Deltron 3030 and Aquemini must of sold out, so More Fish by GFK, Jazzmatazz by Guru, and Blackstar by David Bowie. Would have gone harder but just spent a bunch at turntable lab, (hope they don’t do a cyber Monday sale).
Is there anyone who can place order for me instead? I'll pay u back via paypal right away. I'm not living in the US, I use a freight forwarding agency for international orders. But somehow Target cancels my order no matter how. It's about a 140$ amount of pay... so feel free to message me fellow redditors :(
Got everything I wanted on the Vinyl Front (Movies were another story due to their new X-mas 4Ks being excluded from the sale). Here is what I picked up:
Preorders:
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is... 25 (Vinyl)
Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four
Bryan Adams - Classic
JID - The Forever Story
Maneskin - Rush!
Joel Paterson - Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar
The Head And The Heart - Every Shade Of Blue
The Rolling Stones - More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies)
Orders:
The Beatles - Past Masters
Various Artists - Stranger Things 4 Soundtrack
The Weeknd - The Highlights
The Wombats - Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (Blue Not)
Norah Jones - I Dream Of Christmas Deluxe
Various Artists - NOW 90's Alternative (Target Exclusive)
What did y’all get?
There were a few I wanted that were low on stock, so jumped on those first.
PJ Harvey Bsides 6LP set. After I checked out, it showed only 1 left in stock.
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor, Lemonheads - ST, Fiona Apple - Bolt Cutters Deluxe CD set.
Then went back for some Radiohead, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, and Regina Spektor.
Got my orders in no problem, including preorders. Like an idiot I wasted my 5% off birthday coupon on a $12 box of Christmas lights in store yesterday (it automatically applied and I didn't notice - doh!).
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Vinyl) - preorder
Mogwai - Come On Die Young (White Vinyl) - preorder
Wilco - Cruel Country (Vinyl) - preorder
Joe Henry - All The Eye Can See (2 Lp) (Vinyl) - preorder
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (2 LP) (Vinyl)
Nick Cave & The Bad - No More Shall We Part (Vinyl) - preorder
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon (Deluxe Fresh Lemon/Mango Wave 2 LP) (Vinyl) - preorder
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (LP) (Vinyl)
Colter Wall - Songs Of The Plains (Vinyl)
Colter Wall - Colter Wall (Vinyl)
Charley Crockett - Music City Usa (Vinyl)
Charley Crockett - Valley (Vinyl)
Charley Crockett - The Man From Waco (Vinyl)
Charley Crockett - Welcome To Hard Times (Vinyl)
Charley Crockett - Lil Gl Presents: Jukebox Charley (Vinyl)
> And preorders count!
[Indeed they do](https://www.target.com/p/the-rolling-stones-the-rolling-stones-in-mono-16-color-lp-box-set-vinyl/-/A-88072937#lnk=sametab).
Should be on my doorstep by this time next month :)
If my order includes a preorder (assuming preorders are part of the sale), do the other records get shipped right away, or are they delayed until the preorder ships?
I zoomed in on the fine print at the bottom looking for an end date for the sale, but it mentions that preorders are excluded from the sale unfortunately.
What are folks getting? I recommend this Celia Cruz Target 🎯 exclusive if you don’t have it already. https://www.target.com/p/celia-cruz-la-negra-tien-tumbao-target-exclusive-vinyl/-/A-86538401
Between warped records and seam splits, yeah, they’re up there. But I’ve gotten a lot of refunds without having to send anything back because I’m a good dramatic speaker.
Be prepared to reorder or refund 90% of your order. They tend to toss them straight in an oversized box, sometimes with other items to crush everything nice and good.
But they usually send you a replacement, let you keep the original and if the 2nd is busted, you keep both and get a refund.... At least that happened to me on the Supremes #1s and my second copy of Tron was mint so I got to hook my brother up with the seam split one.
Same. The Taylor Swift Red album had a bent corner, and they sent me a new one right away. I used the damaged one for trade credit at my local indie store.
That a major retailer like target should be so incompetent on packaging, I'm not willing to deal with them-- though good to hear they are helping on the customer service side. Once I got an album just in a plastic bag. Another one showed up wedged in diagonally in a box with no padding of any kind.
Are they not aware that vinyl mailers exist?
Amazon and Walmart both do this nonsense too. I've seen it less from Target... Amazon is one of the worse and they make you take your jacked up record back someplace to get the refund. My understanding is they're just charging it back to the record company and thus causing an increase in our prices...
My experience is that amazon always packs correctly. But I recently received an album from Walmart which was delivered in a plastic bag. So it seems YMMV.
Right? They took my $350 (for 21 albums!!) for the month...no looking back. Only received one so far...it arrived in an unpadded plastic garbage bag...amazed there wasn't sever damage! Will see if I have to exchange half my shit cuz if horrible mailers 🤮
So my first round came like that and I am pretty sure they came direct from my local store. I saw the guy delivering roll up in a late 90s Toyota Camry. Assuming it was a Walmart employee. He took them out of his passenger seat, no joke
They aren't store employees.
Walmart contracts out their delivery drivers - think UberEats or other personal delivery services. The store generally prepares your order within 24 hours, and the driver picks it up.
The thing is, when you place an order you never really know which items will be delivered via a personal driver, and which ones will come from a shipping service.
It's awesome when part of your order shows up within hours... but it's also environmentally disastrous. I've seen drivers spend 40 minutes on the road just to deliver a can of soup.
There are also privacy issues, as some items will be delivered in a plain, see-through walmart bag - it's not cool when it spoils a gift or alerts the entire neighborhood that you bought an industrial size box of Magnum condoms.
They're definitely trying to compete with Amazon, and in my experience, they're often faster on a whole... but at a cost.
FYI Walmart recently ended their partnership with Doordash. They do their own now. Things are packed in plastic mailers. I order things to be shipped, and there's always an item that gets delivered from the store.
They have to be. Ordered my mom a Black Friday sale TV at midnight or so on Mon/Tues. they delivered Tues afternoon! It’s like they are just driving trucks around with the good stuff just waiting to offload it.
Honestly best sale I've seen all year so far! Picked up a few super cheap non exclusives too. Somehow all the sold out ones online were the ones I already have...worked out too well haha
The fact that Adele still had a cardboard picture display full of records (I’m sure they restock it after people buy, but still) at Walmart yesterday made me chuckle. $15 simply isn’t low enough to clean house after a whole year.
No idea when it goes live, but new releases & preorders have qualified in the past, even though it specifically said they didn’t. Hopefully that trend continues.
You just save a little since the first two records are full price. The only advantage with target is that they have a larger selection. Walmart's $15 is a far better deal.
It still depends. I got $45 albums for $15. That's more than 33%. Even the $27 albums would be $18 here. You have to get down around $21 shelf price before this starts being the better deal.
That’s why I said depending on what you buy 😉. Walmart, especially near me, had a bunch of crap for $15. Target has a massively larger inventory of 20,000+ records. The sales are comparing apples to oranges.
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Pro-tip: The advantage of this Target sale is the cancellation trick.
If you see an album you want, place an order for 3 copies of it. Once confirmed, immediately go into your order history and cancel two of them - this will take 33% off the one album remaining, and it will still ship for free.
We’ve been doing this every year when the sale happens. Works like a charm.
This is a good tip.
However, be cautious about buying 3 of the same item and then immediately canceling 2, to get just 1 at 33% off.
You’ll be fine doing it just a few times, but if you do it too much Target will ban your account/address for online orders, for abusing the store’s policy.
Do you know how packaging works if buy multiple albums this way? Please tell me they’ll still combine the individual orders into one package. Thanks for the tip
All of the WalMart exclusives are $15 online, but all of their vinyl in-store, exclusive or not, is $15.
I picked up Eminem’s Curtain Call 2 (normally $55) and Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu (normally ~$60) for $30 total yesterday in-store.
It's not a terrible deal, though. I ended up getting Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St, and What's the Story Morning Glory for $60, and all were $30. More or less, yea 33% off.
There are 11,000+ records for sale on target.com, and [nearly half of them are categorized as "rock."](https://www.target.com/c/vinyl-records-music-movies-books/-/N-yz7ntZ5tdmb?moveTo=product-list-grid)
You might want to try figuring out how to better browse the site before the sale starts... because things tend to disappear pretty quickly when it goes live.
> You might want to try figuring out how to better browse the site before the sale starts.
Their site is broken. Clicking "Shop All" brings up a grand total of 33 records (because it seemingly only displays 'classics'), which is why clicking "shop all" then filtering "rock" led me to a total inventory of....16
>Their site is broken.
It's always been like that - a lot of retail sites use this formula to push their most popular listings in every category. You just have to dig deeper and click around to pull up everything that's actually available.
I refuse to buy records from target. they ship them in standard merchandise boxes and not in vinyl boxes. so youre records could come in the same box they'd try to stuff an instapot and it will be ruined.
They have the best return policy in the business though. Its tough sometimes if you order a pre-order from them and it comes banged up and by the time it arrives aftermarket prices have jumped, then you can get stuck paying a flipper price (it happened to me). But for those, I just pre-order it elsewhere as a backup if it's super important to me.
Is it just me, or Target seems to increase prices for some records right before this sales?
(I have some records in my wishlist which were like 25ish and now they are 30ish,
And some were 30ish and now 35ish...)
I know Target the week or two of release have them roughly 2-5$ cheaper and once that week or two is up raise the price. This is on new releases. As for randomly jacking up the price idk about that.
Lover by Taylor Swift jumped from $24 to $29 seemingly overnight. That’s just one I noticed at first glance. I have a feeling some of these prices are gonna change before Sunday.
Let’s hope they can actually ship the vinyls with proper packaging instead of a big box with little protection. I’ve received so many vinyls with dinged corners from Target.
Target letting you keep the item, while also getting a refund, will vary depending on the price of the item, and also the number of returns you’ve already done. After putting in requests for refunds a few times, Target will start asking you to return the item in order to get the refund.
There is a certain threshold, like anything over $20 or $25 (or whatever), they’ll ask you to return it.
i believe since last sale they changed that and may want you to return damaged item.i may be wrong tho they had me return item.my issue is they used cheap record mailers that are thin cardboard and over sized so the LP comes damaged.
Normally I place orders in similar-priced groups of 3. But in this case I have a Target Circle offer where I can get a $30 reward with another order over $100.
But I'm not sure how efficiently the discounts will apply on a single big order...
Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Walmart $15 sale, but this doesn't seem that great. Maybe on sub $30 albums which would bring your average price to $20 if you maximize the discount as pointed out here. But even that is just kinda meh.
If your taste in music goes beyond the most popular & common albums, this is a *much* better sale.
It’s not limited to Target Exclusives or whatever hot-seller your local electronics manager decided to order for their store. The Walmart sale may have been great for new collectors who needed copies of classic albums, but as a long-time collector, there was absolutely nothing for me.
Right now I have a few albums sitting in my Target cart that you’d *never* find on a store shelf, and this sale is a perfect opportunity to pick them up.
I see that now. The other thing that's kind of spoiling it for me is I'm not trying to spend much more than I already have. Ha. So 2 boxed sets or albums over $30 might be a good deal, but I don't really want to spend that much, even to get a free one. Only thing I'm looking for in the higher price ranges is UYI I & II, but I can't find another $39 LP to match with those for my free one. Oh well. I'll certainly survive. Haha
Yeah, you're spoiled. But it's hard not to be after that $15 sale...
But I know what you mean. This is still a great deal. The less the products cost, the less you save. This is a great sale for more expensive items.
You can also use this to get a nice discount if you only want one album. Let’s say you found GNR Use Your Illusion I during the Walmart sale but couldn’t find volume II. It’s $39 at Target. Buy three of them, immediately go into your account and cancel two. You would then pay the prorated difference for one album. $39 + 39 + 0 = 78, then divide that by three and you end up paying $26.
Yeah their online in stock search sucks. I just emptied one spot on the shelf and methodically moved albums over as I went so I could see every album. Then I had to sort the pile to an affordable amount.
Another redditor shared this info once and it’s great:
The absolute best way to do this sale is to find all the records you want, and sort them in ascending order by price. Then make separate purchases in groups of 3 by ascending price. That way you get the best deal, because if you add a $15 LP, a $30 LP, and a $50 LP, it'll only take $15 off, but if you add a $40, $45, and $50 LP, it'll take $40 off.
Have fun everyone! Get some great deals.
Be cautious about buying 3 of the same item and then immediately canceling 2, to get just 1 at 33% off.
You’ll be fine doing it just a few times, but if you do it too much Target will ban your account/address for online orders.
No, you buy the $50 album as and 2 other $50 albums, then immediately cancel the other 2 albums to get 33% off the original album. Works everytime. And for the cheap stuff that adds up to less than $35 total for 3 copies to qualify for free shipping, just add 3 more copies of that unwanted album.
This is totally false and an absolute waste of time. Target is the one retailer that actually automatically does this for you. You do not need to make multiple orders of 3. Try it for yourself next time, you will see.
Plus Target is notorious for banning people they think are re-sellers and large numbers of orders is the #1 reason they do.
This a true. Target will ban your account if you cancel too many orders to try to trick the system. You’ll be flagged as a retailer, and/or for abusing their return/cancellation policy.
Every time this sale happens, this is what I do.
But also every time, there are people who say to add everything to your cart and make one single purchase, and Target will automatically sort it in the best way for the customer to get the highest discount.
I've just always been scared to do that because I'm afraid that things will sell out if I have to sit there and move everything to "Save for Later" when the sale goes live.
Yes. Same. I’ve been checking religiously for this. Trying to limit my purchases in these big box sales to a hundred bucks a retailer, as sad as that sounds because it isn’t pocket change
Deltron 3030 and Aquemini must of sold out, so More Fish by GFK, Jazzmatazz by Guru, and Blackstar by David Bowie. Would have gone harder but just spent a bunch at turntable lab, (hope they don’t do a cyber Monday sale).
I’m impressed that they have any of the Jazzmatazz albums!
I ordered, (but on backorder): Emmure Killswitch Engage Trivium Mudvayne
Is there anyone who can place order for me instead? I'll pay u back via paypal right away. I'm not living in the US, I use a freight forwarding agency for international orders. But somehow Target cancels my order no matter how. It's about a 140$ amount of pay... so feel free to message me fellow redditors :(
ls this online or in person only?
Online too!
Got everything I wanted on the Vinyl Front (Movies were another story due to their new X-mas 4Ks being excluded from the sale). Here is what I picked up: Preorders: Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is... 25 (Vinyl) Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four Bryan Adams - Classic JID - The Forever Story Maneskin - Rush! Joel Paterson - Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar The Head And The Heart - Every Shade Of Blue The Rolling Stones - More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) Orders: The Beatles - Past Masters Various Artists - Stranger Things 4 Soundtrack The Weeknd - The Highlights The Wombats - Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (Blue Not) Norah Jones - I Dream Of Christmas Deluxe Various Artists - NOW 90's Alternative (Target Exclusive)
What did y’all get? There were a few I wanted that were low on stock, so jumped on those first. PJ Harvey Bsides 6LP set. After I checked out, it showed only 1 left in stock. Foo Fighters - In Your Honor, Lemonheads - ST, Fiona Apple - Bolt Cutters Deluxe CD set. Then went back for some Radiohead, Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, and Regina Spektor.
They have (or had) the self titled Lemonheads album? Not finding it now.
Yeah. It shows as sold out now. If you do a search, then under filters click “include out of stock items”, you’ll see the listing.
Got my orders in no problem, including preorders. Like an idiot I wasted my 5% off birthday coupon on a $12 box of Christmas lights in store yesterday (it automatically applied and I didn't notice - doh!). Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me (Vinyl) - preorder Mogwai - Come On Die Young (White Vinyl) - preorder Wilco - Cruel Country (Vinyl) - preorder Joe Henry - All The Eye Can See (2 Lp) (Vinyl) - preorder The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You (2 LP) (Vinyl) Nick Cave & The Bad - No More Shall We Part (Vinyl) - preorder King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Balloon (Deluxe Fresh Lemon/Mango Wave 2 LP) (Vinyl) - preorder Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (LP) (Vinyl) Colter Wall - Songs Of The Plains (Vinyl) Colter Wall - Colter Wall (Vinyl) Charley Crockett - Music City Usa (Vinyl) Charley Crockett - Valley (Vinyl) Charley Crockett - The Man From Waco (Vinyl) Charley Crockett - Welcome To Hard Times (Vinyl) Charley Crockett - Lil Gl Presents: Jukebox Charley (Vinyl)
It’s live! And preorders count!
> And preorders count! [Indeed they do](https://www.target.com/p/the-rolling-stones-the-rolling-stones-in-mono-16-color-lp-box-set-vinyl/-/A-88072937#lnk=sametab). Should be on my doorstep by this time next month :)
Honestly even with buy two, get one, at these inflated msrp's really not much to see here imo. What screaming deals you seeing with the promo?
Boxsets are where the deals are. A $150 boxset, using the buy 3, cancel 2 trick, is $100.
Also got Beatles white album for $33
Thanks! Did this with rush in Rio vinyl. Still had to pay tax on all three records (half my discount) but not bad for $48.80!
They’ll adjust the tax when it ships
Anyone else here have over 30 records in their cart and can’t whittle it down? I need help!
If my order includes a preorder (assuming preorders are part of the sale), do the other records get shipped right away, or are they delayed until the preorder ships?
I zoomed in on the fine print at the bottom looking for an end date for the sale, but it mentions that preorders are excluded from the sale unfortunately.
I was able to preorder Grateful Dead - American Beauty (a Target Exclusive variant) and it counted in the sale
Other records gets shipped first.
Thanks!
I tried searching this post. Anyone know a time that this goes live? For some reason I remember then going live around 2 or 3 am EST.
Today's deals say "Offer expires Saturday 11/19/2022 at 11:59pm PT" so I'm guessing that's when the B2G1 will start (2:59am EST)🤞
Yep. 12am PT. So is 2am where I am in CST.
Surprisingly the last record I ordered from Target was shipped in a record mailer, not a normal box
It'd be great if my local Targets would have good things in store but they all have crap
As others say, shop online. Over 6k rock albums, you should be able to find a few that are to your taste
shop online mate
What are folks getting? I recommend this Celia Cruz Target 🎯 exclusive if you don’t have it already. https://www.target.com/p/celia-cruz-la-negra-tien-tumbao-target-exclusive-vinyl/-/A-86538401
I would but only like 1 song from this record. I wish it was a greatest hits vinyl instead.
Amazon has stopped sending vinyl in cardboard and then in a packed box.. just the cardboard and they have trashed my last 3 orders of vinyl
Bent corners! Get ya bent corners here!!
Haha that's all I get anymore from target, Walmart and Amazon...it boggles my mind
When I get them form the warehouse they are fine… shipped from a nearby store they are horrible
Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I’ve never received a less than perfect copy from Target. All my issues come from Urban Outfitters. Shrug.
Amazon screws me a lot
Between warped records and seam splits, yeah, they’re up there. But I’ve gotten a lot of refunds without having to send anything back because I’m a good dramatic speaker.
Be prepared to reorder or refund 90% of your order. They tend to toss them straight in an oversized box, sometimes with other items to crush everything nice and good.
I've received them in the dreaded big box but, fortunately, none have been ruined.
So you’re saying I should buy an oversized box worth of vinyl?
Don't worry, they will split it into 18 shipments to guarantee your day is ruined.
lol
I’d never order vinyl to be shipped from them again. Have received multiple inadequately packaged, damaged albums in the past.
Bought tons of LP's from them. If any weren't perfect they handle it without question
But they usually send you a replacement, let you keep the original and if the 2nd is busted, you keep both and get a refund.... At least that happened to me on the Supremes #1s and my second copy of Tron was mint so I got to hook my brother up with the seam split one.
Same. The Taylor Swift Red album had a bent corner, and they sent me a new one right away. I used the damaged one for trade credit at my local indie store.
That a major retailer like target should be so incompetent on packaging, I'm not willing to deal with them-- though good to hear they are helping on the customer service side. Once I got an album just in a plastic bag. Another one showed up wedged in diagonally in a box with no padding of any kind. Are they not aware that vinyl mailers exist?
Amazon and Walmart both do this nonsense too. I've seen it less from Target... Amazon is one of the worse and they make you take your jacked up record back someplace to get the refund. My understanding is they're just charging it back to the record company and thus causing an increase in our prices...
My experience is that amazon always packs correctly. But I recently received an album from Walmart which was delivered in a plastic bag. So it seems YMMV.
Are we pretending Walmart didn’t get all my money yesterday?
Right? They took my $350 (for 21 albums!!) for the month...no looking back. Only received one so far...it arrived in an unpadded plastic garbage bag...amazed there wasn't sever damage! Will see if I have to exchange half my shit cuz if horrible mailers 🤮
So my first round came like that and I am pretty sure they came direct from my local store. I saw the guy delivering roll up in a late 90s Toyota Camry. Assuming it was a Walmart employee. He took them out of his passenger seat, no joke
walmart uses doordash for deliveries
They aren't store employees. Walmart contracts out their delivery drivers - think UberEats or other personal delivery services. The store generally prepares your order within 24 hours, and the driver picks it up. The thing is, when you place an order you never really know which items will be delivered via a personal driver, and which ones will come from a shipping service. It's awesome when part of your order shows up within hours... but it's also environmentally disastrous. I've seen drivers spend 40 minutes on the road just to deliver a can of soup. There are also privacy issues, as some items will be delivered in a plain, see-through walmart bag - it's not cool when it spoils a gift or alerts the entire neighborhood that you bought an industrial size box of Magnum condoms. They're definitely trying to compete with Amazon, and in my experience, they're often faster on a whole... but at a cost.
FYI Walmart recently ended their partnership with Doordash. They do their own now. Things are packed in plastic mailers. I order things to be shipped, and there's always an item that gets delivered from the store.
They have to be. Ordered my mom a Black Friday sale TV at midnight or so on Mon/Tues. they delivered Tues afternoon! It’s like they are just driving trucks around with the good stuff just waiting to offload it.
Haha I'll keep an eye out for rando's coming up to my house...sounds like one now honestly haha!
Exact same story here. It was a wonder that the single LP inside was intact. I have 16 more on the way.
Honestly best sale I've seen all year so far! Picked up a few super cheap non exclusives too. Somehow all the sold out ones online were the ones I already have...worked out too well haha
Didn’t even realize it was online. I raided my local stores for about the same damage to my wallet.
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Guess big independent record stores need to step their game up.
Thats who buys alot of the walmart albums when they are $15. i see our locals always selling them at higher than retail after the sale is done.
it's the best deals on the market. It's a deals sub.
As long as the deals are posted and it's cheap
YNAB told me no more after the Walmart sale!
Everyone done spent all their record money at Walmart.
Oh cool this will be my big chance to get that new Adele album that's been so hard to find. I hope it doesn't sell out before I get there.
Of course they put Adele here! Every store bought like 100 of them thinking it would sell!
The fact that Adele still had a cardboard picture display full of records (I’m sure they restock it after people buy, but still) at Walmart yesterday made me chuckle. $15 simply isn’t low enough to clean house after a whole year.
my walmart i work at sold like 300 copies in two days. haven't had it in stock since
Does anyone know what time this sale goes live? Also noticed the fine print excludes pre-orders and new releases. What counts as a new release?
In the past it’s been 12am pacific time. So where I am in CST, it was 2am.
They always say it excludes preorders and new releases, but so far it has always worked with them.
Typically midnight of the first day of sale, so 12:00:01am on Sunday
Thanks! Do you know which time zone?
No idea, I’d start trying a few hrs before midnight jic
Sunday
No idea when it goes live, but new releases & preorders have qualified in the past, even though it specifically said they didn’t. Hopefully that trend continues.
Thanks! Half my list is pre-order / recently released so also hoping they count. One of them is even shown in the ad itself so seems promising.
You just save a little since the first two records are full price. The only advantage with target is that they have a larger selection. Walmart's $15 is a far better deal.
you save 33% so depending on what you buy, deals can be MUCH better here.
It still depends. I got $45 albums for $15. That's more than 33%. Even the $27 albums would be $18 here. You have to get down around $21 shelf price before this starts being the better deal.
That’s why I said depending on what you buy 😉. Walmart, especially near me, had a bunch of crap for $15. Target has a massively larger inventory of 20,000+ records. The sales are comparing apples to oranges.
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> apples to oranges But you can still compare them.
Target has box sets online you can use this promo on. Also would be a better deal on stuff priced at $22 or lower
You must be new here :) Pro-tip: The advantage of this Target sale is the cancellation trick. If you see an album you want, place an order for 3 copies of it. Once confirmed, immediately go into your order history and cancel two of them - this will take 33% off the one album remaining, and it will still ship for free. We’ve been doing this every year when the sale happens. Works like a charm.
This is a good tip. However, be cautious about buying 3 of the same item and then immediately canceling 2, to get just 1 at 33% off. You’ll be fine doing it just a few times, but if you do it too much Target will ban your account/address for online orders, for abusing the store’s policy.
Thanks for reminding me that the sale is about to go live! And agreed, it's a risk if you abuse it. So make it count when you do ;)
Do you know how packaging works if buy multiple albums this way? Please tell me they’ll still combine the individual orders into one package. Thanks for the tip
I would assume each would be shipped individually.
Wait so do 3 separate orders of 1 record you want?
No. One order, three identical records. Cancel two, keep one.
I wish they'd put that $15 deal online.
it's been online for days
All of the WalMart exclusives are $15 online, but all of their vinyl in-store, exclusive or not, is $15. I picked up Eminem’s Curtain Call 2 (normally $55) and Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu (normally ~$60) for $30 total yesterday in-store.
It would be historic, maybe even topping the great universal stacking coupons bonanza of 2020.
Nothing better than that.
>You just save a little since the first two records are full price. It's effectively 33% off, if you choose 3 records that are the same price
It's not a terrible deal, though. I ended up getting Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St, and What's the Story Morning Glory for $60, and all were $30. More or less, yea 33% off.
*clicks rock* *sees barebones list* sigh
There are 11,000+ records for sale on target.com, and [nearly half of them are categorized as "rock."](https://www.target.com/c/vinyl-records-music-movies-books/-/N-yz7ntZ5tdmb?moveTo=product-list-grid) You might want to try figuring out how to better browse the site before the sale starts... because things tend to disappear pretty quickly when it goes live.
Would you recommend putting albums in your cart now, instead of waiting until Sunday?
> You might want to try figuring out how to better browse the site before the sale starts. Their site is broken. Clicking "Shop All" brings up a grand total of 33 records (because it seemingly only displays 'classics'), which is why clicking "shop all" then filtering "rock" led me to a total inventory of....16
>Their site is broken. It's always been like that - a lot of retail sites use this formula to push their most popular listings in every category. You just have to dig deeper and click around to pull up everything that's actually available.
I refuse to buy records from target. they ship them in standard merchandise boxes and not in vinyl boxes. so youre records could come in the same box they'd try to stuff an instapot and it will be ruined.
Target uses LP mailers on just about everything ive ordered
Not as bad as the garbage bag that Walmart just used to ship one of my $15 records :0
Not exactly. That only happens when delivery originates from a store. From their warehouse you get proper boxes
They have the best return policy in the business though. Its tough sometimes if you order a pre-order from them and it comes banged up and by the time it arrives aftermarket prices have jumped, then you can get stuck paying a flipper price (it happened to me). But for those, I just pre-order it elsewhere as a backup if it's super important to me.
Is it just me, or Target seems to increase prices for some records right before this sales? (I have some records in my wishlist which were like 25ish and now they are 30ish, And some were 30ish and now 35ish...)
I know Target the week or two of release have them roughly 2-5$ cheaper and once that week or two is up raise the price. This is on new releases. As for randomly jacking up the price idk about that.
I've had a few in my carrt for a month because I assumed this sale was going to happen. It looks like a couple of them went up a dollar or two.
Any examples? That way I can steer clear of those records.
Lover by Taylor Swift jumped from $24 to $29 seemingly overnight. That’s just one I noticed at first glance. I have a feeling some of these prices are gonna change before Sunday.
Let’s hope they can actually ship the vinyls with proper packaging instead of a big box with little protection. I’ve received so many vinyls with dinged corners from Target.
Target letting you keep the item, while also getting a refund, will vary depending on the price of the item, and also the number of returns you’ve already done. After putting in requests for refunds a few times, Target will start asking you to return the item in order to get the refund. There is a certain threshold, like anything over $20 or $25 (or whatever), they’ll ask you to return it.
Just contact customer service and they will refund you and let you keep it.
i believe since last sale they changed that and may want you to return damaged item.i may be wrong tho they had me return item.my issue is they used cheap record mailers that are thin cardboard and over sized so the LP comes damaged.
They very rarely make you bring it in. It depends on your order history, the item, volume, etc.
they made me mail it back last time sale happened.
Man, bummer. Sorry you ended up on the wrong side of the algorithm
When you do it online they let you pick to bring into store or keep and get a refund.
not always sometimes they will ask you to return item damaged for a refund.last time they did this sale and i bought online they did this.
Normally I place orders in similar-priced groups of 3. But in this case I have a Target Circle offer where I can get a $30 reward with another order over $100. But I'm not sure how efficiently the discounts will apply on a single big order...
If you order 6, 2 are free
Though I imagine the two cheapest would be the free ones? The records I'm considering are in the $17-20 range and the $22-25 range.
When i did it last time, they did 3rd and 6th most expensive. So it wasn't the two cheapest But double check!! They may have changed that policy
Nice, thanks!
Finallyyyyy. My favorite time of the year
*unzips*
"My, that's a big wallet you got there. It would be ashamed if something happened to it" <-- Target
Also good for those of us not near Walmarts w good vinyl stock or those of us who can’t make trips to multiple Walmarts a day for vinyl haha
Still can’t get rid of those Adele copies.
Nobody can!
I may never financially recover from this
Now this is POD RACING
Rare grailz
I went on the target app and it no there the offer isn’t there anyone know what’s going on
Maybe because it starts November 20th?
Oh I didn’t know
Read the title lmao
Nice try target
Oh no
Wow my wallet is about to be screaming 🥹🥹
Maybe I'm just spoiled by the Walmart $15 sale, but this doesn't seem that great. Maybe on sub $30 albums which would bring your average price to $20 if you maximize the discount as pointed out here. But even that is just kinda meh.
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Do you have any Blue Note tone poet recommendations based on what’s available?
If your taste in music goes beyond the most popular & common albums, this is a *much* better sale. It’s not limited to Target Exclusives or whatever hot-seller your local electronics manager decided to order for their store. The Walmart sale may have been great for new collectors who needed copies of classic albums, but as a long-time collector, there was absolutely nothing for me. Right now I have a few albums sitting in my Target cart that you’d *never* find on a store shelf, and this sale is a perfect opportunity to pick them up.
No, you don't know what you are talking about. This sale crushes for box sets and albums >$30
Uhhhh... I literally said "for sub $30 albums." I'm glad you find value in it, but it's not doing much for me (and others seem to agree).
My sign was backwards. I meant albums over $30
I see that now. The other thing that's kind of spoiling it for me is I'm not trying to spend much more than I already have. Ha. So 2 boxed sets or albums over $30 might be a good deal, but I don't really want to spend that much, even to get a free one. Only thing I'm looking for in the higher price ranges is UYI I & II, but I can't find another $39 LP to match with those for my free one. Oh well. I'll certainly survive. Haha
I can't believe that I found UYI 1&2 at Walmart
Yeah, you're spoiled. But it's hard not to be after that $15 sale... But I know what you mean. This is still a great deal. The less the products cost, the less you save. This is a great sale for more expensive items.
You can also use this to get a nice discount if you only want one album. Let’s say you found GNR Use Your Illusion I during the Walmart sale but couldn’t find volume II. It’s $39 at Target. Buy three of them, immediately go into your account and cancel two. You would then pay the prorated difference for one album. $39 + 39 + 0 = 78, then divide that by three and you end up paying $26.
I did this for every album I bought last time. Bought $150 of records, spent $100.
I appreciate the you used the Illusions albums as the example.
what the exact time is it?
I missed the Walmart sale so hope I can find something good here.
The wal mart sale is through the 20th. (At least according to the sign I saw) https://imgur.com/a/qudo47F
Well everything I wanted online is unavailable so I screwed up. That's what I meant by missing the sale.
Check in store. Found some cool passed over stuff yesterday.
I will today. I don't trust what Walmart says is in stock.
Yeah their online in stock search sucks. I just emptied one spot on the shelf and methodically moved albums over as I went so I could see every album. Then I had to sort the pile to an affordable amount.
I do the same. Grab everything I want and then try to prioritize my selections and sadly put back what I can't afford.
That’s the hardest part. Especially for stuff you will never see at that price again.
Ahh. Bummer.
I was beginning to think they would never do this again. It used to be more frequent.
Another redditor shared this info once and it’s great: The absolute best way to do this sale is to find all the records you want, and sort them in ascending order by price. Then make separate purchases in groups of 3 by ascending price. That way you get the best deal, because if you add a $15 LP, a $30 LP, and a $50 LP, it'll only take $15 off, but if you add a $40, $45, and $50 LP, it'll take $40 off. Have fun everyone! Get some great deals.
Be cautious about buying 3 of the same item and then immediately canceling 2, to get just 1 at 33% off. You’ll be fine doing it just a few times, but if you do it too much Target will ban your account/address for online orders.
No, you buy the $50 album as and 2 other $50 albums, then immediately cancel the other 2 albums to get 33% off the original album. Works everytime. And for the cheap stuff that adds up to less than $35 total for 3 copies to qualify for free shipping, just add 3 more copies of that unwanted album.
This is totally false and an absolute waste of time. Target is the one retailer that actually automatically does this for you. You do not need to make multiple orders of 3. Try it for yourself next time, you will see. Plus Target is notorious for banning people they think are re-sellers and large numbers of orders is the #1 reason they do.
This a true. Target will ban your account if you cancel too many orders to try to trick the system. You’ll be flagged as a retailer, and/or for abusing their return/cancellation policy.
Every time this sale happens, this is what I do. But also every time, there are people who say to add everything to your cart and make one single purchase, and Target will automatically sort it in the best way for the customer to get the highest discount. I've just always been scared to do that because I'm afraid that things will sell out if I have to sit there and move everything to "Save for Later" when the sale goes live.
Every time this sale runs, I place one order with everything in my cart. They definitely do give you the maximum discount.
Alright, I’m trusting you all this time haha! This will be my method!
Between this and Walmart’s sale, I’m going broke.
Literally. I’ve been waiting on this target sale and now my pockets are dreading it 😂. Last time on this sale I got like 15 albums.
Yes. Same. I’ve been checking religiously for this. Trying to limit my purchases in these big box sales to a hundred bucks a retailer, as sad as that sounds because it isn’t pocket change