Black Friday Deals - Tablets & eReaders

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Online BF shopping isn't stressful. Streaming music and sipping tea while surfing the deals can be quite relaxing. Give it a shot this year.

My favorite way to shop

[wawasteele]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Online BF shopping isn't stressful. Streaming music and sipping tea while surfing the deals can be quite relaxing. Give it a shot this year.

I shop that way too.

Also, another great way to shop is to add my list to my grown daughters' lists! They always go. I agree to babysit, if they do the shopping!

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by laughingdragons

I don't touch a store or mall after Thanksgiving besides a grocery store.

I start Christmas shopping in July. I've never shopped on BF I don't have the nerves for it.

It's a tradition for my sister to go out that day, but she's always been a little crazy.

I used to go and hit a couple of places on Black Friday, but I haven't seen any deals in the last 5 years or so to make me want to get up in the wee hours of the morning.

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Online BF shopping isn't stressful. Streaming music and sipping tea while surfing the deals can be quite relaxing. Give it a shot this year.

I'd give it a try if tea sipping weren't so stressful. You never know whether your tea bringer has managed to serve it to you at a lip-friendly temperature.

Personally, I enjoy having lips.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze

I'd give it a try if tea sipping weren't so stressful. You never know whether your tea bringer has managed to serve it to you at a lip-friendly temperature.

Personally, I enjoy having lips.

But hot is good. I prefer a cup of steaming clam chowder with a hunk of sourdough bread while ordering, because Black Fridays here in Seattle tend to fall on cold, dark, drizzly days.

[sqdancer]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

a cup of steaming clam chowder with a hunk of sourdough bread

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by sqdancer

That triggered a Pavlovian response in me - now I want some

[tubemonkey]

Shipping -- Returns -- Price Matching

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Black Friday -- shipping -- returns -- price matching

• Best Buy --- shipping ($25) -- returns (15d) -- match (15d)
• Costco --- shipping (FSI) -- returns (90d) -- match (30d)
• Dell Home --- shipping ($00)-- returns (30d) -- match
• Fred Meyer --- shipping (ONA) -- returns (30d) -- match
• GameStop --- shipping (FNA) -- returns (14d) -- match
• Half Price Books --- shipping -- returns -- match
• Kmart --- shipping ($59) -- returns -- match
• Office Depot --- shipping ($50) -- returns -- match
• OfficeMax --- shipping ($50) -- returns -- match
• RadioShack --- shipping ($25) -- returns (30d) -- match (0d)
• Sam's Club --- shipping (FSI) -- returns -- match
• Sears --- shipping ($59) -- returns -- match
• Staples --- shipping ($45) -- returns -- match (14d)
• Target --- shipping ($50) -- returns -- match
• Toys"R"Us --- shipping ($79) -- returns (30d) -- match
• Walmart --- shipping ($50) -- returns (15d) -- match (7d)

• Amazon --- shipping ($35) -- returns (30d) -- match
• Apple --- shipping ($50) -- returns -- match
• Barnes & Noble --- shipping ($25) -- returns -- match
• Google --- shipping (FNA) -- returns -- match
• Kobo --- shipping -- returns -- match
• Newegg --- shipping (FSI) -- returns -- match
• Samsung --- shipping -- returns -- match
• SanDisk --- shipping (FNA) -- returns -- match

• Shipping: shipping= free ship-to-store / shipping= no ship-to-store / ($50)= min order for free shipping / (FNA)= free shipping not available / (FSI)= free shipping for select items / (ONA)= online shopping not available
• Returns: returns= opened returns / returns= unopened returns / (30d)= post purchase
• Price Match: match= other stores / match= store only / match= no matching / match= suspended for BF / (15d)= post purchase

[Prestidigitweeze]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

But hot is good. I prefer a cup of steaming clam chowder with a hunk of sourdough bread while ordering, because Black Fridays here in Seattle tend to fall on cold, dark, drizzly days.

I only emphasized the perils of tea drinking because I found the idea amusing: Daredevil sipping while net shopping (possibly while descending a rope into a roomful of mustachioed toughs with guns).

I hadn't known we were state-neighbors, since I hail from Portlandia originally (after Vancouver B.C.).

But yes, I'm partial to tea, borscht and hot things -- not only as a Northwesterner and proto-Canadian but as a person with maternal Russian grandparents -- people who seemed always to be eating kasha or soup in their stories whenever the bad guys showed up on perennially snowy days.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze

I hadn't known we were state-neighbors, since I hail from Portlandia originally (after Vancouver B.C.).

Portland's a great city. Been there many times to visit friends. In years past when I did the physical store thing, I'd do my Black Friday shopping there. Great way to visit friends and avoid sales tax.

Interesting association with the bad guys. I think of Pier 54 whenever I do clam chowder

[CWatkinsNash]

I'm keeping an eye on the Nook Glow & Touch.

My T1 is still going strong, but it makes me nervous not having a replacement plan already in place. With T3 not being an option and T2s being scarce, Nook is the next in line for me.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

I'm keeping an eye on the Nook Glow & Touch.

Added to wish list.

They're both on sale this week for $20 off. The Touch is $59 and the Glow is $79.

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Added to wish list.

They're both on sale this week for $20 off. The Touch is $59 and the Glow is $79.

Thanks. Yeah, I saw the prices and it's really hard not to just snap one up now, but I'll be patient.

[hwlester]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Portland's a great city. Been there many times to visit friends. In years past when I did the physical store thing, I'd do my Black Friday shopping there. Great way to visit friends and avoid sales tax.

Interesting association with the bad guys. I think of Pier 54 whenever I do clam chowder

I agree. I went to Portland several years ago on business and when I found out one of my wife's conferences was there a couple of years ago, I tagged along with her. I love that area. I'll actually be tagging along with her to Seattle for another conference in late February, early March. Never been to Seattle before.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by hwlester

I agree. I went to Portland several years ago on business and when I found out one of my wife's conferences was there a couple of years ago, I tagged along with her. I love that area. I'll actually be tagging along with her to Seattle for another conference in late February, early March. Never been to Seattle before.

Seattle's great; but expect cold, rainy days that time of year. Be sure to visit Pike Place Market and watch them throw fish. It amuses the tourists. Depending on how much free time you have and the weather, there are lots of cool places to go and neat things to do.

Seattle has a metro population of about 4 million people and is a major shipping port, located about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. It sits between Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east. Snow-capped mountains to the west (Olympics) and east (Cascades) further frame the city. Mt Rainier, a 14,411 foot snow-capped active volcano, looms on the SE horizon 54 miles away.

I'm obviously prejudiced, but it's an outdoor paradise - mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, and ocean - that's Seattle; and that's why I live here

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