Comments on: Holiday Season Deal Watching Web Sites

By: “Black Friday” Shopping Becoming a Deadly Affair

“Black Friday” Shopping Becoming a Deadly Affair — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:04:58 +0000

[...] the stores ever even opened. Oh, and I had already dished out the sites that help you do that early bird shopping well in advance. [...]

By: cooper

cooper — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:32:32 +0000

http://www.techdeals.net

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:54:47 +0000

Another good site is bargabinbum.com. They take a bunch of the deals on other deal sites and aggregate them all together in one place.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:12:23 +0000

I’m not taking in part in Black Friday Sales. I’ve been hearing that cyber monday is expected to be a better deal. So I’m looking forward to cyber monday since I find it convenient to buy stuff online. I’ve never been to any of those black friday or cyber monday sites but I do know that dealnews.com and another site called dealio.com are great sites.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:58:45 +0000

Jeremy,

Technically speaking, I would think that retailers would be slashing prices like crazy to rid themselves of excess inventory. The reason for this is that once they’ve purchased the inventory it’s a sunk cost. Every additional dollar that they sell drops as margin to the bottom line.

The opposite would occur if they were required to actually special order something. If they do NOT have it in stock and someone wants them to order it, they will charge extra because the cost of credit is so high now.

So, you’re right that there are competing interests, but I think the delineation comes in the form of whether the goods are in stock or not.

John

By: Red

Red — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:13:32 +0000

My wife’s family gets more into black friday than they do Christmas. They get up at 3am and they’re at their first store an hour ahead of time. Fanatics. This year they are already planning on cutting back and being more targeted in their shopping.

By: jackie sheeler

jackie sheeler — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:43:58 +0000

these are great resources, but i’ll wait for black monday, myself. the activist in me refuses to shop on black friday. that has officially been “buy nothing day” as originated by adbusters (a fantastic group of design and commerce activists) i will definitely look into your monday deals, though — thanks!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:54:22 +0000

It’s interesting to me that you think this will be a good holiday season for deals. Many of the deal sites I visit on a regular basis have the inverse opinion, saying this year is likely to be a disappointment.

It’s a bit of a catch-22 really, sholuld retailers be trying to make money on margin or on quantity during tough economic times?