On the prowl for the best deals from U.S. retailers this Thanksgiving weekend? A quick check online can provide the answers that retailers are not yet ready to reveal.
A visit to BlackFriday.info reveals that Circuit City Stores Inc. will be selling an Olevia 32-inch high-definition LCD TV for $499 from 5 a.m. until 11 a.m. on Black Friday, while Sears will sell a men’s leather coat for $49.99.
Another Web site, Black Friday Ads says Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will be offering a 42-inch high-definition plasma television for $988 from 5 a.m. until 11 a.m., while supplies last, on November 24.
BlackFriday.info had a note on its site on November 13 saying it had removed a Best Buy Co. Inc. advertisement after the electronics retailer threatened to try to shut the site down.
“We can’t really fight Best Buy,” Vincent said.
The day after BlackFriday.info removed the Best Buy ad, Black Friday Ads had a copy of what looked like a Best Buy newspaper insert, promoting a 42-inch LCD high-definition TV for $999.99, after $500 in instant savings, until noon on Black Friday.
Actually, both of them have now removed the Best Buy adverts.
One of the rumors I hear — is that some stores will start off Black Friday at a minute after midnight, Thanksgiving night. Why sleep when you can shop, right?
To comment on the blog itself. You gotta admit… who in the right mind would fight Best Buy? Its good to know that lots of the stores will have the ads posted right after midnight. That means my buddies and i can print them out last minute, then we’ll all head into town and tailgate at best buy until the doors open.
The most frustrating part of these circumstances is that Best Buy used the DMCA as their legal basis for shutting down info on these sites. Once again, “copyright protection” is used for anti-competitive — and stupid — results.
Personally, I can’t imagine running a business and complaining when someone reprints and redistributes my adverts.
If you look hard..
the sales are smaller, and the products ARENT the newest/best…
As in the past.
Going off ECA’s comment, Black Friday has become all hype. The tech stuff being sold isn’t just a generation behind, but it tends to be the worst from that generation. Stay away at all costs.
#3. and #4. Thanks for the info, my wife doesn’t let me out much so, I can’t say I know much about the Black Friday site but, I have some experience with “sales” items after Thanxgorging…
One of the rumors I hear — is that some stores will start off Black Friday at a minute after midnight, Thanksgiving night.
Scary. Isn’t it? 🙁
My wife works at one of the national-chain outlet stores.
Corporate put the word out: any store located in a mall that will open at Midnight is to be open for business at Midnight…
So, some store managers in the chain have to get employees to work that god-awful shift, and others don’t.
I’m sure nobody at corporate will be going to work at midnight…
And if you ever hear me rant against corporate America… that’s why…
Black Friday is a travesty. Corporate America wants to hijack family focused holidays and send us into a stressful frenzy as we camp out in winter parking lots at 2 AM to buy crappy Chinese notebooks at bargain prices AFTER rebate… And they will staff these stores with some of the most overworked and underpaid employees in America, while the top brass will be relaxing in their oppulent summer homes, complete with servants.