Target - Black Friday ad (XB1 AC Bundle $330 + $50 GC, PS4 GTA/TLOU, lots of games)

Amazon usually price matches a lot of the competitor deals, but sometimes only in those Gold Box Lightning Deals that go super quick.



I thought the 3DS XLs from last year were $140? I swear that's what I paid for mine.


Hrm. Was it? Thought it was 150.
The great deal was I got the Zelda bundle out of it for the same price as the systems without games bundled in.
 
The 6PM Thanksgiving opening thing is terrible. One company starts a race to the bottom by opening at 6PM, then other retailers have to match that or risk losing sales.

But this is Murica. We're love exchanging war stories about how much shittier and tougher our jobs are, how bad our pay is, etc. If my job is shitty everyone else should feel just as shitty or shittier.

How many people typically show up at 6PM to these openings? How's the atmosphere among the customers?

Massive crowds. I'll be shopping online this year.
 
So would anyone price match the GTAV and TLOU bundle (amazon possibly)?

My friend wanted to get one and he is worried he won't get one since it is a door buster deal after all.
 

Moofers

Member
So how positive are we that Amazon would price match this? I will be in a small town with only a Fred Meyer for the holiday. I'd love to hop online and get these deals.
 

Beartruck

Member
My brother thinks we shouldn't feel sorry for the workers because they are "getting paid".

Ugh...

Former target guy here, I didn't care I was being paid extra or that management catered to try to make things better, I still missed my family. Your brother's a jerk.

Also, it opens at 6, which means employees actually have to be there at 5, so forget dinner.
 
That PS4 deal is as good as I thought it would get this holiday season (2 pack-ins). Sony doesn't really need to do that much and I doubt they consider potentially losing NPD by small margins for a few months to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

The XB1 deal... man. Ridiculous. We've come insanely far in one year, and that's not a good thing in this case.

Quite serious. Don't care about Sennheisers and all that jazz. Just if the quality is decent enough to drop $100 on.
For ~$100 you should get Sony MDR7506s or Audio-Technica ATH-M50s. They'll produce instant eargasm for anyone punishing themselves with Beats (or anything else for twice that).
 

wachie

Member
Yeah they will win Nov and maybe December. 2 months out of the year? it wont be enough to really catch up though.
Not enough to catch up but will surely dent the gap somewhat (in NA) and who knows if the change in momentum will carry over to the next year?

That PS4 bundle is most likely going to get slaughtered.

$280 for PS4 versus $160 for XB1.
 

Moofers

Member
So how positive are we that Amazon would price match this? I will be in a small town with only a Fred Meyer for the holiday. I'd love to hop online and get these deals.

Also, I forgot to add this
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mreddie

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Former target guy here, I didn't care I was being paid extra or that management catered to try to make things better, I still missed my family. Your brother's a jerk.

Also, it opens at 6, which means employees actually have to be there at 5, so forget dinner.

Don't some have to get there by 4? Jebbus, do some families even eat at 4PM? Aside from NFL players?
 
Boy, I didn't get to read the whole scan... but the most interesting thing I did stumble across was "$399 for iPad Air 16 GB comes w/ $100 Target GC."

I am in for that. I hope you'll be able to do it online, but for some reason, I doubt it.
 

JNA

Banned
also you guys should know. My first day at working for gamestop, was a black friday a couple of years ago.

and yes...it is as bad and horrifying as imagined. :(
 
So you have to get there at 6pm thanksgiving night to get in on the $35 Madden or Mordor? No thanks if so. Amazon will probably have those games at those prices at some point.
 
So you have to get there at 6pm thanksgiving night to get in on the $35 Madden or Mordor? No thanks if so. Amazon will probably have those games at those prices at some point.

amazon usually has those as lightning deals, they go fast but you should be good if you order the first minute/have prime
think amazon is doing a prime members get deals 10 minutes before the non prime members

i didn't see forza horizon 2 before, 3 games that just came out last month for $75 is a great deal, plus i can lock in trades on amazon a week/few days before so i can beat it and trade it in :D

mario kart 7 is $30 at target right now, so for $15 i will buy it again :D
 

Vanillalite

Ask me about the GAF Notebook
If I can't buy online no thanks. Not buying into the BF culture.

I got my Wii U online last Cyber Monday and that was fine. No thanks on me going out on Thursday though. Fuck that.
 

Afrikan

Member
Great deal on the Xbox One....I wish we had deals like this when I was a kid for the NES/SNES/PSX eras...lol.

So I'm guessing it is the Stores who decides on the gift card stuff.

Is this a situation where Target just feels they need to sell more of their Xbox Ones than PS4s? or they just feel the PS4s will sell themselves without giftcards. I mean even without the gift card, the Xbox One deal is good.
 
Not enough to catch up but will surely dent the gap somewhat (in NA) and who knows if the change in momentum will carry over to the next year?

That PS4 bundle is most likely going to get slaughtered.

$280 for PS4 versus $160 for XB1.

No it's not. You wont be able to find either bundle come Black Friday.
Both are good deals.
 
Not enough to catch up but will surely dent the gap somewhat (in NA) and who knows if the change in momentum will carry over to the next year?

That PS4 bundle is most likely going to get slaughtered.

$280 for PS4 versus $160 for XB1.

It's the holiday season and both will sell almost all available stock. It won't be a slaughter at all. Microsoft is going all-in though...
 
Not enough to catch up but will surely dent the gap somewhat (in NA) and who knows if the change in momentum will carry over to the next year?

That PS4 bundle is most likely going to get slaughtered.

$280 for PS4 versus $160 for XB1.


You can get the $50 gift card with the same PS4 bundle if you go to a Meijer, if you don't have a Meijer then you can't lol.....Well have to wait for gamestop, walmart, and best buy too....
 
I'm not saying the PS4 is a bad deal, just that it cannot match the value in XB1 deal.

I think his/her point was that the PS4 deal isn't going to get slaughtered because both will be limited quantity and both will sell out, so it doesn't matter that much anyway.
 
6PM on thanksgiving? Man, it's not even on Friday anymore. I've got family dinner on Thanksgiving dang it!

And those employees don't even have a choice.

$25 for Evil Within and $35 for Diablo 3 is good though,
 

tmac456

Member
lol @ slaughtered. c'mon guys

people expected a cheaper bundle? why? Ps4 is selling incredibly and Sony is making a profit on it
 

hitgirl

Member
i'm a team lead there

she can

and guys, those xbox and ps4 deals will be in-store only. bank on it.

Really? You guys get some discounts on systems? I work weekends at Best Buy and since BB doesn't make hardly any profits on systems there is no discounts on them.
 

partime

Member
If PS4 is the definitive version for all multiplat releases, why spend that amount of cash?

For SS overdrive, KI? Is that really worth tying up another HDMI port?
 
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