Forum - View topicBest Buy
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final sage of fantas
 Posts: 235 Location: New Jersey |
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Who else buys there anime at Best Buy? Also what was your last anime purchase from there? I do and my last one was Full Metal Panic the Complete Collection.
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slickwataris
 Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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I bought Planetes.
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sts9
 Posts: 33 Location: Everywhere nice |
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To be honest, the selection is kinda poor. I really wouldn't consider shopping their unless there was a very good sale going on.
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final sage of fantas
Posts: 235 Location: New Jersey |
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Almost all of their anime is $20 and some are 22. I think their was a sale because some dvds are $12, like dot hack 3 and Gundam Seed vol1.
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Sir_Brass
 Posts: 476 Location: Prescott, AZ |
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I sometimes buy from them. THeir selection is one of the best in a brick and mortar store short of anime nation, and they have excellent prices. Though if I want the best deals possible, I buy online.
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gnikdrazil
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I've only bought two series from Best Buy in 2005 and that was Giant Robo and Dai-Guard. On-line prices couldn't match the $9.99 price tag for each Giant Robo DVD, and the brick of Dia-Guard was $9.99 for 6 DVDs. Otherwise, BB just keeps pricing their anime DVDs at MSRP. Anime is already expensive enough without having to pay $29.99 for 1 DVD. They price the ADV titles better, but I usually buy Geneon.
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Joe Arizona
 Posts: 144 Location: Phoenix |
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I probably buy half of my new anime DVD's from Best Buy. These are the DVD's I don't want to wait for. Best Buy usually has the best price as compared to other b&m retailers in my neck of the woods. Others may have a wider selection, but Best Buy more often than not beats them by at least $5.
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biliano
Posts: 956 Location: Cleveland, OH |
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That depends on the geographical area the store is located in. From my observation and understanding through this forum, there seems to be better selection in a Best Buy located in a more populated area (such as Northeast Ohio, where I live) than one located in a rural area. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) On that note, I usually shop at Best Buy once every two weeks. I usually buy 2 DVDs per visit, but sometimes I will buy 3 if I feel like spending money. In the three Best Buys that I usually visit - Mentor, Mayfield Heights, and Macedonia, OH - their selection is pretty good. Most of the DVDs they sell are given the 33% discount off the MSRP, but as mentioned, they don't do that for most of the Geneon titles. My last anime purchase from Best Buy occured today. I bought Elfen Lied Vector 1, Chrono Crusade Vol. 6, and Scrapped Princess Vol. 2. Last edited by biliano on Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:10 am; edited 1 time in total |
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gundamlion
 Posts: 48 Location: the Bebop, room of rah, jaburo(choose your fav!) |
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best buy is pretty good, i saw Nadisico dvds for 7.99 each.
 and there wasn't a sale.
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one3rd
 Posts: 1818 Location: アメリカ |
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From what I've observed, Best Buy is good with stocking new releases, but they don't go very far beyond that. |
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Verdoozle
 Posts: 22 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Best buy's selection could be better, but I used to always go there because they were cheaper then most stores, but now it seems like they are selling alot of the products for SRP. Especially there Geneon products. That's just too much.
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fargazer
 Posts: 29 Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Sometimes BB prices are very good; occasionally I will find something in an "ultra cheap" mode of $9.99 instead of a MSRP of between $19.99 to $29.99. As one example, I saw a boxed Gundam Seed 1 DVD (which comes with not only box, but also soundtrack) for $19.99, while the normal DVD was only $9.99.
Other times they suck; their Mermaid Forest I DVD was priced at $29.99, and their boxed version (no extra other than the box) was $39.99. Basically, you just have to browse through the selection to see what's a good buy and what's not; the particular good buys are going to vary from store to store. I don't know why the deals on titles is so irregular; my guess is it's either mispricing, or else they are trying to push individual DVDs that have been on the shelf a while that they want to move. On a side note (after all, Best Buy once owned them), Media Play is not a bad spot to purchase anime, but you have to plan to get a good deal:
This only works because typically (not for everything) Media Play reservation pricing is competitive on normal releases. Once a week has gone by, the prices change from the typical $19.99 to the store's normal high price of $29.99. Boxed sets tend to not be worth the price, even with the Replay triple points, though there have been some exceptions (Otogi Zoshi was one). It takes a bit of effort to squeeze value out of Media Play, but it can be done. |
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