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post #1 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:19am
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Part of my job working at Sam's Club involves putting out the new DVDs that come out on Tuesday. Last night, I was helping put them out and we were putting out some of the older DVDs that are dirt cheap and I come across a box that contains on of the best deals I've ever gotten: the 3-disc director's cut of Hellboy WITH the collectible bust for just $7. I'm not as big a fan of the movie as some of you guys are and I know that most hard core fans have already owned the DVD for 3 years now, but I still got excited about it.


Anyone else have stories about finding a good deal that just makes your day?
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post #2 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:27am
I got a copy of OUT OF SIGHT for 10 bucks at Rite Aid of all places.My old copy was all scratched...
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post #3 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:30am
10 bucks for a one-year Xbox Live subscription was pretty sweet. Except I never, ever use it.
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post #4 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:40am
Last week when I got CASINO ROYALE at Fry's I told myself that I wasn't going to get anything else. Sure enough I see the ENTER THE DRAGON 2 disc special edition for $10, that's way less than it's supposed to go for. I figure somebody screwed up and put the price that the single disc edition goes for on the 2 disc version. Whatever the reason fuck'em, I grabbed one.
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post #5 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:52am
My favorite deal so far has been snagging the HITCHCOCK MASTERPIECE COLLECTION for a scant $34.00 at Costco. I hate the store, but was dragged there during the holidays, and low-and-behold, there it was with a promotion and a completely unnecessary (business-wise) mark-down. Snatched one without any remorse. Although I probably should have.

I've also always been partial to finding some treasure floating around in-stores, like the time I got the out of print 1st version of PLAYTIME at Kims for $39.99 (when it was selling for $80+ on ebay), or even the out of print copy of FAHRENHEIT 451 for $7.99 at KMart of all places. Or maybe even the sense of pride when I scored the ARMY OF DARKNESS 3-disc numbered edition for $12 at a store near my old home town that was closing. Too many good deals.
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post #6 of 53
3/21/07 at 2:08am
This wasn't really a deal since it wasn't in a store but I got the Robocop Criterion for about $50 off of eBay.

I also managed to get seasons 1-3 of Star Trek: The Original Series for $120 (all of them together for that price) in stores. Usually one season costs $140.
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post #7 of 53
3/21/07 at 2:21am
The old Gamestop/EB Games 3/$10 deal (especially during their buy 2 get 1 free sales and w/ their card, when titles would be about $2 each). Especially when new, rare or valuable titles landed their arbitrarily (like new SEs or OOP discs, and the box set exclusives). I probably added a good 100 titles to my collection with that, I was heartbroken to see them change it recently. It's still a pretty ridiculous deal (if you know what to look for), but just not as great. In any case, it granted me Last Action Hero in widescreen.
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post #8 of 53
3/21/07 at 2:25am
I pretty much rebuilt my DVD collection on the back of a local supermarket's video chain. They'd sell previously viewed DVDs for six bucks a pop, so I'd go in there and drop 20 bucks a time on movies. They had a great selection -- I got a lot of those HBO films like Warm Springs and Lackawanna Blues -- they always had widescreen, and, because it was a video store in a supermarket, they were almost never scratched. Sadly, they went out of buisness a few months back.
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post #9 of 53
3/21/07 at 4:24am
My best ever purchase was at Wal-Mart here in Canada. I saw, sitting all by itself, the four disk "Dawn of the Dead" which I'd seen for more than $60 everywhere else. There was no price. I almost left it there and then thought "No, I'll ask".

"Can you scan this as it's got no price. I want to know how much it is."
*BEEP*
"$17.48".
"I'm sorry, did you say sevenTEEN?"
"Yes."
"I'll have that thank you very much."

Got a few other bargains, but that's by FAR the best deal I ever found.
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post #10 of 53
3/21/07 at 4:35am
I got the Criterion version of Armageddon for the same price as the "normal" version(15 bucks at the time), but that was more due to idiotic employees pricing it incorrectly.
I was in a Sam's Club one time, and they had the first season of Millennium for ten bucks. Go figure, I was broke that day, and the few copies they had were gone the next time I was there.
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Originally Posted by Desert Squirrel
Part of my job working at Sam's Club involves putting out the new DVDs that come out on Tuesday. Last night, I was helping put them out and we were putting out some of the older DVDs that are dirt cheap and I come across a box that contains on of the best deals I've ever gotten: the 3-disc director's cut of Hellboy WITH the collectible bust for just $7. I'm not as big a fan of the movie as some of you guys are and I know that most hard core fans have already owned the DVD for 3 years now, but I still got excited about it.
Any idea if this is widespread? I never did pick up the 3 disc. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the bust, and it's still a great deal. Every time I see this set it's at least 25 bucks.
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post #11 of 53
3/21/07 at 5:21am
I got the three disc edition of Gladiator for 6 euros. SIX. That's only slightly more in dollars.

I got Hulk for 4 euros, two disc edition.
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post #12 of 53
3/21/07 at 5:36am
Not really an awesome deal because they weren't the best edition disks but a few Black Friday's ago I was able to snag:

Patton
The Great Escape
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

for 25 dollars.
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post #13 of 53
3/21/07 at 9:07am
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Originally Posted by me
10 bucks for a one-year Xbox Live subscription was pretty sweet. Except I never, ever use it.
Yeah, that wasn't a DVD though, sorry. Actually, anyone else have the opposite happen: buy a DVD and then see it not much later going for a much better price? I paid about $35 for Ed Wood, then saw it as a 2 for $30 selection at the same store a couple of months later. D'oh. My local HMV is also selling the two-disc editions of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown together for 20 bucks, which would be awesome if I didn't already own them.
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post #14 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:08am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
Any idea if this is widespread? I never did pick up the 3 disc. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the bust, and it's still a great deal. Every time I see this set it's at least 25 bucks.
I don't know, Sam's Inventory is never a constant thing as they change it quite frequently, but it can't hurt to check. I don't give a shit about the bust either, but I'm telling myself that if or when Hellboy 2 comes out, this thing will fetch me a lot more than $7 on ebay.
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post #15 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:12am
Best Buy frequently runs a buy one get one free on their two-disc special edition DVDs, and they usually knock them all down to $19.99 on top of it. Dr. Strangelove and The Right Stuff for twenty bucks? Hells yes.

They've also been knocking a lot of good stuff down to $9.99, $7.99, even $4.99. I picked up the Ferris Beuller special editon, the Office Space special edition, and Ocean's Eleven for under twenty dollars total.

And hell, I'm nowhere near being a Browncoat, but when I saw the Firefly set for $19.99 at Target, that was too good to pass up.
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post #16 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:42am
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7
I got the Criterion version of Armageddon for the same price as the "normal" version(15 bucks at the time), but that was more due to idiotic employees pricing it incorrectly.
I got the two-disk Fight Club the same way.
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post #17 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:54am
I was in CompUSA on Sunday, which is closing all it's stores in Atlanta, and they had Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Criterion Collection (even before the 10% off) for $9.99.
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post #18 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:58am
Being a Barnes and Noble member can be a real boon too -- you get 10% off with your membership, and I usually get a 15% to 25% off coupon every month or so. Add to that how a lot of their DVDs are marked 10% off, I can save up to 45% sometimes. Toss in the occasional BOGO (like they just did with their TV season sets) and you can get some real bargains.
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post #19 of 53
3/21/07 at 11:03am
I love saving money because I have so little of it. Some good deals I got:

The recent Criterion edition of Seven Samurai for £25.99 off Loaded247

Infernal Affairs boxset for £18 off HMV

Azumanga Daioh Vol.1 box with all the volumes in it for £45.40 off Ebay.

Naruto vol.1 box for £20.82 off Amazon Marketplace (new condition).

The only annoying (time-consuming) thing is researching what DVD to get (thanks to DVDcompare.net its not too time-consuming), so if I'm in a store and I see a good deal, I wont automatically get it because there might be a better version of the DVD out there. And I probably wouldnt have enough money on me anyway.
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post #20 of 53
3/21/07 at 11:15am
If I'm not mistaken, Best Buy has Syriana this week for 2.99. Yes, 2. fucking 99.
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post #21 of 53
3/21/07 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
Being a Barnes and Noble member can be a real boon too -- you get 10% off with your membership, and I usually get a 15% to 25% off coupon every month or so. Add to that how a lot of their DVDs are marked 10% off, I can save up to 45% sometimes. Toss in the occasional BOGO (like they just did with their TV season sets) and you can get some real bargains.
And that reminds me--at Christmas time, I was able to parlay the various deals with B&N to get the entire Monty Python box set for $67 delivered. Awesome.
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post #22 of 53
3/21/07 at 1:25pm
There's a great chain of stores around here called the Exchange. They have a HUGE selection of new and used CDs, DVDs, and games, used and new. Any steal I get is usually from this place. The Vista Series of Who Framed Roger Rabbit - for 8 bucks. Awesome.
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post #23 of 53
3/21/07 at 2:06pm
I did love the $35 for all 3 seasons of Arrested Development that Amazon had right around Christmas. Made gift-giving a breeze.
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post #24 of 53
3/21/07 at 2:30pm
I had pre-ordered the R2J THE HOST C.E. box set (domestic preorder price - $90 at Yesasia) from Amazon Japan for 6800 Yen shipped. When I finally got the credit card statement, I saw I only got charged $55 due the strong dollar at the time it got locked. Felt real proud to be an American.
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post #25 of 53
3/21/07 at 4:28pm
I bought Adaptation, Chinatown, Sweet Sweetback's Baadassssssss Song, and Day of the Dead (2 disc divimax edition) all for 20 bucks. I would have paid 35 just for Sweetback, which (going off on a tangent) is one of the coolest and weirdest fucking movies I have ever seen.
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post #26 of 53
3/21/07 at 6:38pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Actually, anyone else have the opposite happen: buy a DVD and then see it not much later going for a much better price?
Oh that happens to me all the time. I buy new discs at full price, then a year later they're in the $5.50 Wal-Mart bin(the greatest thing about that store).
I was pretty pissed I spent 22 bucks on Requiem For a Dream the day it came out, only to see it in a two-pack with Pi just a couple months later, for like $14.99 or something. Sure, I already owned Pi, but it would have been a nice gift for a few of my friends.

I've been waiting for the damn Panic Room 3-disc to drop in price, but I doubt it will ever happen. Well, until I buy it for full price, that is.
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post #27 of 53
3/21/07 at 6:44pm
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Originally Posted by The LD
I did love the $35 for all 3 seasons of Arrested Development that Amazon had right around Christmas. Made gift-giving a breeze.
I am so very, very pissed that I missed that.
I did grab all the seasons of "Angel" that I was missing when Amazon ran the slim packs for $19.99 each... which was nice.
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post #28 of 53
3/21/07 at 8:11pm
Back when Seinfeld was first released in November of '04, I got the first 3 seasons for 40 bucks total thanks to a price match from a Hollywood video add. I would have paid about 65 if not for that ad.

I also picked up the first season of the cartoon of The Tick for 14 bucks used, seeing as how it normally goes for almost 30 bucks, and I've got seasons 1 and 2 of Curb Your Enthusiasm at Target when they sell them for 17.99. Better than paying 32 bucks for them. A great deal I also recently got was during the DDD 20% off sale in November. I picked up The Nightmare On Elm Street collection for 29.99, and the new Punisher S.E. for 7 bucks when it had just come out.
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post #29 of 53
3/21/07 at 8:13pm
I thought this would be a nice positive thread of little consumer victories, but everytime I look in, my heart is just filled with an awful, awful rage.
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post #30 of 53
3/21/07 at 9:34pm
Hopefully people will continue this thread with the great bargains they bump into beyond the new releases of the week.

I guess the greatest bargains I've encountered so far have been anime, and thus probably unlikely to impress anyone here.
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post #31 of 53
3/21/07 at 9:51pm
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
Yeah, that wasn't a DVD though, sorry. Actually, anyone else have the opposite happen: buy a DVD and then see it not much later going for a much better price? I paid about $35 for Ed Wood, then saw it as a 2 for $30 selection at the same store a couple of months later. D'oh. My local HMV is also selling the two-disc editions of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown together for 20 bucks, which would be awesome if I didn't already own them.
Paid $120 for the Alien Quadrilogy... Then saw it at Wal-Mart for HALF that just three weeks later... D'OH!
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post #32 of 53
3/21/07 at 10:38pm
I remember buying To Live And Die In L.A. for 15 bucks at Target when it first came out, then about a week later they were already selling it for 10 bucks.

A great deal that I got, was finding the OOP Flash Gordon release at a Gamestop for 9.99, I got it for 9 bucks after the discount.
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post #33 of 53
3/22/07 at 9:54am
I bought the Alien Quadriology this past winter for 30 bucks at Costco, I've been wanting that set since its release but didn't want to pay over 60 bucks for it. The WB Alfred Hitchcock set is 52 bucks on Amazon.com and I'll probably pick it up but reading that someone got it for 39 bucks breaks my heart.
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post #34 of 53
3/22/07 at 9:57am
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Originally Posted by Chris Wood
Hopefully people will continue this thread with the great bargains they bump into beyond the new releases of the week.
Or you can look here.
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post #35 of 53
3/22/07 at 11:58am
The western classic, "My Name is Nobody" for $5.50 at evil Wal-Mart.
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post #36 of 53
3/22/07 at 1:36pm
I've gotten a ton of ridiculous deals at Wal-Mart. The $5.50 bin is like crack, ad its actually dropped down to $4.88. The gems that have made their way there has been nothing short of mind-blowing sometimes.

And like Richard, I'm a sucker for Best Buy when they do the WB SEs for buy 1 get 1 free.
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post #37 of 53
3/22/07 at 1:58pm
This week's Best Buy "Any 2 Miami Vice seasons for $50" deal is what convinced me to buy season 4. Otherwise I'd have just stuck with the 3rd.

I have to give Best Buy partial credit, along with all the praise it gets on these boards, for getting me into "The Wire." I never wanted to blind buy the first season because like so many other HBO shows the prices are completely jacked. But the weekend before Christmas Best Buy had a "Half of all HBO shows" deal and I got the first season for like $25.
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post #38 of 53
3/22/07 at 2:44pm
deepdiscountdvd.com frequently has B1G1F deals on tv boxsets, plus they're usually cheaper than stores to begin with, there's no tax, and no shipping. I got the entire Anchor Bay collection of Xena & Hercules season sets that way as well as a bunch of Fox TV sets (a set would then average at $15-20 a piece).

When is their 20% off sale anyway?

And you'd have to use member discounts and sales/coupons to get any dvd at Barnes and Noble at a decent price, since they're usually priced much higher than places like Best Buy or Circuit City, and deepdiscount.

I recently got the Goodfellas 2 disc spec edition at Best Buy for 9.99 and I had a $5 reward certificate in my wallet to boot. GF 2disc for $5!
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post #39 of 53
3/22/07 at 2:49pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
And you'd have to use member discounts and sales/coupons to get any dvd at Barnes and Noble at a decent price, since they're usually priced much higher than places like Best Buy or Circuit City, and deepdiscount.
True, but it's worth when you can get it, especially since their foreign film section is usually a cut above Best Buy and Circuit City.
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post #40 of 53
3/22/07 at 3:31pm
I have to go along with the good deals from Wal-Mart's "the bin". I got the ultimate edition of Basic Instinct for 5.50 on monday when I bought Casino Royale.
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post #41 of 53
3/23/07 at 12:58am
Getting JLU season 1 for 25 bucks at best buy this weekl.
Got Robocop (CE) for 30 at my local comic shop
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post #42 of 53
3/24/07 at 7:52pm
OMGGGGGGGG.Okay so a couple of weeks ago I had my Amazon cart full, and the Oldboy 3 disc tin was inside. For some reason I decided I could get it another time and took it out of my cart to buy later. The next week it was out of print, and I was devestated. So today I went to the mall, and I went to Suncoast (the overpriced devil), and there was that Oldboy tin case for 40 bucks. It's all mine now.
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post #43 of 53
3/24/07 at 9:12pm
I picked up the Oldboy tin at of all places Sam Goody, for 35 bucks, 2 weeks ago.
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post #44 of 53
3/24/07 at 9:50pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8
deepdiscountdvd.com frequently has B1G1F deals on tv boxsets, plus they're usually cheaper than stores to begin with, there's no tax, and no shipping. I got the entire Anchor Bay collection of Xena & Hercules season sets that way as well as a bunch of Fox TV sets (a set would then average at $15-20 a piece).

When is their 20% off sale anyway?

And you'd have to use member discounts and sales/coupons to get any dvd at Barnes and Noble at a decent price, since they're usually priced much higher than places like Best Buy or Circuit City, and deepdiscount.

I recently got the Goodfellas 2 disc spec edition at Best Buy for 9.99 and I had a $5 reward certificate in my wallet to boot. GF 2disc for $5!
Usually June and November
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post #45 of 53
3/25/07 at 2:01am
Hollywood Video's used DVDs in my town right now are 3.99 for 9.99 movies and 1.99 for 5.99

Guess we're a test store but I've picked up like 30 movies in the past week lol.
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post #46 of 53
3/25/07 at 4:03am
Unfortunately when I got the Oldboy dvd at suncoast I stumbled upon a large amount of Shaw Brothers dvds but I couldn't get a hold of anybody to IMDB it for me, so I had the weakest moment of my life and bought Shogun Assassin 2 for 20 dollars.Shogun Assassin 2 for $20=not a good deal to get excited about.
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post #47 of 53
3/25/07 at 5:29am
One of my "One Shining Moment" DVD purchases: getting My Own Private Idaho: Criterion Collection for 8 dollars at Half Price Books.
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post #48 of 53
3/25/07 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by le Stephanois
I had the weakest moment of my life and bought Shogun Assassin 2 for 20 dollars.Shogun Assassin 2 for $20=not a good deal to get excited about.

This should be a new thread, Dvd "deals" that you were excited about, but now regret.
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post #49 of 53
3/25/07 at 6:51pm
I've got you all beat.

I was over at a dusty section at a local Tower Records about two years ago when I saw the "Freaks And Geeks" set. It had been expensive for so long that I had pretty much given up hope on ever purchasing it. I picked it up and gave it a look, checking for a price for curiosity purposes. And lo and behold, the sticker showcased a price that it absolutely, positively shouldn't have had.

I figured I'd take it to the desk and see what happened, seeing as how a week earlier, I had gotten a mislabeled Radiohead B-side for $5 at a local record store. I asked if it was the actual price and showed it to the clerk. She said, "Oh, no way is this accurate." She stewed for a second before I sheepishly asked if I could have it at that price. She shrugged and said, "Ah, well, it's somebody's fuck-up, and I know exactly who. This'll show them a lesson, because I'm sick of this bullshit."

What was the price? TWO. DOLLARS.
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post #50 of 53
3/25/07 at 7:35pm
You win.
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