Black Friday 2008

[Scott]

Re: Black Friday 2008

Circuit City ad up:

http://www.blackfriday.info/sales/ci...friday-ad.html

No great deals IMO

[Stumbleweed]

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This is a pretty great deal for a 42" Panasonic plasma and a Blu-Ray Player.. $999:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4305862&sku=P333-4276

Also, 5 GB RAM Quad-Core HP desktop w/Vista Home Premium for $539 (refurb.. just noticed that):

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4256930&sku=M975-10002&

TigerDirect rocks my face.

[The Chef]

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No great deals IMO

Agree, there were a few more Blu-Rays but nothing that would make me venture out in the cold and fight people for, no thanks.

[TheTruth916]

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This is a pretty great deal for a 42" Panasonic plasma and a Blu-Ray Player.. $999:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4305862&sku=P333-4276

Also, 5 GB RAM Quad-Core HP desktop w/Vista Home Premium for $539 (refurb.. just noticed that):

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4256930&sku=M975-10002&

TigerDirect rocks my face.

refurb or not that is a great deal for the computer...hmm ( thinks if he should get it )

[Altimus]

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This is a pretty great deal for a 42" Panasonic plasma and a Blu-Ray Player.. $999:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4305862&sku=P333-4276

Also, 5 GB RAM Quad-Core HP desktop w/Vista Home Premium for $539 (refurb.. just noticed that):

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4256930&sku=M975-10002&

TigerDirect rocks my face.

Holy crap a Quad-core for that little! Refurb or not that is a great deal!

I might job on this. I have a two notebooks, a personal and a business and haven't had much interest in a desktop since I gotten rid of my last one but this deal looks awesome.

[Altimus]

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Think I'm getting this. Shopping right now at TD for a 19-20 LCD monitor and wireless mouse/keyboard combo.

Much thanks to Stumbleweed.

[Stumbleweed]

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My pleasure. I did a double-take when I saw that deal in my e-mail this morning... if I wasn't planning to build one for about $350, I'd be jumping on that as well. TigerDirect and Newegg are my favorite things ever, basically.

[slapnutz2k2]

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Circuit City ad up:

http://www.blackfriday.info/sales/ci...friday-ad.html

Thanks.
The Xbox 360 Arcade Holiday bundle with extra controller and 20gb hd for $199 might have me in line that night.

[Streets]

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Western Digital 1TB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive - $149.99

or

Western Digital 750 GB external drive- $88.88.

What's the better deal??

[bigeastbumrush]

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When will Black Friday go online...I mean across the board?

I know it's tradition but there should be something where you can log onto the store's website online and order your stuff on a first come, first serve basis.

The whole camping out thing seems ridiculous...especially in this economy.

I know...wishful thinking on my part.

[loccdogg26]

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Any of you guys work in retail? Just curious to know if employees get first dibs on sale items during Black Friday?

Actually I work at Target and employees are not allowed to hold black friday items for themselves. However if you get lucky and have that day off, you are allowed to shop but you have to wait in line like everyone else. Too bad for me I have to work.

[stoncold32]

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the Best Buy ad does stink, i really thought this would be one fo the best years for Black Friday with the economy being the way it is i thought stores would be throwing out deals left and right

This might be the case for some clothing stores. But stores like BEst Buy don't make a ton of actual profit, despite the way it looks, because their markup isnt as high vs their cost.

A clothing store that only has 6 bucks tied up in a shirt can afford to sell it for 15 when the regular price is 30 bucks

[stoncold32]

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Just yesterday I was thinking, these places need to start dropping these Blu-Ray items in price if they want it to be the next big thing. They need to at least use this Black Friday to get the blu-ray reputation out more b/c people will see these $7.99 DVD's, and snatch them and not even wonder why they might like a blu-ray version better.

If somebody sees four or five GOOD blu-ray movies reg. priced at $24.99, but on sale for $9.99, they might be more inclined to drop $250+ on a blu-ray player.

[The Chef]

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This might be the case for some clothing stores. But stores like BEst Buy don't make a ton of actual profit, despite the way it looks, because their markup isnt as high vs their cost.

A clothing store that only has 6 bucks tied up in a shirt can afford to sell it for 15 when the regular price is 30 bucks

What exactly isnt marked up at Best Buy then? I worked there and outside of DVD's and CD's, everything else had a pretty high markup. CPU's werent too bad, accessories were really marked up, TV's are marked up anywhere between 300-600, cameras are between 30-100 depending on what the camera is. There isnt much that isnt marked up at that store.

Just yesterday I was thinking, these places need to start dropping these Blu-Ray items in price if they want it to be the next big thing. They need to at least use this Black Friday to get the blu-ray reputation out more b/c people will see these $7.99 DVD's, and snatch them and not even wonder why they might like a blu-ray version better.

If somebody sees four or five GOOD blu-ray movies reg. priced at $24.99, but on sale for $9.99, they might be more inclined to drop $250+ on a blu-ray player.

I think thats a stretch, people arent going to drop 250+ for a player because they see a few BR movies at 9.99, especially considering those same movies are probably going to be no more then 9.99 on regular DVD, where is the incentive to upgrade then? Secondly, so many people think that BR looks nearly the same as DVD and until that perception changes consumers will continue to stick with DVD instead of upgrading to BR.

[ifiok25]

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Any of you guys work in retail? Just curious to know if employees get first dibs on sale items during Black Friday?

Not me. I'm glad I don't. I work at a grocery store. Kroger will be empty on Black Friday. Two days prior, it'll be a hell hole.