Black Friday Sales
 

My theory is that scared retailers, fearful of reluctant consumers, will offer the hugest discounts ever. Is this accurate, as far as you've seen? What are the awesomest deals you've seen, or things you plan on snapping up? . . . This page, Black Friday 2008 appears to be a good place to start.

More gas before the sale ends.

http://www.blackfriday.info/ is similar.

I am not going shopping. We are cutting back on everything this year.

I didn't intend to get into it, but I couldn't resist 2GB of RAM for my laptop for $16.00 at newegg.

We're also thinking about an HDTV... our 15 yo Magnavox isn't going to last forever. But we're waffling... we'll see what else materializes between now and Christmas. And there's always the pre-Superbowl sales.

http://slickdeals.net/ has an excel spreadsheet built populated with black friday sale items!

We're doing the black friday thing just for fun. as a family we decided to give the kids a few small things but no gifts for adults this time around. We've instead adopted a family and are spending our normal gift money on them instead. So we'll hit black friday just for tradition but no real items are targeted.

I do not shop on Black Friday.

Momwolf tells me that the local news covered a story in which a consumer purchased something with a bold "SALE" tag on it, peeled away the Sale price sticker, only to find the original sticker with the lower price.

I don't do the herd mentality thing, at least with respect to shopping today.

I do have a 20% off offer from Atlanta Cutlery/Museum Replicas. My gentleman wants something from there, so I will make a phone call today.

it can be kind of fun--getting up a 5 am to go to the mall--but my tolerance for crowds is low--so -- generally not worth the hassle unless you have a specific need/want for an expensive item

someone in our salesmeeting this morning likened it to tailgate partying for women.

i want an iphone. and a wii. but neither of those are likely to be on sale.

I am doing my part for the economy and not shopping.

Well, I thouroughly enjoyed the whole process.

From having a general idea of a big ticket item my wife wanted, to researching exactly what features I wanted/what size thing we could accomodate, to pricing these items/finding the sales, printing up the item numbers of my choice (and a backup), showing up at the store at 4:45, waiting in line for a few minutes, getting in, going directly to the counter and ringing it up (no dicking around not being sure what I'm looking for), then picking it up, bringing it back home, and going back to bed!


This was fun, and way worth saving several hundred dollars.

I'm curious too see how well retailers did today, versus what they expected.

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot the best part: