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I've walked through best buy (having arrived 30 minutes before store
opening) and found the special item tags on the floor and counters.
People being people they get tags for stuff they don't have the
money to buy. I got my wife her laptop that way one year. We had a
pile of tags, picked the one we liked and distributed the rest of
the tags to people in line with us. I recently practice the art of
ninja black Friday. The object is to get in and out of a store
before the true line forms and without having waited in line. But
then I generally just want a couple new large hard drives and some
cheap micro SD cards. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/16/2014 1:42 PM, William Tracy
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Steve S. <span
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@William - "Cyber Monday" (usually) beats "Black Friday",
you say?<br>
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<div>For Black Friday, the retail stores advertise a handful
of deeply-discounted "door buster" deals. There's usually
a very limited stock of those products on hand, and those
all go to the people willing to camp out overnight. The
rest of the products in the store are rarely
discounted--and some retailers have actually been known to
hike prices on Black Friday to catch unwary buyers.<br>
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<div>If the product you're interested in isn't advertised as
on sale, it probably won't be. If it is advertised as on
sale, it will probably be out of stock before you get
there. (The big exceptions to the last one are products
that the stores have a big surplus of and are desperate to
move--you can usually recognize those as products that
have consistently bad reviews online!)<br>
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<div>At least, that's the pattern I've seen so far, and I'm
not eager enough to brave the crowds to look for
exceptions. If you have nothing better to do, knock
yourself out.<br>
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FWIW, though (RE camera's, an arena where I also geek):<br>
MSRP isn't really the relevant number to figure how steep
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<div>Agreed. I think I actually saved more like 20-30% off
retail price. But 40% off MSRP sounds better. :-)<br>
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(2) if the vendor really *IS*<br>
legit, buy it !<br>
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<div>The camera in question is a Canon SX40HS, and I did go
home and research it before pulling the trigger. It's a
good camera. :-)<br>
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<div>Actually, that's a good piece of advice there for *any*
electronics purchase: Research before you buy!<br>
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<div class="gmail_signature">William Tracy<br>
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