Just got back from Laguna Niguel, CA store.

Learned about this deal last night, and kind of struggled between buying or not buying for a while. I'm not interested in returning the movie and do intend to keep them, so I was afraid of lousy selections as some mentioned. And I didn't want to wait in line for hours. So my wife and I left home at 7:30 (it's less than 10 minutes driving, and the store was supposed to open at 8:00). We thought it's fine if we got it, it's also fine if we didn't.

It turned out the stored open at 7AM (holiday hours?). We needed to go to the ship to site pickup place to sign up on a sheet. They got 10 in stock and we were about the 5th in line. It's very well organized. They collected all movies from the shelf, placed them orderly on the table , and only let one person on the signup sheet pick at a time. We wanted 300, but the lady who arrived at 6:30 (before it's open) got the last copy. That's fine. I said to my wife that if we got 5 that we really wanted we would go ahead and buy it. My reasoning is that 5 discs cost about $100, if we only got three that we really want, I might as well go to buy the 40GB for $100 less (I know the difference between the 80GB and 40GB units, but I don't think it worths that much to me. Also I don't want to return or exchange the movies...)

Eventually it's our turn to pick. We picked Pirates 2 but it rang up $37.xx. But an employee found more copies from the back and they rang less than $30 (so we could get it free). We got the last copy of Pixar short films and the lady two spots after us wanted that too. No problem, they also found more from the back.

The movies we got are pirates 1 & 2, pixar short films, bram stoker's dracula, spiderman 3, crash, the departed, die hard 2, terminator 2 and fifth element. Don't really want the last two because we've seen these too many times, but they are OK. Also a little regret on DH 2 because we knew eventually we'll buy all 4 die hards and the box set is cheaper than if you buy 4 separately. But overall we were satisfied. The employees there were very friendly and professional, and they organized it well to avoid any chaos.