According to the Internet, the retail industry’s collective nerves snapped like cartoon guitar wire today, and most stores are already offering their black friday deals. Online, at least.
They perhaps planned it all along, but hey, this is how the hype goest. Blackfriday.info and bfads.net are as good as any place to start, but black-friday.net seems to have the best “everything on one page” list.
Remember to look twice. Acer’s Aspire One netbook is a mere $250 at Newegg, but it’s dismally configured: only 512MB of RAM and a 3-cell battery. Similar caveats apply to Amazon’s $300 HP 2133.
bah-humbug!
Is anyone really excited about Black Friday this year? Outside of HTDV deals, I can’t imagine what would get people excited about this.
Will say I’m going to patronize more local stores than before. Circuit City and Best Buy can suck it.
Brando crapgadgets, here I come! :p
(Gotta spend those dollars before inflation makes them totally worthless!)
Do you know I’ve had to access each story individually because the “Fuck up” tags trigger my office’s internet filter?
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Started our Crimbo shopping today and got 20% off in Woolworths (which has gone into administration here in the UK), and sales have begun in Clarks shoes, where I got an extra £5 off a pair of shoes that was already half price. If this continues, Christmas should be cheap.
Woolies? Bankrupt!?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8090401
and:
http://www.mfi.co.uk/
“Yay for Black Friday” (BBC News)