Black Friday

[louv68]

So who's going out to brave the crowds? I sure as hell am not. Too many bad experiences in the past to risk another.

[yoda313]

Nothing on my radar right now.

I got my off brand android tablet at Kmart last year on Thanksgiving morning.

I don't really have any big ticket or small ticket items I'm interested in.

Basically only if something hits me over the head with it will I even bother.

The lure might be those 2.00 dvd and 5.00 bluray deals walmart and other places have some years. But I have so many movies and stuff I really don't need any.

The Wolverine is the only one that I will be looking to get and I might do that in the new year since I'm not dying to have it right away. I will have it to complete my xmen collection though.

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[sdsumike619]

Ok, maybe a stupid question, but I don't do a ton of shopping. I need to get a couple of really big hard drives, 4TB, probably more than that even. Hoping to find some good black friday deals online. What's the best way to find the best deals online for this kind of stuff? I'm sure there's probably some comparison site that I don't know about?

[louv68]

There are many sites, but two of my favorite deals sites are bensbargains.net and techbargains.com Both allow you to filter categories. Both are evil sites that will drain your wallet.

Also sign up for newegg.com newsletters. You'll get daily deals emailed to you.

[vhelp]

i get daily reminders from amazon. but don't get how online-blackfriday shopping works. do you have to be on line at a certain time or something ? or do they have a limit and some indicator to show you the score ? otherwise, no, i don't do blackfriday shopping. i only shop on one computer which is amazon, i add my gift card at the time i will make the purchase.

1. i've been looking for a new (quiet) burr coffee grinder, one that does single cups, not 8 cups.
2. also looking for a coffee dispenser container, one that i can put a fresh bag of coffee beans in (air tight) and store in the fridge and that can dispense 1-tbs per press of a button or lever. i used to have one many many years ago and threw it out. it was perfect. but never been able to find one like it again. been searching for one for years. any help locating one would be really appreciated...thanks.

[sdsumike619]

Where do you sign up on newegg for that? they have so much stuff on that site, I don't see a newsletter sign upEdit: Nevermind, I found it, it's the neweggflash site

[yoda313]

Please note if you are planning on using those 4tb drives with bluray players it might be a problem.

I was informed on a thread here somewhere that 2tb is the max supported by bluray players.

That may change soon or has already changed. But if this is for another purpose than it won't matter.

[sdsumike619]

oh no, my two threads are unrelated.. The 4TB drives are for video editing and backup. Thanks =)

[lordsmurf]

2tb is the max supported by all the computers here.
A 4tb drive "works" up to 2tb, then it loses everything when it hits 2tb. Everything's lost.

I stay home on BF. Haven't gone out since the 90s.

[sdsumike619]

2tb is the max supported by all the computers here.
A 4tb drive "works" up to 2tb, then it loses everything when it hits 2tb. Everything's lost.

what??

[budwzr]

End of Jan. is when the real deals pop out. The Black Friday deals are all on junky stuff.

Like WalMart will have 20 super cheap tv's selling super cheap. Big whoop.

Nobody is selling Note3 phones for cheap? Or anything anybody really wants. The Samsung watch is still $300, but the Sony watch is like $159 now. How embarrassing for Sony.

Meh, let the season begin though. It's festive at least.

[vhelp]

ok, so i sort of found what i was looking for and ordered it on amazon. since i keep coffee beans at home and at work, after thinking about it the next day, i should have ordered (2) of the coffee dispenser. it was ten bucks plus ten for postage. i think amazon gives you a deal of some sort for more than one but i wasn't thinking.

[Noahtuck]

If that is true about 4tb drives, then just partition them into two 2tb partitions.

[yoda313]

I think I'm passing on the shopping altogether this weekend.

Besides I have to take my car in for some relatively minor/major work so that will eat up my Friday anyway.

I think I'll still look through the ads though. See if there are any that look tempting to try to squeeze in on during the last part of the sale (yes selection will suck but I don't really need anything anyway).

Oh and by the way:

Happy Thanksgiving

[MJA]

Santa came early to my house with a new Nexus 5 last week.

[yoda313]

I went to a regional retail store yesterday and got some movies for 1.88 each

Got skyline, wanted (with Angelina Jolie) and Blue Harvest Family Guy.

I got the Family Guy on a whim. I generally hate any Star Wars spoofs, no matter how reverencial they are (ie how much they honor the series, to me a spoof is a spoof - all except Weird Al - he can do no wrong to my eyes and ears ).

So I figured I'll give it a go (on bluray no less for just 1.88 - the others were dvds.

I'll probably make it to another store or two today after I deal with the car stuff.

[vhelp]

regarding amazon: it would be nice if they state whether the item is a blackfriday deal. its confusing. all they have is the blackfriday image at the top, but it is on all the pages i go to. very confusing. am i missing something ?

i am not logged in amazon here because i don't shop on my desktop pc at home. i shop at work where they have firewall and virus protector, etc.

[TreeTops]

You have to click on the big BLACK FRIDAY words to get the deals.

[vhelp]

that's what i was/am doing. but i'm talking about regular adds (via search) that come up, they don't say it is a blackfriday deal. it could of been nice if they branded BF deals with some kind of BF logo of some sort on that page or image or such.

[vhelp]

while refreshing the main page on this forum, it shows an blackfriday ad with a photo of tivo's newest Roamio premier tivo. now, when last i checked in best buy, only one version exist, and it is $299 dollars. anyway, the ad on that page says, starting at $49.99 which seems false adv'ing or word-play nonsense. i am guessing, by 'starting at $49.99' they mean their little box that looks like the size of the wdtv or smaller. i think its the extender box or something, i forget. and they are saying to 'hurry, while quantities last'.

[louv68]

Best Buy and Walmart still have a good amount of DVD's and Blu-Rays on sale.
I believe Best Buy runs the sale until tomorrow, and many can still be had online. Walmart might be in-store only.
BB has $1.99 DVD's, $3.99 & $7.99 Blu-rays and some $9.99 DVD TV Series.
Walmart from what I saw has $3.96 & $6.96 Blu-Ray's and $1.96 DVD's

I stocked up pretty good, mostly online at BB. I went to Walmart about an hour and half after the sale began. I hate freaking crowds.

[TreeTops]

Vhelp, I can see you are not a webmaster. What you are asking takes a lot of work to program and only for a three day sale. The programing alone would cost Amazon thousands of dollars. Then after the sale, the web site has to be reworked with different prices.

[zoobie]

This was my first and last BF.
At 8pm Thanksgiving, I got the new 50" HDTV knockoff at target for $229
Saw it on Craigslist a day later for $400...

[yoda313]

I did not go out on Friday after all.

However I did a little spree on ebay this weekend. Partly for me but i did get some gifts for the holidays.

I discovered something I hadn't seen before. Dvd/bluray lots with a pick your own option. They list a bunch of dvds/blurays and you pick a certain number at a given price. Shipping goes down the more you buy (one set price than a small extra for each one).

I only did 2 blurays but I got the most recent die hard movie and limitless on bluray for just 3.00 each

Like I said I also bought a few gift items. Some old tv shows on dvd I know people will like. Good deals too. I even did the regular auction instead of buy it now which I usually do. It's kind of fun. Though I like just grabbing it with buy it now and not having to wait

All in all not bad. And my car work got done at a good price and quickly so I'm happy there.

[fritzi93]

If that is true about 4tb drives, then just partition them into two 2tb partitions.

Yeah, but they'll have to be initialized as MBR instead of GPT. MBR is limited to 2.2 TB. The only reliable way to do it (that I know of) is with Seagate's Discwizard. You initialize the disc, allocate the first partition, done. Then open the Extended Capacity Manager and allocate the rest of the drive. I think you can still do the tech over-ride (ALT+T+O) if you don't have a Seagate drive in your machine.

The problem is with GPT partitioning. Pretty sure that is Lord Smurf's problem too. Neither my LG BD670 player, nor the onboard media players on my LG and Sharp TVs will recognize GPT partitions. But they also won't recognize the second partition of a disc set up using the Discwizard MBR workaround.

Funny thing is, I had to use the workaround on my new build (in computer details). My 3 TB drives kept disappearing, and man oh man, I tried everything. Five ports with AMD drivers, two (for storage drives only, not boot drives) using Asmedia drivers. Didn't matter which I used, same problem. Finally I did the workaround and everything's fine now. I didn't much want to partition those drives into two, but that's okay. I put it down to the SATA3 drivers on that Asus mobo. Or maybe the Mass Storage Controller on the Southbridge. BTW, those same drives functioned perfectly on my previous build, which used a Biostar mobo with SATA2.

I have a couple 4 TB externals (initialized as GPT and single partition) that work fine with the new build. Connected via USB of course. I have a SATA card that I may stick in and hook up one of those 4 TB drives to see if it's recognized properly.

Anyway, back to an earlier question about where to get 4 TB drives:
I've found Newegg has Seagate 4 TB drives occasionally at about $150 bucks. Mine have been fine. Usually the deals are for external drives, but it's easy enough to pop the enclosure (without damaging the enclosure either, if you're careful) and use the hard drive as an internal hard drive.

No way I'm going anywhere near those frenzied BF mobs. Have you seen some of the YouTube videos?