I have a few questions about Cyber Monday.

[Remobz]

I never had any interest in the past but I need to get some bluetooth speakers and other gadgets for Christmas gifts this year.

Obviously, the good deals go fast and are sold out online pretty quick. Do you guys stay glued to your monitors waiting for midnight on Sunday to start ordering?

What strategy if any do you guys follow?

 

[olds]

None. I pay retail MINO.

 

[kranky]

I go to gottadeal.com and track online sales there. I don't think cyber Monday has any deals you couldn't get today or on the weekend.

 

[Remobz]

I go to gottadeal.com and track online sales there. I don't think cyber Monday has any deals you couldn't get today or on the weekend.

Thanks for the website link. My only strategy so far is to check bestbuy and Amazon for deals every hour. Very tedious indeed.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Cyber Monday is a scam, it's not really a better shopping day than the days before it or after it. Do not sit glued to your monitor expecting incredible deals to pop up and disappear quickly. Just know what you want and what you're willing to pay and look around a little. You'll find the same deals now.

 

[Gillbot]

Cyber Monday is a scam, it's not really a better shopping day than the days before it or after it. Do not sit glued to your monitor expecting incredible deals to pop up and disappear quickly. Just know what you want and what you're willing to pay and look around a little. You'll find the same deals now.

This is the best advice.

Typically if you watch deal sites and get an idea of what a good sale price is for an item you want, you can catch it during the normal sales cycle without need to monitor websites.

 

[alkemyst]

None. I pay retail MINO.

Paying retail is stupid, MINO gets the item for free; they just want to see a few instagrams with the item visible.

You don't get out much so I forgive you.

 

[alkemyst]

This is the best advice.

Typically if you watch deal sites and get an idea of what a good sale price is for an item you want, you can catch it during the normal sales cycle without need to monitor websites.

Unless you have kids that now want something for the holidays.

 

[Gillbot]

Unless you have kids that now want something for the holidays.

I have kids, but we've taught them that they don't need the latest toy. So far, they've been fine.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Given all the online specials that began as early as Wednesday evening, is there even going to _be_ a Cyber Monday?

 

[jlee]

I generally keep an eye on slickdeals.net and see if anything I'm interested in pops up. This goes for all year, not just on BF.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I generally keep an eye on slickdeals.net and see if anything I'm interested in pops up. This goes for all year, not just on BF.

I do the same, and I create email alerts as well, but the thing about any of the sites like slickdeals is that someone has to _notice_ that a deal or price cut is available and then they have to post it. That doesn't always happen, especially for a site like Amazon where they can drastically lower a price for only a couple of hours. In other cases, by the time someone notices a deal, posts about it, and then you receive an email notification, the deal has sold out.

 

[Remobz]

I do the same, and I create email alerts as well, but the thing about any of the sites like slickdeals is that someone has to _notice_ that a deal or price cut is available and then they have to post it. That doesn't always happen, especially for a site like Amazon where they can drastically lower a price for only a couple of hours. In other cases, by the time someone notices a deal, posts about it, and then you receive an email notification, the deal has sold out.

You basically summed up the whole point of this thread. That is my fear🙁

One quick example, I am trying to get a Samsung tab 4 10.1 tablet. Lowest price so far is $250.00.

I just have a feeling some short time deal will pop up between now and Tuesday.

Of course, it might be sold out quickly if that happens.

 

[mikeford]

I have kids, but we've taught them that they don't need the latest toy. So far, they've been fine.

Fine until they kill you in your sleep for the insurance money.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You basically summed up the whole point of this thread. That is my fear🙁

One quick example, I am trying to get a Samsung tab 4 10.1 tablet. Lowest price so far is $250.00.

I just have a feeling some short time deal will pop up between now and Tuesday.

Of course, it might be sold out quickly if that happens.

I order most things from Amazon. What I do is place things in my shopping cart, then move them to 'saved for later'. I do this for a lot of things that I really do want to buy some day, like books. Or things I'm not so sure about, like that automatic potato peeler. But it's good for watching prices, too. Every time you visit your shopping cart there will be a notification box at the top showing you any price changes since the last time you visited. Normally, I check the cart a couple times a day, but for this whole BF thing, I check it every hour or two.

I also use the Camelizer plugin for Chrome, which is good for checking price histories on Amazon and Newegg, but also contains an email notification feature where you can set a price point for a product and receive an email alert when the price hits it. I don't know how often it checks prices, but I have noticed that it does miss some short-lived deals.

 

[Gillbot]

Fine until they kill you in your sleep for the insurance money.

Soles the problem of me buying them crap ever again, win-win. They'll be sad when that check comes in though and they barely have enough for a McDs meal.

 

[alkemyst]

Soles the problem of me buying them crap ever again, win-win. They'll be sad when that check comes in though and they barely have enough for a McDs meal.

I am carrying about $500k in life. It's important if you have a family and if you job offers it really cheap (I think I am paying $7 a month, privately I'd be at $40 ish or more).

 

[RossMAN]

What strategy if any do you guys follow?

1) Create a separate and unique e-mail address for the following using gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.
2) Either create an account on slickdeals.net or login to your account. If you're registering for an account use the unique e-mail address you just created.
3) Visit their Deal Alerts and setup deal alerts for the individual products and/or merchants you'd like to monitor. Remember less is more. If you make the mistake I did and setup an alert for "Amazon" you will receive about 15 e-mails an hour, every hour. If any Hot Deals ninjas here are very well versed in SD's deal alerts I would love to hear from you. At the bottom underneath Notification Method, I would recommend selecting e-mail and instant.
4) If you have a smart phone, login to this new e-mail account you created, enable push notification and check e-mail frequently. Of course this isn't foolproof if you receive an e-mail alert while you're in the shower or sleeping, you may miss out on a hot deal. If there is a product you REALLY want and don't mind being interrupted, you could setup an alert when certain e-mails are received, create an audible alert. Just be aware it may wake you at 2:30 AM or interrupt you at work at 1:00 PM.

I also don't have time to monitor hot deals 24/7, using SD's deal alerts I'm able to react relatively quickly when a new deal pops up.

Finally if you're a CostCo member or know someone who is, they have several great deals on bluetooth speakers in the $20 - $40 price range.

 

[alkemyst]

1) Create a separate and unique e-mail address for the following using gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.
2) Either create an account on slickdeals.net or login to your account. If you're registering for an account use the unique e-mail address you just created.
3) Visit their Deal Alerts and setup deal alerts for the individual products and/or merchants you'd like to monitor. Remember less is more. If you make the mistake I did and setup an alert for "Amazon" you will receive about 15 e-mails an hour, every hour. If any Hot Deals ninjas here are very well versed in SD's deal alerts I would love to hear from you. At the bottom underneath Notification Method, I would recommend selecting e-mail and instant.
4) If you have a smart phone, login to this new e-mail account you created, enable push notification and check e-mail frequently. Of course this isn't foolproof if you receive an e-mail alert while you're in the shower or sleeping, you may miss out on a hot deal. If there is a product you REALLY want and don't mind being interrupted, you could setup an alert when certain e-mails are received, create an audible alert. Just be aware it may wake you at 2:30 AM or interrupt you at work at 1:00 PM.

I also don't have time to monitor hot deals 24/7, using SD's deal alerts I'm able to react relatively quickly when a new deal pops up.

Finally if you're a CostCo member or know someone who is, they have several great deals on bluetooth speakers in the $20 - $40 price range.

YAY let's exploit deals!!!!

While this is OT, this is also a working thread, to which your response is little more than a non-contributory and unwelcome thread crap. Posts like these from you are part of the reason you are resented and disliked here by so many here. Please try to reign in this side of you.

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[Carson Dyle]

If any Hot Deals ninjas here are very well versed in SD's deal alerts I would love to hear from you.

What exactly are you trying to figure out? I set up all of my deal alerts to monitor the thread title, which generally works well and avoids someone mentioning a product in the sometimes lengthy discussions. Model numbers sometimes work better than guessing at what someone will post as a description. For example:

@title WD40EFRX

Usually you can just monitor the 'Hot Deals' forum, but with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it pays to also monitor those additional forums.

 

[RossMAN]

YAY let's exploit deals!!!!

Alky, don't quit your day job.

What exactly are you trying to figure out? I set up all of my deal alerts to monitor the thread title, which generally works well and avoids someone mentioning a product in the sometimes lengthy discussions. Model numbers sometimes work better than guessing at what someone will post as a description. For example:

@title WD40EFRX

Usually you can just monitor the 'Hot Deals' forum, but with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it pays to also monitor those additional forums.

Thanks. What's the best method if you know the specific model #. For example if you were looking for a Dell UltraSharp U2415 LCD monitor would you search for Dell U2415 or just U2415? Or if you're searching for any Samsung or Crucial SSD? How do you minimize false hits?

 

[jlee]

Alky, don't quit your day job.



Thanks. What's the best method if you know the specific model #. For example if you were looking for a Dell UltraSharp U2415 LCD monitor would you search for Dell U2415 or just U2415? Or if you're searching for any Samsung or Crucial SSD? How do you minimize false hits?

As U2415 is an uncommon "word", I would just set up an alert for it alone. I generally go fairly broad on my alerts (e.g. if I am looking for an SSD) and then filter through them as necessary. I'd rather get a few extra emails to delete than miss what I'm trying to find.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Thanks. What's the best method if you know the specific model #. For example if you were looking for a Dell UltraSharp U2415 LCD monitor would you search for Dell U2415 or just U2415?

Either one. It's unlikely that someone will list it without the word Dell, but it's also fairly unlikely that the model number is going to come up for other things.

@title u2415

Or if you're searching for any Samsung or Crucial SSD? How do you minimize false hits?

A pipe is used for logical OR. Multiple words or phrases in the search imply a logical AND. So:

@title samsung|crucial ssd

The language is similar to that of many search engines. You can also exclude words by using a minus sign:

@title samsung|crucial ssd -evo

or specify exact phrases in double quotes:

@title samsung "850 pro"

 

[RossMAN]

As U2415 is an uncommon "word", I would just set up an alert for it alone. I generally go fairly broad on my alerts (e.g. if I am looking for an SSD) and then filter through them as necessary. I'd rather get a few extra emails to delete than miss what I'm trying to find.

Either one. It's unlikely that someone will list it without the word Dell, but it's also fairly unlikely that the model number is going to come up for other things.

@title u2415



A pipe is used for logical OR. Multiple words or phrases in the search imply a logical AND. So:

@title samsung|crucial ssd

The language is similar to that of many search engines. You can also exclude words by using a minus sign:

@title samsung|crucial ssd -evo

or specify exact phrases in double quotes:

@title samsung "850 pro"

Thanks guys, just modified a few existing DA's hopefully it'll help.

 

[rockyct]

Cyber Monday is a scam, it's not really a better shopping day than the days before it or after it. Do not sit glued to your monitor expecting incredible deals to pop up and disappear quickly. Just know what you want and what you're willing to pay and look around a little. You'll find the same deals now.

Exactly. It's never really been a very good sale day, it's just something the media made up and online retailers ran with. Most of the Cyber Monday sales are about as good as the "Early Black Friday" sales a couple weeks ago. The best online deals were on Thursday and Friday.