles you bring in?[/QUOTE]

The only two rules that exist for this promo are no porn and no homemade/burned DVDs are accepted. Other than that, they don't care. I've read that all they do is throw them all in a recycle bin anyhow. Not sure if serious, though.
 
[quote name='DS9']I trade in 5 movies I get 5 $5 off coupons for blu which DON'T stack on a total order say I buy a expensive boxset I dont get $25 off it.

I have to spend it like this

movie 1 - $5 Dredd
movie 2 - $5 something
movie 3 - $5 They Live
movie 4 - $5 Red Dawn
movie 5 - $5 Cyborg[/QUOTE]

I'm a little confused but yes I think you got it right.

You get $5 off each of those
 
Also, for those who plan on getting the coupons and buying something later on, definitely get a receipt. You can get away with no receipt during the same visit, but many times you will need a receipt if you come in at a separate time. YMMV though.

Going to see if they will accept some of my old anime press screeners. The cover art and/or disc art are not final (ADV was always cheap about that) but they are legitimate.
 
I find it's best to go in, track down what you want, then plant them somewhere, go back and get the exact right amount of DVDs, and then go back inside since the coupons have an expiration date.
 
Bought Horrible Bosses yesterday for $12.99, still havent opened. Looks like time for a return to get that extra $5 later. The definition of a Cheapassgamer.
 
[quote name='simdog']Bought Horrible Bosses yesterday for $12.99, still havent opened. Looks like time for a return to get that extra $5 later. The definition of a Cheapassgamer.[/QUOTE]

youd only be able to do that if its $12.99 one of the weeks of the promo.
 
When you trade in DVDs from your collection be careful what you trade it, enter the titles on Amazon and see if it has any value on the used resale market. it would be really bad to trade in a DVD you could sell for 30 dollars for 5 bucks off a 10 dollar Blu-Ray.

You can also trade in individual discs from box-sets as long as each title has a box of it's own, thin pack or regular size(maybe one day MP Flying Circus will come on blu-ray). You really can nearly trade in anything as long as it's commercial release. I have the MP Holy Grail collectors box, but the disc broke, now I do have it on blu-ray, but I wanted a disc for this box. I found a regular 2 disc copy at a yard sale, took out the movie, put the bonus disc in a Single disc dvd box, and trade it in. They never even looked.
 
Transformers 1 Bluray is $20 right now at my local BB, didn't see any Star Trek blurays.

Guess this one just isn't gonna help me :whistle2:/
 
[quote name='tenchi7']When you trade in DVDs from your collection be careful what you trade it, enter the titles on Amazon and see if it has any value on the used resale market. it would be really bad to trade in a DVD you could sell for 30 dollars for 5 bucks off a 10 dollar Blu-Ray.[/QUOTE]


I always check first, but pretty much every time the $5 off coupon is way better that what Amazon is offering (usually 25 cents in my experience).
 
Most of my DVDs for this are either old screeners/samplers or old anime singles that have been released in boxsets multiple times (pre-Platinum Eva, Kodocha, and Case Closed mostly).
 
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