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Cyber Monday may be fake, but deals are out there
December 1st, 2008, 9:06 am · 7 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Cyber Monday, the Monday following Thanksgiving, is a marketing event made up by the online retail industry. The origin comes from the belief that shoppers like to go out shopping on Black Friday and the weekend. But come Monday, they’re back at work and hunting for deals online.
This year, online sales haven’t been doing so well. So, retailers are really hoping for a lot of Cyber Monday action. According to the National Retail Federation’s Shop.org, which coined the ‘Cyber Monday’ term, 84.6 million consumers plan to shop online from home or at work today, up from 72 million in 2007, says a Reuters news story.
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Over at Aliso Viejo’s Buy.com, a handful of Blu-ray DVDs are in the $15-range. Spider-man 3 is down to $9.99. Plus, at its own Cyber Monday store, there’s a 1 TB hard drive for $99.99 (after $30 rebate), an 8 GB Kingston Technology microSD card for $18.88, and a Brother plain-paper fax and copy machine for $18.29.
Amazon.com continues to have ‘Gold Box’ deals all day long, plus it too has a special Cyber Monday store. (Ooohh, buy a 52-inch Samsung HDTV for $1,959.58, and get the Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray player for $50!).
Just got this deal in my inbox from Walmart.com: Good through Friday, Dec. 5: A Samsung 10 MP camera with 2 GB memory card and case for $99 (though Walmart’s e-mail says it’s $79); a Compaq laptop plus printer for $498 and an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero bundle for $269. Plus, Walmart.com lets you ship-to-the-store for some items so shipping is “free.”
More tech sites that have done round-ups of the online deals today:
- 10 Best HDTV deals on Cyber Monday (TVPredictions.com)
- All the best Cyber Monday deals (Gizmodo.com)
- 11 best Cyber Monday online resources (Mashable)
- The Cyber Monday site (from Shop.org)
- Latest Cyber Monday deals for Sears, Amazon, Costco, etc, posted at FatWallet.com
- Latest deals (GottaDeal.com)
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I found great Cyber Monday deals at http://www.cybermondaydiscountcodes.com
Who can buy anything when so many people are losing their jobs?
I’m seeing many stores closing up right now. Strip malls are becoming empty so who’s going to be paying the rent to the property owners? Next you will be seeing these propterty owners filing for bankruptcy.
This downward sprial is only begining.
I saw way better deals at Home Depot, WalMart & Kohl’s. I’ll go back there. Merry Christmas!
To Brian,
I lost my job and got a new one. I am shopping. We need to shop to help the economy. Businesses are suffering because of people like you.
I am not hitting Cyber Monday because I hit Black Friday like I do every year.
To get coupons on everything from the latest fashions to home goods, check out iStorez. It’s new and basically pulls together all of the store specials across all of the major brands and retailers in real-time so you can get them in one place in stead of at each individual site. Here’s their coupon page if you’re interested — http://istorez.com/s/coupons. Enjoy!
This web site will help you get the best prices on all of your purchases on cyber monday (and after!)
http://www.zingsale.com
It’s a free service that tracks prices of products from online stores (like amazon) and sends you an email when the price drops. You can set a target price or be notified when it falls by a certain percentage. Might be a nice way to make sure you’re getting the best deals this holiday season.
This is not what Christmas is about, folks.
We are in a recession now, we need all the help we can get