Target General Deals Thread

[FlamedLiquid]

Originally Posted by erixon20

I just got a Target Circle Bonus of 3 qualifying purchases of 70 or more to earn a 20 rewards in Target Circle earnings. Ezpires 5/26. Now is a good time for the B2G1 free sale.

I got this too. And the only way I would do it is with another b2g1.

[Gold Ranger]

$5 with purchase of $25 in beauty crap :/

[weberrygt]

Did you pay 19.99 or 22.99 for Outfit in store? Target says 19.99 when purchased online... and I assume they do not price match that in store. Sigh.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

Also when looking in the app for upcoming new releases. It says online only. This is stuff for The Batman, Uncharted and so fourth. Is Target gonna stop selling new releases in stores. And what they have is what they have in stores till its gone?

Don’t believe that would be the case. Probably just showing ‘Online Only’ now to indicate that there’s no way of doing ISPU for preordered titles well in advance, which is essentially the same strategy of what they’ve been doing all these years of NOT putting that on their product page and just slapping an ‘Shipping Only’ button.

Can’t see them not stocking movies like The Batman and Uncharted for release day, and certainly can’t see them stopping movie inventory altogether quite yet. The mainstream titles should still be safe for the time being.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

Don’t believe that would be the case. Probably just showing ‘Online Only’ now to indicate that there’s no way of doing ISPU for preordered titles well in advance, which is essentially the same strategy of what they’ve been doing all these years of NOT putting that on their product page and just slapping an ‘Shipping Only’ button.

Can’t see them not stocking movies like The Batman and Uncharted for release day, and certainly can’t see them stopping movie inventory altogether quite yet. The mainstream titles should still be safe for the time being.

But it would usually say coming soon so and so date. That way it would let you know that it be in stores. Where ones not in store would say online only.

Unless they are changing up things. I but I guess we'll see come this Tuesday.

[HorrorBlu]

Originally Posted by weberrygt

Did you pay 19.99 or 22.99 for Outfit in store? Target says 19.99 when purchased online... and I assume they do not price match that in store. Sigh.

The regular price is $22.99 but it should be on sale for $19.99 in store through Saturday. They probably just forgot to put the sale sign out, but it should ring up correctly.

And yes, if for some reason it does ring up $22.99, they will price match the $19.99 from their website.

Remember, get it by Saturday. On Sunday, it will likely go to the regular price of $22.99 both online and in-store.

[movielib]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

I got a target circle bonus on 2 purchases of $40 or more and get a $10 target circle earnings

I have to make three purchases of $45 to get that $10.

I'm not thrilled.

I can do better buying stuff from Best Buy with their ongoing 10% off codes.

[Brown Jenkin]

I got a 3/60/20 deal.

[BluMan28]

Originally Posted by Dollar Colonel

I prefer this practice to another common practice of having a coupon/sale with a huge list of exclusions. I get it, we all want deals, but I think this way leads to less disappointment.

It's two different versions of the same deception.

[strumdogg]

Originally Posted by Dollar Colonel

...huge list of exclusions.

Originally Posted by BluMan28

It's two different versions of the same deception.

Well...Do we know what the "fine print" of this hypothetical sale will be? Has the sale actually been advertised yet?! Like coupons, the terms are usually provided pretty clearly.

Sound like folks are basing assumptions on past sales, and putting the cart before the

[gudemameshiba]

Originally Posted by taiwan

Target removed all the MOD titles from its inventory. All the recent 3D titles from Warner and other MOD titles (such as Teen Titans Complete Series) are all gone.

I believe this happened to every Allied Vaughn MOD title from any studio (i.e. including Universal, Paramount, etc.).

[MazeRunner]

I picked up The Outfit for $19.99 and Legally Blonde collection w/ slip for $9.99

I've been to 2 Targets and they had the Legally Blonde collection stocked along with part 1 on blu. Guessing they found them in a warehouse somewhere?

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by Gold Ranger

Removing specific items from a category when an all items sale is on, is pure greed, underhanded and bullsh!t!
Don't we have laws and regulations in this country that is supposed to prevent this kind of shady practice?

It's not greed on target's part. Don't you think they'd rather not have to go through all the trouble of implementing exceptions and every other whim studios insist on? Studios want tighter control of their properties, it's as simple as that. Hollywood lost all control when the courts allowed Blockbuster Video to liquidate their disc surplus instead of returning them to the studio for destruction for a fraction of the price rental outlets could resell the dvds for. The market was flooded with cheap rental surplus within only a couple months of release, and studios had to lower their prices MUCH sooner than they wanted just to try to keep new stock competitive.

Some producers are more concerned than others. They don't want the movies to lose value too soon, nor do they want people to be tempted to wait and buy physical over vaporware, because they've caught on that it'll be cheaper to do so and comes with its own vaporware anyway. Studios haven't allowed newer releases to be advertised below MAP without their approval for decades. Maybe they're just now catching on to how Target's promotion has essentially been circumventing studio policy. Or maybe they let target slide in the past because they underestimated its appeal. Or maybe they're still seeing significantly lower profits at the box, and such isn't being offset by people willing to pay $20-$30 rentals, via their favorite streamer. So it's more important to them to regulate physical prices for longer periods.

Regardless, such heavy-handed regulation, along with a veritable end to price competition for movies (not to mention games) is the future of home video that the whole digital distribution movement has been leading to.

[hariseldon]

Forest and trees.

I;m more concerned that Ingram entertainment has lost it's contract with Allied Vaughn entirely and it's just not related to any sort of potential upcoming sale.

Ingram is the key to this and not Target since Target never touched those items anyway. at most they were just the order takers.

If Ingram has dropped AV (or AV dropped Ingram) this leaves Alliance as the only wholesaler involved now. As far as I'm aware Walmart, BBY, Amazon, all the DD sibs source their AV disc through Alliance. If Ingram is out then one major rat now owns the Cheese distribution with the possibility that Allied Vaughn might be pulling some or all it's contracts back into the home office. If they cut off Alliance (or make pricing terms much stricter) then all of the end users may be in for a very bad surprise.

Would it be reasonable to think they'd pull everything and make every item flow through A/V- Moviezyng as a single source? Seems unlikely, but as Anderson, and B&T, and the half dozen other wholesalers pulled out, went bankrupt, sold out (voluntarily or or not) it doesn't seem it's benefitted the buyer.

[neoz]

Just checked mine and got.

Make 3 qualifying purchases of $50 or more to earn a $20.

[FlamedLiquid]

Originally Posted by neoz

Just checked mine and got.

Make 3 qualifying purchases of $50 or more to earn a $20.

I'll trade ya my make 3 $70 purchases get $20.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

30% off well being books next week!

[strumdogg]

[Arlington]

Originally Posted by neoz

Just checked mine and got.

Make 3 qualifying purchases of $50 or more to earn a $20.

Originally Posted by FlamedLiquid

I'll trade ya my make 3 $70 purchases get $20.

Y'all are lucky...I got 3 purchases of $90 (!) for $25

[Bubbles-11]

Here is everything that will be available next week..
Uncharted ($22.99, no mention of UHD or steelbook), Dog ($22.99 BD ), the quadrillionth Top Gun re-release in a row ($14.99 BD), Jurassic Park & World UHD re-releases ($19.99, Lost World, 3, and Fallen Kingdom likely online only)