I love a deal.<\/p>\n
But after going to my usual suspect sites that tracks all things deal related – and the specific Black Friday ads<\/a> and the essential Black Friday tracker <\/a>page – I found this year not even worth getting up for.\u00a0 There was only one thing I was interested in, the Hauppauge HD TV tuner card for $19 at Circuit City (I wanted a spare).\u00a0 I showed up at the store at 11am and they were predictably sold out of this door-buster deal, but after getting a sales rep over, he got one ordered for me from a stock of 30-some in his machine for the $19 price and I walked out the door.\u00a0 Outside that and a $100 color laser printer that I didn’t really need – there just wasn’t much interesting to be had.\u00a0 Noteably missing: hard drive and video card deals.\u00a0 Not one single decent one to be found.<\/p>\n It was also terribly stupid to wait in line or really even go to the brick-and-morter versions of the stores this year.\u00a0 All the deals had been started at their online shops at wee hours of the morning (2am\/5am\/6am, etc).\u00a0 Some places had even started their BF sales online earlier in the week.\u00a0 I also don’t understand what deals people are expecting on BF for just normal shopping.\u00a0 Unless you’re going in for the specific door-buster deals (usually there are only about 20-30 of such items with limited quantities and they sell out just seconds after the doors open) the sales on BF really aren’t that any better than the regular sale prices.\u00a0 Just come some other sale weekend and you’ll likely get the exact same price for those non-doorbuster items.<\/p>\n