Big Sale Pricing Finally Kicks In at Amazon
by Pravin on March 8th, 2008 in shopping.
Universal was supposed to have lowered their suggested retail prices on all HD DVD titles on March 4, and everything should have become $10 cheaper. I reported on it that morning with titles like American Gangster going for $17, and plenty of others at $12. But those prices didn’t last the whole day, and they all went up a few dollars and stayed that way for the remainder of the week.
I’m not sure how long it’s going to last this time around, but as of this morning on March 8, it appears that Amazon has updated all of their HD DVD pricing again with plenty of titles going for $10 and $12 which had been selling for a few more dollars earlier in the week.
Here’s a sample of the titles now at $10, the first one is NOT from Universal:
These Paramont titles are $12:
Click here for Amazon’s Universal titles, and you’ll see a bunch at $13.95, and even $9.95.
Click here for the entire HD DVD collection at Amazon where you’ll find savings on titles from all studios. That link is supposed to be sorted by price, however it seems that Amazon’s system could use some math lessons from my 8 year old since the sorting is not quite perfect.
I’m not sure how long it will last this time around, but if you’re even the least bit interested in any of these movies, then go ahead and follow your impulse and buy it now before you’re out of luck and they’re gone for good.
I bought a few earlier in the week when I first noticed the sale, and have been waiting for prices to get back down. The movies I’m looking for are the ones that I wasn’t necessarily interested in at a higher price. Once the price is down to something where I don’t feel like I’m throwing away a $10 or $20 bill, it’s a little easier to add them to my cart. Afterall, I’m not sure when I’ll get a Blu-ray player, and I certainly don’t know how much longer after that all these previously HD DVD exclusive titles will come out on that format. Might as well enjoy them in their fully interactive glory for the next several months than do without.
You can also check out the deals at DeepDiscount.com which have recently been a buck or more less than Amazon, and they seem to have some titles that Amazon is only offering from its associated vendors.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Fire sale galore. I’m surprised so many people want to get rid of their HD DVD movies. I can’t believe these HD DVD movies are priced LOWER than their DVD counterparts. Hell even if you want the DVD of the movie you can get these HD DVDs cuz their combo discs.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Many of the Paramount titles you listed are going for $9.99 at Fry’s - in fact - all of those titles are $9.99. Not quite so good with Univrsal titles. Fry’s has them going for $14.99 for standard HD DVDs or $19.99 for the combo discs. Best Buy’s sales are pretty crappy right now, only offering 30% off of all HD DVD titles in stock. Since Best Buy retails their HD DVDs from $24.99 to $34.99 a title, this comes down to not a real good savings ($17.49 to $24.49 a title ).
I did get a good deal on a new HD-A30 for $65. Ironic that they have good prices on players but not so good prices on movies. Oh well, the ales should keep getting better.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Deep discount has a few new titles at $9.11 including Lucky Number Slevin, Feast, & Harsh Times
March 8th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Big Sales going on all over. I just picked up The Breach and Bourne Identity for $16 a piece at Best Buy. In the past week I have added 10 titles to my collection and am near 100 movies now. Next step is to get a low priced player for a back up!
March 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
If anyone has a gamestop/eb games around them with a lot of used hd dvd titles, they usually have a buy 2 get 2 free on all dvds. So you can get the higher priced titles that are still 15-20 bucks new online for 10 bucks a piece. I just grabbed 300, V for Vendetta, King Kong, and Constantine for 40 bucks. Just another idea.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
What are you talking about a “big sale pricing finally kicking in” these movie 2 weeks ago were $11.95 on amazon
March 9th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The rest of the article mentions that it’s the Universal titles that “finally” get the big sale prices.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:56 am
What’s going to happen to this website? I am a Bluray supporter and have been since day one, but visited this site almost every day to get “the other side” of the story. There have been moments where I wished to place an argument, but I believe it was suggested that “Fan wars” or what-ever hip term is used to describe fanboys (like me) arguing it out, be kept off the message boards. So I obliged. But with the format war over in all ways that matter, I feel a little hint of sadness knowing that this site will not provide counter arguments and entertaining interpretations of news. Think you might go rogue and just blast every little misstep bluray performs along the way? That could be fun. I’d keep reading then.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Thanks for not fanning the flames of the format war. That kind of talk had been discouraged because every message thread about those kinds of topics ends up repeating the same stuff from any other message thread on the same.
It’s unlikely that I’d go rogue and point out anything going wrong with Team Blu because that would really just be bad sportsmanship, sour grapes, etc. and not represent the HD DVD fans very well. Had things worked out in HD DVD’s favor, the tone of this site would have been a little more exuberant, but we’d still refrain from insulting the opponents.