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Posted by Mike on 11/23/05 01:15
I found out this out in a surprising way. I used Circuit City's ad to
price match at Best Buy (Circuit City has the the collector's edition
tin for $27.99 but I have a rewards card at Best Buy). I go and grab THE
LAST tin collector's edition off the Best Buy shelf. It's in a half box
with a plastic top but I didn't think much of it. I was in quite a
hurry. So I get it priced matched to $27.99 and get a few other titles.
When I get it home and open it up and pull out the tin, undernieth it is
Son Of Kong and Mighty Joe Young. I finally look at the half box and see
that it was this exclusive set. I wanted to get SOK and MJY but held off
because today had so many purchases (dropped $200 on DVD's today).
So, I had it price matched to $27.99. If I had known that SOK and MJY
were a part of the set, I wouldn't have tried. It is odd that customer
service wasn't alerted to this exclusive set being different from other
stores.
So all told I got each title for $9.33 plus tax.
One-Shot Scot wrote:
>
> It looks like Best Buy has made exclusive arrangements with Warner to
> package the 2-disk _King Kong_ collector's edition (containing the tin box
> and all the memorabilia) with _Son of Kong_ and _Mighty Joe Young_.
> Although these three titles will also be available in a specially-priced
> bundle for around $26, you would only be getting the _King Kong_ special
> edition -- not the collector's edition.
>
> If you were to purchase the _King Kong_ collector's edition separately, you
> would need to spend around $25-$30 for that and then around $15 each if you
> later decided to get _Son of Kong_ and _Mighty Joe Young_, for a total of
> $50-$55. On the other hand, you could buy the regular 3-title bundle and
> then purchase the special edition separately. That would cost between
> $50-$55 and you would end up with two copies of _King Kong_, but maybe the
> extra special edition would make a nice Xmas gift. With the Best Buy
> exclusive bundle, it appears that you can have it all for $33.99 and no
> duplicate titles.
>
> It looks like the 3-title bundle (as well as the Best Buy exclusive bundle)
> does not have proprietary packaging or different silkscreen artwork on the
> DVDs. The three separate titles just appear to be bundled together.
>
> This same collection was shown for $33.99 in the Sunday Best Buy newspaper
> ad. It can also be pre-ordered here:
>
> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7535955&type=product&id=1505115
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