Attn Nerds: What are you buying on black friday?

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:23 am

If you dont know whats out, here are some good web sites to start with

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/
http://www.dealtaker.com/blackfriday.html
http://www.keepcash.com/blackfriday/

Im going to pick up:

COMPUSA

Hitachi 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive - $19.99 AR

http://www.compusa.com/products/product ... 245&ref=cj

Wallmart

HP Pavillion ze2308wm Notebook Computer - $398.00 (NO rebates)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthr ... ?p=1156098

AMD Sempron 2800+ (1.6 GHz, 256KB L2 cache)
512MB DDR SDRAM
60GB 4200RPM HDD
Dual Layer DVD RW drive
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M video card with 128MB shared video memory
Internal Broadcom wireless b/g card
Windows XP Home
15" TFT XGA BrightView screen (1024 x 768 max resolution)
6-cell battery
Ports: 2 USB 2.0, 1 PCMCIA card slot, headphone, microphone, 56K modem, Ethernet LAN, S-Video out, VGA out

Staples

(Im going to buy as much as I can blank DVD's)
Playo 50pk DVD+R Blank Media - $2.94 AR *
Playo 50pk DVD-R Blank Media - $2.94 AR *

Maxtor 200GB Internal Hard Drive - $29.94 AR *

Samsung 914v 19" LCD Monitor - $199.94
^ Might not buy this monitor yet, havent decided. (pick between this or Mag)

Best Buy

MAG 19" LCD Monitor - $169.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 5363845331

^ Might not buy this monitor yet, havent decided. (pick between this or samsung)

And Last

Target

Lexmark Z517 Inkjet Printer - $16.88

Im going to have my younger brother with me so he can put more things on my credit card if there is a limit on what to buy. For the laptop at wallmart, I might just buy it to sell it on ebay down the road, its a $800 reg price laptop. The LCD monitor will be put to use for my main rig as well as the SATA hard drive. Printer is going for my brothers computer so he can print out school papers etc... I have yet to decide on a monitor.

What is everyone plan to buy?

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:53 am

You must be new to black friday...

what do you think your odds are that you'll be able to get even 20% of that list?

certainly be able to get the DVD's, but I doubt you'll be able to get anything else.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:56 am

zooner wrote:You must be new to black friday...

what do you think your odds are that you'll be able to get even 20% of that list?

certainly be able to get the DVD's, but I doubt you'll be able to get anything else.

My 4rd black friday.

I allways wait in line and wake up around 3-4Am,

I live in a small town, not many stores have any crowds, having a younger brother/Gf with you is a plus

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:58 am

Overall black friday sales look pretty bad this year.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:02 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Overall black friday sales look pretty bad this year.

Yeah, there's like one or two door buster sale items(which I can never get) and the rest are meh. Still waiting on the Fry's ad but last year wasn't that good either.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:04 am

tHE_0ne wrote:My 4rd black friday.

I allways wait in line and wake up around 3-4Am,

I live in a small town, not many stores have any crowds, having a younger brother/Gf with you is a plus

lucky ducky!

ugh. gonna have to check out that staples deal.

thanks!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:43 am

I'm staying home!

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:45 am

Cabledude wrote:I'm staying home!

Same here...or at least going out and doing something else besides taking 3plus hours to play bumper car in some overloaded mall parking lot...then feeling like a salmon during mating runs up the river packed like sardines...to wait in long lines. Ugh! Couldn't pay me to do it...

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:52 am

It all looks tempting, but I just can't get into the rat race. The things I am interested in will be there when all this is done.

I cannot stand the $99 blowout price after $25 instant savings and $49 mail-in rebate but before 24 year AOL contract and 2 year subscription to Napster. Must send original UPC to 4 locations before midnight yesterday.

Just give me the fricken' rock bottom buy it now price

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:53 am

Was going to go get this ATI x700 card for 99.99 at BB but it's AR so screw it

drdoug99 · Post by **drdoug99** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:18 am

I agree with BigMo...everything is after rebate, you've got the crowds to deal with, etc.

plus in a few months all these items will probably be on clearance sale anyway...

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:35 am

bigmo66 wrote: I cannot stand the $99 blowout price after $25 instant savings and $49 mail-in rebate but before 24 year AOL contract and 2 year subscription to Napster. Must send original UPC to 4 locations before midnight yesterday.

LOL.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:06 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Overall black friday sales look pretty bad this year.

Thats right. I'm staying home with my daughter. My old lady is going though.

triniwasp · Post by **triniwasp** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:10 pm

Lefty wrote:Thats right. I'm staying home with my daughter. My old lady is going though.

SpareX · Post by **SpareX** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 12:43 pm

I've worked Black fridays for almost 4 years now.. Im out of retail now so Im not gonna go shopping for this one..

some deals are great.. but after rebate is crap.. sometimes you'll get a great item without any problems but I've seen tomany of these doorbuster deals just fall through and die...

Good luck to anyone out there.. I got the day off from work while working today.. so im gonna be passed out and waiting for the before christmas sales that are commonly better deals on better product.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:52 am

Compusa opened at 12am, just bought:

Hitachi 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive - $19.99 AR
and a Seagate 200gb hard drive for $30 Ar for my brother.

wallmart/staples @ 5am... sleep now :|

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:25 am

Ive had several companies not follow through with their mail-in rebates (*cough*RADIO SHACK*cough*) and what sucks is there isnt really anything you can do about it. I'm not waiting 2 months to get my money back anymore, half the time I forget I even had a rebate then im like whuh? when it comes.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:09 am

7:07Am

Staples: Bought 100 Dvd-R's / 512MB PNY memory stick
Wallmart: SOLD out of laptops

Target: got the printer

It was amazing at 12:00 at compusa, the bestbuy is right next door and people were camping out... they had sleeping bags and small heaters. I guess they are going to buy a plasma tv?

SLEEP NOW

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:48 am

my mom needs a LCD for her computer I was thinking of getting one.. anyone know of a good deal of perhaps a 17" to 19" under 200$ that I could grab up for todays deals online?

I'm not going out.. 22degree's!!!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:52 am

tHE_0ne wrote:7:07Am

Staples: Bought 100 Dvd-R's / 512MB PNY memory stick
Wallmart: SOLD out of laptops
Target: got the printer

SLEEP NOW

ya could have put the laptops on a raincheck?? I know here at this walmart ya could.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:44 am

Sava700 wrote:ya could have put the laptops on a raincheck?? I know here at this walmart ya could.

no, they are all gone in the united states

only place get on prob is ebay

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:24 am

So the wife calls me this morning from Best Buy, Staples and Circuit City...

Is this a good buy? ....Open up Froogle...search...

It's been pretty much universal that the items she's been looking at, I can find cheaper on the net......and I don't have to venture into this inversion, nor do I have to fight the crowds.

Next year, I think I'll have her write down what she's interested in and she can Froogle them.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:25 pm

How'd I do?

Fry's (Was there for 4 freakin' hours):

Laptop: $379
Plantronics Blue Tooth Wireless Headset $9.99
PNY 1GB Flash Drive $34
300GB Seagate $69 AR
Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU $4.99 AR
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Gamer LE $19 AR

Homedepot:

Ryobi 18v Drill and light set $29

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:42 pm

my sister was going to try to get a laptop for like 200 bucks at circuit city this morning.. my guess is she either went back to sleep at 4am when her alarm went off or that they were sold out when she got there..

I dont normally go shopping today regardless of what the sales are.. the malls here are just too damn packed.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:53 pm

Meggie wrote:my sister was going to try to get a laptop for like 200 bucks at circuit city this morning.. my guess is she either went back to sleep at 4am when her alarm went off or that they were sold out when she got there..

I dont normally go shopping today regardless of what the sales are.. the malls here are just too damn packed.

Did you read the super fine print stating *$250 Instant Savings with AOL 12-month subscription*?

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:55 pm

Unholy wrote:Did you read the super fine print stating *$250 Instant Savings with AOL 12-month subscription*?

man thats messed up.