Weekend Open Forum: Share Your Black Friday Experience

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1. November 27, 2009 8:16 PM
   

   TomSEA, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

   My tech purchases consisted of some of the games on the STEAM sales and a few blu-ray DVD's, mainly from Wally's-Mart. Hard to pass up decent blu-ray titles for $9 a pop. All of those purchases were online.

   I did go out today and hit a couple of malls, but ended up buying nothing but basic home supplies and toiletries. What the heck, might as well buy razor blades while they're on sale!

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2. November 27, 2009 8:43 PM
   Guest said:

   I participated in Black Friday in 2 ways.

   I ran two discount codes of 30 and 50% on Linux training products at beginlinux dot com. (no plug intended, sales over) This is a big discount for the site as some of the products include instructor-led training and so on. The sale had only a few participants but then again Linux training isn't usually bought out of impulse...or is it?

   I also went out looking to buy a Black Friday Linux netbook in the stores where I'm located. Spokane, WA. No luck. I did pick up a higher end Logitech mouse for $25, A Logitech camera for $20 and 15 8GB Sandisk USB drives for $150. All in all it was a successful day.

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3. November 27, 2009 8:47 PM
   

   TomSEA, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

   Oh yeah, after reading guests Logitech purchases it reminded me that I did buy a Logitech G500 gaming mouse.

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4. November 27, 2009 8:54 PM
   

   Boogityboo04 said:

   I bought.. nothing. But I probably will buy components for a Core i5 system from Newegg later tonight.

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5. November 27, 2009 8:57 PM
   Guest said:

   I found a great deal for a 500Gig Toshiba USB for $40 at OfficeMax.com.

   They sent a confirmation email.

   Two deals later I got an email cancelling the order plus the additional item that I had ordered to get free shipping.

   They sent the additional item and charged my card.

   Beware of scams.

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6. November 27, 2009 9:30 PM
   JudaZ said:

   what the hell is Black Friday? ...

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7. November 27, 2009 10:26 PM
   Clrabbit said:

   To [JudaZ]: Black Friday is what we call the Friday after thanksgiving. :p

   Also know as one of the biggest shopping days of the year sense a lot of stores will do one day sales and many will even open at Midnight to kick them off. so if you want to get $200 off of something you get to line up out side of a store before they close to be there when they open the next morning. lol

   Although thous of us who were happy with DL game sales on D2D, Steam and Impulse didn't have to sleep outside after dinner off.

   Really it's funny I spent more money buying books not on sale then I did on any BF sales today. I love the Internet you get good sales and you don't have to leap over an elderly person, or any thing crazy and still get a decent deal. I was tempted to pick up a DSLR from Sony for $200 off then I realized I don't like Sony and Nikon wasn't having a sale

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8. November 27, 2009 10:42 PM
   stwongbad85 said:

   Today was all about Blu Ray. Best Buy and Amazon. Got all the Star Trek movies that I want on Blu Ray for around or under $9 (without having to buy the complete sets).

   .

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9. November 27, 2009 10:46 PM
   Astro199 said:

   i stayed up all night Thursday waiting for PS3 and Garmin GPS deals from amazon.com.

   I bought a PS3 with infamous and killzone 2 for $300 and assassin's creed for only 10 bucks! I also got the Garmin 255W for $120. all with free shipping! it was pointless to wait in long lines on Friday morning when you can get better deals online, but i eventually visit some local stores just for the experience

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10. November 28, 2009 12:28 AM
    lfg18 said:

    Well i just got some blue rays from costco and cables and stuff like that for my pc, I'm still trying to get good offers online

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11. November 28, 2009 3:22 AM
    JudaZ said:

    clrabbit said:

    To [JudaZ]: Black Friday is what we call the Friday after thanksgiving.

    Aha ... thanks for the explanation.

    Never heard it before ... )

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12. November 28, 2009 4:52 AM
    Razerblade said:

    I live in the UK so we don't have such a thing as Black Friday but i did buy a couple of games and a new TV!

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13. November 28, 2009 5:14 AM
    Guest said:

    I bought Call Of Duty MW2

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14. November 28, 2009 7:17 AM
    pbartman said:

    My wife sent me out to get a microwave with a hangover

    But we did save $90.

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15. November 28, 2009 7:35 AM
    

    Technochicken, TechSpot Paladin, said:

    I stayed at home, and did not buy anything. Apparently people were lining up at midnight to get into stores that opened at 4 in the morning! In my opinion, that is absolutely crazy.

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16. November 28, 2009 7:55 AM
    nubnasty said:

    i bought a 24" inch samsung monitor with tv tuner :]

    Ofcourse comes with HDMI,VGA,DVI etc... =]

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17. November 28, 2009 9:21 AM
    

    mopar man, TechSpot Ambassador, said:

    I was broke. I didn't get up at an annoying 4 AM or anything, but I did go to the Mall and various other stores in the largest city we have bordering me. I didn't buy anything, but I was very tempted to get small little electronics, really. I would love to have gotten that $197 laptop for one of the many friends/family who need one, though.

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18. November 28, 2009 9:43 AM
    Cueto_99 said:

    Unfortunately on Colombia we don't have black friday either, but thanks to steam, I was able to save a lot on the THQ pack that includes more than 15 games...

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19. November 28, 2009 10:29 AM
    kaonis92 said:

    I just bought a couple of games from steam including L4D2

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20. November 28, 2009 11:04 AM
    BlindObject said:

    I got a BFG GTX260 MaxCore OC2 for 156 bucks. That's about it, I didn't really go nuts with the shopping.

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21. November 28, 2009 1:10 PM
    speeedy6 said:

    I worked all day, Hated it but I had not plans to buy anything anyways.

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22. November 28, 2009 1:13 PM
    freedomthinker said:

    We don't have that here

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23. November 28, 2009 1:13 PM
    Sixrealms said:

    I bought nothing considering there were few deals that got me interested but not enough to get them. We did, however, got many, many customers who purchased the deals we had since I work in a computer store.

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24. November 28, 2009 1:26 PM
    Chazz said:

    I did absolutely nothing, I'm not a fan of massively crowded stores and I didn't find many good online deals. Maybe cyber monday will offer something better.

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25. November 28, 2009 2:10 PM
    

    Timonius said:

    I bought a couple of games on steam and impulse. Oldies but goodies!

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