Amazon 'Black Friday' deals?

xtrevxtrev
edited November 2010 in General
Amazon seem to have imported the Black Friday concept to the UK this week (which makes no sense, but a sale is a sale, so whatever).
Sadly the deals section refuses to show me any current bargains, just the 'upcoming' or expired ones.
Has anybody used it successfully?
Is there a trick?
Maybe a browser issue?
Maybe a PC-Mac thing?
I was hoping to maybe find some cheap xmas prezzies, but so far it's a big fat let down.

Comments

  • thomnottomthomnottom
    Were you on this page? It appears fine to me (although I'm in the US) which makes me think it's a browser issue and you might need to clear cache, etc. Are you on a Mac or PC? If a PC, you could try closing all browsers and running CCleaner.
  • xtrevxtrev
    No it was this one...

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/deals-offers-savings/b/ref=amb_link_158541227_2?ie=UTF8&node=350613011&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1SCPC5DYE19J7RB850FV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=218863887&pf_rd_i=468294

    ... the deals appear in a panel that seems to be loading separately. Java? Flash? Got bored looking through the CSS filled page source trying to find it.
    Not working at all now anyway.
    And I'm on a Mac.
  • thomnottomthomnottom
    It's possible that there's nothing currently going on. It appears that they have a limited number for each deal, and once that many are sold they are expired. If all of the deals from one time slot sell out before the next time slot starts, you won't have any available.
  • BigD-BluezBigD-Bluez
    It's not a Mac thing, I can attest. Most of the deals have a time window or they may sell out - expired either way. Try hitting the main page and going to either the Black Friday box, or to the Today's Deals page which is also linked to the Black Friday pages. For CDs check the link I put in the Amazon Deal of the Day thread for the calender of CD deals - and you have to sync with PST.
  • xtrevxtrev
    BigD, thanks but it's amazon UK I'm talking about - no such thing as a deal of the day over here :-(

    It just seemed odd that whenever I looked there were NO current or available deals. I appreciate they'll be going fast but to see none at all at any time during the day seemed peculiar.
    If it's that time sensitive that you have to live on the page all day just to see a bargain they can shove it anyway, I've got better ways to spend my time.
    I'd rather they just had a sale without trying to make an event out of it - crazy yankees with their crazy foreign ideas!
  • xtrevxtrev
    On a slightly different note, why 'Black Friday'? Makes it sound like a bad thing.
    Or a good Steely Dan song.
    Either seems a peculiar choice.
  • cafreemacafreema
    Because it's such a big shopping day it puts retailers "into the black" for the year.

    Having worked retail for a number years, I avoid shopping in stores any time between Thanksgiving and New Years. Thank you internet!

    Craig
  • thomnottomthomnottom
    My daughter asked to go to the mall yesterday. She's two - wanted to throw coins in the water fountain. What am I gonna do, tell her no? Holy carp, doesn't matter than it's before Thanksgiving. Pure madhouse. I was pretty amazed by how well behaved she was and totally understood why she had to hold our hands in the crowd.

    And here I always thought it was Black Friday because of all the bruises people get spreading the Christmas cheer.
  • cafreemacafreema
    Well, thom, that's becoming the reason. Just didn't start that way.

    I'm envious of our friends in the British Isles for a lot of reasons, but I have to say, I love Thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, pie, football, and what not? Almost makes living through 12 years of Bushes and 8 of Reagan in the last 30 worthwhile. Almost. Okay, not really, but you get the idea.

    Craig
  • DoofyDoofy
    Because it's such a big shopping day it puts retailers "into the black" for the year.

    That sure ain't why we called it Black Friday back when I was working retail! I find the whole Black Friday/"doorbusters" thing absolutely revolting. Wasn't it just a year or two ago, that an employee at Wal-Mart or one of those damn place was killed in a crush of people literally "busting" down the door? And this ad-driven consumer orgy takes place on the day after our great, shared spiritual/secular holiday. What a country. [/close rant]
  • elwoodiciouselwoodicious
    MOAR CHEEP CREDET! BUY! BUY! BUY!

    Yay, Consumer Economy!
  • choiceweb0pen0choiceweb0pen0
    I hated black Friday when I worked retail too. One retail year, I twisted an ankle a few days before black Friday and since my job required hauling stock up and down ladders, I tried to call off Friday. No way. Sat in a chair, most of my shift, cutting open boxes. For now I refuse to go into store too on Black Friday and holidays like Thanksgiving.
  • xtrevxtrev
    Aha! Discovered the 'trick' is to actually be lucky enough to happen to have the main black friday page open as the countdown runs out and then click to buy something in the few microseconds before it sells out.
    Absolute nonsense!
    If that's their idea of a sensible way to have a sale they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine!
    That's head office in Seattle to you and me :-)

    I used to work in retail too. Over here the equivalent for stores making enough money to keep them going for the rest of the year is 'Christmas' (which used to be December but now starts earlier every year) and then the 'doorbuster' type of sale is traditionally in January - but those now sometimes start on Boxing Day (day after xmas day).
  • KennyKenny
    Dumb question: When you're buying the Black Friday lightning deals, can you only get one of each item? I'd love a few copies of the National and Sufjan records.
  • thomnottomthomnottom
    Are you afraid you'll wear out the mp3s? Ba-da-tsh

    I'm assuming you are referring to the physical copies. I just checked and they only let you put one in your cart. Oh, I suppose you could also be planning on buying the mp3s for someone else. That will work. I just checked on one that I already bought and it will still give me that price if I buy as a gift.
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