Black Friday

[IlovemyAKA]

I'm another online shopper on Black Friday. For the past 2 years, I've registered at bfads.net around September or October to see what stores are offering before the ads are released.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I found a Sparky Anderson Bobblehead that I bought for my brother.

Where did you score that? Must have!

I got to Target around 5:30am on Black Friday and was out by 7:30am. Worth the 20 minute checkout line as I got all of the gifts on my list. Also picked up some clothes for all three sons, including penguins fleece pajama pants for my Pens fan son! Next was mall #1, where I lucked into 30% off everything at Hollister (finishing youngest son's shopping) and only hit lines at Bath and Body Works (walked out of there instead of fighting the crowds) and Starbucks. Then headed Costco, and got hubby's gift exchange gift, a few DVDs, calendars, Jon Stewart's "Earth" book and was in and out in less than an hour. I've NEVER been to Costco without spending hours and waiting in line forever! Finally made it to mall #2 where they had the Fox NFL Robot for hubby's team, lunch and Sephora (hello philosophy gingerbread man scrub, how I have missed you!) The B & BW lines were horrific here too, and this was early afternoon, so I gave up on shopping there until sometime this week. There's always a sale at B & BW, right?

[IrishLake]

OOOOOOOOOOO I started this thread! Sooooooo, thanks to blackfriday dot info, I had all kinds of items with great black fridays deals that i added to my online "list." Sad thing.... I did not want to get up at 3 am and I did not want to go out in the cold rain to save $5 on a toy. Not worth it. i figured I'd just do my shopping later.

So.... Thursday night, while I was in my food coma, I started looking around online. Holy shitballs! ALL of the items I had on my BF lists from Kohls and Target were available online at the BF listed prices! Woo and hoo!!!!! I got 2 pillow pets, my daughters Christmas mass dress, a Discovery Channel kids learning laptop and a pair of corderoy pants for my daughter all for $68, including shipping. Kohls had free shipping on orders over $70. Well, I found an online coupon code good for an additional 20% off everything. Once I applied that, my order dropped below $70, and I got charger $12 for shipping. CRAP! THEN, I did an search online for coupon codes good for free shipping. SCORE!!!!!!! Applied said free shipping on any order code, and my total dropped to $68 including shipping and sales tax!

I had the same thing at Target, the items on my lists had BF prices on Thursday night. But NO free shipping, and NO additional % off like at Kohls. So I ended up not buying there.

And wtf sales tax? I don't shop online often, but I thought there was no sales tax online?

[southbymidwest]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

And wtf sales tax? I don't shop online often, but I thought there was no sales tax online?

I believe (not 100% sure though) that you are charged sales tax if that company has a presence (like a brick and mortar store or distribution center) in the state that the goods are being shipped to.

[Gusteau]

I'm not sure the deal with sales tax online, but I have definitely been charged a tax on items shipped from out of state. It might be a case by case basis - or the sales tax of the state of the store location applies. I really have no idea.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AGDee

They have a 19" for only $98 too...

Yeah but that $98 TV is typically a POS, off brand, made in Republic of some country no one's ever heard of before. Unless some store is selling a $2,000 MacBook Pro for $50 it's not worth my time to camp out on the Wednesday before like what I saw people doing at a Best Buy.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by southbymidwest

I believe (not 100% sure though) that you are charged sales tax if that company has a presence (like a brick and mortar store or distribution center) in the state that the goods are being shipped to.

It's a combination of that and some new state laws trying to collect taxes for online purchases.

[KSUViolet06]

I survived my first actual in-store Black Friday shopping experience.

5 kids worth of Xmas presents for $30 = win.

The line at Toys R Us to pay for things = kind of worth it. We DID avoid the MASSIVE line (friend said it was 3 hours +) to get in by waiting and going at 3:00 AM as opposed to midnight.

Buzz Lightyear that my nephew wants = 8.99!

Regular price = $19.99.

Barbies that my g-daughters want = $5.00/each.

Regular price = $20.

Hallelujah, I am a Black Friday believer.

*catches Holy Ghost*

[Kappamd]

Originally Posted by southbymidwest

I believe (not 100% sure though) that you are charged sales tax if that company has a presence (like a brick and mortar store or distribution center) in the state that the goods are being shipped to.

Yes. This is why there is no sales tax on Amazon.

We couldn't find any deals to go out for super early, so we left around 7 and hit Dick's first where my mom got my brother a North Face jacket and golfballs- not on sale, but she did get a $25 gift certificate.

We then went about an hour away to the "good mall" where my mom got a bunch of small things (sweater for my aunt, wallet for my dad, some AE stuff for my brother, some stuff at Williams Sonoma). The only thing I bought was an SD card that I paid 7 bucks for (normally 30). Oh, and a laptop desk for the fiance that I got 50% off at Barnes & Noble with their sale+coupon. We ended the day at Wal-mart where we got the crockpot my aunt has been wanting for 50% off (a DOORBUSTER that was hiding in one of the aisle piles at 4 pm!). Oh, and a poinsettia for $3.59, lol.

No AMAZING deals, but successful none the less.

[Benzgirl]

I'm a Cyber Monday kind of girl. Just tried to place an order at Victoria's Secret and the site was temporarily down. Back to putting up the Christmas Tree.