Black Friday: Please explain

[Zerileous]

Well what is this all about?

[touser]

Yes, i am also curious as to what "black friday" is?

[TheFrag]

friday after thanksgiving (in the US) the biggest shopping day of the year. Today is it!

[cerberus]

yeah its sorta over now.. ya missed it

[Zerileous]

i know i missed it but whats the big deal?

[TheFrag]

super cheap deals. Do you not get the newspaper and look at the circulars! :eek: :p :cool:

[Mr.DLucey]

Check this thread



http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143532

[wuzzapiman]

How cheap"?

[TheFrag]

cheap as cheap can be

[UnWishedLegacy]

Well, I'm from the UK and Its kinda annoying that you (mainland Americans) get the big sales BEFORE christmas- over on this side of the atlantic we have to wait till at least Boxing day (Dec 26th) or New Years for the dirt cheap sales.

[William]

We get those too!

[ZathrothATL]

Im waiting for after new years to buy my parts hopefully they will be alot less than black friday sales

[Hugo 59]

The reason that it is called black Friday is because it is usually the day that retail stores determine if they are going to make a profit for the year hence be in the black or whether they are going to be in the red. A good majority of shopping is done between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas

[progamer]

The deals are outrageous. People were getting 48x burners for $10 and cd-r's for free. After rebate, of course. ;)

[stompah]

If u are a regular reader of Anand's Hot Deals forum u will realize that its not a one day only deal for those items. Actually if yiour not getting paid to buy CDrs then ur getting ripped off ;)

[ziptieboy]

Bestbuy had an amazing deal on a rig on friday. I'll see if i can remember specs:
Celly 2.0ghz
40 or 60 gig hd
cd-rw 48x20x40
dvdrom
case
some crappy vid card
other stuff

All for 300 bucks
if you wanted a 15" lcd with it, only 200 buck more

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by Zerileous
i know i missed it but whats the big deal?

The malls turn into mini-Rodney King Riots. Fun to watch from a distance, actually...

[TimDgsr]

Originally posted by Penguin4x4


The malls turn into mini-Rodney King Riots. Fun to watch from a distance, actually...

seriously

The Galleria here opened up at 1a.m. Friday morning. I didn't really want to go, but my brother and a friend wanted to go and I didn't have anything better to do. It was like a madhouse, we went in one store, saw that it was like a one hour wait to buy some clothes, turned around and walked out.

[Luie]

nuts...I missed it...
But I got a $15 256MB PC-133 RAM and $80 ATI Radeon9000Pro 128MB at Fry's on Saturday.

(After rebate.)

PS. Changed my sig + avatar! ^_^
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