Black Friday 2012 |OT| **What do you mean Minimum of 5 at every location?**

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GraveRobberX

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Well it's that wonderful time of that year again

Sales galore, stampedes are a go, people going ape shit for $5 toasters and coffee grinders

Will start updating thread

****LINKS are ALLOWED****

Best place to watch so far sales/info:

http://bfads.net/

Right now it has Macys + Ace Hardware
All retailers toys catalog info

(Info as it come in)

Best Buy: http://bfads.net/Ad/Best-Buy-2012
Walmart: http://bfads.net/Ad/Walmart-2012
Target:
amazon:
RadioShack: http://bfads.net/Ad/RadioShack-2012
Frys:
Kmart: http://bfads.net/Ad/Kmart-2012
Sam's Club: http://bfads.net/Ad/Sams-Club-2012

You can mention what deals take place at certain stores and how much they are

If you know your google-fu certain websites cater to this certain day, you can get all the info aggregated there

This thread is to let GAFfers know of deals that are very interesting and to look out for:
Like last year 42" 1080p LCD Sharp Aquos for $199.99
Minimum of 5 per store, but most stores had 20+
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I think the best deal I ever got was the $199 Xbox 360 arcade with a $100 Walmart giftcard, effectively making the 360 a $99 deal. This was in 2009, so I've gotten a lot of use from that deal.

This year I'm looking for a deal on a new motherboard/ processor to rebuild my PC that fried a couple weeks ago. Maybe a newegg cyber monday deal will catch my eye.
 
I think these are the kind of things that scans are allowed for since they're advertisements. I know ads and preview pages from magazines are OK.
 
HollovVpo1nt said:
Europe cries.

What's the background of black friday anyway?
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2 Myths behind it

Business-side viewpoint:

Most companies that are in the red (due to them losing money throughout the year, in one day can go from using the red pen of stating losses on their books back to black signifying gains and having a field day selling stuff)

People-side viewpoint:

When this tradition started in the late '50's of sales during/after Thanksgiving, people would go berserk for deals, cars crashing, people getting hurt, multiple accidents, so the police coined it as Black Friday (aka from the Black Tuesday of Stock Market crash)

Black Friday has become a tradition for me

My first year was 2007, all of of the shopping was done online
2008 and on, been in line
Always in teh Top 10
Get there @6AM wait till store opens, before used to be 5AM now 12AM (Midnight)
Every year I have saved 50%+
Best I have ever done was $5,500 stuff bought, retail value was $11,000
[Like 8 laptops, 2 consoles, multiple GPS"s, External HDD's etc.]

RoboPlato said:
I think these are the kind of things that scans are allowed for since they're advertisements. I know ads and preview pages from magazines are OK.
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I was just being safe, I'll ask mod for clarification just to be sure

Didn't wanna get ban-hammered, staying safe rather than be ballsy
 
Hoping for Ultrabooks to get a price cut

Wouldn't mind having a budget version for $500-700

I have saved at least $1500, family roughly $5,000

Shopping Spree commence!
 
have only seen Ace Hardware and Macy's Black Friday ads so far. Still waiting for some electronics stores ads to leak...electronics and toys for my kids tend to be are the best deals for me on Black Friday
 
Is leaving your house on Black Friday even worth it anymore? I know it used to be crazy, but nowadays it seems like you have hundreds of people lining up 3 days ahead of time to try and save 5 bucks on a dvd. It's not even worth it to show up anywhere on a Friday morning because everything listed in the ad is already gone (assuming you can even get into the parking lot and cops haven't blocked cars from entering).

I'd say online is better, but wasn't last year when most decent amazon deals literally sold out in seconds?

I'm sure I'll get caught up in it for a couple minutes this year too, but I know I'll just end up getting mad and decide saving a few bucks isn't worth the aggravation.
 
If you are doing less than $1000 worth of shopping BF in line isn't really worth it

I have a huge family

Every year they grow older, need new things

I'm on the lookout for HDTV for Uncle (again!), laptop/games/console for myself again
Bro needs some things, etc.

I enjoy it!
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
Why would scans of ads be banned? You're just helping them advertise more. Hardly a question to send up the ladder.

As a Brit, I'm jealous of you guys :(
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Don't certrain retailers dislike when their ads are posted earlier then they wanted and go around the internet trying to take them down?
 
How has computer hardware fared, historically?

First time i'm looking to upgrade my CPU and mobo around this time of the year. What can I expect?
 
I got a PS3 last year at Gamespot (i think it was a 199 bundle with LBP2 and R&C) and a computer chair at Staples. Overall, I'd say it wasn't worth it, the PS3 bundles where still there halfway through the day
 
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