Señor Cheap Bastard's "Black Friday" thread.
 

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving sales are coming....

But this year, some start Thursday like KMART...

HDTVs appear to be the hot ticket with 42" 1080P below $1000!

As always, deals on PCs, and other tech toys abound.

Read the ads now here:

http://bfads.net/Adscans

Walmart and CompUSA our still not in yet.

If you would prefer a 4000+ line spreadsheet you can filter and search, go here.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...26506&t=651221

I heard on the radio that Walmart had their sale like last week or something...

I have never found any product to be worth getting up for at 4AM. . .

I've never found any product worth waiting in a Black Friday line for regardless of how early I'd have to get up.

I'll pay the 10%-50% higher price just to not have to be around 400 people like Dean that think a discount is worth the insanity.

You have to be a morning person. :P

It used to be more fun. Figuring how to get all your shopping done by 9am. Now the challenge of finding stuff cheap on the internet is more fun.

Maybe if I was employed I'd be in the market for a HDTV and more gadgets, but I am trying to keep my expenditures in line.

:lol: My god I just laughed so hard...

I might pick up that Harmon Kardon receiver from best buy. It would complete my 1080p setup.

http://www.blackfriday.info/ads/
no download needed

That too. I've worked too many Black Fridays in retail to subject myself to more pain. On friday, I will be sitting at home, nice and warm on my couch, comforted by the glow of my DLP, with my son on my lap as he watches me play more Super Mario Galaxy (which he seems to get a real kick out of). I will certainly not be standing in any lines.

rally sport direct black friday sale.

wow, people already camping out at best buy as of 6:30pm.

I wonder how Dean is holding up?

Well.. I'm lazy. I was interested in the tools and stuff at Sears, though.

Im gonna head over to frys and see if there is anything left on the shelves.

Gawd-awful materialistic consumerism gone rampant. Feeble-minded creatures trying desperately to fill their pathetic empty souls with shiny little bits of plastic and metal assembled by malnourished 3rd world pseudo slaves.

No wonder I like dogs so much.

I spent the morning home with 1 half of my family, headed to my dad's for the weekend.

Wasn't tempted by anything.

fucking hell. the line was at least 2hrs long, thank god for the internet and its dscount retailers.

:lol: And I thought I was cynical...

In my experience, a lot of them are taking advantage of the sales for christmas gift shopping. . . so they can help others fill their pathetic empty souls with shiny little bits of plastic and metal assembled by malnourished 3rd world pseudo slaves. . . for cheap. :P

Nothing but teh best for their loved ones, huh. And I'm sure they will expect nothing in return, right?

I actually went to Kohls yesterday and got some totally f-ing awesome deals on clothing for my own selfish pathetic empty soul. I'd like to just take a moment and thank 11yo Qwan Tran (aka #237) who did the stitching on that kewl shirt - my new favorite. Keep up the good work youngster, so your parents don't have to sell you to a brothel.

Happy Holidays to everyone! May your find a cornucopia of cheap shiny bits of plastic and metal under your neopagan phallic symbol on Winter Solstice morning! :D

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We got my step mom a rocking good deal on some PC3200 RAM yesterday at Office Depot. Way cheaper than on-line which makes Señor Cheap Bastard smile.

Circuit City has some screaming deals this week on < $500 Core Dou Notebooks if anyone is interested.

:lol: Well done, sir

speaking of which, I have to start looking around dayton for places that sell decent/fairly priced neopagan phallic symbols. 'Tis nearly the season, and I'll need something under which to put my son's cheap plastic-y things. :D

Not really black friday anymore, but this seemed like the thread for it:

Cheap hoosiers coming soon

Damn... Hoosier wets for $95/ea!? Too bad they're only in 255/45/17... I need 40 profiled tires. :(

And no Hoosier DOT tires... but I could get some Grand-Am Cup tires for cheap! Those would be fun, even though they're illegal for TT.

I just bought a GPS with lane guidance and text to speech for under $100 shipped (after 10% Discover Cashback).

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/TomTom+-...kage&cp=1&lp=1

Could have picked it up instead, but I was just at BB this weekend checking out the TV I'm hoping to get if Dell can get their shit together.

I probably won't be buying anything this year except maybe a 2TB 7200RPM HD under $140 shipped+tax. I can shut down 10-20 250Gb drives and a server or two with one of those babies. Power saving alone should pay for it.

Dean, is that an external drive? Where did you find that?

Haven't yet. Newegg has seagate 5900RPMs for $139.99 shipped. I'd consider a 1.5Tb 7200RPM for under $90 or a few 1.0TB for under $50. Again, newegg has a 5900RPm for that.

I'd love a USB/eSata for those prices, but will settle for internal. Might pay an extra $10 for an external.

Non-seagate by the way would be my preference. They ahve had some real bad batches of 1.5 & 2TB drives lately.

That's a lot of porn! :eek:

Fixed..., track video from 2 cameras, DVR storage, MP3s, etc... :P And now that I have an HD PVR tuner card, the storage needs are creeping up.

Here is one option. $169-$30 rebate 2tb 7200 RPM Hitachi.

If any of you guys spot a nice desktop + monitor bundle (21" or larger) let me know. So far everybody is throwing laptop deals around like they're going out of style, but the 3 or 4 desktops I've sen are not real great. I'm looking for something that is currently in the $500-700 range, or is brought down that far by the sale.

It doesn't include a monitor but this guy is going on sale for $240 at Office Max. I'm probably going to pick one up. I bought a 24" monitor from NewEgg for $180 in a random sale so you will still be well under $500.

http://www.officemax.com/catalog/sku...0t0f0fp0c0s158

Go to slickdeals.net and search or look through the BF ads. Monitor separate from PC might be easier to find.

Or I've got a really nice 19" Samsung 900p CRT you can make me an offer on. I should be just giving it away, but it's a friggen nice screen and I paid like $800 for it back in '99. So buy me a dinner at the meet for it or something. (It's the monitor in this video: http://www.youtube.com/sperry04#p/u/33/SfzgQQyrmoM)

Old review: http://www.dansdata.com/sams.htm

(I've also got a matching 15" Sammy CRT that I used on my old linux server back in the day too if anyone wants it for free.)

Does Compaq still suck as bad as they did last time I looked into a desktop? That was only a year and a half ago, and I ended up getting Acers for my old office, which worked flawlessly as CAD machines, plus the one we used as a server.

It's coming at $389 now.

It's been well reviewed. It's a computer it's not like you can't fix anything that might go wrong.

It was leaked as one of the Black Friday deals for the AM. Though when I went to look for a pdf of the ad it looks like it might have been a fake so YMMV.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1684933

After years of tinkering with computers (and worse, getting problems dumped on me by everyone that knows I mess with the damn things), I've come to the conclusion that HP/Compaq/etc have most of their problems because of basic design and hardware integration issues. It's like for some models they push the final specs of which MB or video card to use out too fast, and conflicts result. I think it's a matter of QC at the engineering level, and to a lesser extent at the hardware level.

All budget PC components are built by the lowest bidder.

And most failures are because they are built with the cheapest crappiest capacitors they can and when they fail in the power supply, they take motherboard or drive components with them. When cheap caps on the MB fail, they take out individual subsystems like USB, HD controller, etc.

PCs are really commodities at this point. Pick the specs you want and find the cheapest one you can that meets them. A $299 Compaq/HP is not going to be significantly different than a $299 Dell, Acer, etc.

The only alternative to the lowest common denominator is to have one custom built or buy Alienware or something and pay accordingly.

Changed my mind and got this one instead. It's $120 shipped but no tax and 8% Bing CB so it's a better GPS for nearly the same money.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ww9Ykc4kaiBLRg

The TomTom doesn't have Lane Guidance despite what BestBuy's product page says. They're gonna give me a $20 gift card for the inconvenience.

I'll keep an eye out for ya.

Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK - Retail
Pre-Black Friday deal, limited offer(limit 1 per customer) $149.99 Free Shipping

Edit: And according to this, tomorrow, Bing CB goes up to 10% for Newegg.

Why not just put a nav HU in your car? It looks cooler too.

It's a little bit expensive at $859 but you can get 10% cashback if you use Discover and log on to Discover.com to get to Dell's site.

Dell Studio XPS 8000 Desktop: Core i5 750 2.66 Ghz, 6GB DDR3, 750GB HD, DVDRW, DVD-ROM, ATI HD4350, Win 7 Premium 64-bit, McAfee

Because that requires a larger initial investment and can't be easily moved to my GF's new Mazda 3. :)

Not a bad price, but still more than I need. I just want a decent net browsing/homework doing machine that I can slap some hard drives in for storage and use as a basic file server.

Gotcha. If you want to look for something on Lenovo's site, here's a discount code:

http://www.deals2buy.com/

HP Pavilion Slimline s5250t, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual-Core processor E5300 [2.6GHz], 4GB RAM, 640GB, LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive, Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 [VGA], 6-in-1 memory card reader, Integrated 7.1 channel sound, HP keyboard and HP optical mouse, Windows 7 Home Premium » for $449.99 at HPShopping.com

Dell Vostro 220 Slim Tower, Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E7500, 2.93GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB, 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive, Dell 20 inch Widescreen E2010H Analog Flat Panel Display, Integrated Video, Intel® GMA X4500HD, Dell USB Keyboard and Optical Mouse, Windows Vista® Home Basic, 1yr Next Bus.day Onsite Warranty, Norton Internet Security™ 2009 15 Month » for $469 at Dell.com

The Dell comes with a monitor but neither are the best deal in the world IMHO.

This looks interesting:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1689107

This is a sweet build in a sweet thread.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?p=24980641

Just sucks if you have to buy Windows 7 and can't get in on the $30 student deal.

www.hardforum.com is also a good place to have a bunch of geeks offer build suggestions if you want to build your own.