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Black Friday 2019

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So... What is everyone here lining up at midnight for tomorrow?

Personally, I find it to be a giant nothing-burger. If there was any proof that Black Friday is simply a gimmick, this would be it. I have absolutely nothing that I plan to purchase tomorrow.




.... Wait, scratch that - A local brewery is holding some good beers and are releasing them tomorrow only. I'll stop by and grab some of those.
 
I haven't gone to a store for Black Friday in 20+ years. I'm all about buying stuff online and not dealing with the madness/traffic/crowds/fighting/noise.

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The Black Friday of legend with door camping and give-away-deals has been dead for at least 15 years, IMHO. It's no longer about a limited number of spectacular deals you have to fight for. It's all about large inventories, longer shopping hours (days? weeks?) and less spectacular deals that appeal to folks who aren't really deal hunters. Those folks often see a few bucks off of full retail as a good deal.

Better deals can often be found by stalking slickdeals.net and being patient.
 
I had a Synology DS218+ sitting in my Amazon cart for weeks hoping for a better price and this morning I saw that it dropped $45 on a BF deal so I pulled the trigger.
 
zinfamous said:
Pretty good haul so far:

--bludgeoned two grandmas standing in my way for a 20% off on a toaster oven
--made 4 kids cry when I yanked the last remaining Pokemon whatever game cartridge out of their hands.
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Apparently, there is some type of bobble head doll craze under way, akin to the beanie baby thing of yore.
 
zinfamous said:
Pretty good haul so far:

--bludgeoned two grandmas standing in my way for a 20% off on a toaster oven
--made 4 kids cry when I yanked the last remaining Pokemon whatever game cartridge out of their hands.
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Ah, the true spirit of Black Friday!

I'll be celebrating it in the traditional way buy getting some beers in and watching YouTube videos of riots in shops!
 
IronWing said:
Apparently, there is some type of bobble head doll craze under way, akin to the beanie baby thing of yore.
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lololllol Mother in law had a store with 50+ vendors. Sold furniture/antiques/junk/etc...One woman was betting her kid's college fund on the beanie babies. Guess the kid is working fast food now.
 
Paladin3 said:
The Black Friday of legend with door camping and give-away-deals has been dead for at least 15 years, IMHO. It's no longer about a limited number of spectacular deals you have to fight for. It's all about large inventories, longer shopping hours (days? weeks?) and less spectacular deals that appeal to folks who aren't really deal hunters. Those folks often see a few bucks off of full retail as a good deal.

Better deals can often be found by stalking slickdeals.net and being patient.
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this. black friday is terrible and has been for over a decade. set your deal alerts on slickdeals.
 
ElFenix said:
this. black friday is terrible and has been for over a decade. set your deal alerts on slickdeals.
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This one is REALLY bad. I can usually find something that will make me go "meh" and order 1 or 2 items.

This year there is literally nothing.

I just got back from a Total Wine - there were about 50 people lined up before it opened for some exclusive barrel aged beers lol... I was one of them 😛
 
Went to Walmart this morning to buy some soda. Seemed pretty busy but they were surprisingly organized. I was able to get through the self checkout with not that long of a wait.

Some dude went through the self checkout with a TV though, lol.
 
Costco online had couple items I was interested in but the website is having problems, and I don’t want it that badly to have to deal with the aggravation of slow loading website and timeouts.
 
ponyo said:
Costco online had couple items I was interested in but the website is having problems, and I don’t want it that badly to have to deal with the aggravation of slow loading website and timeouts.
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it took me about 30 minutes to put a few pairs of jeans and a sweater in my cart yesterday morning...and over 8 hours yesterday to actually check-out.
 
ponyo said:
Costco online had couple items I was interested in but the website is having problems, and I don’t want it that badly to have to deal with the aggravation of slow loading website and timeouts.
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HP and Lenovo's site was pretty bad over the last few days as well. I kept getting errors when seeing what they were offering, and HP's site kept saying "you don't have permission to view this page". Even today when I looked, Lenovo was putting users in a wait queue before they could even see anything.

For such large tech companies, this is pretty bad for 2019, IMO.
 
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