Amazon Black Friday

[Gray]

I heard about this day last year and how it has become a very busy time of year, and it was brought upon by some incidents which happened over in America.

Anyway a few days ago i was reading about the deals on HotDealsUK when it mentioned Black Friday, this coming 4th November (Friday, obviously).

Seems that last year Amazon UK crashed due to the high demand of sales that were being processed, people walking away with cheap Playstation 3's and computers and basically, everything.

I still want some stuff, so it seems that this is going to be the day to do it. I would link to the original Black Friday/Amazon on HotDealsUK, but a few hours after someone posted it the admins actually deleted it which was a bitch move.

Bah got my Fridays mixed up, seems it's at the end of November and not at the beginning. But alas.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Friday-Deals/b?ie=UTF8&node=161428031

 

[Nate]

Thanks for the link Gray, Hotdeals is pretty good too

 

[Tom]

Sounds like a clever bit of marketing to me.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Watched the Amazon one last year, the deals weren't as great as expected at all tbh.

 

[Cerb]

Black Friday is always the day after thanksgiving so this year it's November 25th. You can get some cracking deals over here if you are wolling to sleep in line the night before. Most electronics places will take one mid to high range wide screen and sell it at maybe 20% of its regular retail price. The thing is they run out of that item about 10 minutes after the place opens and all day they get people coming in thinking they are going to get some deal like that. *considers if sleeping in the snow is worth getting a 40 inch for $100*

 

[Wazzerphuk]

...week has started.

Already bagged Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe/Solar System harbacks for £11.69, down from £40. You can see the upcoming stuff too, and clues to what some may be...

 

[Mabs]

yup got a few things already, doing some xmas shopping on the cheap

waiting for the 50" tv tomorrow

 

[Gray]

Kept my eye on it today, hoping the consoles and more Blu Rays come up soon in the next few days.

 

[Keitanz]

yup got a few things already, doing some xmas shopping on the cheap

waiting for the 50" tv tomorrow

whered you see there is a 50" tv on deal tomorrow?

 

[Gray]

Some of the deals for tomorrow, TV is supposedly around 1pm i think.

 

[Gray]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003JFWC4K?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Soldout in <5 seconds £500

Jeez.

 

[Nate]

wow

 

[Chilly]

serious discount on that telly! unsurprised it sold out asap.

 

[Nate]

Where did you find that Gray? The deals for tomorrow

 

[Gray]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ama...f-starts-21st-nov-amazon-co-uk-1046886?page=1

Its been ongoing for 60 odd pages so far now, so you have to keep up with it.

Just got the 32gb Lexar SDHC card for £24.99, think i'm needing one of those if i end up getting a Wii soon.

 

[dysfunction]

No it was for today...

 

[Mabs]

yea that tv went like shit off a stick no idea how many there were to start with though

 

[Gray]

I think i found out the reason why they sold out "instantly"

Aoccrding to the above thread, if you set your system clock to one minute ahead of its current time, it will work on Amazon as well. So it seems people who did this ended up getting a one minute headstart on it.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ama...nov-amazon-co-uk-1046886?page=63#post12865307

 

[Mabs]

fucking lol @ how desperate some people are.

 

[Ch3tan]

Meh, I'm not going to buy a thing. Can;t be arsed with this kind of panic buying. GG Amazon, they certainly know how to make money,

 

[Embattle]

Indeed, probably a lot of people buying shit they won't need or use

 

[Raven]

That's their job.

cba either, nothing I want to buy so far.

 

[Mabs]

ebay will be busy in 2 or 3 days tbh...

 

[Keitanz]

Bound to be a console or two by end of the week..

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Meh, I'm not going to buy a thing. Can;t be arsed with this kind of panic buying. GG Amazon, they certainly know how to make money,

Yeah, I'm just keeping an eye on it for things I'd want or presents. There is so many watches and lamps and shit going on there, such a waste.

 

[Mabs]

yeah im racking up quite a lot

over 200 quid so far, but its almost all presents, so fuck it, ive done my xmas shopping

 

[Gray]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EYSH30?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Been after a basic LED keyboard for ages, now might be my chance tomorrow. All the other keyboards backlit are frigging huge which have unneeded shit making them larger than they need to be.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003TZF3K0?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Also going up as well.

 

[Calaen]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EYSH30?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Been after a basic LED keyboard for ages, now might be my chance tomorrow. All the other keyboards backlit are frigging huge which have unneeded shit making them larger than they need to be.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003TZF3K0?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Also going up as well.

Oh when they going up Grey?

 

[ECA]

Buy a mechanical keyboard instead of a backlit one.

 

[MYstIC G]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003JFWC4K?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Soldout in <5 seconds £500

Jeez.

Just don't get todays one, its not a Full HD. Amazon are sneaky fuckers the good 50in followed up with the shit 50in because they know morons will just see "50in" and "samsung" and buy it because they missed out yesterday.