'The X Files - The Complete Collector's Edition' - £74.34 delivered

Basq

Absolute bargain!

Ordered this as soon as i saw it - works out at under €80 for 61 DISCS! :eek: :eek:

Basq

No takers for this? Was i the only one?

It's probably the best bargain i've seen in ages. The RRP for this set is £199 (that's sterling). 9 seasons and the film for under €80!

Thought this thread would have a bundle of replies when i logged back on.

davehey79

thinkin about gettin it alright. is this liable for a customs hit or is it ok cos its comin from amazon.co.uk??

Basq

Amazon.co.uk - it'll be fine!

Works out at under €8.70 per season (excluding the film).

davehey79

great price alright im just in between will i wont i type situatio. the oul cc has got a good hittin this month

Basq

Yeah, but i thought of the RRP and then i thought of that's practically the price of a new XBox 360 game.

That against over 150 hours (just the 9 seasons alone) of probably the best TV series of the 90's. Had to buy it!

qwertplaywert

Seen up to series 3 on dvd last summer-been looking to get back into it but never thought of it again. Cheers for the sensational bargain basquille!

aaf

Sweeeeeeeeet

Ruu_Old

Cracker of a price! Not to be missed.

20 Times 20 Times

i have just purchased this so when i arrive home in APril it will be there for me :0

c - 13

Basquille I just want you to know my credit card f*cking hates you right now !

Definately one of the best bargains this year, seriously all this for €80 -

Spanning 61 discs, "THE X-FILES"-THE COMPLETE COLLECTOR'S EDITION" consists of the following elements:

Season One (Discs 1-7) 24 episodes
"The Truth About Season One" 11-minute documentary
Deleted scenes from pilot episode
Special effects sequence
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Roots of Conspiracy"

Season Two (Discs 8-14) 25 episodes (w/select episode commentaries by Chris Carter)
Chris Carter interview clips
"The Truth About Season Two" 20-minute documentary
Deleted scenes
Special effects sequences
TV Spots
DVD-ROM game "Unholy Alliances"

Season Three (Discs 15-21) 24 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Chris Carter)
Chris Carter interview clips
"The Truth About Season Three" 30-minute documentary
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Matt Beck
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Mere Words"

Season Four (Discs 22-28) 24 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Chris Carter)
"The Truth About Season Four" 30-minute documentary
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Urbs Tertia"

Season Five (Discs 29-34) 20 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentaries by Chris Carter)
"The Truth About Season Five" 30-minute documentary
"Inside The X-Files" documentary
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Earthbound"

Season Six (Discs 35-40) 22 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Chris Carter)
"The Truth About Season Six" 30-minute documentary
Behind-the-Scenes featurette
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
Character profile - Cigarette Smoking Man
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Dreamland"

Season Seven (Discs 41-46) 22 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Chris Carter)
"The Truth About Season Seven" 30-minute documentary
Behind-the-Scenes featurette
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
Character profiles - A.D. Skinner, Samantha Mulder
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Maitreya 2.0"

Season Eight (Discs 47-52) 21 episodes (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Frank Spotnitz and John Shiban)
"The Truth About Season Eight" 30-minute documentary
Special effects featurettes w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
Character profiles - Gibson Praise, John Doggett, Alex Krycek
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "Existence"

Season Nine (Discs 53-59) 16 episodes including the two-hour series finale (w/select episode commentaries)
Deleted scenes (w/optional commentary by Frank Spotnitz)
"The Truth About Season Nine" 30-minute documentary
"The Making of 'The Truth'" 90-minute documentary
"Reflections on 'The Truth'" documentary
"Secrets of The X-Files" / "More Secrets of The X-Files" behind-the-scenes documentaries
"Tribute to The X-Files" featurette
Special effects sequences w/commentary by Paul Rabwin
Character profiles - Monica Reyes, Brad Follmer
TV spots
DVD-ROM game "The Truth"

The X-Files: Fight The Future feature film (Disc 60)
Commentary by Chris Carter and Rob Bowman
"Making of The X-Files Movie" featurette
Theatrical trailers

Threads of the Mythology featurettes (Disc 61)
Abduction
Black Oil
Colonization
Super Soldiers


Number of Discs: 61
Screen Format:
1.33:1 Full Screen (Seasons 1-5)
1.78:1 Widescreen (Seasons 6-9)
2.35:1 Widescreen (Feature Film)

Legend of a bargain, thanks man.

EDIT - Pictures of the boxset that some guy on amazon uploaded if anyone is interested -http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z146/cicobuff_2007/X%20Files Boxset/

dave13

In the time a clicked on your link to the time I added to basket(2 mins) the price changed to £89.97. FECK IT!

Mr E

Wow... It was £49 about 20 minutes ago.... unreal.

Basq

Yep, gone back up!

All we need to do now is hope they honour it!

c-13.. cheers for the pics and apologies for the dent in your credit card bill! But it far too good to pass up, eh?

Don't like the way the disks are packed in this pic though!

mcgovern

Damn, missed it
Great spot though basquille.

c - 13

basquille wrote: »

Yep, gone back up!

All we need to do now is hope they honour it!

c-13.. cheers for the pics and apologies for the dent in your credit card bill! But it far too good to pass up, eh?

Don't like the way the disks are packed in this pic though!

I wouldnt be mad on the packaging in that one either but for that price you cant complain.

I'm bloody delighted at the moment, early christmas present for myself.

Thanks again Basquille

bombidol

Crap, I would have got this

Basq

From my order details:

Delivery estimate: 15 Dec 2007 - 20 Dec 2007

Tight enough if anyone ordered it as a Christmas gift! :eek:

Basq

This was priced at £70 on Amazon.co.uk recently and Amazon has a 30-day refund the difference policy where if the same product you bought is available cheaper up to 30 days after you purchased it, you get the difference refunded.

People who bought at £70 seem to be taking FULL advantage of this.

From someone from over at the HotUKDeals forum:

pwillow wrote:

Just contacted them again by phone and got nowhere with the refund,i was told that all those who ordered it yesterday at £51.97 will be getting emails to say it was a pricing error.

Hope somebody gets somewhere with this,good luck.

I'd say this is quite likely to be honest!

But the worst thing about it is highlighted by another member of the forum:

pfpf wrote:

this is an interesting thread. 1st of all i have not bought this set now or in the past but my observations are:

1. people on here got a bargain and voted it so at £70 ish?

2. price went down to a bargain £52 ish?

3. someone mentioned the Amazon "price drop" policy? until which, most people knew nothing about it.

4. people rightly claimed the difference?

5. price has now jumped to £90 ish? which i suspect is a direct response by Amazon to all the claims?

6. this has meant alot of people not getting £18.00 back AND probably peoples orders @ £52.00 getting cancelled?

7. some people are now going off on the "trading standards/see them in court/not giving up without a fight" route that we all know and love on HUKD? i thought the "price drop" policy was a feature, not a Law? i dont know that many places that would refund the difference after 1 day, let alone 30 days.

HUKD is a great resource and we all love it. we love a bargain and to save a few quid, but greed is a terrible thing. go back to point 1 above, you all thought £70 was a bargain, leave it at that surely?

c - 13

Please Jesus let this one get shipped. Fingers crossed.

aaf

I ordered this the other day at £50 odd. Just checked my order status and it still reads at that price. Don't think I'll take it if I have to pay £87 as that works out at almost double the price

20 Times 20 Times

Sorry Guys , I have never ever bought anything off amazon , but i snapped this deal up for 51.37ish , Now what is all this talk saying that i will have to pay 70ish ? Can someone please explain ?
This is what it says on my receipt
Delivery Method: Air Mail
Delivery Preference: Group my items into as few deliveries as possible
Subtotal of Items: £44.23
Postage & Packing: £1.88

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Total before VAT: £46.11
VAT: £9.68

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Total: £55.79
Promotional Gift Certificates: -£0.00

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Total for this order: £55.79

Basq

Basically, Amazon will contact you first to say it was pricing error. And may or may not ask you if you wish to purchase it at the "correct price" of £70.

They won't just charge you the £70 outright.. don't worry!

20 Times 20 Times

basquille wrote: »

Basically, Amazon will contact you first to say it was pricing error. And may or may not ask you if you wish to purchase it at the "correct price" of £70.

They won't just charge you the £70 outright.. don't worry!

Okay cool , So if i don't reply to their emails they will automatically refund me then ? Do you think there is a chance that we will get the box set for the bargin price ?

Basq

Sarge wrote: »

Okay cool , So if i don't reply to their emails they will automatically refund me then ?

Yeah.. more or less.

I don't think Amazon will offer it for you at the new price (some other online stores do this) - they'll simply inform you of the pricing error and refund you.

Sarge wrote: »

Do you think there is a chance that we will get the box set for the bargin price ?

I'd really doubt it to be honest. I reckon too many who got it at the £70 price a few weeks back have demanded for the difference refunded, and Amazon probably know it'll be cheaper to issue the £18 difference to those people than honour all the orders for this. Could be completely wrong with that assumption though.

I really hope they do.. but i'd not getting my hopes up!

20 Times 20 Times

okay thanks for putting my mind at ease , was getting worried that i was going to get charged the 70pound , Great find so here is hoping that we get the bargain time will tell.

Basq

OK.. so it wasn't competely unexpected but..

5 or 6 people over at the HotUKDeals Forum have recieved cancellation notifications for this in the last few hours.

Just awaiting it now!

c - 13

I just recieved mine. Ah well, thanks anyway Basquille

Dear Customer

We are writing to inform you that the price for the following item was
displayed incorrectly at the time you placed the above referenced
order:

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The X Files - The Complete Collector's Edition

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Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our
website, pricing errors can occasionally occur.

In our Pricing and Availability Policy (see
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1040614),
we state that where an item's correct price is higher than our stated
price, we will cancel the order and notify you of that cancellation.

Your order has now been cancelled. If you still wish to purchase this
item, please place a new order online which will be charged at the
correct price, when we dispatch it to you.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by
this error, and rest assured that we will continue to make every effort
to maintain the accuracy of all prices on our site.

We look forward to serving you again in the future.

Warmest regards,

Customer Service Department
Amazon.co.uk

Please note: This e-mail was sent from a notification-only address
that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this
message.

Keith C

basquille wrote: »

HotUKDeals Forum (

Whats the web address for the uk hot deals?

Basq

Keith C wrote: »

Whats the web address for the uk hot deals?

Tis here!

PS - no e-mail here yet.. but expecting it soon!

Basq

No e-mail from them but the order's been taken out of my Order History on Amazon.co.uk!

Ah well!

aaf

Can't find it in my order status either. As Jack Bauer would say "Damn it!" Debating whether or not to buy this at ~€125.

Yellow Dog

Received my Box Set the other day.

I paid £69.97 and am well pleased.

Basq

Went for this in the Amazon.co.uk January sale... they have it priced at £71.97 but i have a spare £10 Amazon.co.uk voucher lying around from purchasing through RPoints so i put it to good use.

Subtotal of Items: £61.25
Postage & Packing: £1.88

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Total before VAT: £63.13
VAT: £13.25

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Total: £76.38
Promotional Gift Certificates: -£0.00

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Total: £76.38
Gift Certificates: - £10.00

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Total for this order: £66.38

So got it for £66.38 with shipping which works out at about €93 - can't complain really as it was only about €15 more than i would have gotten with the misprice (well... with the voucher too).



Still a good price at £71.97 for those wishing to buy it!

Basq

Down a couple of quid to £67.97

Girlfriend and myself started watching my boxset (due to the writer's strike and all that) and we finished season 1 last night. Starting season 2 tonight.

Excellent boxset.. though the disc's are quite shoddily packaged in to save space.

whiskeyman

wow!!
Was amazed when I saw the season boxsets €30 in HMV the other day... was gonna get some of my favourites season (2-5), but may as well get the whole freakin thing now!
thanks for the tip Basquille!

The Bargin Alert is out there...

Basq

No hassle whiskeyman. You should get it for about €100 (with shipping & handling).

Plenty to watch in it at 201 episodes and the 'Fight The Future' movie.

Enjoy!

event

do you know if i can use vouchers on this?

they are of euro value though?

Basq

event wrote: »

do you know if i can use vouchers on this?

they are of euro value though?

Not sure - worth a try in the 'Promotional Code' box on checkout.

I used a £10 voucher i obtained through RPoints (that works on purchasing products through them as an affiliate).

Chardee MacDennis

wow thats a great deal. been working my way through a mates complete collection and am on season 4 at the moment - brilliant. wish i could justify buying this!!

Basq

Heh.. have e-mailed Amazon to get £4 back!

Due to their price difference policy.. if a product you order drops in price within 30 days of your ordering it, they'll refund the difference. I ordered mine at £71.97 (before £10 discount though).



EDIT: That was quick...

Dear Customer

Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk.

The discounts we offer for items on our website do vary from time to
time. I've checked your order #203-5377339-1521966 and found that we
now offer a greater discount on "The X Files - The Complete
Collector's Edition" than at the time you placed your order.

We are only able to adjust the price of an order in instances where
less than thirty days have passed between the date on which an order
was dispatched and the time that an item is reduced in price on our
site.

I have therefore requested a refund of 6.14 GBP to your payment
card. This amount reflects the difference between the price you were
charged and the current discounted price. The refund should appear
as a credit on your next bank statement.

Completed refunds information can be viewed when you visit Your
Account once you've received a confirmation e-mail from us. Under
Where's My Stuff? click "Go" next to "Open and recently dispatched
orders" and sign in with your e-mail address and password. The
refund information will be visible at the bottom of the relevant
order's summary page.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience or concern
this price change may have caused.

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.co.uk.

£6.14 GBP? I'd assume he / she means euros.. as the price has only dropped by £4.

aaf

basquille wrote: »

Heh.. have e-mailed Amazon to get £4 back!

Due to their price difference policy.. if a product you order drops in price within 30 days of your ordering it, they'll refund the difference. I ordered mine at £71.97 (before £10 discount though).



EDIT: That was quick...


£6.14 GBP? I'd assume he / she means euros.. as the price has only dropped by £4.

Must do the same, cheers.

Ruu_Old

This is at £74.34 incl. VAT+delivery now.

Sqaull20

HMV have it for the same price plus £2 delivery.

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=757884

I got it for £82.00 a few weeks ago.

Inglorious

I just got this in HMV in Grafton Street. It was €100 with a further €10 discount for students, so €90 for the lot. Can't complain one iota for that price. They still have a few left if anyone is interested...

Brimmy

I've been buying the seasons individually for over the last year.. I could never find this cheap when I priced it

Got 3 more plus the originally movie left to buy.. might just pick this up and sell my first six seasons individually now.. cheers guys!

event

yeah came in to post it, HMV in drogheda have about 4 of them for €99

rejkin

Inglorious wrote: »

I just got this in HMV in Grafton Street. It was €100 with a further €10 discount for students, so €90 for the lot. Can't complain one iota for that price. They still have a few left if anyone is interested...

Rang Grafton street and they said they never had any in at that price, that they wil be getting in some in 2 weeks, its really annoying when they dont have a clue abouth their own stock,will have to hope that they will still have some by thursday,only time i can go in

nevaeh-2die-4

I bought these about 3 years ago when they were only realeasing like a season every 3 months. i paid like 55e for 1 box set!!!

thats such a bargain - grab it by the japs eye while u can

Oracle

Available at HMV online for £75 plus delivery: http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=757884

The_Chopper

Available in HMV for €99