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So they're selling Waterstones for £53 million? You can get it online for a tenner!
On MANY titles they do have a less than £5 markup - at least if the Oxford Street branch is typical. The "over the top" pricing tends to be the exception rather than the norm in my experience.
Here's a topical piece regarding Bd pricing:
DVD Addict: Surely it's time to stop whinging about the price of Blu-rays | Home Cinema Choice: AV, surround sound and TV reviews
On MANY titles they do have a less than £5 markup - at least if the Oxford Street branch is typical. The "over the top" pricing tends to be the exception rather than the norm in my experience.
Had to laugh the other day when I saw the Alien vs Predator box set for £30, yet the AVP Total Destruction set (with the inclusion of AVP 2 Requiem) for £85!!!!!! Thus meaning you would pay £55 for one extra (and terrible) film!
Also Scream 1, 2 and 3 on Blu-ray at £29.99 each
They advertised 20% of online last weekend, but even with the code applied, it only matched at best the price with other online retailers.
Strange, they used to be great, I recall buying many HD dvd's from £2-4.99 including postage when Blu won the war.
I was looking around for new release "Black Swan".
Online price in the usual suspects £16.96/7/8/9. One or two who deserve to go out of business £24.99.
Morrisons Supermarket £17.99
Sainsburys Supermarket £19.99
Tesco (don't know - the store I visited had no Blus)
Asda - not been there yet
and HMV..... £17.99.
I was somewhat surprised.
I guess for those on very large pay packets and the wealthy the price of a blu-ray or filling the SUV does not matter.
I BTW, live on a pension and don't own a SUV and can only buy a BD when the price is right...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again shops like HMV rely heavily on people impulse buying. I used to work with a twentysomething who regularly used to go into HMV at lunch time not intending to buy a thing and come away having spent 60 quid on a couple of CD's and a couple of DVD's. And he wasn't alone, another twentysomething used to spend more than £100 a week in HMV, on each occasion before going in vowing not to spend a penny.That could be true. I was talking to someone on the weekend who reckoned her boyfriend had just spent 2k in HMV. I quipped 'did he buy the scream trilogy and the alien set?', but she didnt get it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again shops like HMV rely heavily on people impulse buying. I used to work with a twentysomething who regularly used to go into HMV at lunch time not intending to buy a thing and come away having spent 60 quid on a couple of CD's and a couple of DVD's. And he wasn't alone, another twentysomething used to spend more than £100 a week in HMV, on each occasion before going in vowing not to spend a penny.
I've said it before and I'll say it again shops like HMV rely heavily on people impulse buying. I used to work with a twentysomething who regularly used to go into HMV at lunch time not intending to buy a thing and come away having spent 60 quid on a couple of CD's and a couple of DVD's. And he wasn't alone, another twentysomething used to spend more than £100 a week in HMV, on each occasion before going in vowing not to spend a penny.
irascian said:I'm going to be doing a fair amount of that myself. Moving abroad to work for a couple of years (taking portable Blu-ray player) with just the occasional weekend trip back home. Delivery dates/cards for collection are too unpredictable in the UK so I'll most likely be going to an HMV and paying over the odds for the titles I really want on my few trips back. Compared with the swiss prices I saw (35 quid for something with German titles all over it) they'll still be a bargain!
The business model has stumbled because of the ipod generation, HMV appealed mostly to younger people and the current crop don't buy CD's etc in the same quantities as previous generations.But as we can see, this is not a sustainable business model as they are almost defaulting on their debt.
I live abroad and get amazon.co.uk to deliver to me, my last parcel took five days to get to China and the postage costs was £6 for two boxsets and two films.
They advertised 20% of online last weekend, but even with the code applied, it only matched at best the price with other online retailers.
Strange, they used to be great, I recall buying many HD dvd's from £2-4.99 including postage when Blu won the war.
Thanks. Useful to know.
I had a feeling that with a credit card registered to a UK address but delivery abroad might be a problem.
Thanks. Useful to know.
I had a feeling that with a credit card registered to a UK address but delivery abroad might be a problem.
One issue is not having a properl delivery address. Am already being ripped off (what the expats call "being Switzerlanded") to the tune of £1300/month for "serviced accommodation" (single room with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities) and wasn't prepared to pay the "optional" £35/month to be allowed to have mail deliveries on top. Might see if I can get stuff sent to work address instead though.
As a general rule you can have a billing address and a delivery address but a foreign delivery address might cause a problem.
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