How To Beat Black Friday Lines Advice

Ed the Roofer

I told my secretary this last week and she followed through with it to avoid the lines and hassle and ensure that she got the sale item in advance.

First, sign up at various Black Friday sales forums and e-mail alert sites. The one that helped save me $ 500.00 on my new Panasonic 1080p Plasma TV, was www.BlackFriday.info but there are many others out there too. Just do a Google search on various "Deals" and "Sales" with the term "Black Friday" in it. Don't use the quotation marks.

Now, see if the store has the item currently in stock beforehand.

Find out their return exchange policy and see if they exclude price3 matching even from their own store due to special sales events, such as Black Friday.

Buy it in advance, or if they have a lay-away plan, then do that. That is getting popular again at some stores.

On the date of the sale, just go back to the store with the receipt at your convenience and get the sale amount credited on your recent purchase.

No 4:00 am waiting in lines to get a number and no worrying about them running out of stock on the item before you can get to it.

Hope this helps.

Ed

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mickeyco

I have even a better way, blow off shopping for the whole week, starting Thursday, I'll gladly pay more for something I want rather than deal with all of the a-holes.




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dougchips

Funny timing Ed, i just wrote an article the other day on the subject and just published another one a few minutes ago (both on a new site of mine, not my home improvement sites). Those black Friday sites are going wild with keeping up on all of the deals! I made some bold prediction about this being a record setting black Friday before it even happens---my way of helping the economy (getting people to spend).

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Ed the Roofer

Here is a list of site to check out for as many deals as you or your wife would like to find information on. It is from a site called www.retrevo.com

Ed



If You're Looking for Gadget Deals, You'll Like These Links

We've invested a lot of time and energy this year gathering and analyzing Black Friday gadget deals. We put together a 20-plus page PDF Strategy Guide available to download free and some interesting charts that display the difference between the sale price and lowest online price so you can easily separate the deals from the duds. In the process of researching, a few site and blogs stood out from the crowd and we wanted to share them with you.

General Black Friday Deal News
BlackFriday.info News for Black Friday 2008 - Updated frequently with comments on individual deals

Gizmodo's Black Friday Posts - Gizmodo calls out some good deals.


Posts tagged Black friday at Engadget HD - Small but nice collection of recent posts on Black Friday

2008 BlackFridayAds - After Thanksgiving Sale...Nice looking blog with some helpful posts

Black-Friday.net 2008 Thanksgiving - Another nice looking blog but mostly lists of deals and not a lot of value add


By Category
Black Friday Notebooks and Laptops | notebooks.com - The main notebook person there Xavier really knows laptops and can spot a deal when he sees one.

Black Friday Best GPS Deals - 2008 | GPS Lodge - Very good collection of Black Friday GPS deals

HDTVs: Best Black Friday Specials : Consumer Reports - Hey, it's Consumer Reports...


Black Friday Forums and Discussions
Fatwallet Official Black Friday Digital Cameras & Camcorders - Lists some good deals but ends on Nov 12

Black Friday - SlickDeals.net Forums - Very active forum on Black Friday deals

Black Friday 2008 - RetailMeNot.com Forums - This is a fun site but forum traffic is light

GottaDeal.com Forums - Why Pay Retail? - The Black Friday discussions are ramping up but there's activity there now

Black Friday Ads :: Index - Active discussion boards on all the stores especially BestBuy

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neolitic

Roger that.

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Ed the Roofer

The point is, why bother with any lines at all, when you can get the deal you were looking for, in advance of the adverttised sale date, just by following the instructions.

Even if you guys don't want to do that, I bet your wives would be interested.

Ed

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BKFranks

I just did practically the same thing when buying a new suit. I went to the store on Thursday, sale was on Friday. They held the suit till the next day, went in to pick it up and they knocked 60% off.

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mickeyco

Shhh!




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Ed the Roofer

Exactly my point.

Why the heck pay full price, just because you do not want to be one of those idiots waiting all morning in line just for a chance.


Whoops!!! Sorry, I didn't know your wife would be looking over your shoulder.

Ed

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Magnettica

I was thinking of roughing some people up to get on the line...

mickeyco

Here's why I don't go shopping on "Black Friday".


The guy died and people were more concerned about getting deals on crap, what a screwed up world.

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