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    Anyone know of Cyber Monday deals???

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by jmsnyc, Nov 25, 2005.

  1. jmsnyc

    jmsnyc Notebook Consultant

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    The news has been making a big stink about a great day for online deals on the Monday following Black Friday. Anyone know of this or even better know of any notebook deals???
     
    jmsnyc, Nov 25, 2005
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    Yeah, it's being made a big deal of, but here's the thing -- all those really great sounding BF deals were mainly for very limited stock of sub $400 notebooks. Now, that's sort of a bait just to get people in stores and they'll then likely spend money on other stuff as well, or if they don't score the deal they'll buy something else that seems like a good deal.

    With online deals if a website has limited stock of something that's a great deal and run out of that stock a person will simply leave the site, there's no incentive to bait people, in fact they'll be angry and count it as a strike against you if you don't have stock on an online deal.

    So, I don't expect Cyber Monday ever to be as hyped or outrageous as BF, but there will be some regular type offers of course, nothing way better than what you could get deal hunting on a normal day though (the media and online shops will play up the cyber monday thing to lead you to believe deals are better though, trust me)
     
    Andrew Baxter, Nov 26, 2005
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    iwanaleya Notebook Enthusiast

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    Agreed, the price point on alot of merch has already been raised and then put on sale for "ohhhs ahhhs" even though the new "sale" price reflects the average non-holiday everyday pricing.
     
    iwanaleya, Nov 26, 2005
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    Ren Notebook Enthusiast

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    From what I've seen, the prices are much lower than your average non-holiday days. Toshiba has already lowered the price of their bottom line tablet PC's from before the season, and Compaq's lowest model dropped $100.
     
    Ren, Nov 26, 2005
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