Amazon Blu-ray BOGOF (from Monday 14th)

Basq

Amazon Blu-ray BOGOF starts on Monday

Some superb value in this.. especially when there's a number of Blu-ray's under a tenner!

One I cannot recommend enough is Sunshine... a film that I already own on Blu-ray and NEEDS TO BE OWNED ON BLU-RAY!! *

Ones priced at under a tenner include:

• Sunshine
• Juno
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2
• Transporter 2
• House of Flying Daggers
• 28 Weeks Later
• 27 Dresses

* I needed to shout to elaborate how much I mean it!

Soarer

You and your bloomin' Bluray alerts!
I'm bloody skint like!

As for the BOGOF, I'm assuming it's the cheapest one is free. Can't see anywhere it's written.

byte

Yeah, I'd assume it's cheapest free, as is usually the case.

Thanks for the headsup, basquille, even though I had told myself to resist buying BD's for a while...

chris1970

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'Yup, it's as good as it sounds. Simply choose your favourite Blu-ray title from the superb selection below and then pick another one absolutely free.'

does this not mean pick the two from list provided.

jayteecork

What will delivery be for the two blu rays?

Basq

jayteecork wrote: »

What will delivery be for the two blu rays?

Added 2 Blu-ray's to my cart and it was £2.27!

Worth it for Amazon's shipping.. much better than any other online retailer.

chris1970 wrote:

does this not mean pick the two from list provided.

I assume so.. what other ones would they mean?

MagicMarker

Sunshine is one of my favourite movies.

I bought a full HD tv, but I haven't bought a bluray play yet, and probably won't be for a little while, but I may take advantage of this!

Basq

You should see and hear the Blu-ray MagicMarker.

The fantastic score and wonderful visuals are just made even more glorious.

Probably the best Blu-ray I've watched.. great review here!

moonboy52

Got to agree. Sunshine is gorgeous on Blu-Ray.


Just a shame that all the rest listed in my opinion are crap

Basq

moonboy52 wrote: »

Just a shame that all the rest listed in my opinion are crap

Die Hard 1 and 2 are "crap"... are you well!? :eek:

moonboy52

basquille wrote: »

Die Hard 1 and 2 are "crap"... are you well!? :eek:

Some movies deserve to be in my blu-ray collection. Those two "beauties" certainly do not.

ShaneU

basquille wrote: »

Ones priced at under a tenner include:

I think you need to be more specific when saying under a tenner, that's sterling, and before Irish VAT and delivery charges.

Basq

ShaneU wrote: »

I think you need to be more specific when saying under a tenner, that's sterling, and before Irish VAT and delivery charges.

Sorry.. a British tenner!

Big whoop.. being a bit pedantic, don't ya think?!

Kashkai

Valkyrie is a great war movie (suprisingly enough as I didn't think Tom Cruise could play a German Officer but he was pretty good) and Taken is also an excellent movie. I have these on DVD as I usually don't buy blu rays unless they are must haves like Transformers, Wanted (and the forth coming Star Trek and Terminator Salvation) as the price of blu rays is a rip off imo compared to the price of a dvd.

jayteecork

What's the Blu Ray of taken like? Worth going for it if you've already seen the DVD?

Santa Claus

basquille wrote: »

One I cannot recommend enough is Sunshine... NEEDS TO BE OWNED ON BLU-RAY!! *

Do you own shares in Sunshine Basq ???

noodler

Limited selection. Saw Sunshine on DVD and wasn't mad about it - certainly didn't feel it warranted a second viewing, nevermind purchase.

I really want Leon on BR, Director's cut and just out. Looking forward to it.

Kashkai

noodler wrote: »

Limited selection. Saw Sunshine on DVD and wasn't mad about it - certainly didn't feel it warranted a second viewing, nevermind purchase.

I really want Leon on BR, Director's cut and just out. Looking forward to it.

+1

Leon is a brilliant movie tht I was going to get on DVD but the cheapest price I could get was €40!!!!. I'll definitely get it on blu ray.

As for Sunshine, I'd agree that it wasn't a great movie. As a sci fi fan, I was expecting a lot better storywise and while the visuals on blu ray might be superb, its just not worth shelling out for on blu ray if you've already seen it.

Rev. Kitchen

Has anyone bought from this promo i am trying to buy sunshine and street kings but when i select them and go to pay sunshine listed at 8.98 is coming up as 9.49 street kings listed at 17.68 is coming up as 18.48.

Then its adding them together and is giving me a price of 23.13 then it adds 2.45 for postage and 5 for tax so its coming out at over 30 sterling.

Davy

Rev. Kitchen wrote: »

Has anyone bought from this promo i am trying to buy sunshine and street kings but when i select them and go to pay sunshine listed at 8.98 is coming up as 9.49 street kings listed at 17.68 is coming up as 18.48.

Then its adding them together and is giving me a price of 23.13 then it adds 2.45 for postage and 5 for tax so its coming out at over 30 sterling.

Its not monday the 14th yet

Rev. Kitchen

Davy wrote: »

Its not monday the 14th yet

Ahhh now it makes sense i thought it started last monday and was ending tonight. Being out of work its difficult to know what day it is never mind what date

I was after going through it all agan and the first time i was being charged 30 sterling around 40 euro done it the second time same films to same address 48 euro !!!!!!!

mathie

basquille anything else in this offer that's as good as Sunshine for the wow factor?
cheers

Snake Plisken

mathie wrote: »

basquille anything else in this offer that's as good as Sunshine for the wow factor?
cheers

Man on Fire great Tony Scott movie worth buying

Anyone think Quantum of Solice is worth a punt? Haven't seen it and also what about the last X files movie, the big yin kind of puts me off

Basq

Snake..

Avoid the recent X-Files movie. Absolutely shocking.. and I'm a big X-Files fan!

bazual

Just got Sunshine and House of flying daggers for £12.25 delivered

Cheers Basq.

B~

Makaveli

I hate the way they adjust for our VAT. Sunshine ordered anyway along with Max Payne. Cheers Basq

jayteecork

This is actually bollocks.
None of the titles are that good.
Was going to go for Sunshine and Die Hard 2(about 13 sterliing delivered), then I realised i didn't like Sunshine when I saw it and Die Hard 2 is pants, with the reviews saying that the transfer isn't much better than a regular DVD.

So 6.50 each or nearly 8 euro per title.
Think i'll wait till I see something good at sendit or play with free delivey instead - **** Amazon and their outright scandalous P&P policy. Books and video games are 4 quid minimum.
And it doesn't matter if you spend 200 quid there you're charged for postage, unlike our friends across the sea.

Rant over.

Basq

Your points are all a bit all over the place jayteecork.

jayteecork wrote: »

None of the titles are that good.

Matter of opinion really but I think there's a couple of great titles in there.

jayteecork wrote: »

So 6.50 each or nearly 8 euro per title.

€8 for a Blu-ray is a great price.. what are you expecting?

jayteecork wrote: »

Think i'll wait till I see something good at sendit or play with free delivey instead - **** Amazon and their outright scandalous P&P policy. Books and video games are 4 quid minimum.

You'd prefer waiting a week with Play.com's "free" delivery but a bastardised exchange rate, as opposed to Amazon's shag-all for postage (and it'll get to you in 3 - 4 days tops, in my experience).

Not to mention Sendit's dodgy stock situation... was waiting 4 months for them to dispatch an Xbox game at one stage.

jayteecork wrote: »

And it doesn't matter if you spend 200 quid there you're charged for postage, unlike our friends across the sea.

But it's international shipping.. why would you expect international customers to get these perks when it costs more for Amazon to post?

Amazon (even with VAT, delivery) are one of my favourite retailers, and still one of the best retailers out there for customer service (28 day price match policy etc).

I have never had a bad experience with them.. unlike other retailers.

jayteecork

My points aren't all over the place.
First of all Amazon have offices in Cork, I know people working there. Hardly "international". They charge 4 quid postage for a game, you gotta be kidding me.

Anyway I changed my mind, decided to go for Man on Fire and Taken - a bit extra then what I was going to go for previously but they're both amazing films and from my research the Blu Ray transfers are as good as you can get.

I gtd i wouldn't have watched Sunshine or Die Hard 2 if I ordered. I actually fell asleep watching Sunshine.

Santa Claus

Just tried ordering Quantum of Solace and Slumdog Millionaire but it was charging me for both....Is there a code required for the BOGOF ?

Basq

jayteecork wrote:

First of all Amazon have offices in Cork, I know people working there. Hardly "international". They charge 4 quid postage for a game, you gotta be kidding me.

AFAIK, Amazon don't ship from that office though.

Well, the last few things I ordered definitely were post-marked that way.

Santa Claus wrote: »

Just tried ordering Quantum of Solace and Slumdog Millionaire but it was charging me for both....Is there a code required for the BOGOF ?

It doesn't apply the discount until the very last stage... after you choose your credit card you wish to pay with.

Bill-e

Amazon in Cork is just a support centre.

Snakeblood

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Man on Fire great Tony Scott movie worth buying

Anyone think Quantum of Solice is worth a punt? Haven't seen it and also what about the last X files movie, the big yin kind of puts me off

I thought Quantum was a real step down from Casino Royale. Very little drama. It felt like anytime something was happening, it'd get intercut with something else which had nothing to do with what was going on. Like a race, or opera or something, which I suppose was to heighten the drama, but I found it sort of annoying.

And spoilers, but I don't think Daniel Craig got whipped in the testicles at all in this one.

Your mileage may vary, of course.