[Black Friday 2007 Deal Thread]

Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:19 am

What is BF all about ? I mean I know it means much cheapness of goodys but why ?

Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:49 am

companies tryin to get our business/money. as long as i can get something nice for really cheap i'm all for it.
don't really know why it started...it's not even the busiest shopping day of the year.

Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:11 am

kaeolian wrote:What is BF all about ? I mean I know it means much cheapness of goodys but why ?

Black Friday is about being first or second in line at a large retail store so that when the store opens you can buy high tech items at white hot sale prices called "door busters".

It's become increasingly insane every year. Now people will spend their Thanksgiving Day camping outside of a Best Buy or Circuit City so that they can be one of the first people in line on Friday (the next day), allowing them to actually buy that $300 laptop (and all sorts of other goodies) that was (essentially falsely) advetised in the store's Black Friday sales flyer. The stores carry low minimum amounts of the doorbusters. So a store might have only ten of the $300 laptops, which will sell out in less than a minute after the store opens. Expect to see massive crowds full of people in some of these stores, often in violation of local fire codes.

My strategy is to shop at Staples because I like the way that my local Staples handles Black Friday (distributing tickets for items) and they tend to have a good stock of the doorbuster loss leaders. I'm debating whether to buy a lappytop for $350 there. I'd only need to line up about two or three hours before the store opens. Beats the beejeezus out of spending an entire day sitting outside of a store.

Note that some of the folks who do that buy a large number of doorbusters so that they can sell them on eBay.

Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:38 pm

yeah, some of the stores just don't handle it very well. i went to sears 2 years ago and waited for about 2 hours for a free $10 gift card. well they had 2 entrances so obviously there's already a problem there cause they should've made them line up at 1 entrance. they didnt' give out tickets either so when they opened the doors everyone pretty much stormed in and i had to punch and hadoken a few people in the face. i think my brother was the last person to get one. insanity.

Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:13 pm

i got an email for black friday deals from newegg.com and i got this mid tower case. it was just $50 after rebates and the black friday deal and there's free shipping.
case
i think that's the right link but i guess their website is going a little slow right now.
also bought that 320GB hard drive from best buy.

Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:58 pm

I just bought things online ... The only thing I'm worried about is having enough time to do the rebates once they arrive, but assuming things arrive on time I should still have a week to do that.

Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:39 pm

I managed to get orange box @ BB for $25.

I had some gift cards left over from LAST christmas. With all the giftcards, I was able to get UT3 CE, COD4, and Orange box for about $20 out of pocket.

I new those things would come in handy one day :drunken:

Rich (TW)

Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:18 pm

ToxicWaste wrote:I managed to get orange box @ BB for $25.

I had some gift cards left over from LAST christmas. With all the giftcards, I was able to get UT3 CE, COD4, and Orange box for about $20 out of pocket.

I new those things would come in handy one day :drunken:

Rich (TW)

Quite a haul there!

Fri Nov 23, 2007 6:20 pm

ToxicWaste wrote:I managed to get orange box @ BB for $25.

I had some gift cards left over from LAST christmas. With all the giftcards, I was able to get UT3 CE, COD4, and Orange box for about $20 out of pocket.

I new those things would come in handy one day :drunken:

Rich (TW)

Wowsers!! :cyclopsani: