Black Friday 2011 Thread: Newest Online Deals: Vanquish PS3 $5.50 At Best Buy

Does Amazon traditionally announce their Black Friday sales beforehand? There are a couple things I'm looking for, and I'd like to be prepared.
 
Does Amazon traditionally announce their Black Friday sales beforehand? There are a couple things I'm looking for, and I'd like to be prepared.

Amazon will reveal their Black Friday deals for video games on Wednesday morning, according to CAG.
 
ICO Collection = meh

It was $25 at Best Buy a week after release. And cheaper at $15 too with the @Gamer coupon.

thats what i did, such a great deal.



huh if ICO/SotC sold out in minutes, shit i better be quick on friday, all those $28/35 games will sell out in seconds :/, i blame slick deals for blowing up with newbies due to the HP touchpad :P
 
Does Amazon traditionally announce their Black Friday sales beforehand? There are a couple things I'm looking for, and I'd like to be prepared.

CAG is supposed to have a list of game deals tomorrow morning. Not sure if that's lightening deals or whatever, but we should have a general idea of what's going up soon enough.
 
I swear they had like 80 copies of the last few lightning deals. Pulp Fiction on blu was a much better deal than any of the sales today and that lasted least 10 minutes or so.
 
WTF, really?! Is it even a decent game?!

Either these lightning sales are glitched or there are morons who just auto-add every lightning deal.

And the worse thing is, that it was discounted at $40 (which makes it an awful deal) and it still sold out in just a matter of seconds
 
Are re-sellers buying everything up maybe?

Buy it for $ on Black Friday and turn around and list it on your Amazon store for $+X profit?
 
Are re-sellers buying everything up maybe?

Buy it for $ on Black Friday and turn around and list it on your Amazon store for $+X profit?

Honestly, it probably is like 80-90% resellers grabbing most of this stuff you can't figure out why people would want.
 
Has Best Buy said what time they're starting their online deals, I would assume 12:01 Thursday, but nothing has been posted.
 
There's a theory in the CAG forums that Amazon just had a really low stock for these deals

I have no doubt about that. Either a ton of people use buying scripts (I assume they exist), or they've always been slippery with their good deals.

Although today's deals haven't been particularly good IMO.
 
I'm worried we'll run into the same thing for the $200 PS3. I really hope not since I'm choosing to pass up on getting trampled on Black Friday.
 
I'm worried we'll run into the same thing for the $200 PS3. I really hope not since I'm choosing to pass up on getting trampled on Black Friday.

Which is why I just bit the bullet and bought it from Walmart this morning. I've never gotten a single major Amazon Black Friday deal in my life. By the time I spam the click button, I'm lucky to get at the back of the wait-list.
 

Thanks for posting this! I've been wanting to get the PC version.

Thanks as well. Just picked up a copy of this.

Kinda silly to sell the retail version for less than the DD version, but I figure even Steam won't have it at $15 for awhile.
 
ICO Collection = meh

It was $25 at Best Buy a week after release. And cheaper at $15 too with the @Gamer coupon.
Wow. How can you say that?

You bag on small cheap games because they have 200 or so achievements yet you also bag on a 2 games with 2 platinums for $15-$25? Something tells me your trophy whore inside you is confused.
 
people have been saying to just add the items to your cart/basket then decide if you want to buy them haha.

I think i might do that on Friday cause right now i am sorta scared everything will sell out asap , smh


LOL add Socom to the list of games selling within a minute, rou ouh for friday
 
Which is why I just bit the bullet and bought it from Walmart this morning. I've never gotten a single major Amazon Black Friday deal in my life. By the time I spam the click button, I'm lucky to get at the back of the wait-list.

Yeah I missed out on the walmart deal. When I went to look a few hours ago it said it wasn't available online.

So how does this wait list work? Does Amazon send you the thing when they get more shipments? I don't mind waiting, I just want to be locked in on the $200 price tag since I'm sure it'll go up after the holidays.
 
people have been saying to just add the items to your cart/basket then decide if you want to buy them haha.

I think i might do that on Friday cause right now i am sorta scared everything will sell out asap , smh


LOL add Socom to the list of games selling within a minute, rou ouh for friday

Doesn't work, guy tried it on CAG he never got the reduced price.
 
people have been saying to just add the items to your cart/basket then decide if you want to buy them haha.
Does that work? From what I have seen that won't work with certain deals. You'll just end up seeing the regular price through the entire sale period. In order to get the full discount you actually have to claim it (by it when the price is low.)

Then again it would probably be pretty easy to get a CSR to price-adjust an order.
 
CAG is supposed to have a list of game deals tomorrow morning. Not sure if that's lightening deals or whatever, but we should have a general idea of what's going up soon enough.

Good. I really want to know what Amazon is having/matching, since that would save headaches actually going out to buy stuff since I have Prime.

Mostly looking on equal or better Deals on AC:R, Gears 3, and perhaps Dark Souls. Maybe MW3, but I think we'll see that for $40 or less with just regular weekly deals leading up to Christmas.

Most interested in a Dark Souls deal though.

And I'd be all over Deus Ex at $30, but I really just want to wait until I have a PC capable of playing it, rather than getting the console version.
 
Ok wait Silver Premier members at Best Buy since yesterday could get the Black Friday deals in their ad already and right now? How does this work?
 
Think they'll have the $200 Xbox 360 S 250GB bundle as well?

It was available to Reward Zone members earlier, and I'm kinda banking on it being available as I don't want to go stand in line. Last night I checked and all doorbusters are not available online currently while this bundle is, so..take that to mean whatever. Sale starts at midnight Thursday morning. Confirmed via twitter.

Ok wait Silver Premier members at Best Buy since yesterday could get the Black Friday deals in their ad already and right now? How does this work?

Deal is already dead, was a one day thing.
 
Yeah I missed out on the walmart deal. When I went to look a few hours ago it said it wasn't available online.

So how does this wait list work? Does Amazon send you the thing when they get more shipments? I don't mind waiting, I just want to be locked in on the $200 price tag since I'm sure it'll go up after the holidays.

No. If only. It means that if people who claimed them back out and don't purchase within 10 minutes or so, those tickets then get revoked and offered to the people on the waiting list.
 
Walmart's got 360 with Gears 3 for $199, Kinect w/ Gunstringer and Fruit Ninja for $99, and Dance Central 2 for $15?!
 
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