Last night Best Buy had a special online sale of Black Friday items for their Elite and Elite Plus customers only. I don’t really spend that much at Best Buy, but last year I got their credit card and all of my purchases on that card count as if I was spending there, doubling or tripling for some purchases. I just recently reached Elite Plus status, primarily by using the Best Buy credit card to buy lunch instead of paying cash and getting double credits for every dollar spent. Over the last year they have probably given me over $100 in store credits that I have used mostly for Blu-ray purchases. With all that buying done already, I was thinking Black Friday would be pretty tame this year, picking out about 5 movies I would like to get. However most of those were not available during the preview sale (I still bought 3 movies, 2 of which I didn’t know would be on sale), so I will have to wait for Thursday like everyone else.<\/p>\n
I had never been to a Dollar General store before. But if you live long enough, you get all kinds of new experiences. On Blu-ray Forum people were saying that Dollar General would soon be having a Buy One Get One Free sale on Blu-rays. When they ran this sale last year, there was a “glitch” that caused movies to ring up BOGO but also 50% off. The movies in question were all priced at $4.95, dropping the price to $1.24, which is pretty amazing. Maybe not as amazing as $1 like Dollar Tree has<\/a>, but the selection seems to be better at Dollar General. The sale runs Sunday before Thanksgiving to Wednesday. This morning as stores opened, people reported the return of the glitch. So I looked up where my nearest store was and off I went.<\/p>\n Dollar Generals aren’t real nice stores and it didn’t even look like it was open, but I was able to walk in. I found some DVDs on a shelf, but no Blu-rays, eventually finding a carousel in a random aisle loaded with Blu-rays. And not bad ones either, most marked at $4.95, but some higher and some as low as $2.95. I wasn’t sure the glitch would really work, so I wanted to choose decent movies:<\/p>\n Except maybe for Robocop, that’s a pretty good list. Three of them won Best Picture. As I was checking out, the movies were ringing up for $2.48 each (there was nothing at the store to indicate these were on sale for anything other than the price marked), but when she totaled it up it was only $8.04 for 6 movies, so they cost $1.34 each with tax. Other people online were getting some different movies, so I looked up two other nearby Dollar General stores and visited those, getting 4 more at each location:<\/p>\n The quality of these is not quite as high, but I have come close to buying 500 Days of Summer<\/em> a few times for $4 or $5, so $1.34 with tax is pretty hard to pass up. Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em> got good reviews. I had Fast Times at Ridgemont High<\/em> on DVD already, so I was glad to upgrade it to Blu-ray. Little Miss Sunshine<\/em> was a legitimately good movie. Robots<\/em> got okay reviews, included a digital copy, and I have considered buying it when it has gone on sale. DodgeBall<\/em> is a movie I have seen and enjoyed. Lincoln<\/em> was good too, but the sticker on the package said it was used (I believe all the others I got were new). While the package was in very good shape, the disks inside (Blu-ray and DVD) had little bar code stickers around the hole indicating they were rental copies and they showed some wear. Blu-ray disks are more scratch resistant than DVD’s, so hopefully they will play okay.<\/p>\n That evening, one of the movies I ordered from Best Buy\u2019s preview sale was available for pickup at Edgewood, so I looked up any Dollar Generals on the way and found two more. I couldn’t find the first one and at the second one I had to ask where the Blu-rays were, finding the carousel behind some boxes making most of the movies almost impossible to reach, but I did some contortions and was able to go through all of them, picking up Platoon<\/em> and A Bridge Too Far<\/em>. I had never seen the latter and the former is another Best Picture winner. I also found a DigiBook edition of All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>, but it was $2.95. However I knew that had to a pretty well regarded movie, so I got it anyway. I thought it was a World War II movie, but actually it is from 1930 and about World War I from the perspective of German soldiers. It also won Best Picture. So I think that was another quality haul of movies and I was pleased to find a card to redeem a digital copy of All Quiet<\/em> inside. I also got a free HD copy of Fast Times<\/em>. Beasts<\/em> and Robots<\/em> each came with a digital copy disk that I was able to use with iTunes to get a digital copy but they are SD instead of HD. I also went ahead and paid $2 each to get digital copies of Die Hard 2<\/em> and Inside Man<\/em>, the only 2 movies eligible for Disc 2 Digital redemptions at Vudu, figuring the total price was still awfully cheap.<\/p>\n Like with the Dollar Tree sale earlier, some people online went really crazy and got 30 or more movies. i could have picked more things, but they would have been more marginal and I already have more movies than I will be able to watch in the next year. Anyway, fun day of scrounging cheap movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night Best Buy had a special online sale of Black Friday items for their Elite and Elite Plus customers only. 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