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Black Friday Bundles
NaturalNarcissist
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Hey all,
I've finally decided to throw down the money for a ps3, and black friday sounds like the best time to do it. Has anyone found any good online deals? Best Buy is apparently selling a bundle for 299 with Ratchet and Clank (Crack in Time) and Little Big Planet. Unfortunately, it's one of those "doorbuster" items which means showing up at 4 a.m. I'd be up for it except I'm currently out of the country until a few days before Christmas.
I'm not sure if there is supposed to be a separate PA forum for this sort of thing, and if I'm entirely wrong could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks everyone!
I've finally decided to throw down the money for a ps3, and black friday sounds like the best time to do it. Has anyone found any good online deals? Best Buy is apparently selling a bundle for 299 with Ratchet and Clank (Crack in Time) and Little Big Planet. Unfortunately, it's one of those "doorbuster" items which means showing up at 4 a.m. I'd be up for it except I'm currently out of the country until a few days before Christmas.
I'm not sure if there is supposed to be a separate PA forum for this sort of thing, and if I'm entirely wrong could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks everyone!
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Trust me, over the course of this next week, the BF deals will be all over the internet. Just search around and find what you wanna order.
I mean that'd be a good deal too.
Also: Gamestop is offering something similar.
Slim PS3, LittleBigPlanet, and the God of War collection for 299.
Each Best Buy is different, but when I went to a Black Friday sale a couple years ago, there were several hundred people waiting outside at 5 am. They had plenty of copies of cheap software (got the Orange Box for $25) when I finally got in, but all the hardware was pretty much gone.
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Yes everything will be gone by 7 AM.
You'll find some left over scraps, but any good deals you see going around now from the BF ads will be gone before the stores open up (around 3AM or whenever they do it now)
People started lining up last year before the store closed on Wednesday.
Yeah, be prepared to fight for the deals.
I think I will hit Gamestop though if the Walmart thing falls through.
Ugh, goddam that sucks. I have a broken foot, so waiting in line is going to be oh so much fun.
I can't decide if I would rather wait in the cold outside of Gamestop of BB now, the GoW pack has interested me greatly. Regardless, I guess I had better stock up on my long underwear.
I'm seriously considering bribing/pressuring a friend into hitting up Best Buy's sale. Maybe if they get there around 3 or 4 am... it could work? I've already got Batman for the 360, and getting God of War AGAIN seems like a waste of sale opportunities. Little big planet and Crack in Time? I'd be ecstatic if it was even Tools of Destruction.
If I see any good deals on anything else I'll post it here, and maybe, just maybe, some of us can get some good deals soon.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
This year I've been using this site: http://www.black-friday.net/ In years past I had used this one: http://bfads.net/ No real reason I chose one over the other. They both seem to have identical listings for the stores I've looked at.
According to the first site Walmart has PS3 slim 120GB with Infamous, Arkham and Dark Knight on bluray. Gamestop has the same console with God of War 1&2 and Little Big Planet and Best Buy has the console with Little Big Planet and Ratchet and Clank. All the bundles go for the normal console price of $299.
[Edit] Oops, misread your post. I think these sites list places that have online black friday deals as well. Don't they have Best Buy, Gamestop and Walmart in Alaska?
So do you guys think I'm still screwed if I don't care enough about the deals to line up somewhere at 3am?
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It's very very unlikely if you get there at 7AM for any of these door busters to be around. They're in limited quantities that people will have tickets for on thursday night
1. Go to the store before Thanksgiving. You should probably go by at least Monday, as by Wednesday many BF items are pulled from the floor.
2. Hide what you want in a display refrigerator.
3. Walk in on black Friday and get your stuff out of the fridge, and buy it.
Note: this works better at Best Buy than Gamestop, which doesn't have so many fridges.
Ahh the ol' George Costanza trick. Never thought about that. Just better hope the cameras in the store don't see you.
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I mean, if I missed out on a sale, the first thing I am going to do is start opening up washers, dryers, and fridges.
Not only that, but you are pretty much relying on the hope that NOBODY will open that display model in the time leading up to the sale.
And yeah, I know my timing is pretty terrible. My biggest concern is that my job migrates downtown (a 50+ mile drive from home) in the next three weeks, so I will be quadrupling my monthly expenses, making buying new hardware extremely difficult. Given the fact that the PS3 just recently dropped to a near-impulse-buy price, I have a bad feeling that there will be quite a run on them this season, bundle or not.
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Best Buy and Gamestop in Anchorage, but not in Juneau. I pretty much got a Fred Meyers and Wal Mart as my only big box retail outlets.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
I worked a couple times for me, but I haven't been to Black Friday in a few years. There must be some other tricks, too.
How about ordering it online and doing in-store pickup, and not picking it up until BF? Then have them price-match or do a return/rebuy to get the BF deal. The limited part of the bundle, the PS3, would already be reserved for you. I can't imagine they would run out of copies of Arkham Asylum or The Dark Knight. Best Buy will hold your online/phone order at the store for up to 8 days.
Anyone know when we might see these online deals available? Amazon surely has to be doing some sort of sale... its what they do!
amazon started their lightning deals thing today. you just have to keep checking back to see what's available.
Reportedly Wal-mart and Target are price-matching Black Friday sales this year.
The last video game lightning deal is a crimson and black DS Lite for $98, the same price as Walmart's Black Friday deal. I ordered one for my nephew so my sister doesn't have to fight 50 million other mothers at 5am.
that's awesome!
Thats why you hide it behind the boxes of vacuum cleaners or shelving units. You want something which is popular enough to stock in bulk, but boring enough that people will only look at the first box. Ideally pick a mediocre and cheap brand, but not the cheapest. I mean, these techniques all work best on small things.
Another diabolical plan is to find someone you know who is going at 4 PM Thursday night or something to stand in line, and just ask them to get it for you. Provided they don't want the deal themselves it will be fine. I think everyone knows someone who gets over involved in these Black Friday things. Telling them about another deal you want is just going to make them more excited.
that...is hilarious and people...are sad.
Every year there's news reports where homeless people are hired to stand in line.
The deal started at 1 ET and quantities were limited so idk if they would still have any left, but if you meet the criteria you guys should give this a go!