Amazon Best Value

[Trean]

Amazon Best Value deals are commonly seen on this forum when you buy two blu-rays together from Amazon some additional amount of money is given back to you as a promo for buying both items at the same time.

For the longest time I have wondered how people discover these deals. I just figured people stumbled upon them and posted them. But that seems so chaotic and non-searchable. So off and on I would attempt to figure out a way to pick these items off of Amazon without much effort. Now I believe I have done it, using Google as an aide!

Searching google for the following terms (keep quotation marks) produces a ton of valid results that I shall consider my quest at least partly concluded!

"at an additional " "off Amazon.com's everyday low price"  "Format: Blu-ray" site:amazon.com

Additional phrases can be added if you want to attempt to search for a specific item to see if it has a Best Value attached to it. However be wary of a few things. First, Amazon advertises other products on its pages so I am still trying to find a tractable solution to determining if a specific item has a Best Value deal attached to it. Secondly, be wary of cached results or old results, to alleviate this you can limit the timeline of your search.

Originally Posted by psify

I've refined it for you. Just replace blu-ray with "Format: blu-ray" (in quotes) to eliminate results stemming from blu-ray products being advertised on a non-blu-ray page.

http://www.google.com/#q=%22Best+Val...e%3Aamazon.com

[Trean]

Example results produced from a search on 11/26/2010 and limited to the past year:

Buy The Pacific (HBO Miniseries) [Blu-ray] and get Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone at an additional 5% off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Buy The Search For Santa Paws (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) and get Beauty and the Beast (Three-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) at an additional $8.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Buy The Sound of Music (45th Anniversary Edition) (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) and get Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) at an additional $10.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Buy Modern Family: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] and get Glee: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray] at an additional $10.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Buy Despicable Me (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) and get Coraline (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo w/ 3D) (2009) at an additional $7.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

[StevenPF]

Cool, thanks.

[sgfookat]

I'd always wondered that too, thanks for doing the research

[ddufremle]

Wow, someone who actually is an EXPERT MEMBER!!! Good work, dude.

By the way, nice avatar!

[Clark Kent]

Great post by the original poster. Rarely do I see such excellent insight for looking around at the best bargains.

[eatingclass]

thanks OP! so easy to overlook these savings

in the sake of not overlooking some, other posters on the board have found:

- $6 off Predators on BD paired with Predator (regular) on BD

- (not sure if this is still on) Casino Royale on DVD paired with Karate Kid (BD only) adds a 5 off promo. with the lightning deal for CR at 1.99, this is fantastic

[atlantamoi]

Nice. Very useful. Thanks!

[Gray Wolf]

there's also

Buy Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray] and get Romeo + Juliet [Blu-ray] at an additional $6.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

[Trean]

Originally Posted by Gray Wolf

there's also

Buy Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray] and get Romeo + Juliet [Blu-ray] at an additional $6.00 off Amazon.com's everyday low price.

Hey! I just bookmarked that page, haha. I will check back now and then. Currently its $15 per. Which I believe is reasonable but both being older movies, that I am not terribly in a hurry to acquire, I can wait until hopefully both of their prices drop a tad and its closer to $10-12 each.

[Sammy]

Nice to see this as a sticky post.

[cinemaphile]

I just added the search as a bookmark/favorite so I can check occasionally, but for anyone who wants an easy, clickable version:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...-8&rlz=1I7ASUS

[Trean]

Thanks mods for moving this out of the "Dead Deals" section. I didn't know where to put it when I made the OP.

So I put it where in the Movie & TV Deals main area, where I knew it would get seen by the most in hopes that 1)people would see it, appreciate it and use it... and 2)some mod would put the thread where it should go.


Also thanks for the sticky. Never had a sticky before!

[psify]

I've refined it for you. Just replace blu-ray with "Format: blu-ray" (in quotes) to eliminate results stemming from blu-ray products being advertised on a non-blu-ray page.

http://www.google.com/#q=%22Best+Val...e%3Aamazon.com

"Best Value" "Format: Blu-ray" "at an additional" site:amazon.com

[sobrietyanxiety]

The board won't let me create a new thread (shakes fist) but all HBO Blu-Rays are 50% off at BB now. I got The Pacific for $39.99 and Deadwood for $94.99. Cheapest I've ever seen these.

[Geologist]

thanks for bumping this !

[Geologist]

bumped - nothing today on Google - wondering if AMZ has changed anything so the link doesn't work?

[LucasM2012]

None of the links or searches in this thread work for me. They include results which are only SOME of the criteria, with the one most missing being arguably the most important, "Format: blu-ray". I tried doing an advanced search and got the same results (e.g. right now the second result is for a pressure cooker, third is a book on computer code-writing, and the fourth is a diet book).

Possibly there's been a change in Google where they now ignore your search criteria requirements? If so, I may have to change my default search engine, because this wastes far more time for me than it saves, if it will ignore parts of what I've specifically told it to look for, because I don't enter multiple search parameters for fun.