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Cyber-Monday is here!!!!.....so....

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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.
 
M0oG0oGaiPan said:
any decent deals for fast micro sd cards?
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bestbuy has some on sale.
SanDisk - Extreme PLUS 32GB microSDHC UHS-I Class U-1 Memory Card $18
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-...&skuId=9387066

SanDisk - Extreme PLUS 64GB microSDXC UHS-I Class U-1 Memory Card $35
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-...&skuId=9387093

does a movers coupon stack with their on sale stuff?

Amazon
SanDisk Extreme 32GB UHS-I/U3 Micro SDHC Memory Card Up To 60MB/s Read With Adapte-SDSDQXN-032G-G46A $15
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extrem...44df66c9358c46
 
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M0oG0oGaiPan said:
bestbuy has some on sale.
does a movers coupon stack with their on sale stuff?
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I have the 10% card too but it says in-store only. I don't see any other limitations other than it starting from 12/2. Who knows if it will still be that price tomorrow.
 
DrPizza said:
Dear stores: if you can't beat the price of items *shipped*, you're business model is going to fail.
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Some things I happily pay a couple dollars more, plus sales taxes, just for the ability of being able to walk in and instantly return them. For this I'm also starting to realize the value of being able to order things online (which often aren't on the shelves) from a B&M store and pick them up for free.

And with Amazon, most things that you can buy for under $10 in a B&M store will be a couple of dollars more at Amazon (probably because of the shipping factor). And they never come close to sales prices on items that you'd buy at a typical grocery store.
 
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Carson Dyle said:
Some things I happily pay a couple dollars more, plus sales taxes, just for the ability of being able to walk in and instantly return them. For this I'm also starting to realize the value of being able to order things online (which often aren't on the shelves) from a B&M store and pick them up for free.
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Honestly nowadays Amazon charges sales tax and most places pricematch Amazon so why no go B&M? For the last year I switched almost all my electronics purchases from Amazon/Newegg to Frys/Best Buy because of pricematching. Best Buy is nice because they give you reward points for money spent without having to sign up for a line of credit. That always makes it a little cheaper than Amazon/Newegg.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Some things I happily pay a couple dollars more, plus sales taxes, just for the ability of being able to walk in and instantly return them. For this I'm also starting to realize the value of being able to order things online (which often aren't on the shelves) from a B&M store and pick them up for free.

And with Amazon, most things that you can buy for under $10 in a B&M store will be a couple of dollars more at Amazon (probably because of the shipping factor). And they never come close to sales prices on items that you'd buy at a typical grocery store.
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<3 Amazon returns. Print UPS label, put box outside, and UPS comes and picks it up.
 
DrPizza said:
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.
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jc penny tried the low pricing all the time thing and it failed.
http://business.time.com/2012/05/17/why-jcpenneys-no-more-coupons-experiment-is-failing/
 
TwiceOver said:
Yawn. The whole BF/CM thing was bunk this year. Shows in the sales figures too.
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They used to always sell last year's models of TVs and video cards and tablets and phones.....the problem is, everyone stocked up on all that stuff last year and the year before.

Hopefully the dip in sales will boost sales for the rest of the season? I always read about how if you 'miss out' on BF deals, it usually doesn't get much better. I'm hoping supply and demand kicks in and the retailers are forced to drop prices to compete for sale.
 
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