HMV Promotion?

[Refused]

Originally Posted by PK22

I looked at how much it would cost to buy Class of Nuke 'em High (Blu-Ray), Combat Shock (DVD) & Buba Ho Tep (Blu-Ray) from HMV and Amazon.
All three are in HMVs sale, results are as follow:

HMV - £27.25
Amazon - £26.33

Once again HMV have outdone themselves in utter bull shittery

HMV site seems to glitch when you have multiple blue cross items in your basket. Adding Class of Nuke 'Em High, Bubba Ho Tep and Combat Shock, it only gives me £4.75 discount. The discount should be £8 which would make the total £24.

[Refused]

The Southampton branch seems to have practically everything stickered, and while the original prices were quite high I didn't see any of this shady price increasing going on that others have mentioned.

Some bargains I spotted included the Clint Eastwood Western Collection (Pale Rider, Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven) blu-ray boxset for £7.50, and the Robert De Niro blu-ray boxset (Heat, Goodfellas, The Mission, Once Upon A Time In America) for £9.

[mattyl149]

I've tried using the code for the Sebastian Bergman Blu-ray, which is definitely in the offer on the HMV website, but the discount isn't coming through. Anyone else having similar problems? I tried adding a random title and it worked, which seems strange

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Thats the beauty of having a store to walk into, human error can be great for a bargain.

Some things in store can be stickered by mistake, so it's always worth poping in.

Flat mate picked up Tales from Earthsea and Totoro, both had blue crosses on, it wasn't we got home that he noticed they never discounted Totoro, it obviously wasn't in the sale and it was stickered up wrong. So it can work the other way too - especially if you're buying more than 1 thing and bad at adding up

[Dr. Feelgood]

I just ordered the Stanley Kubrick Collection set along with two dvds (Fun with Dick and Jane, Intolerable Cruelty) and the code worked just fine for all 3 of them.

[twelvemonkeys]

Originally Posted by Justin101

Flat mate picked up Tales from Earthsea and Totoro, both had blue crosses on, it wasn't we got home that he noticed they never discounted Totoro, it obviously wasn't in the sale and it was stickered up wrong. So it can work the other way too - especially if you're buying more than 1 thing and bad at adding up

I bought something in there yesterday, the girl scanned a separate bit of pink paper to get the 25% off, rather than it being linked with the item itself.

I ended up getting 5 for £30, and found blue cross on Tinker Tailor for £12. That came down to £9, then used the £5 off £35 voucher I had and the final price came to £32. The girl couldn't figure out why it wasn't £34 as it should've been, but charged me the £32

[Phil92]

I went in there today and now feel like this.



Just kidding. Actually, all I got was Glee Season 2 on Blu and then some DVD boxsets that will probably never see a HD release.

Not sure if the sale was sh-t or I'm just getting wiser with my money/Blu purchases, but either way, I came out a happy man.

[MokaBear]

Originally Posted by Phil92

I went in there today and now feel like this.



Just kidding. Actually, all I got was Glee Season 2 on Blu and then some DVD boxsets that will probably never see a HD release.

Not sure if the sale was sh-t or I'm just getting wiser with my money/Blu purchases, but either way, I came out a happy man.

You can't say you got wiser with your money after you've said you bought DVD boxsets...that just doesn't compute to me.

[nekromantik]

Im annoyed, went in to buy Dredd and Excision and they said Excision is not part of the sale as its a "chart title"!! What the hell are they on about. It came out while back and did not even enter the chart. Its part of the online sale but not in store.

Its cheaper by 50p online anyway.

[DJJez]

Originally Posted by Phil92

I went in there today and now feel like this.



Just kidding. Actually, all I got was Glee Season 2 on Blu and then some DVD boxsets that will probably never see a HD release.

Not sure if the sale was sh-t or I'm just getting wiser with my money/Blu purchases, but either way, I came out a happy man.

you cant say that after just saying you have bought glee season 2 lol

[Groge511]

Managed to pick up the now OOP steelbook version of Battlestar Galactica The Plan for £9 so was happy with that

[miklc]

Originally Posted by huntauk

I guess the best deal here is Seventh Seal at £6.75 with the discount.

I am thinking about getting this film, as this seems like quite a good price. However I notice this movie has been released on Bluray twice, is either a better release than the other. I've read that the studio that originally had the rights went bankrupt hence why there are two releases.

I've never even seen this film before but I remember seeing it on a Channel 4 countdown a few years back (think possibly the 100 scariest moments or something along those lines) and it looked quite interesting so I really would like to watch it, do people enjoy this film?

EDIT: Seems like it is no longer part of this promotion, that's a shame never mind I shall look out for it in the future. I notice they have The Innocents DVD in the offer but not the Bluray, that's another film I've been wanting to watch for a while!

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

Well, if it's anything like the clearence sale on Play.com, we can expect to see HMV announce they are closing the week after

Sorry guys, I jynxed us

Directors of HMV are this evening locked in talks about the retailer’s future amid growing concern that it could become the latest big-name high street chain to succumb to the flat-lining British economy.

I have learned that the board of HMV has been meeting today to thrash out options for the company, which are said to include a possible plan to call in administrators.

People close to the situation said that a number of options remained under consideration and that any announcement about a board decision was unlikely until later on Monday or Tuesday. It remains conceivable that HMV's lenders or another party will ride to its rescue and avert the need to appoint administrators.

If HMV did concede defeat in its attempt to trade itself back to health by calling in administrators, it would deal a devastating symbolic blow to the future of the British high street.

It would also put more than 4,000 jobs at risk, just days after the camera retailer Jessops announced its demise, with the closure of nearly 200 shops and the loss of almost 2,000 jobs.

HMV is run by Trevor Moore, who recently took over having held the chief executive’s post at Jessops.

If administrators are called in, the retailer’s board would probably hire either Deloitte or KPMG, two of the big four accounting firms, to oversee the process, according to people close to the situation.

Some of HMV’s 230 UK stores could yet be saved from closure if the company manages to attract a bidder. However, analysts have said for some time that a viable HMV is likely to involve a significantly smaller number of shops trading on UK high streets.

Apollo Management, the US-based investment firm, has been acquiring some of HMV’s debt from its lenders and was reported last month to be keen on a takeover of the company. Reports today suggested that it was no longer interested in buying HMV.

HMV has been the subject of periodic speculation that it would fall into administration for several years as it faced increasingly intense competition from supermarkets as well as online retailers such as Amazon.

Its shares, already close to having negligible value, were further hit just before Christmas when the company warned that it risked breaching its banking covenants at the end of January, blaming poor sales in the run-up to Christmas.

The company has not yet disclosed its trading performance during the crucial festive period although a decision last week to launch a huge sale across its product range reignited fears – denied by HMV – that it was running short of cash.

HMV insiders said the company has been considering updating the market next week on Christmas trading.

HMV has raised tens of millions of pounds by selling assets including the Hammersmith Apollo music venue and the Waterstone’s bookseller in an effort to buy itself more time to execute a turnaround strategy devised by Simon Fox, Mr Moore’s predecessor.

The music industry’s biggest companies have also chipped in to help prolong HMV’s future, participating in a new financing package last year.

The prospective administration of HMV is politically complicated by the fact that the company’s two biggest lenders are Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, which both count the British taxpayer as their largest shareholder.

HMV traces its heritage back to 1921 when Sir Edward Elgar, the renowned composer and conductor, opened its first store on London’s Oxford Street.

HMV declined to comment on Monday evening.

[Mavrick]

Theres a thread here to talk about the breaking news so we dont end up thread crapping in the other threads.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=212783

[Marcus Aurelius]

Packed out today.

They still have issues with pricing. I bought a stickered Fast Times At Ridgemont High for the Blu Cross price of £4-50 as opposed to £6, yet the very same title was also in their 5 for £30 selection.

And I decided to buy Parades End which had no Blue Cross label priced at £12-99 but still (and I'm not complaining) had 25% taken off it's price at the checkout.

Lawrence was in the 5 for £30 selection at last but unfortunately other Sony releases like Bram Stokers Count Dracula had already sold out of the two copies I was told they had received.

I think I'll try it with some of the other titles that are not stickered and see if I get the same result assuming and hoping they are trading at the weekend.

[P3ndula]

Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius

Packed out today.

They still have issues with pricing. I bought a stickered Fast Times At Ridgemont High for the Blu Cross price of £4-50 as opposed to £6, yet the very same title was also in their 5 for £30 selection.

And I decided to buy Parades End which had no Blue Cross label priced at £12-99 but still (and I'm not complaining) had 25% taken off it's price at the checkout.

Lawrence was in the 5 for £30 selection at last but unfortunately other Sony releases like Bram Stokers Count Dracula had already sold out of the two copies I was told they had received.

I think I'll try it with some of the other titles that are not stickered and see if I get the same result assuming and hoping they are trading at the weekend.

for 80s nostalgists, selfridges store 5 movie stallone blu-ray collection cost me £9. better deal than any online store. some other good blue cross deals but you have to rummage.

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by P3ndula

for 80s nostalgists, selfridges store 5 movie stallone blu-ray collection cost me £9. better deal than any online store. some other good blue cross deals but you have to rummage.

Stallone is £8.99 from Sainsburys Entertainment as I got from them. They only ship to UK addresses BTW.