Black Friday 2007
 

It's that time of year again. Time to fight those crowds of crazy people in order to get the best bargain possible on the dreaded day known as Black Friday.

We are one week away from the big event, and just so you can stay ahead of the game, here are some helpful links to get you started.

http://www.bfads.net
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com
http://www.fatwallet.com/c/1/
http://www.theblackfriday.com
http://www.blackfridayhome.com
http://www.blackfriday.info

This year on my BF list is decent cheap laptop, GPS unit, and TV. I have been monitoring a couple of sites for the past two weeks or so, watching the new deals pop up for all of the stores.

This thread could be a good discussion of good deals that some of you are finding. Also helpful would be if any of you own some of the products that are going to be discounted on Friday, could give us your reviews on some items.

The day is drawing near, let the madness begin!

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god, i'd rather die than go shopping on black friday

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I have to work 4am-4pm UGH.

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The people I don't understand are the idiots that go shopping on "Black Friday" but like late morning or afternoon.

You either have to go balls to the wall and get there at 4am or don't bother. What is the point of showing up after all of the great deals are done, but you still have to put up with the millions of people?




Tip: Whichever store you want to go, find the one in the richest and smallest town around you. I've found that ones near cities/colleges seem to be the worst, and its not just size of population, its what % of that population is willing to get up at 4am.

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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It's not even the biggest sales day of the year, so that's false.

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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It's not even the biggest sales day of the year, so that's false.

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I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

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I've heard of people slightly raising prices and advertising it as a Black Friday sale.

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Who says you have to (shop on BF) to get the deals?

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i havent really seen any SUPER awesome deals for TVs yet, but maybe some will come up.

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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I'm guessing this is just something you heard sometime somewhere

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i havent really seen any SUPER awesome deals for TVs yet, but maybe some will come up.

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nothing is really exciting me about the TV's either. i have my heart set on a 46" or 52" Samsung, and there's nothing even close to that yet. i may be using my onecall.com gift certificates from stars and pricematching with amazon.com to get a good deal.

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I'm guessing this is just something you heard sometime somewhere

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LOL, yeah, there's no way this could possibly be accurate.

I plan on doing the 4am thing this year. Some of the deals are just too good to pass up. I'm looking forward to the Best Buy BF flyer.

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The people I don't understand are the idiots that go shopping on "Black Friday" but like late morning or afternoon.

You either have to go balls to the wall and get there at 4am or don't bother. What is the point of showing up after all of the great deals are done, but you still have to put up with the millions of people?




Tip: Whichever store you want to go, find the one in the richest and smallest town around you. I've found that ones near cities/colleges seem to be the worst, and its not just size of population, its what % of that population is still up at 4am

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But seriously, I was mainly looking for a good TV deal this year, but finding a good deal thus far as many other posters have stated has been a problem. Other than that I could care less.

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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It's not even the biggest sales day of the year, so that's false.

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I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.

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Of course they are mutually exclusive. If a store has 50% of its sales on a single day, then obviously the remaining 50% has to be divided among 364 other days. There is no way it can account for 50% of sales if it is not the biggest shopping day of the year.

See http://www.snopes.com/holidays/thank...g/shopping.asp

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The original post of the chain said "some stores." It may be the fifth or sixth biggest sale day of the year in total, but some specific retailers could clear 50%. Nitpicking LDO.

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99% of stores don't do anywhere near 50% of their biz on Black Friday. For the major players who have the big sales that day this is very much true. The Saturday before Christmas is the biggest volume day for these stores usually. Was the case 4 of the past 5 years.

-Brendan

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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I'm guessing this is just something you heard sometime somewhere

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LOL, yeah, there's no way this could possibly be accurate.

I plan on doing the 4am thing this year. Some of the deals are just too good to pass up. I'm looking forward to the Best Buy BF flyer.

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what deals are you referring to? haven't seen anything super awesome yet (at least compared to previous years)

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I've heard of people slightly raising prices and advertising it as a Black Friday sale.

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The standard move is to double all your base prices then advertise 50% off.

Smart people buy their gifts on Dec. 27 and celebrate in January.

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The original post of the chain said "some stores." It may be the fifth or sixth biggest sale day of the year in total, but some specific retailers could clear 50%. Nitpicking LDO.

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The only stores that have >50% of revenue on a single day are stores that are opened only two days per year.

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50% of annual sales in one day? WTF, think before you type, lol.

Also, someone told me the other day that there will be stores opening Thursday evening this year. We're all going to hell and we probably deserve it.

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some retail stores do as much as 50% of their annual sales on black friday

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I'm guessing this is just something you heard sometime somewhere

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LOL, yeah, there's no way this could possibly be accurate.

I plan on doing the 4am thing this year. Some of the deals are just too good to pass up. I'm looking forward to the Best Buy BF flyer.

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what deals are you referring to? haven't seen anything super awesome yet (at least compared to previous years)

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They'll be in the inserts in your Sunday paper this week.

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It's that time of year again. Time to fight those crowds of crazy people in order to get the best bargain possible on the dreaded day known as Black Friday.

We are one week away from the big event, and just so you can stay ahead of the game, here are some helpful links to get you started.

http://www.bfads.net
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com
http://www.fatwallet.com/c/1/
http://www.theblackfriday.com
http://www.blackfridayhome.com
http://www.blackfriday.info

This year on my BF list is decent cheap laptop, GPS unit, and TV. I have been monitoring a couple of sites for the past two weeks or so, watching the new deals pop up for all of the stores.

This thread could be a good discussion of good deals that some of you are finding. Also helpful would be if any of you own some of the products that are going to be discounted on Friday, could give us your reviews on some items.

The day is drawing near, let the madness begin!

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Thanks for the awesome contribution!

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If you do hear of any goof BF tv deals let us know. I'm too lazy to actually research this [censored].

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For the last 22 years I've spent black Friday on the deck of our Cancun time-share.

I'll have a margarita for you poor souls....

MM MD

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Constable,

If you had a dick in your ass, would you take it or leave it?

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Solids and Heater ...

There is no need to wait the ads are already out there look at the links around here (although a couple of retailers got pissy this year and had theirs taken down.... Macys, Lowes, Wal-mart, Linen N Things, thankfully I don't look to them for turkey day sales).

Best Buy is out there look for it.

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50% of annual sales in one day? WTF, think before you type, lol.

Also, someone told me the other day that there will be stores opening Thursday evening this year. We're all going to hell and we probably deserve it.

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FWIW I work in the Fragrance Industry and it has been recorded that 50% of the entire industry's yearly sales occur in the last 2 weeks of the year.

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50% of annual sales in one day? WTF, think before you type, lol.

Also, someone told me the other day that there will be stores opening Thursday evening this year. We're all going to hell and we probably deserve it.

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I saw a notice on the leather store at or outlet mall yesterday that they're opening at midnight Thursday.

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Constable,

If you had a dick in your ass, would you take it or leave it?

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haha, awesome.

so "Black Friday" is what people refer to as the day after Thanksgiving / first day of Christmas season shopping? I thought this thread was going to be about the stock market or something.

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Constable,

If you had a dick in your ass, would you take it or leave it?

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haha, awesome.

so "Black Friday" is what people refer to as the day after Thanksgiving / first day of Christmas season shopping? I thought this thread was going to be about the stock market or something.

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My job refers to it as "Green Friday". On the plus side, if I can't get out of my 5-hour shift Friday night, my boss is at least buying pizza for all of us.

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Constable,

If you had a dick in your ass, would you take it or leave it?

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haha, awesome.

so "Black Friday" is what people refer to as the day after Thanksgiving / first day of Christmas season shopping? I thought this thread was going to be about the stock market or something.

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The story goes that retailers finally get into the black for the year the Friday after Thanksgiving.

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god, i'd rather die than go shopping

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I agree.

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I agree.

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I disagree, but only because i live in canada.

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The 42" Panny for $899 at Best Buy seems like a really good deal.. but I'd be way too lazy to line up early in cold weather for it.

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50% of annual sales in one day? WTF, think before you type, lol.

Also, someone told me the other day that there will be stores opening Thursday evening this year. We're all going to hell and we probably deserve it.

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Since when has religion become part of Thanksgiving?

We're all going to hell but it doesn't have anything to do with stores being open for Thanksgiving. I'll tell you what though, with all of us going to hell, it's going to be a fun ass place, that's for sure.

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I'll tell you what though, with all of us going to hell, it's going to be a fun ass place, that's for sure.

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Just like getting your license renewed!

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50% of annual sales in one day? WTF, think before you type, lol.

Also, someone told me the other day that there will be stores opening Thursday evening this year. We're all going to hell and we probably deserve it.

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Since when has religion become part of Thanksgiving?

We're all going to hell but it doesn't have anything to do with stores being open for Thanksgiving. I'll tell you what though, with all of us going to hell, it's going to be a fun ass place, that's for sure.

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My statement had nothing to do with religion or Thanksgiving, lol.