1. Getting Bang For Your Buck
The pundits are predicting a gray-and-gloomy Black Friday, but we want to help you make the best of the situation and get a great deal for the products on offer. Economic woes aside, there will still be plenty of great bargains available online and in stores, and we’ve done our best to highlight those. Black Friday deal sites like Blackfriday.info and TGIBlackfriday.com helped us find early drafts of retail circulars and advertisements, and we sifted through those to find prices that are truly exceptional. Odds are that retailers leaked these deal details on purpose to get people excited about the mad holiday shopping rush. Even so, we’ve found excellent bargains in televisions, computers, cameras, and many other accessories.
If you’ve shopped on Thanksgiving Weekend before, you know the drill: Buyer beware. Just because a retailer has advertised a certain price on a product, doesn’t mean the product will be there when you get to the store. Limited availability of a few key items—called "doorbusters"—are how stores drive foot traffic and get you to show up. Retailers have also made a habit of being vague about which precise product model their advertisements speak to. You’ll fare best if you bring printed ads with you to a store, read the fine print, expect a few disappointments and get to the store before it opens.
Not feeling up to the task? Stay home and shop online. The retail industry hopes you’ll shop from work, too, which is why some retailers end up posting more deals on "Cyber Monday" after the holiday is officially over. But more and more, we find that online retailers are simply putting up sales before Thanksgiving begins, all the way through the post-Christmas shopping days. This has resulted in a slew of "Pre-Black Friday" deals, where retailers hope to cash in early.
Ed. note: “Black Friday” is the day after the U.S. holiday Thanksgiving and traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Retailers hope that it will be the busiest shopping day of the year and that shoppers will stand in line 12 to 18 (or more) hours before stores open their doors. The term “Black” in “Black Friday” refers to this day being the best day of the year for businesses that are in debt, or “in red ink” to become profitable, or begin to show black ink on their bottom lines.
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Great information.Very informative article.Thanks.!online retailers are simply putting up sales before Thanksgiving begins, all the way through the post-Christmas shopping days.
Costco has Sandisk Sansa 8GB for $59 on Friday.
For those interested in the MSI Wind Netbook, the one on sale for $349 is the older one with the 3-cell lithium ion battery. That will give you about 3 hours of battery life. The version with the 6-cell battery will cost you back $430.
I did notice that Costco deal for the Sansa, but many people I know don't have memberships already. To buy one, it's $50. (They also don't usually let you use guest passes on Black Friday.) But it's a GREAT deal for someone who already have a club membership (or if you can get a pal to buy one for you.)
HP Compaq Presario C717NR is from 2007 last year. tsk.
"This year, the store is Circuit City, and the notebook is a $300 Compaq Presario C717NR notebook"
the headline says its $300 at Best Buy...
Which store is it?
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So glad that most stores online now participate in Black Friday sale. No more long lines and crowded shopping store now on.
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