I wanna know about "Black Friday" more.Can you give me some information?
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BLACK FRIDAY (SHOPPING) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_Sale\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nBlack Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.\n\nAlthough Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve or the last Saturday before Christmas.\n\nOrigin\n\nThe first use of this term to describe the day after Thanksgiving is not exactly known. There are two popular theories as to its origin.\n\nAccounting practice\n\nOne theory is that stores traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink would show positive amounts. Black Friday is the beginning of the period where they would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).\n\nStress from large crowds\n\nAnother theory comes from the fact that shopping experience on this day can be extremely stressful. The term is used as a comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Thursday or other black days. According to The Word Spy:\n\nEarliest Citation:\nChristmas decorations around Tampa Bay started going up in late October, and business has been brisk since then. And while Friday--known as Black Friday for the legendary hordes--will be the biggest shopping day for many area stores, others ring up the greatest sales the Saturday before Christmas.\n—Marilyn Marks, "Retailers expect good sales this Christmas," St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1986\n\nThere exists an earlier reference, speaking to the Friday after Thanksgiving:\n\nA BLACK FRIDAY.\nThere have been many Black Fridays in recent history. Most of them have been days of financial panic. There has been none of blacker foreboding than last Friday. And the blackness is not loss or fear of loss in stocks and bonds.\nNew York Times (1857-Current file).\nNew York, N.Y.: Dec 3, 1922. pg. 38, 1 pgs\nISSN/ISBN 03624331\n\nEmployees of retail stores have for years referred to Black Friday in a satirical way, to note the extremely stressful and hectic nature of the day. Heavy traffic and customer demands added to the long hours make it a difficult day.\n\n\nBlack Friday on the Internet\n\nAdvertisements in advance\n\nCertain websites such as DealTaker.com offer information about Black Friday deals up to a month in advance. The text listings of prices are usually accompanied by adscans -- complete PDFs either leaked by insiders, or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.\n\nCyber Monday\n\nThe term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, which unofficially marks the beginning of the holiday online shopping season.\n\nIn recent years, Cyber Monday has become a busy day for online retailers, with some sites offering low prices and other promotions on that day.\n\nControversy\n\nResponse (Buy Nothing Day)\n\nAnti-consumer frenzy protesters have chosen this day as Buy Nothing Day in North America, where those concerned about the increasing power and influence of consumer corporations are urged to not make consumer purchases.\n\nDMCA\n\nIn recent years, some retailers (including Wal-Mart, Target Corporation, Best Buy, and Staples, Inc.) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisement are intellectual property and protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).\n\nUsing the t
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving.  When people go crazy for Holiday Shopping.  Its called Black Friday, because the sales go through the roof for retailers.  It on some document where it hits the black mark, hence the name Black Friday.
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I LOVE BLACK FRIDAY!!!  I usually have just about everything done on by this time.  But, I love going out to see what I might find, eat breakfast and go again and I'm home by noon at the very very latest.  If I don't like the crowds or see something of a deal, I leave.  No big deal----as I don't really have to be there.  It started, about 10 yrs. or so ago, when Walmart used to have the must have items and I was in line at 3 am!!!  I left there and went to Target, Sears, and than breakfast, and than on again to wherever!  I have gone as far at Philly, 4 hrs. away, to shop!   I LOVE IT      LOVE IT     LOVE IT         I LIVE FOR THIS DAY!\nI EVEN SHOP FOR OTHERS SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO OUT!!!!  HIRE ME~~~~~~~~~I'M FREE!
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Weekdays have higher traffic volumes than most weekends. Many U.S. Internet users still rely upon the workplace for access to a high-speed Internet connection, making online shopping even more convenient. For example - The first Monday after Thanksgiving is referred to as ‘Black Monday’ in the online retail world as consumers return to the workplace following the holiday weekend and shop till they drop on lunch and on breaks (and probably when they should be working!) Be mindful of time zones as well - if have an auction end at 10pm Pacific time that is 1am Eastern time and you won't find many bidders willing to stay up that late.
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YES, it is, if you want to get good gifts at a good price for others or for yourself.  Black Friday is the biggest sale of the year!
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If you can, hold out just a bit longer. Around college and high graduation time, there are a lot of sales and also close to Father's  Day.  So if you can wait until the end of May, you will find great prices.  \nThe other great time is August when there are great back to school sales.\nPs I love my Dell! Make that Dells!
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I am actually a very calm person with the patience of a saint(I am told). But, I cant shop on black friday.I find myself getting mean and nerves on edge.By the time I get home, I find I am acting like all the other rude, mean people out there on that day. I just stay home and do my shopping for that morning online.
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you really might want to think about buying it off ebay.(thats the cheapest). if still not online, you will more than likely pay full price unless you wait till after christmas sales or something of that nature.
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Not sure about an all over sale. They did have a promotion up this morning for customers to vote for a deal 11am pst Thanksgiving day. Think it was between a $100 Xbox 360 core, $40 mountain bike, 10$ barbie, and I forgot the other thing
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check out www.blackfriday.com - they give you the ads before they come out on thanksgiving day -you can see whats for sale and plan your shopping trip - you best bet though is to be up and ready to go as early as 3am - most stores open early and lines form well before 4am - if you go any later you can loose out on the best deals that will be available. \nAlso , Many stores will be open Thanksgiving day w/ special sales so look out for those too.
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This is late, but thought I’d share my thoughts on it too.  First of all, when they say “minimum # per store”, that may mean they have to have at least that many when the stores open; it doesn’t mean that’s the maximum they have available.  My friend recently pointed this out to me.  And I was like “that’s true!”.\n\nSecondly, you have to be REALLY early in order to be one of the first in line.  And when I say really early, that’s like prior to 12AM!  We drove by Target & Circuit City at 1AM on Black Friday, because we were still awake and it was on the way home from our family’s Thanksgiving dinner, and there were already TONS of people lining up around the Circuit City store.  Target wasn’t as bad, maybe about 10 people waiting in line.  But it was only 1AM!!!\n\nI heard that only Best Buy was passing out tickets at 4AM.  I didn’t hear if the other stores did or not; I’m assuming no, just because this is the first year I actually heard about the tickets, which I think is a bad idea.  That’s not good for the late comers.  So, to answer your question: yes, first come first serve, with or without tickets.\n\nEven though they let 10 people in at a time, those 10 can stay in store as long as they wish.  They let people in staggered like that because it eliminates the “mob effect”, so there isn’t a million people rushing into the store all at once.  That’s how people get trampled on.\n\nI doubt you got it, but I hope you got your laptop.  :-)
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First of all, I have not heard about Red Wednesday either.  I even did a search on it and nothing relevant to sales came up.  So to answer your other question, there will be good deals throughout the holiday shopping season, just be on the lookout for them.  But if you’re referring to the extra good deals, then yeah, you would have to wait until next year’s Black Friday.  If you’re still looking for gifts for yourself after Christmas, then there is another big sale simply called “The After Christmas Sale” starting 26DEC, day after Christmas!  Although, it is a somewhat different sale in that you might not receive the same/similar deal for the “hot” items…it won’t be as cheap as it was for Black Friday.  Anyway, happy shopping for the rest of the holiday season!!
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I generally only buy Dell or Gateway laptops. They are the best in dependability and value.  I generally find that "sales" occur right before they release new models. Sure Christmas might drive prices down, but all vendors try to get the money out of you with addons or extended warranties.\n\nI don't think holidays are always the best price times, before or after.\n\nBack to School specials mid/late summer seem to have been historically the best times to buy.\n\nWatch their web only specials, sometimes they have 1 or 2 day sales that are impossible to beat.
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In the USA if a business is in the black, it is doing extremely well.If it's in the red, it's losing money. Thanksgiving always occurs on a Thursday and the next day is when the shopping for Christmas is done. Millions of dollars are made on that one day;more than any day in the year. Since businesses do well on this day, it was dubbed Black Friday. Have a nice Thanksgiving.
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I am interested . Can you provide more details on that ?
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If you have a Best Buy in West Palm Beach, then I believe they have the best deal.  They will have an HP laptop on sale for $379.99 w/ an Intel Centrino processor.  They will also have a Toshiba laptop on sale for $249.99 w/ an Intel Celeron (not my preferred processor).\n\nHere is a website with Black Friday ads:\n\nhttp://bfads.net/\n\nIt should be noted though that the laptop deals from Best Buy are only part of the 7 hour sale beginning at 5am.  I'm going down there for the HP laptop myself  :)\n\nHope that helped!
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usually the day after halloween is when the 1/2 sales begin.  good luck