Target General Deals Thread

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by sa5150

Do we know what there is a chance of the next B2G1 ? I have a huge cart accumulated .

Last year they ran one in early October and another as part of their black friday week.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by JurassicBD

Last year they ran one in early October and another as part of their black friday week.

Hopefully it is after October 10th and includes video games, as Battlefield 6 is a must buy for me.

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

Hopefully it is after October 10th and includes video games, as Battlefield 6 is a must buy for me.

Unfortunately, even if it does, it seems like most recent release games are excluded. I remember the ones I was eyeing last year weren't included anyway, even a couple that had been out for months. But it could depend on the developer.

[Samus Aran]

What you have to do is fill your cart with everything you want and then see if anything is included that shouldn't be as soon as it strikes midnight Pacific. But you have to act fast. On the last B2G1, I didn't have a third movie to purchase after a bunch of titles I had set aside weren't included in the sale, and then a few minutes later they yanked Thunderbolts from the deal.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

I'm at target right now. Someone must have had a change of heart. Saw 4 4k steelbooks. Stripes, Willow, Ghostbusters 1&2 and Small Soldiers back in the clearance section.

[maverick22]

Originally Posted by Jennifer Lawrence Fan

I'm at target right now. Someone must have had a change of heart. Saw 4 4k steelbooks. Stripes, Willow, Ghostbusters 1&2 and Small Soldiers back in the clearance section.

I usually order 2 during the B2G1 sales since it's a given a steelbook will have some damage or a 4k disc will be scratched.

I wondered if they put them in a clearance section once I return them.

What were the prices?

[50strat54]

and the slow walk to get out of selling physical movies at Target continues.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Originally Posted by maverick22

I usually order 2 during the B2G1 sales since it's a given a steelbook will have some damage or a 4k disc will be scratched.

I wondered if they put them in a clearance section once I return them.

What were the prices?

Willow and G1&2 were around $33 and the other two around $22 something.

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by 50strat54

and the slow walk to get out of selling physical movies at Target continues.

After reading maverick's post, I can't blame them, if they've got very many customers who do the same. I don't mean to put maverick on the spot, as I can understand his motivations considering you can't buy hardly any movies in stores anymore, and the appalling negligence etailers treat packaging these days, as if they have absolutely no concern for customer satisfaction. But when you're getting a deal... It wasn't long ago that someone else was bragging about ordering 3 from amazon of every movie they bought, just to cherry pick the one they kept. I think it came out in the retailer section, when they were complaining about amazon not accepting returns from them anymore.

[sa5150]

Originally Posted by maverick22

I usually order 2 during the B2G1 sales since it's a given a steelbook will have some damage or a 4k disc will be scratched.

I wondered if they put them in a clearance section once I return them.

What were the prices?

I personally never seen a scratch but time for Mexico who could care less about us to close down , I would do a petition to bring back a USA plant back even if discs cost more . All major labels need to get there shit together or do in house only . Europe and Australia still have great manufacturing plants , Why can't we ... Because the major labels want to pay people $4 bucks a hour to work .

[ronboster]

There are also members that talk about ordering multiple copies of movies (or titles) to get over the min order for free shipping...with the intention of returning the other multiples or movie titles they didn't intend to keep).

[GeneD5]

We’re out here fighting for our lives just trying to buy a damn movie nowadays. Best Buy hosed us all.

[50strat54]

Originally Posted by GeneD5

We’re out here fighting for our lives just trying to buy a damn movie nowadays. Best Buy hosed us all.

No, I think they just saw the writing on the wall.

[Samus Aran]

When the day changed to Sunday, my Circle bonus was filled with free trials of everything Apple, all the same stuff they used to give out. Now they're gone. I go to Circle Partners and two Apple offers are there, but none of the others.

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by GeneD5

We’re out here fighting for our lives just trying to buy a damn movie nowadays. Best Buy hosed us all.

BB had great deals championing 4K when the UHD market was still young before any of their competition had a stranglehold on it, like walmart did for dvd. But, amazon usually stole their thunder by pricematching, giving BB a deflated concept of demand. And when you're selling at low overhead, you can't afford a lot returns due to mishandling by the shipper or even their own negligence, and nit-picky customers, which the most premium home format no doubt attracted the later more than yesteryears news. Considering how sharply prices have risen since their exit, I still suspect there's more to it than the ill-informed, knee-jerk interpretations we mostly see online.

Originally Posted by 50strat54

No, I think they just saw the writing on the wall.

More likely, they got tired of being taken advantage of. All the abuses of liberal return policies that people virtually brag about exploiting from target and amazon, they used to do at BB too. Online returns you can usually blame on shipping or warehousing. But when a store has to enact such unfriendly, if not illegal return policies like BB has done, for products mostly purchased in-store, you know there's a serious problem. And we're starting to see amazon discourage returns too. I assume BB and walmart saw a lot of digital copy theft. And I can't remember all the posts I've read of people who didn't get a slipcover at amazon, so they stole one from their local BB, justifying it on the presumption that most people didn't care and that BB would still get their money selling it to someone else, since it was still sealed. Which doesn't appear to be the case. From what I've read, it's illegal for a retailer to resale even an unopened return as brand new. Which would explain all the unopened items in target's clearance section, their attempt to at least salvage some of their investment before selling them to liquidators for pennies on the dollar. As some store owners who post here have stated they have to eat returns of even damaged or defective product, as at least some producers won't take them back. Though, I would assume many now do, considering the volume of rewraps we see, which only the distributor can likely get away with.

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by sa5150

I personally never seen a scratch but time for Mexico who could care less about us to close down , I would do a petition to bring back a USA plant back even if discs cost more . All major labels need to get there shit together or do in house only . Europe and Australia still have great manufacturing plants , Why can't we ... Because the major labels want to pay people $4 bucks a hour to work .

Some are way too paranoid about scratches on BD. Yes, it's become a serious production problem. But only for discs where the scratch happens to align with the lasers path when reading the data. It's not the automatic, eventual disc killer some erroneously make it out to be. Hardcoat isn't just about preventing scratches, it's specifically about preventing deep scratches and making BD more optimally suited for abuses subjected to it by the rental industry than dvd was. If a disc with a scratch plays properly when you buy it, there's no reason to think it won't play decades later. I've got hundreds of noticeably scratched BDs: significantly scratched, as probably every disc in my collection have some manner of scratching either from normal handling and playback, or from the factory itself, that you can't easily see, but are there under magnification with the right light. These discs have never rotted. Oxidation rot is almost exclusively the result of an improper seal, and will usually show within a year or two. Impurities in the mix is probably a more common cause of disc failure. And it's something that usually can't be seen even under magnification and seems to take longer to spread than oxidation rot does.

[erixon20]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

When the day changed to Sunday, my Circle bonus was filled with free trials of everything Apple, all the same stuff they used to give out. Now they're gone. I go to Circle Partners and two Apple offers are there, but none of the others.

I got target 360 if I spend 199 in 41 days and earn 20 if I spend 80 2 times.

[VictoryAtNight]

I got $10 off of $60. Expires on the 23rd, so no rush to use it.

[DaBargainHunta]

$5 off $40

Last time was $10 off $60, but I ended up not getting anything.

[Brown Jenkin]

I still have 13 days left on my spend $320 to get $30 back.