I just picked this up at Best Buy. It's a Best Buy exclusive 5 movie set, with the following Universal horror classics:
* THE BLACK CAT
* MAN MADE MONSTER
* CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (starring Acquanetta!)
* HORROR ISLAND
* NIGHT MONSTER
Best Buy was selling it for $19.95. I just noticed someone selling it on Ebay for $35.00.
Yeah, those Best Buy exclusive Universal collection increase in value fairly rapidly.
Their Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection they offered last year is going for as musch as $300 these days.
Quote* CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN (starring Acquanetta!)
Unfortunately the inclusion of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN means now we'll probably never see this fine collection:
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I've really, really wanted to get my hands on some of these Best Buy exclusive collections. But the local Best Buy near where I live is either not getting them in at all or getting in so few that they're getting picked up ASAP before I get a chance to buy them.
Too many special features for a store exclusive :tongueout: And where do you get off dissin' Van Helsing?!
Quote from: Torgo on October 16, 2007, 04:48:04 PM
I've really, really wanted to get my hands on some of these Best Buy exclusive collections. But the local Best Buy near where I live is either not getting them in at all or getting in so few that they're getting picked up ASAP before I get a chance to buy them.
Actually, I know that somebody bought all of the Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection 2 DVDs received by my local Best Buy. They said that one person bought like 20 or 30, every single one that they had. I talked to the store manager about "Not allowing a single customer to screw over your other customers" like that, but it was fruitless. Fired off an email to Best Buy corporate customer service and haven't gotten a reply. I'll have to follow up with a snail mail.
EDIT TO ADD:
Oh, and something like this recently happened with concert tickets for a teen star:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/12/montana.tickets/index.html
Ticket brokers (let's just call them scalpers) snatched up all the tickets and began reselling them for a lot more. Bad juju.
Quote from: Andrew on October 16, 2007, 05:24:40 PM
Quote from: Torgo on October 16, 2007, 04:48:04 PM
I've really, really wanted to get my hands on some of these Best Buy exclusive collections. But the local Best Buy near where I live is either not getting them in at all or getting in so few that they're getting picked up ASAP before I get a chance to buy them.
Actually, I know that somebody bought all of the Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection 2 DVDs received by my local Best Buy. They said that one person bought like 20 or 30, every single one that they had. I talked to the store manager about "Not allowing a single customer to screw over your other customers" like that, but it was fruitless. Fired off an email to Best Buy corporate customer service and haven't gotten a reply. I'll have to follow up with a snail mail.
EDIT TO ADD:
Oh, and something like this recently happened with concert tickets for a teen star:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/12/montana.tickets/index.html
Ticket brokers (let's just call them scalpers) snatched up all the tickets and began reselling them for a lot more. Bad juju.
And yet Best Buy runs purchase limit restrictions on certain products in their newspapers insert advertisments, so they are willing to do it for some products, assuming they actually enforce them. You think they would have such things on all their special offers and exclusives, it can p**s off regular customers who buy lots of movies.
Ah, yes, the great Hanna Montana ticket controversy of 2007. Brokers cause overindulgent parents to shell out big bucks so their pampered kids can see the latest calculated flash in the pan Disney tween marketing sensation.If the parents wouldn't pay for the second hand tickets at bust out prices, the brokers would get stuck with tickets and either drop the prices or eat the loss. Could be a good chance to give the kiddos a lesson in economics or how the real world works.
Then again being subjected to most of the current lineup of Disney kid sitcom/music machine/ merchandising monsters one Saturday morning this past summer made me pretty jaded about that whole mess. Don't even get me started on the soul destroying power of
The Suite Life of Zach and Cody.
all those women being taken by goriall movies are probably rascist yet awesome. I have untamed mistress on vhs
Quote from: lester1/2jr on October 17, 2007, 09:17:33 AM
all those women being taken by goriall movies are probably rascist yet awesome. I have untamed mistress on vhs
The photos are a bit misleading. Actually in those 'Paula the Ape-Woman' movies the shapely starlet (Aquanetta, or Vicky Lane. Whatever.) turns into a gorilla, rather than get kidnapped by one. Her simian self does carry around some other starlets like Evelyn Ankers (I think) but I can only guess at what
that means.