Good sales & deals (formerly BF thread)
 

I pulled the trigger on the Peloton and family will be getting new smartphones so think I've spent my allowance on big ticket items (damn Pelosi and McConnell) for the year.

But that doesn't stop my wish list.

1) Weber Grill
2) 85"+ TV
3) Sony A6xxx Mirrorless camera
4) Webcam (nice one that can rotate some, beyond the standard laptop 720p)
5) Mavic Air drone

I've got more support on grill than TV from the missus, so that's a good sign. As always, I monitor Hot Deals - Slickdeals.net for good deals.

What is everyone else hoping to find a good deal on?

I need a new grill for sure. Ours has been through 5 cross country moves and it shows.

My goals for CHristmas:

2 Google nest hubs. (Mostly for the video screen with the YouTube TV integration, would be really good to have something that I can watch sports on while falling asleep in my bedroom, that doesn't fill the room with light.

Big ol Comfy blanket for my lift chair

Most important? To be back in my place (been at my brothers for 70+ days, on what was originally proposed to be a week)

Getting my Christmas present tomorrow, so excited!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085B3GFRL..._gYIMFbW8J23AD

Replacing my 12 year old desktop, so excited!

Nice.

12 years is a long time. That was back in the day with Core 2 Duo and 4GB RAM?

A new president and senate

I think it's time to retire the use of the phrase "Black Friday". It's racially insensitive and not appropriate in this day and age. If they want to memorialize its usage in the history books and dictionaries, that's fine, but the phrase needs to be stricken from active usage.

Black Friday is racist

I also am looking at a new grill so I'll be following

SI

I'll be getting a new grill in the spring. I'm spending XMas (and the next year's birthdays/anniversary, etc.) money on a new covered deck. Which I will sit a new grill on when it's warm enough to use.

Kids want a new XBox and Apple Watch, wife wants a new iPad. I'll just stick with slippers and all the bills.

This was my early Christmas present when we bought the house.

https://www.traegergrills.com/pellet-grills/pro/780

Love my Traeger!

You and others may already be aware but my recommendation for a pellet grill is a set of Grill Grates. They'll provide a lot more flexibility in what you can do with the smoker. You'll be able to get high Temps for grilling steaks and burgers and nice sear marks for flavor.

If you already have a Charcoal or gas grill it's not as big of a deal, but if your Traeger or whatever brand you have is your only grill then grill grates are a must imo.

Also, I recommend using a smoke tube or two for extra smoke. They have cheap ones on Amazon for like $15 and it adds a lot of flavor.

I have a Rec-Tec smoker and really like it a lot.

I hate having to buy my own presents. Hoping my also paranoidly reclusive cousin will be able to come up for Christmas, though, so we can have *something* of a holiday celebration. Won't be the same as the old days, with a big family gathering, or even the foursome of Mom, Dad, Cousin, and I up until the last Christmas before Mom passed away, but at least it'd be *something* rather than the shitty Christmas that wasn't Christmas at all last year I had in Vegas. I never want to experience that ever again.

Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0IyAAOmwx4

Also, nothing for me this year. I can't think of anything big I would want to get, just need to be saving anything extra I have.

Well... I pre-ordered a PlayStation 5... I guess that's my Christmas Present?

Wife and I exchange gifts worth up to $50. Maybe I'll ask her for a new fountain pen?

Looking for Blu-ray or 4K deals? See link below

https://slickdeals.net/f/14478845-bl...3&src=featured

where's the best place to ship online for a computer?

is there something good on amazon? I desperately need a new one. Can't really afford it but mine's going out.

ask for a 50 dollar ps5 game duh

What are you looking for particular? Head to slickdeals and set an alert.

I just picked up this one
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It really depends on your budget and what you need for it to do. Assume you are talking about a desktop. (I am biased towards Dell for desktops and Lenovo for laptops).

If basic web stuff and text games, you can probably pick one up from BB, Walmart, Officemax/depot/Staples for < 500. These are normally the lower end and barebones.

If you want something more, Dell usually have pretty good BF deals where you can pick up a nice i5-i7 from $500 to $700 (but without discrete GPU).

You can go as low as a i3 but I'd do i5 at a minimum and at least 8GB RAM. You'll need more RAM in the future but you'll be able to upgrade to 16GB later. Also, get a SSD vs mechanical HD.

See some decent Dell desktop sales now

Dell Black Friday 2020 Deals: Computers, Monitors & Electronics Deals | Dell USA

Not sure if you've been following the news lately, but PS5 games are $70 now (aside from Miles Morales Launch Edition, but that doesn't have the Remastered Spiderman that the Ultimate Edition has).

Really not in the shopping mood this year. I may get a couple of Criterion movies, but I think we're good on the big things.

We'll spoil the kids but there's just no need on anything this year for me at least.

Added a Mavic Air drone to the list. Got inspired by watching some travel reality shows that have some amazing airborne video.

Way too many expensive toys.

I made my list yesterday for Black Friday coupons and deals.
1: Webcam for my backyard
2: printer for my home office
3: My wedding dress
4: gift for my grandpa
5: A smart TV

I have been shopping wedding dresses everywhere. I can't seem to find them in my size. Do they make a "hairy Shamu" size?

I dunno, maybe. Are you brave enough to click on the link?

Been looking for a Rumba. My wife want a “good” one. They go for as much as $900 ��

I'm thinking of upgrading my pc and/or home entertainment system.

So my wishlist would have:
A new video card
4k Projector
A/V Receiver capable of 4k
4k blu ray player
PC VR system
PC Monitor

I bought a cheap & shitty Rumba clone and it sucks, but it did serve to convince me that ALL the robot vacuums probably suck, which is probably worth something.

I have a roomba clone also.

If you have a fairly large ground floor, I would recommend something that you can program the "path". Mine goes around randomly and sometimes just does a couple rooms and doesn't do the other rooms well enough.

Mine works fairly well picking up stuff.

We have one already but its crapping put on us. we love it. She wants the one with wifi that learns the rooms, empties itself, etc...

Mine is OK at picking stuff up, but yes its pathfinding sucks, and I think the biggest letdown for me was just the amount of daily attention & maintenance it needs, which was exactly the point of getting one. I don't think any of them have the capacity to hold more than a couple days' dirt, so I'm still spending every otherday wrestling with the dust trap, which ironically is even more attention than I was giving the vacuum before.

Here's a Shark roomba from Walmart. List is $394 down to $199.

It's got the mapping of rooms/floors which I want but there are mixed comments about that. I'm tempted to wait on other sales. This seems like a pretty good deal though.

https://slickdeals.net/f/14550311-sh...archBarV2Algo1

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so we went with this one. $699 from costco


https://www.costco.com/irobot-roomba...100600738.html

Anyone have a printer they like?

I'm about to go Office Space on my current printer since the printheads clogged after barely 2 years. I've used some cleaner and it cleared them up for a few pages and then started clogging again even with new cartridges. Tired to dumping money into it since those cartridges are expensive and it seems like it does a cleaning cycle about every 3rd page.

Looking for a color wireless MFP (all-in-one). I might just bite the bullet and go laser since I pay upfront for the first set of cartridges but then I'm good for a long while.

SI

I got a Brother b/w laser printer. Best purchase I've made. But if I had to go back, I'd probably spent more for a scanner/printer (but how were we to know COVID would be upon us).

I got this Epson Printer that you dump the ink into holding tanks and it seems to print forever. ET-2760. I don't want to smash it with a sledgehammer.

dola-
plus it was endorsed by Shaq, so that is usually a sign of high quality.

Salivating for this Sony 85" for $1,970.

Have to somehow convince the wife that she wants this and it'll be my Christmas present to her.

https://slickdeals.net/f/14473142-st...lsHub_allDeals

Added to my 4K collection with Blackhawk Down, Midway and 1917. Got Zombieland 2 blu-ray also.

https://slickdeals.net/f/14478845-bl...3&src=featured

I kinda went nuts this year compared to most.

New tv's for the kids (2x 32in) with swivel wall mounts
new microwave for the kitchen
New laptop for the wife
new stove for my mother
New winter coat for the wife
plus numerous stocking stuffers and smaller items.

I need to stop spending...I think I have a problem.....

WELCOME TO BLACK FRIDAY!

Black Friday (1869), the Fisk–Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
Black Friday (1873), the crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange that precipitated the Panic of 1873
Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster in which 189 fishermen died
Black Friday (1910), a particularly violent women's suffrage event in England
Black Friday (1916), October 20, a day in which a "perfect storm" hit Lake Erie, sinking four ships
Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square, a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland
Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners
Black Friday (1929), the day the New York stock market crashed, initiating the Great Depression
Italian invasion of Albania or Black Friday, the 1939 Italian invasion of Albania
Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia
Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt
Black Friday (1945), an Allied military operation during the Norwegian campaigns in World War II
1950 Red River flood or Black Friday, the 1950 Red River flood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee
Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran
Viernes Negro (1983), first major currency devaluation in Venezuela
Black Friday (1987), a tornado in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Black Friday (1993), a series of bomb explosions in Mumbai, India
Black Friday (2004), a crackdown by government forces in Malé, Maldives, on peaceful protesters
Black Friday (2005), an event in which tribal students were killed in Meghalaya, India
Black Friday (2011), an event in which several online poker sites were seized as a result of United States v. Scheinberg
Black Friday (2015), a string of terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia

Finally got that Switch bundle with the Mario Kart game that kept selling out yesterday.

Will be attempting to get a PS5 for my other child somewhere

It may take me all of Black Friday just to go through all the Black Friday emails I got today. :(

is anyone good at looking up stuff?
I'm looking for an inexpensive gaming computer, preferably a laptop.

Must have dedicated video card with memory. want solid state drive even if it has a separate one too

i prefer amazon cause i have a couple hundred in gift cards saved up.

I was looking for something similar for my kids for Christmas. Pricing differences might be different here in Canada but after some research in early Nov. I came up with this list (in Canadian Maple Dollars):

Asus TUF A15
- $1100 reg (walmart.ca)
ASUS Zephyrus G14
- $1700 reg (walmart.ca)
ASUS ROG Strix G15
- $1100 reg (bestbuy.ca)
- $1000 sale bestbuy.ca(till nov 12)
Dell G3 15
- $1100 reg
- $850 dell.ca black friday
MSI Bravo 15
- $1300 reg
- $1100 sale amazon.ca


I ended up going with the ROG Strix last week; the deal for Black Friday was the same. Won't be able to say how it runs until after Christmas, though.



Hopefully that list could at least narrow down your search on US Amazon.

Didn't buy anything on Black Friday, but on Small Business Saturday I bought myself a couch. Don't know who is going to be happier - me or the dog.

A Samsung 82" for $1,100 if anyone is interested.

https://slickdeals.net/f/14645249-82...archBarV2Algo1

We got a Ninja Foodi Air Fryer/Grill thing.

This is the greatest thing ever, even the cauliflower tots that had sat at the back of our freezer for ages were totes delish. And frozen oven fries? Oh my!