Black Friday Online Sales Up from 2007

comScore is reporting that online sales on Black Friday were up 1 percent compared to last year and that the combination of sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday were up 2 percent relative to last year. Hold up on that celebration, Mr. Sunshine. Overall sales for November 1-28 were down 4 percent vs the same days last year.

“It’s probable that on Black Friday consumers responded positively to the very aggressive promotions and discounts being offered in retail stores, so it will be important to see how they respond to similarly attractive deals being offered online on Cyber Monday, the traditional kick-off to the online holiday shopping season,” [said Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman]

aggressive promotions and discounts? where? did I sleep thru black friday?

Only things I found on sale worth something to me was

$15 8GB USB stick
$2.00 movies

KungFu Panda $15 Blu-Ray
thats about it.

online > brick and mortar

b&m can suck my balls. I almost always get in a confrontation on bf

Originally Posted by 86 5.0L

aggressive promotions and discounts? where? did I sleep thru black friday?

There were a few good sales, such as:

-Blu-Ray player for $128 at Wal-Mart (this is what I stood in line for this year)
-HP laptop + photo printer for $350 at Best Buy (but you had to spend the night in front of the store to get one because they only had twelve)
-8GB flash drive for $15 at Staples

But yeah, online prices are getting insanely low. DDR2 memory is now under $10/GB! At least this recession is starting to act like normal recessions again.

Aggressive Promotions? Our definition of aggressive must vary drastically, because this is probably the sorriest black friday I can remember. There may have been a small increase in spending over last year, but I'm willing to bet it's all downhill from here. Money is a lot tighter this year, and a lot more people are looking for deals than they were before. Hence, more people trying to get in on bf sales. Just my .02

Black Friday.........meh.

Micros0ft Live search 30% off on ebay items.........ROCK ON!

It probably has more to do with the fact that each year more and more people are comfortable with shopping online. Black Friday deals get worse each year. Who wants a 50" LCD that is only 720p?

The deals that are decent are too hard to get. Who wants to spend their Thanksgiving holiday standing in line battling with hordes of people just to save $100 on a TV?

What, people actually purchased stuff? Didn't anyone hear we are in a recession? Everyone who is "hard pressed" by the economy went out and bought stuff on Black Friday?

Sorry, with all the constant "doom and gloom" about the state of the economy and how we are in a recession, I just had to get that off my chest after driving by the mall this weekend and seeing the parking lots packed. People can't be too bad off if they are out making purchases.....

Personally, I didn't see anything I really needed at a good enough price to deal with all the crazy people on BF.

BF sucks compared to new years sales.

Originally Posted by Virtus

It probably has more to do with the fact that each year more and more people are comfortable with shopping online. Black Friday deals get worse each year. Who wants a 50" LCD that is only 720p?

grandma

heh, no kidding i dont even really like the 42" lcd's with only 720... at that size and larger youre really just buying a crippled tv.

i remember black friday deals where people would wait 6 hours to buy a 50" dlp for something crazy like 60% off.. we all know that electronics are marked up at least 100%, so where did all the half-off deals go?

Yeah, the 720p 50" screens are no deal. I would say 42' 720p is okay, but at 50', it's 1080p or you're not getting a full HD picture.

Only source I've seen reporting its up from last year. Every other news media I've seen contradicts this one.

Originally Posted by farscapesg1

What, people actually purchased stuff? Didn't anyone hear we are in a recession? Everyone who is "hard pressed" by the economy went out and bought stuff on Black Friday?

Sorry, with all the constant "doom and gloom" about the state of the economy and how we are in a recession, I just had to get that off my chest after driving by the mall this weekend and seeing the parking lots packed. People can't be too bad off if they are out making purchases.....

Personally, I didn't see anything I really needed at a good enough price to deal with all the crazy people on BF.

Easy they skip payying a few bills. I had an aunt and uncle that use to do that. Come christmas they would skip paying a few bills to spend $400 per child on christmas.

Although the recession hasn't hit everyone. A lot of people have lost their homes and lost their jobs. But I myself I haven't noticed anything yet that has effected me. I still have a job, since my house payment was fixed that is still the same. Food might have went up but since I never pay attention to prices and always buy for random amounts of time (one time I might by enough food for 2 weeks, the next I time I might just get anough for a week,..) I couldn't tell you if it has or not.

Only thing that has effected me is my 401k losing about 35+% of its value. But I have only been putting money away for a few years so my loss is only about $1500. So i'm not too worried about that right now. I feed confident that in another 45 - 50 years or so when I retire the market will have fixed itself by then and I will have gotten the $1500 back.

But for many that were out I bet it is more likely that they just aren't paying some bill or they were maxing out the last of their credit cards.