{"id":1853,"date":"2009-11-28T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/28\/shopping-deals-on-blu-ray-and-video-games\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T18:06:14","slug":"shopping-deals-on-blu-ray-and-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/11\/28\/shopping-deals-on-blu-ray-and-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping deals on Blu-ray and video games."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping was easy this year \u2013 my wife and I did almost everything exclusively by Amazon, which means we beat the crowds and got plenty of great deals.<\/p>\n<p>I ordered my boys \u201creplacement\u201d Nintendo DS systems because 11 and 7 year-old boys cannot keep these things damage free for two years.  I managed to snag my 7 year-old one of the sliver systems for a shade under $99, or about $30 off the regular price.  There are also golf clubs and Nerf guns in their future!<\/p>\n<p>Some combination of birthday, anniversary, and Christmas, will land me Dragon Age: Origins for PS3 ($34.99), and a whole host of Blu-ray movies \u2013 Braveheart Sapphire Edition ($10), Gladiator Extended and Theatrical Cut \/ Sapphire Edition ($10), X-Men Trilogy ($29.99), 300: The Complete Experience ($12.99 \u2013 but this one will not arrive until after Christmas).  Blazing Saddles ($8.99 \u2013 this one is for date night after the kids are in bed; my wife loves this movie).  So I have a lot of quality time in front of the boob-tube in my future!<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lightning deals were fantastic \u2013 I snagged the X-Men Trilogy set (it sold out super fast), same for the sliver DS, and I got some great deals on jewelry for my wife (these sold out seemingly in seconds).<\/p>\n<p>I started to get the kids DSi systems, but decided they probably do not need unsupervised access to the internet, and they have some GB Advanced games that they still play (DSi is not backwards compatible with the older, larger Advanced games).<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a great couple of worry free, trouble free, no hassle shopping.  Except for a few stocking stuffers, we are more or less done with Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Saturday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping was easy this year \u2013 my wife and I did almost everything exclusively by Amazon, which means we beat the crowds and got plenty of great deals. I ordered my boys \u201creplacement\u201d Nintendo DS systems because 11 and 7 year-old boys cannot keep these things damage free for two years. 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