Target General Deals Thread

[Lannister1098]

Found Weird Science (Arrow Video version) for $27.99. Didn’t get it because it’s cheaper on Amazon.

[chadr108]

Target has preorders up for Looper 4K ($24.49) & Escape from L.A. 4k ($23.99). Man that would be swell if a B2G1 sale happens sometime in the first couple weeks of February before both of those release & these are included.

[strumdogg]

Originally Posted by Lannister1098

Found Weird Science (Arrow Video version) for $27.99. Didn’t get it because it’s cheaper on Amazon.

Didn't you hear? Amazon MUST be matching some other retailer/seller.


Anyway, Weird Science from Arrow, at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Science.../dp/B07R9HZDR3

[erlinmeyer]

Originally Posted by Midnight Rambler

My nearest Target only has 2 small endcaps of movies. All of the area they previously occupied is now filled with vinyl and most of it is crap - Swift, Grande, etc. Not sure who would pay $25-35 for that junk. Then they'll take it home and probably play it on a $50 turntable ... wonder if they tape a nickel on their tonearms too ?

How dare they put records out that sell. The two artists you mentioned have sold many more albums than most of the movies coming out. The buyers are mainly younger that will buy those long before a physical version of a movie.
Where is the spot for Wolf of Wall Street coming out next Tuesday? The other 9 versions of that movie, not owned by others, wasn't enough. Target is in business to make money.

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

Didn't you hear? Amazon MUST be matching some other retailer/seller.


Anyway, Weird Science from Arrow, at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Science.../dp/B07R9HZDR3

must be -- never too hard to figure it out

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Weird-Sci...-ray/216800225

[manwithnoname64]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

FYI, Hard Target 4K has been recalled and there's a replacement program.

I heard this, just hoping Target doesn’t cancel my order and holds out for the replacement.

[strumdogg]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

must be -- never too hard to figure it out

[Show spoiler]https://www.walmart.com/ip/Weird-Sci...-ray/216800225

Thanks for repeating the deal I posted, hariseldon. You're always on top of it!

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by chadr108

Target has preorders up for Looper 4K ($24.49) & Escape from L.A. 4k ($23.99). Man that would be swell if a B2G1 sale happens sometime in the first couple weeks of February before both of those release & these are included.

The most predictable date for the B2G1 has been President's Day. The first couple years that was the only sale of the year.

I kept hoping for a 1 day sale like they had last Dec, but so far nothing

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

Thanks for repeating the deal I posted, hariseldon. You're always on top of it!

Yeah, but you hid the original deal so well nobody could find it.

You posted the Amazon link twice in once post, so I figured I'd post the other one once

I post for the little man

[JurassicBD]

I decided to check tracking on a couple orders from the last b2g1 promo that shipped over a week ago. Astonishingly, one of the orders has been making its way slowly across the country all the way from OR to NC via truck (fedex ground). Almost every day tracking has updated to show it's in a new state, though sometimes they check in at multiple cities in the same state. It was in North Dakota today and is supposed to be here by Monday according to tracking. But, I'm not holding my breath, unless it's a straight shot with no more stops between ND and NC.

Sad thing is I'm starting to fear we're going to be sending half of our BF orders back to target (among others): at least 1/3 of the UHDs we ordered during their last B2G1 looked like they'd rewrapped somebody else's damaged returned, without even fixing the damage. Yet even our undamaged and factory sealed copy of the daniel craig 4K collection arrived with every single 4k disc scratched up, and we've already confirmed that one of the four breaks up during playback. Of course re-wraps aren't exclusive to target. We received just as many from Best Buy and amazon from BF sales this year too - mostly UHD editions, as that's the majority of what we bought (playing catchup). Many were obviously damaged. I'm sure some have used digital codes. Though, I wonder how many might be from people trying to play UHD discs in basic upscaling, but non-native UHD BD players. I know that's been a problem. Regardless, it's getting where it may not pay to wait for a deal on physical media, if most of what they're discounting at BF and other sales are damaged returns rewrapped and resold as new.

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by JurassicBD

Sad thing is I'm starting to fear we're going to be sending half of our BF orders back to target (among others): at least 1/3 of the UHDs we ordered during their last B2G1 looked like they'd rewrapped somebody else's damaged returned, without even fixing the damage. Yet even our undamaged and factory sealed copy of the daniel craig 4K collection arrived with every single 4k disc scratched up, and we've already confirmed that one of the four breaks up during playback. Of course re-wraps aren't exclusive to target. We received just as many from Best Buy and amazon from BF sales this year too - mostly UHD editions, as that's the majority of what we bought (playing catchup). Many were obviously damaged. I'm sure some have used digital codes. Though, I wonder how many might be from people trying to play UHD discs in basic upscaling, but non-native UHD BD players. I know that's been a problem. Regardless, it's getting where it may not pay to wait for a deal on physical media, if most of what they're discounting at BF and other sales are damaged returns rewrapped and resold as new.

I know people here complain about this a lot. I order from everyone, but the issues you mention are still like 1 out of 25 for me, which is still disappointing, but clearly has become the norm. When I’m not satisfied I simply return it, and I’ve never been refused by any major retailer. Since there’s clearly no possibility of changing the system, it is what it is.

Can I ask though, who is the “we” in your post?

[314carpenter]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

The most predictable date for the B2G1 has been President's Day. The first couple years that was the only sale of the year.

I kept hoping for a 1 day sale like they had last Dec, but so far nothing

You called it and we're holding you to it.
Hey everyone, hariseldon says the Next Target B2G1 is going to be 2/21/2022

President's Day Calendar
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[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

I know people here complain about this a lot. I order from everyone, but the issues you mention are still like 1 out of 25 for me, which is still disappointing, but clearly has become the norm. When I’m not satisfied I simply return it, and I’ve never been refused by any major retailer. Since there’s clearly no possibility of changing the system, it is what it is.

Can I ask though, who is the “we” in your post?

I don't get the point of your last question, but it's sounds like you're insinuating something that isn't obvious to me.

I was closer to your point of view when I was just buying BDs. Though, even there it was closer to at least 5 in 25 that were suspicious, and at least 1 in 25 confirmed, usually by way of an already used digital code. However, we (we meaning my family or my household in particular, though I do pick up movies I know my sisters kids will want to see when they visit, which is quite frequent) just upgraded to 4K, and I went on a bit of a buying binge upgrading a lot of our movies.

I haven't opened them all yet, but I gotta say that easily half of them appear to be rewrapped. I don't believe in judging such by the type of wrap alone, but so far of the ones I have had time to inspect, 100 or so, most of the ones that appeared rewrapped looked suspicious inside as well: many with broken cases, some not even including the pieces that had broken off, partially removed security stickers, missing digital copy inserts... Though, while few that appeared rewrapped actually included a slip, there were a couple that had the slip wrapped with the case, and I'm sure it didn't come that way from the factory, considering the studio.

[strumdogg]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

I post for the little man

What about us big boys?

Women?

[erlinmeyer]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

What about us big boys?

Women?

No love for the vertically challenged? Looking down on the Land of OZ?

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by 314carpenter

You called it and we're holding you to it.
Hey everyone, hariseldon says the Next Target B2G1 is going to be 2/21/2022

President's Day Calendar
Attachment 270054

Didn't say a thing about next, just a sale, but now you made me have to go pull up the lists

2/12 - 2/19/2017
2/11 - 2/17/2018
2/10 - 2/16/2019
2/9 - 2/15/2020
2/7 - 2/13/2020

So the week leading into President's Day weekend ending the Saturday prior, so this year that would be 2/13 - 2/20/2022.

In 2019 there was also a sale 1/19/2020 - 1/25/2020 -- the Sunday starting the MLK Holiday weekend. Can't find an equivalent for 2021

[hariseldon]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

What about us big boys?

Women?

Nah - Husky and large infant gotta learn how to piggyback on their own rather than being spoonfed all the time.

Most woman got the good sense to stay out of this dumpster fire in the first place

[jkoffman]

Originally Posted by JurassicBD

I don't get the point of your last question, but it's sounds like you're insinuating something that isn't obvious to me.

Not at all. Apparently I've never come across a post here that included a household of BD fans.

Originally Posted by JurassicBD

I was closer to your point of view when I was just buying BDs.

[Show spoiler] Though, even there it was closer to at least 5 in 25 that were suspicious, and at least 1 in 25 confirmed, usually by way of an already used digital code. However, we (we meaning my family or my household in particular, though I do pick up movies I know my sisters kids will want to see when they visit, which is quite frequent) just upgraded to 4K, and I went on a bit of a buying binge upgrading a lot of our movies.

I haven't opened them all yet, but I gotta say that easily half of them appear to be rewrapped. I don't believe in judging such by the type of wrap alone, but so far of the ones I have had time to inspect, 100 or so, most of the ones that appeared rewrapped looked suspicious inside as well: many with broken cases, some not even including the pieces that had broken off, partially removed security stickers, missing digital copy inserts... Though, while few that appeared rewrapped actually included a slip, there were a couple that had the slip wrapped with the case, and I'm sure it didn't come that way from the factory, considering the studio.

Do you not return items that you find are too damaged? If a movie is rewrapped and as-new, I don't really have an issue. Maybe we just buy from different companies. I do see less nefarious packaging when I buy direct from the indie labels.

[Midnight Rambler]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

What about us big boys?

Women?

Once upon a time, "man" (also "mankind") was used to refer to men and women collectively.

Nowadays we probably aren't allowed to use that term because someone somewhere would be offended by it.

[JurassicBD]

Originally Posted by jkoffman

Not at all. Apparently I've never come across a post here that included a household of BD fans.



Do you not return items that you find are too damaged? If a movie is rewrapped and as-new, I don't really have an issue. Maybe we just buy from different companies. I do see less nefarious packaging when I buy direct from the indie labels.

When you have a family, I guess you don't really think in terms of buying anything just for yourself. Everything you do is no longer just about you, if it ever was. And I don't know anyone who doesn't like movies, certainly nobody in our family. The younger ones could care less about the transport medium though.

If we returned every movie that arrived damaged, today we'd literally be sending so much back we'd probably be banned at amazon, target, bestbuy, and deepdiscount. At absolutely no fault of our own, our return volume would be so high, they'd deem it unprofitable to sell to us. So we're very selective of our battles. It's not just that online companies want to ship low profit items in such egregious packaging that nobody of reasonable intelligence would expect it to arrive without damage, and that warehouse fulfillment has its own problems with product abuse, but manufacturing has hit an all-time low as well, not just for media, even our 2-cycle engine guy has trouble getting brand new spark plugs that work during the pandemic. With scratched discs coming straight off the assembly line as a matter of routine, I try to test them before returning, and I've learned to live with cracked cases, as long as they at least work properly, hold the discs and open and close like they should.

But it's getting ridiculous, just how much the consumer has to let slide or become part of the problem and risk stores losing interest in selling physical media because they can't or aren't willing to warehouse and/or ship them safely. Coupled with extremely inconsistent production by studios that don't care about their own products, who can blame them? I just opened our Resident Evil 4k box set that came in a couple days ago to find that half the discs in the 12 disc box, were not even secured on the hubs of their individual cases. Every case I pulled out of the box, one or both discs fell out, despite the cases using amaray hubs which are much better than Viva at securing the disc. One can only assume they weren't pressed down firmly at the factory.