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| Registered: July 30, 2008 |  Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am going to London, England in April and will have a great budget for buying movies. (Can't wait  ) I was wondering if you guys know about some good movie stores in London besides HMV? Thank you very much!  | | | | Mission: DVD Wall | | | | Last edited: by dvdusi |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | London Ontario ... ???  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: July 30, 2008 | | Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
London Ontario ... ???
Oh sorry, so silly of me, sorry. I was going to write London, England in the subject field but then I thought people would understand. hehe. I meant London, England | | | | Mission: DVD Wall |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | did you know that the original London Bridge is in Arizona USA ? (Lake Havasu .. ) I'm just feeling cheeky today...  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | His Masters Voice in Oxford Street.
Zavvi (used to be Virgin Megastore) in Bond Street.
Those are the only two I know, but I'm sure some of the English members here can give you more info. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,022 |
| | Posted: | | | | In truth you'd be better purchasing dvds online, with the current weak pound against the euro there are some incredible bargains at the likes of play, amazon and hmv, and I highly doubt you will better them by visiting a London store.
The large supermarkets (asda,tesco) etc are as likely to have good deals available. | | |  |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unfortunately Zavvi became a victim of the credit crunch, so there's pretty much only HMV left.  I remember there being one on Piccadilly Circus, but I have the feeling that was a Zavvi too. And I have vague memories of a few second hand ones around Camden and Notting Hill - but that was many years ago, though they're the sort of areas that would have plenty of those kind of shops. |
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| Registered: July 24, 2007 | | Posts: 28 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,294 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting anthonypilgrim: Quote:
Forbidden Planet is a great store for sci-fi - right in central London
http://forbiddenplanet.com/fp They have a good choice but they're never cheap in my experience! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: July 30, 2008 | | Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting richierich: Quote:
In truth you'd be better purchasing dvds online, with the current weak pound against the euro there are some incredible bargains at the likes of play, amazon and hmv, and I highly doubt you will better them by visiting a London store.
The large supermarkets (asda,tesco) etc are as likely to have good deals available. But I use Norwegian Kroners. So I was thinking it will be the same if I buy online or in the store. The question is if the same DVD you can get online will be more expensive in the store? On the other hand, movie stores always have some good bargains, so worth a try. Thank you for the heads up, though And all of you who came with some suggestions, thank you very much! | | | | Mission: DVD Wall | | | | Last edited: by dvdusi |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sometimes the stores will have DVDs at a sale price not found online, but generally almost all DVD releases in the UK can be found a pound or two cheaper online.
If you're after specific titles, it might be worth your while at least checking online before buying in store: quite a good price comparison site is www.pricedevil.co.uk |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Sometimes the stores will have DVDs at a sale price not found online, but generally almost all DVD releases in the UK can be found a pound or two cheaper online.
If you're after specific titles, it might be worth your while at least checking online before buying in store: quite a good price comparison site is www.pricedevil.co.uk Not only a pound or two in my experience. For single title releases I've often found titles around £8-£10 cheaper than my local HMV. Box sets I've seen well over a hundred pounds cheaper online. Again using HMV, I saw a complete series box set going for around £225 but online found it for less than £82. Another comparison site that I've used is http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/ | | | | Last edited: by Ardos |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,242 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unfortunately I have found that HMV are normally the dearest of the UK high street retailers  , and tend to use them as a last resort. Two of the cheaper ones around my neck of the woods are now defunct: Zavvi & Woolies. Steve |
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| Registered: July 30, 2008 | | Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | Back from my holiday.. Well, I mainly shopped all my movies (30 dvds or something) from HMV at Westfield. They had great bargains and I bought movies which had a price tag that said either £2, £3, £4 or £5. This is very cheap compared to dvd prices (bargains) in Norway. I also got the Rocky box set, Godfather box set (with one extra dvd with bonus materials) and the Die Hard quadriology box set for £15 each. I also bought some movies from Sainsburry's and Tesco I had stopped buying dvds for two months to save money for this trip and I must say I am glad I did | | | | Mission: DVD Wall | | | | Last edited: by dvdusi |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Glad to hear it was a productive trip for you.  |
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| Registered: May 15, 2007 | | Posts: 4 |
| | Posted: | | | | Are there any good stores for used DVD and HD DVDs/Blu Rays ? |
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