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Old 01-18-2008, 02:29 AM   #83 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Pirate View Post
Amazon has the BD30 for $419. If I buy from Best Buy, it's $499 + tax which I think would come out to $534. That's nearly $200 more than I paid for Sharp. So . . . yeah.
Like I said above, though, in addition to the 5 mail aways I got 5 free movies in store from Best Buy, and I haggled them down to $75 off the list price (armed with printouts from Fry's, Amazon, and Electronic Expo). So for me net price minus the value of the five $34.99 in-store new release movies of my choice (using Amazon's $27.99 pricing for calculations) & after tax was ~$315 from Best Buy. Not a bad deal, and that is why I pulled the trigger on it.

Amazon's BD30 price fluctuates, on average it was ~$409 when I looked, but it dropped under $400 at times. Fry's was $369 but they are sold out ATM:
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/544...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG

However the Best Buy deal was actually better than those two deals, because I was able to pick out expensive new releases that I would have bought anyway (like Simpsons Movie for instance) as my 5-free instore movies. So that is what I went for.
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