Black Friday Deals
Attention, US Shoppers:
With the economy still punk, there are plenty of shopping deals to be had — if you know where to look. Here is a short list:
• Amazon has already announced its Black Friday promotions, including discounts from other stores.
• Black Friday Ads publishes daily updates featuring the best deals on electronics;
• SlickDeals.net categorizes offers by retailer• BlackFriday.info allows shoppers to create a Black Friday shopping list — noting what sales promotions goes with each item;
• Some shopping experts believe that Black Friday is the best day if the year to buy a car;
• Retrevo.com reviews all of the gadgets that are in Black Friday gadgets deals — in real time. (Use the Retrevo Real Time Review to see if the products you are interested in are worth waiting in line for)
• DealNews.com tracks sales each year, separating the junk from the higher-end stuff. “Black Friday is about cheap stuff at cheap prices.”
• Apple has a mysterious Black Friday online ad
• DealsVista has a deals spreadsheet that can be viewed online or downloaded;
• Shoppers Shop has an online table of deals (including start and end dates).
• Black Friday-themed Twitter account posting deals as they materialize
One other thing to note: Retailers are said to have gone easy on the inventory — so the game of chicken, where discounts pile on as we get closer the 12/25 — might not work this year.
My advice: If you find something at what you thing to be a fair price — grab it, rather than missing the buy in the hopes of getting a few more drachmas discounted.
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Source:
Where to Find Black Friday Deals
WSJ Digits
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/11/25/watching-the-black-friday-sites/
Retailers Extend Deals Beyond Black Friday
STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
NYT, November 25, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/business/26friday.html
November 26th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Sure, purchase something right away if it’s only a matter of a few drachmas, but if you think you could save a talent or two, then keep shopping around.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:36 am
How about getting some (soon to be) cheap real estate in Dubai?
November 26th, 2009 at 10:41 am
You sound like Bush after 9/11.
“Want to help? GO shopping.”
Sure spend your hard saved money to juice the economy and Barry’s stock portfolio.
We need another consumer bubble.
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BR: Its not that I am telling people to go shopping, but if you are, your time is probably worth more than your money.
As to the shopping maul, I much prefer Amazon . . .
November 26th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Another site that tracks Black Friday deals and ad circulars.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I must have been a good boy…my wish from yesterday for a stronger dollar is coming true!
http://www.forex-markets.com/quotes.htm
November 26th, 2009 at 11:36 am
The dollar is crushing the euro…and the yen is stronger than the dollar…ergo, yen is really crushing the euro today.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Dow futes down 192…Black Friday may have a secondary meaning tomorrow.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Good call Steve. Too bad Dubai had to implode to create it. Serves them right for building a plastic city. Isn’t that where all the actors were investing? And what about uncle Cheney? Wasn’t he moving there with all America’s hard earned cash?
Anyway, on to things that matter:
My advice: If you find something at what you thing to be a fair price — grab it, rather than missing the buy in the hopes of getting a few more drachmas discounted.
I suggest letting them starve for another year. They’d do the same for us. Maybe next year the attitude will be even more customer friendly.
Though I’m still relatively young I feel like I want to be the honorary scrooge this year
November 26th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Steve Barry:
I guess you didn’t hear the news out of Dubai. C might be in deep trouble.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:58 am
I hate shopping, I’m doing the “buy nothing day” route instead.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
@Calvin:
I broke the Dubai news here last night while you fat cats were holiday shopping.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
C in trouble again? I think they would be nationalized this time…the public is out of patience and the “edge of the abyss” feeling is not here right now.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
That wacky Citigroup…
“Citigroup Chairman Win Bischoff said yesterday that the bank has “lots of billions” of dollars of exposure to Dubai. “I suspect the business model is not a bad one, based on trade, raw materials, services,” he said. ”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aKyMem0zXVoI
November 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
If they keep this up they’ll have to start calling C towngroup
November 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Does anyone see a cascade effect from Dubai or is it a one off? If a potential cascade, how do you think it might play out?
November 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Common Man
I agree. Just wait, they’ll be even more desperate next year.
I’m always nauseated by these shopping orgies. This is what we’ve become.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
BR- only fools go out shopping the Friday after Thanksgiving- impulse purchases on loss leaders- consider the following instead-
https://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters/buy-nothing-day.html
out girl mknowles knows what’s up
November 26th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
that’s “out girl”-
BR- put a preview pane on your holiday wish list- just a suggestion-
SB-
tomorrow should be interesting- but we have a whole day where the Fed and Treasury can come up/ w some kind of plan- you know- like all the late night Sunday plans that kept coming out of the Fed this past year or so to mitigate some crisis or event before the Asian markets opened-
i am certain they are thinking of something as we speak
November 26th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
@ Call Me Ahab
Good point, but what if they have basically used all their powder up…maybe they can just make Black Friday a national holiday with no trading instead of half-day trading to buy some time.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Wait, What? You mean the”Miracle of Dubai” was all smoke an mirrors? But I thought they were going to overtake New York and London as the worlds financial capital, they have all that oil and they’re only going to get richer because of peak oil. I simply cannot believe that all that building, all those Islands they built was just part of the rest of the worlds financial excesses over the last 15 years. We’re supposed to be DECOUPLING dammit!
I wonder what other parts of the world having similar “miracle” stories of success are just smoke and mirrors . . . . hrmmm, I’ll bet Dubai was just a fluke, all those other bigger countries have their growth on MUCH more solid ground. . . . .
Seriously though, can’t wait to see who’s next.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
i did it twice- OMG- should read
“our girl”- (ok i’m officially a dumb ass)
SB-
we’ll see- all those Sunday announcements were a “show”- but they did seem to take the punch out of a potential sell off on Monday- my guess- if they think it is crash worthy- they will do something
November 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Who’s next?…well, according to Gov. Patterson, NY State will be out of cash in a couple of weeks.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Steve, well you have us is CA beat by about two months. We’re already 21Billion in the hole for next years budget.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
There should be some great “bargains” in European bank stocks tomorrow…. trading in London was apparently a little bit disorderly today. How splendid!
LB is shocked and saddened to hear of more potential problems for the illustrious Citigroup. Prince All-Wally will have to Quadruple Down this time.
Steve, LB is massively short equities, Japan, long Ts and long volatility. By the time the Tokyo traders are done panicking overnight, this thing will be rolling around the world in our direction.
This is one of the best Turkey Days ever!!
November 26th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
fwiw-
i am waiting for the market to take a huge leg down- maybe a cascading leg down- additionally- as SB has pointed out- any uncertainty get folks all excited about the USD-
also- people may rush to the exits to cash in their profits for the year- tomorrow is as good a day as any-
also- all the “day to day”trading strategies makes my eyes glass over- pretty much all the shorts have been wrong during the rally- and have continually increased the anticipated top based on what TA methods they have been using-
i am waiting patiently for a sell off or sell offs before taking a long position- my natural inclination is to be long- why get smacked around by the “real players” the market makers in the meantime
November 26th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Steve Barry:
Sorry about that. I checked here first before checking on the foreign markets, so I was not surprised to see them tank.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I had the good fortune to speak recently with a neuro-radiologist from Toronto who is American born and used to practice in Chicago. I will spare you the details but it re-emphasized my holdiay wish for a health care system for the U.S. the duplicates the one in Canada.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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November 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I second the Amazon shopping — much less stress than the Malls
November 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Thor Says: I wonder what other parts of the world having similar “miracle” stories of success are just smoke and mirrors . . . . hrmmm, I’ll bet Dubai was just a fluke, all those other bigger countries have their growth on MUCH more solid ground. . . . .
Yeah, I deserve the sarcasm… The China RE bubble might burst as a result. Dubai by itself is probably not much but if it spreads to say a global risk aversion to RE in emerging markets, then we are in for an O. S. moment.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I like Amazon — they even do my shipping for me! Fabulous!