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HMV - Closing down sale
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Was in a store today that was closing down, said up to 50%
off stock, but to be honest the most i saw was 25% off.
picked up 21 jump Street for 6.40 but couldn't really see anything else that was reduced enough for me to warrant a purchase.
what annoyed me was items like omen pentology WAS £80 now £12, it was never £80 &and they should be ashamed of they did sell it for that.
also saw the descendants bd for sale at £22.99 no reduction.
All 9 out of 10 stores are closing here in northern Ireland so thought i might come out with a few bargains. alas it was not to be. give my condolences to the staff member who served me though.
so point of this post , have you picked up any good bargains at the hmv closing down sale?
off stock, but to be honest the most i saw was 25% off.
picked up 21 jump Street for 6.40 but couldn't really see anything else that was reduced enough for me to warrant a purchase.
what annoyed me was items like omen pentology WAS £80 now £12, it was never £80 &and they should be ashamed of they did sell it for that.
also saw the descendants bd for sale at £22.99 no reduction.
All 9 out of 10 stores are closing here in northern Ireland so thought i might come out with a few bargains. alas it was not to be. give my condolences to the staff member who served me though.
so point of this post , have you picked up any good bargains at the hmv closing down sale?
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glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
HMV got my money every Saturday when i was a teenager,
but hadn't been in in years and now think twice before i part with my money in there.
I've always spent a lot of money in there because I enjoy the process of looking and finding stuff that I wouldn't normally look twice or even come across online so I'm sad to see the one in the nearest town go but at the same time it pisses me off that they did this. I would have normally brought a pile of stuff from there, in fact I picked quite a few DVDs up but when I noticed the price rise I put them back. It's ridiculous. I won't spend £6 for a dvd in your sale when it was £3 normally you robbing gits.
Also annoys me that they shut the good one down in Birmingham a while back and kept the one in the Bullring. The one outside was far superior. I know they had their reasons but it still annoyed me. /Rant. ha.
Is there much of a discount on their World Cinema/Foreign Language DVD's at all?
most dvds apart from a select few have 25% off.
they have chosen certain ones and splayed them with 50% off like the omen pentology saying it was £80 now 12, oceans trilogy was £35 now £8 it was never £35.
but the majority had 25% off
Not unless some discount is applied when you got to the till. I saw one for £18!!!
Blu-ray:-
Psycho (1960) £7.50
Ben-Hur (1959, 3 disc) £9
Clint Eastwood Western Collection (Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven) £7.50
Westerns Collection (The WIld Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, How The West Was Won, Pale Rider (again!)), £11.25
DVD:-
I'm All right Jack £5.25
Blue Collar £3.25
The Vital Spark (tv) £1.50 (used)
Magnum Force £1.50 (used)
The Enforcer £1.50 (used)
The Far Pavilions (tv), £1.50 (used)
Philip Marlowe: Private Eye (tv), £1.50 (used)
They have things like the James Bond DVD box set - was £110, now £49. I can't believe that, the RRP of the Blu-ray set is only £99.99
Got 4 box sets, all films for a total of £54
David Lynch collection (Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost Highway, Eraserhesad & Wild at Heart)
Werner Herzog collection (Fata Morgana, Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Stroszek & Heart of Glass)
Abbot & Costello (8 of their classic films)
Alien Quadrilogy (the 4 Alien(s) films
I remember when MVC (then known as Music Zone) went into administration their foreign language DVD's hardly went down in price at all .I will go and have a look when I get a chance.
That is why HMV have gone bust because they have failed to compete.
Picked up a bundle of foreign language films at my local HMV (which isn't closing - yet) with 25% off in the blue cross sale. New releases not included in the offer and some of the marked prices look iffy, but you can just leave them on the shelf if you don't like the price.
Staff in there are a useless surly bunch as well at the best of times so it’s no use asking them. Not sorry to see those individuals losing their jobs.
I remember The Old Days when sales really were SALES, and shops had to empty their warehouses to make room, there used to be some great bargains... nowadays all "sale" stock is made to order, and it's all the same in every store, oh well...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21517862
This will leave 1 in Glasgow Buchanan Street and none in Edinburgh. Still no news on Fopp though!
I chose three blu-ray movies. Not one of them was being offered within the sell-off.
I slung one back, Looper starring Bruce Willis being offered at £19.99 (The mind boggles!!!)
The two I accepted and bought were Dr No, and Taken 2, both on blu-ray for the price of £22.
Advertising a closing down sale like this, would they not be liable to trading standards for offering deals which do not exist?
This would come under the Trade Description Act, would it not?
What do other forum users think?
fifty quid for the box set is still pretty good.i see they now have signs up saying 70% of.when you go closer,you see in little writing that its actually UP to 70% and when i went in i saw NOTHING at 70% off.
EDIT Just noticed I've already posted in this topic!
Who are HMV trying to kid.I remember when the james bond dvd boxset was released & they were selling it at £49 on the day & they have always been selling it at that pice.
I've seen HMV do this several times.They put a was price on the sticker but they have never sold it at that price before so your not really getting a bargain.