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Fuji Disk at best buy 50% off

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:50 am
by dennisahmed
Best Buy has all Fuji media for 50% off. This sale is available online or all week at the store. If my research is correct the +r 8X made in Japan should be Taiyo Yudens.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:31 pm
by jjones
Was this advertised anywhere? It wasn't listed on their BF ad. When does the "all week" start and end?

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:03 pm
by dennisahmed
It is adversised on the ad that came out yesterday. It runs until sunday. It is on page 8.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:03 pm
by Ian
This was a total fiasco at the Best Buy I stopped at. These things weren't in the computers at 50% off so they were pulling down all the signs advertising this price.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:04 pm
by burninfool
Ian wrote:This was a total fiasco at the Best Buy I stopped at. These things weren't in the computers at 50% off so they were pulling down all the signs advertising this price.


That sucks,I'm glad I ordered online.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:35 pm
by rmdir
I just checked online, all Fuji except dual layer discs. 5 bucks for a DL would have been so sweet.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:50 pm
by dennisahmed
When I went to Best Buy I picked up two 100 DVD +r packs for $39.99 each. When they ring them up they were coming up at 55.99 the manager said to pricematch since it was advertised on their ad. So I got them for the advertised price. My question is, both for the spindles I got are made in Japan, what is the best way to tell the media code in these? Thanks

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:14 am
by TCAS
Have the disc in your drive and run it through DVD Identifier and find out the media code there.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:48 am
by dennisahmed
I am not sure if this is a stupid question, but when I place the DVD in the drive and run DVD Identifier, it says the disk is blank and therefore cannot read it. Is this normal or should I be burning the Disk first?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 2:26 am
by burninfool

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:16 pm
by dennisahmed
Thanks for the info, I guess I have to wait until I get my new drive on Tuesday. Apparently the drive I am using now (HP300n) does not support the commands needed to read the media, or so it says.

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:08 pm
by Justin42
I just got back from BB and there is a lot of confusion regarding the 50% sale today -- I wanted to get a 50 pack of DVD-Rs, one guy told me no, that was only a 6 hour sale (knew he was full of crap). Next guy told me yeah, they were 50% off but he couldn't tell me how much. The next girl told me they were $19.99 but that she'd check, and came back and said they had gone up to $27.99. I decided to just go check out and see if the rebate would come up going out; it didn't and I said I thought there SHOULD be a mail in rebate per the ad (and knowing online there was, or SOMETHING which brought the price to $19.99), the cashier called the manager over who looked at the ad, looked at my DVDs, and after a few seconds of hemming and hawing, told her to take 50% off the $27.99 price as per the ad. (I was REALLY nice, I kept telling them I thought the price was $19.99 after rebate but if there was no rebate I just didn't want to get them-- wasn't being nasty or anything, just trying to find out)

I got very quiet and happily walked out of the store with my 50 pack of Fuji (Taiyo Yuden) DVD-Rs for $13.99. :) Obviously, a major MAJOR YMMV.

I only wish I had more than one pack in my hands at that point. ;)

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:41 pm
by Jim
I stopped by one of the local Best Buys today and they were pretty much cleaned out on DVD+-R media in anything greater than a 25 pack. They had hand printed signs indicating that the 50% off was with instant and/or mail-in rebates.

I did find one pack of 100 DVD-R made in taiwan. Wasn't worth it.

Jim

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:25 pm
by BuddhaTB
Best Buy still has 30 packs of the CD-R available online.

Does anyone know if the BB rebates refer to the order date or the ship date for the purchase to be valid for the rebate?

PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:34 pm
by aviationwiz
It should be the order date...why wouldn't it be?

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:19 am
by BuddhaTB
aviationwiz wrote:It should be the order date...why wouldn't it be?

I've dealt with rebates before where the ship date had to be between the time frame given for the rebate.