I was browsing at Border's today & there were a stack of unopened 21 Nights books in the bargain bin for $4.99. I remember when this came out I was afraid it would sell out quick,becoming an instant collectors item. Now they're practically giving them away...

They had a ton of them at Half-Price Books here in Dallas for $10 and I thought that was cheap.

Mindbells9 said:

WHAT!?!? Damn, the cheapest I've seen it is $31.50. $4.99???

Huh. Maybe I'll pick this up after all.

They've been $5 at my local bookstore for about 6 months already. They've still got about 10 of them sitting there in their reduced bin getting all dusty. One of them is an open display version, but I think that's a deterent. Anyone who flips through that book sees instantly that it's a glorified vanity project. Maybe if they had the CD playing it would be a different story. I'm guessing someone lost their job over that order . I bought 5 of them to try and flog off on ebay yet hardly got a bight.

What in the heck ever happened to that Opus Edition, by the way?

squirrelgrease said:

I was thinking about that. Maybe the pre-orders did not go over well. It was a bit too pricey.

What? When I first bought that book brand new/sealed in 2008, I paid $5.99.

squirrelgrease said:

I was in the Opus store London Covent garden last week, I asked them when is the prince Opus going to be in the store, the assistant said he did'nt know.

I live nearby so can pop in anytime, if I get any updates i will post on Org.

purplecorvette1 said:

Thanks for the update. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there wasn't a big demand for that particular product and it's another dead in the water venture. Heck, if any of those iPods were actually customized ahead of time, they're obsolete now.

squirrelgrease said:

So true. I wonder if that was an iPod that P had custom made and thought it would be cool to sell?

Mindbells9 said:

Where?! I asked 4 it at the Borders less than a week ago and they had it only 4 $50!

The CD is worth the 5 dollars so good deal, the book is huge though so u'll have 2 find a place 2 put it away.
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I went in the Opus store again today, the assistant said they are adding some finishing touches to the book, but still don't know when it will be in the store
and suggested i checked their website for updates.

Thibaut said:

Not as big as the Opus book you would need a spare room for it, it's so bloody big.

PurpleRain747 said:

I live in Detroit so it was at one of our Metro Detroit malls with a Borders inside.

My copy is doing a great job supporting a mystical bowl with my pendulum and crystals on it. At least my copy has proven useful

yeah! I think i even pre ordered it for something like 23 pounds, now i see it being sold for like 7 pounds WTF

purplecorvette1 said:

I was in a Books A Million over the weekend and saw it on "Clearance" for $20. I have a membership card with the store, so I could have gotten it for an additional 20% off, final price of $16. But, based on comments I've read here, I don't know that I should pay even $16!

Mindbells9 said:

Thank you so much for posting this. My CD is scratched and I wanted a new one. I called my borders and "josh" answered. He said they didn't have any. Next I called Detroit to see if some could be shipped my way. They told me that that is done through my own Borders. Called my own borders back. Sure enough Josh answered the phone. He then informs me that our borders will be getting 6 on the 23rd of march. What a bone head. Could he not have looked that up for me the first time without me calling around the country ? Was my Borders so busy on a Sunday am that he just didn['t have the time to put the whole information into the computer that was right infront of him?

Anyway I reserved 3 of the 6 that are coming in but I will take all 6 if they are there. I do decoupage and it would be wonderful to decoupage my old dresser with 3121 pictures. I kid you not. I am sooooo excited about this!!!

Deadflow3r said:

What a thoroughly depressing story.

borders has gone bust; so that may be why!

I did not intend on being such a downer! At least it isn't at the dollar store yet. I find plenty of books that were released for 24.95 listed price selling for a buck at the dollar store. It does make you hesitate when you think of paying full price again. I had gotten my original of 21 nights at Barnes and noble for a sale price of 25.00. I called them aswell on Sunday and they said that they already had all of theirs on clearance in the fall. They did not say what their asking price was.

jethrouk said:

I hadn't heard this. I'm not surprised though, since brick and mortar book stores seem to be dying right and left. I used to love Borders CD section because they had tons of listening stations and all kinds of import CDs. Then they changed their business model to only carry "Top 20" CDs and it gave me less reason to stop in.

Best Buy has started doing the same thing with their CD selection. There's no obscurities anymore, only best sellers. In fact, even the independent record stores are following this trend. It sucks.

squirrelgrease said:

And don't forget when Borders puts their new release CD on "sale" it is marked down from $18.99 to $13.99. I used to go to Best Buy twice a month looking for CDs, but even the super stores have ridiculously small selections. I now get almost all of my CDs from Amazon.
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Fenwick said:

True. Borders and FYE have outrageous retail pricing structures on music. Almost $20(in FYE's case $22!) for a single disc? No thanks. I realize there's quite a bit more overhead for a brick and mortar store than an online seller, but they shoot themselves in the foot with sticker-shock inducing price tags. In the case of Best Buy and other retailers that have lower prices, I think they've just started giving up on their loss-leader tactics in favor of putting the music and movies in the back of the store. The problem is, for me, there's not as much of a reason to go to their establishment anymore.

I buy a lot of music directly from small labels, band websites or Amazon etc. I still prefer CD to downloads - 'cause I'm old-skool like that. 9 times out of 10, the online sellers bend over backwards to get stuff to you as quick as possible too.

jethrouk said:

Borders have only gone bust in the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...421513.stm

Poiple said:

Same here! I figured, hey for $16 I'm gettin' a pretty cool book and a live CD, not too shabby.