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What were your best Black Friday 2017 scores? (items bought)

UsandThem

UsandThem

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I was a little more restrained in what I bought this Black Friday than I was in the past, but I bought 4 items I couldn't pass up:

1. MSI RX580 Gaming X 8G for $204.00 Newegg
2. HP Omen 32" 1440p monitor $249.00 Costco
3. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" $159.00 Target
4 Norton Security Deluxe 15 month / 5 users $19.99 Amazon

Now looking forward to Cyber Monday to see if there is "anything too good to pass up".
 
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I kinda went nuts. 🙄

1. 3 Amazon Fire HD 10" tablets - one for me and two as gifts. $100 each.
2. One 8TB Seagate HDD, $210. (Thanks to the comment in AnandTech article.) Camel camel camel made it look like the best price ever by far.
 
I also got the Hp Omen 32" 1440p monitor for $255 after tax. I used a $25 off coupon, picked up a couple more from the store today if you want to cancel and re-order with the code. Let me know...

Also picked up an EVGA 750W G3 PSU for $70, and a Dewalt 20V string trimmer combo w/5Ah battery and string for $152 after tax. Kinda mad I missed out on the i7-7700k + MSI z270 mobo + 2 game combo for $290 after $40MIR... Oh well, I'll keep searching for a good CPU deal. I can get the 7700k alone for $250 right now, but I'll wait for Cyber Monday.
 
96Firebird said:
I also got the Hp Omen 32" 1440p monitor for $255 after tax. I used a $25 off coupon, picked up a couple more from the store today if you want to cancel and re-order with the code. Let me know...
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Thanks for the offer, but mine already shipped and is due to arrive on 11/28. I'll just eat the $25 this time as long as I like the monitor as much as I hope I will 🙂
 
Ken g6 said:
I kinda went nuts. 🙄

1. 3 Amazon Fire HD 10" tablets - one for me and two as gifts. $100 each.
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That was the tablet I almost got instead of the Tab A. I liked the screen just a little more on the Samsung, but it was really close. I really liked that $99 price though. Great tablet for the $.
 
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We didn't get much. My wife was able to snag the last Galaxy Tab A at Target for $179 with a $20 gift card and I got a nice pair of Ariat Rambler boots for $76 and a 1tb SSD for $205. My best score was a nice pair of jeans from Penny's for $3.60. That's cheaper than Goodwill and they are brand new.
 
bbhaag said:
We didn't get much. My wife was able to snag the last Galaxy Tab A at Target for $179 with a $20 gift card and I got a nice pair of Ariat Rambler boots for $76 and a 1tb SSD for $205. My best score was a nice pair of jeans from Penny's for $3.60. That's cheaper than Goodwill and they are brand new.
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As expensive as jeans are now, $3.60 is a heck of a score. The sad thing is clothes did not even enter my mind this year, so I didn't even see of those deals. With two teenagers who destroy jeans, I would have a happy camper getting them at that price.
 
Nothing really caught my fancy this year. Maybe Cyber Monday will tempt me with something. 😉
 
BF sucked. Set up an Echo Dot for the parents, and that's it. RAM and SSD prices are still out of control.
 
Nothing this year. Almost picked up a Home Mini for around $27 at work but I remembered I don't use Assistant, so I have no use for it.
 
Main purchase is gonna be Sony 930E 65" TV; will also get some PC games from Humble Bundle. And some good magazine deals for myself and gifts.
 
Best Buy HP Omen i5 desktop for 669. By itself it was an ok deal, but it came with a free HP Windows MR headset.
 
I didn't actually buy anything for BF, surprisingly. I did, however, at the beginning of the month, pick up a couple more of those 8TB Red / EasyStore externals from BB for $170 or $180 + tax ea. So that was basically my Black Friday purchase.

I also picked up a couple of both the 120mm and 240mm MasterLiquid Lite AIO WC kits, for future Ryzen / Coffee Lake builds.

Edit: Almost forgot, Mom was nice enough to loan me the money to get the chair in the OfficeMax BF ad, my local store had a return from a customer, for $250 + tax. (Cheaper than the BF ad, regular price $369.99.) I lucked out there. I can't really imagine why someone returned it, seems like a great chair to me.
 
Basically, nothing. I wasn't in the market for anything at all pricey, and that's where the better deals seem to be this year, to the extent they're there at all.

I was hoping for a good deal on another cheap prepaid phone or even two to use as non-cellular mini-tablets, but as far as I saw, no one had anything remotely resembling a decent, much less "good" deal, at least not compared to last year's unlockable LG Phoenix 2 for $30 and an LG Tribute HD for $20. I wouldn't pay MSRP for either one, but for those prices, they're actually pretty nice as "tablets" (I can't speak to their functionality as phones). The worst thing about them is short battery life, but I can live with that. Probably unrealistically given current NAND prices, I also had an eye out for another couple of 64GB microSD cards for around $15 (like last year), but no joy there either. The lowest I've seen is $20, and since I don't have an active need for them, that extra $5 was enough to stop me from "stocking up just to stock up". And even Target's small kitchen appliance "doorbusters" were lame this year... A couple were the same as last year (and I already have them) and most of the rest are just crappy appliances being sold for about what they're worth on sale...

I did grab an electric blanket from Target for $25 as a back-up for the one I bought last year that died literally a week ago. (Not an amazing deal, but a deeper discount than they usually ever go.) I'm going to RMA the older one, but my bedroom gets really, really cold and I didn't want to go a couple of weeks without one while waiting for the replacement. Of course the same model as last year's is even more cheaply made than that one, and the specific one I just bought isn't working so well, so I'll have to either exchange or it try a different model. But at least it works to "preheat" the bed so I don't freeze for the first 20 minutes when I get into bed.🙂

I might still grab a 250GB SSD for $80 at Microcenter (either Samsung 850 EVO or Intel 545s), if the sale prices hold out another couple of days. At least the Samsung is $10 cheaper than everywhere else and I'm actively in the market for a refurb PC, so I'm definitely going to need another SSD sooner rather than later...
 
Probably the Google Home Mini from Walmart's Google Express store. That cost me $20.50 plus tax, and it comes with a $25 Walmart gift card. So, it's basically free.

I also got Forza Horizon 3 for $25, since my daughter got hooked on the demo.
 
Out of curiosity... did anyone here actually get one of those $300 Doorbuster deals on the 55" 4K TV's that were advertised at Walmart or Target? I figured that most stores would only have a few of them, and that they would disappear around 6:01 PM Thursday to someone who was camped in front of the store the day before.
 
ultimatebob said:
Out of curiosity... did anyone here actually get one of those $300 Doorbuster deals on the 55" 4K TV's that were advertised at Walmart or Target? I figured that most stores would only have a few of them, and that they would disappear around 6:01 PM Thursday to someone who was camped in front of the store the day before.
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I didn't do any B&M "Black Thursday" shopping at all this year, but over the last couple of years, the BB location I have gone to had more than a "few" of the big doorbuster items, though not a whole lot, maybe 3-4 dozen, give or take? Last year I showed up at around 4pm, mostly out of curiosity (I didn't think it would be early enough for the TV, and it wasn't), but knowing there were a fair number of smaller items I was equally, if not actually more, interested in that weren't likely to sell out immediately (and in fact hadn't)... I chatted up a couple of people who who did get whatever the big-sale-TV was (I've forgotten what it was) and it sounded like the people who'd gotten them showed up around no later than 1pm-ish.

And fwiw, they in fact "sell out" long before the doors ever open. They've handed out "tickets" for several different of the really hot items to people on the line, though I'm not sure what time they've started doing that. Which actually serves the dual purposes of preventing a stampede when the doors do finally open (and also the potentially violent problem of would-be line-cutters), but also gives people advance warning that they're too late, so they can avoid wasting the extra hour or two (or whatever) on line, if that's all they're after...
 
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Both scores from CL 🙂
Dell OptiPlex 7020 SFF (w/4790) for $35
Loaded Lenovo TS440 for $58

From stores :
BB - Insignia alkalines + penlights
Amazon - GCs, McAfee AV 1U1Y (moneymaker after flipping), Cali Car Duster
 
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