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Prices at HMV store !
Andy Birkenhead
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I got a £10 gift voucher for Christmas, so checking the price of INCEPTION on the HMV website (£14.99), I went to HMV in Birkenhead.
I got to the counter, gave in my voucher and a £10 note, expecting to be charged a total of £14.99, only to be told that it is £19.99 :eek:
Needless to say, I told them to forget it and they gave me a gift card for £10 (they had already put my voucher through the till) and my £10 back.
I could have sworn that the price on the shelf was £15.99.
I don't mind £15.99, but not £19.99.
Some might say "What's £4 ??"
But I'm not (in essence) paying nearly £20 for a film.
I got to the counter, gave in my voucher and a £10 note, expecting to be charged a total of £14.99, only to be told that it is £19.99 :eek:
Needless to say, I told them to forget it and they gave me a gift card for £10 (they had already put my voucher through the till) and my £10 back.
I could have sworn that the price on the shelf was £15.99.
I don't mind £15.99, but not £19.99.
Some might say "What's £4 ??"
But I'm not (in essence) paying nearly £20 for a film.
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Well, neither really, but it is very misleading.
The HMV website should tell you the INSTORE price as well as the ONLINE price.
Yeah, I knew that anyway, but the website should have both the online price AND the instore price.
yeah , it might help .
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA H, of course.
The price online will 99% of the time be cheaper, and the same product in the high street shop itself will be quite a few pounds more. Most new release blu rays in the HMV shop are around the £19-£22 mark. Depending on the film/blu ray edition.
Just check it out in the shop when you are out and it's probably going to be much cheaper on the online shop. Or look in other shops too.
I got Inception on blu ray triple play edition for £14.99 when it was first released in Asda for someone.
Crap is a bit harsh but it was a little bit of a letdown especially the ending.
It's an "invitation to treat". You can complain that the price is misleading, but they don't legally have to sell you anything.
The cashier said that £15.99 was the DVD price
You said you were told it was £19.99
So any film with slo-mo is trying to be matrix like. This film bared no resemblense to the Matrix other than there being a real world and dream world and thats not even the same as the matrix. Nolan said in an interview that he was inspired by many of the films that were out at the time he was writing it.
It disappeared up it's own conceptual backside long before it lost sight of the original plot line when it became obsessed with Dicaprio's wife.
They could have made so much more of his wife, I still believe she was the only one in the film who was actually right when she did what she did. (dont want to give away any spoilers)
But they will for customer satisfaction, in fact if the price on the ticket on the shelf is less then the price on their computers they have to give it to you for the shelf price.Of course they could refuse to sell you it but doubt many of the big stores would want a fuss made in public.
Had this happen a few times in tesco's, they just override the price at the tills to the lower price.
HMV in the Westfield Centre sold it for £40. HMV in Oxford Street sold it for £14 and HMV in the Trocadero centre, just down the road from Oxford Street, sold it for £18. And the website?
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=547153
£8.49
Stupid.
£15.99 = DVD price
£19.99 = Blu Ray price
Where I live it's now one of the only places left to buy CDs/DVDs but I still won't stop there. While I miss buying things in shops in "real life" and supporting my local high street, there is nothing that could make me shop in HMV.