DrPizza
Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Any good sites keeping track of deals for today? There are a few things that if the price was right, I might pull the trigger.
Re: black friday.
Let's see...
*Was celebrating the holiday with my family. Hey Walmart: **** you. Family comes first. I'm not waiting in your huge lines for the cash registers because you decided to have your sale on Thanksgiving instead of Friday. Since I assumed all the "good stuff" was sold out on Thanksgiving, I didn't bother going to your store on Friday, which would have inadvertently led to a shopping cart full of items when I intended to buy just 2 things.
*Many of the sales were barely that. I was looking for a new tool set. The sales prices were roughly the same sales prices they have every couple of weeks. Dear Sears, does anyone really ever buy your $399 mechanics set at full retail value? Why don't you just keep the price low? Dear Lowes, you've had better deals on your Kobalt tools. Home Depot, ditto. You're just lucky that the goats hid my hammer and I needed a new good quality hammer.
*My wife *did* go shopping for about half an hour after she got out of work on Friday. She called me up to ask my opinion about a particular item. "Hey, it's at Amazon for about $1 less, and qualifies for prime's 2 day free shipping." Ultimately, of the 9 or 10 items she had found for sale, EVERY one of them was cheaper online, with free shipping. Dear stores: if you can't beat the price of items *shipped*, you're business model is going to fail.
Re: black friday.
Let's see...
*Was celebrating the holiday with my family. Hey Walmart: **** you. Family comes first. I'm not waiting in your huge lines for the cash registers because you decided to have your sale on Thanksgiving instead of Friday. Since I assumed all the "good stuff" was sold out on Thanksgiving, I didn't bother going to your store on Friday, which would have inadvertently led to a shopping cart full of items when I intended to buy just 2 things.
*Many of the sales were barely that. I was looking for a new tool set. The sales prices were roughly the same sales prices they have every couple of weeks. Dear Sears, does anyone really ever buy your $399 mechanics set at full retail value? Why don't you just keep the price low? Dear Lowes, you've had better deals on your Kobalt tools. Home Depot, ditto. You're just lucky that the goats hid my hammer and I needed a new good quality hammer.
*My wife *did* go shopping for about half an hour after she got out of work on Friday. She called me up to ask my opinion about a particular item. "Hey, it's at Amazon for about $1 less, and qualifies for prime's 2 day free shipping." Ultimately, of the 9 or 10 items she had found for sale, EVERY one of them was cheaper online, with free shipping. Dear stores: if you can't beat the price of items *shipped*, you're business model is going to fail.
