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HPB Clearance Sale
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We attended the 10th Annual Half Price Books Clearance Sale at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Grandstand on Saturday.
If you didn’t know, the annual free event features HPB’s clearance stock, and they sold everything for $2 or less. I’ll confess, most of it is junk, but occasionally, you’ll find a diamond in the rough. We were there to look at comic books and Blurays. There were some Blu mixed in the DVD area, but they were rare. I would say for every DVD cardboard box, there were one Bluray (or none at all).
Sometime, with the impressive attendance, it wasn’t easy to navigate or look at everything, but we spent a good amount of time looking at books, records, movies, and old video games. For the entry fee of $0, I felt like we got a lot of value out of it.
Next door at the Fairgrounds, were the 8th annual Twin Cities Oktoberfest and the 30th Anniversary of MCBA Fall Comicon 2018 (or locally we just know it as Fallcon).
We haven’t attended a MCBA (Minnesota Center for Book Arts, not to be confused with Minnesota Center for Book Arts) show since 2015, which was a massive disappointment for us. Since Fallcon was the “one-day wonder”, smaller show, it does not include any comic panels or any sort of entertainment. Basically your $10 entry fee doesn’t get you anything, other than the privilege of looking at back issues. To put things in perspective, the Oktoberfest’s $5 entry got you a beer stein and your first beer, plus free live music, etc. (see poster).
Anyway, Half Price Books Clearance Sale will end today (Sunday, October 7th) at 6pm. All sales are final, so closely check the item you are buying.
If you didn’t know, the annual free event features HPB’s clearance stock, and they sold everything for $2 or less. I’ll confess, most of it is junk, but occasionally, you’ll find a diamond in the rough. We were there to look at comic books and Blurays. There were some Blu mixed in the DVD area, but they were rare. I would say for every DVD cardboard box, there were one Bluray (or none at all).
Sometime, with the impressive attendance, it wasn’t easy to navigate or look at everything, but we spent a good amount of time looking at books, records, movies, and old video games. For the entry fee of $0, I felt like we got a lot of value out of it.
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Twin Cities Oktoberfest
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We haven’t attended a MCBA (Minnesota Center for Book Arts, not to be confused with Minnesota Center for Book Arts) show since 2015, which was a massive disappointment for us. Since Fallcon was the “one-day wonder”, smaller show, it does not include any comic panels or any sort of entertainment. Basically your $10 entry fee doesn’t get you anything, other than the privilege of looking at back issues. To put things in perspective, the Oktoberfest’s $5 entry got you a beer stein and your first beer, plus free live music, etc. (see poster).
Anyway, Half Price Books Clearance Sale will end today (Sunday, October 7th) at 6pm. All sales are final, so closely check the item you are buying.
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Half Price Books Clearance Sale at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, St Paul (06 Oct 2018) |
How many Half Price Books stores are there?
Posted by: James Stark | 08/05/2019 at 06:44 AM