Question - What is Black Friday ? Answer - The day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is known as Black Friday. This also is unofficially or officially start of holiday shopping season. Almost all stores come out with Doorbuster Sales with early bird special to attract consumers to their stores. People stand in line hours before store is opened, to grab the bargain of the year. Almost every store has something that interests every one. For bargain hunters, if there is a biggest festival in a year, that would be, no doubt, the Black Friday. That being said, please note revenue wise this is NOT the best day for stores. A couple of days before Christmas are the most prominent day from revenue perspective. Additionally, Green Monday is another big shopping day. Although Cyber Monday is relatively smaller shopping day but is growing each year. Question - Why it is called Black Friday ? Answer - Closest reason as to why it is know as Black Friday is given in Wikipedia - Many retailers report some of their highest profits on Black Friday. The black portion of the name, Black Friday relates to businesses recording their losses in red ink and gains in black. This tradition lives on in modern accounting software, hence the name. Question - So When is Black Friday ? Answer - Friday, November 28th 2014 Question - When do Retailers Officially Publish their Advertisements ? Answer - Most ads are published in the newspaper on Thanksgiving Day. (The day before Black Friday). But more recently, many stores are starting to publish their Black Friday Ad early in November or sometime they leak it even in October. Some stores then have additional black friday doorbuster items that they only reveal on their website. Question - Are there black friday sales online ? Answer - While most Black Friday Sales go online on Black Friday day. However, many Black Friday deals are available online - before Black Friday. Many of such Black Friday like or even better than black Friday deals can be found at DealsOfAmerica throughout the year, including right now. Every day is like Black Friady @ DealsOfAmerica so please bookmark & visit often! Question - When will you post the advertisement ? Answer - As soon as we know about the advertisement or if someone send us the same, we will post it. Tips for Black Friday Shopping - Visit theblackfriday every day. Black Friday deals or similar may be available before Black Friday itself. - Decide what you want in advance. You may NOT be able to cover all the stores and may not be able to get ALL the early bird Specials. So decide in advance what is the most important item that you absolutely need. - Give preference to big ticket item as you will save more on those item. For example, you are likely save few hundred dollars on an expensive TV of over thousand dollar than on a shoes of $20. While both may be available at very good prices but may be on two different stores, so you may only be able to get one (assuming both are doorbuster deals), and saving on the TV may be in range of few hundred dollars while saving on shoe may be in under $50. - If possible have a group of people, but everyone going to a different store. Eah person going to any store may buy item for everyone else in the group. Although for some doorbuster items, store offer one slip to person, so you may not be able to get more than one such item. - Check Price Matching Policy of stores. Some stores offer price match so instead of standing in queue you may just walk in to a store with no or less queue and that offers price match. (And yes, make sure that they have item in stock). Price Matching is always a tricky situation. Some stores may be kind enough to honour their words while other may NOT be. Some employees and Managers are also reluctant to offer price match. - Buy in advance and get price adjusted on Black Friday day. Again, Some store may or may not adjust price. You may try return and re-purchase at Black Friday price on Black Friday. Again, some store may refuse to sale it back, stating that item has to go in first. - Buy Only what you need. Many stores are strict on re-stocking fee which may range from 5-15%.This usually applies to big ticket electronics & tech items. - PARK SMART. Park in the parking lot of nearby other place where there is no sale. Walk to store. This way, you wont get stuck in BIG queue of people coming in and out to the main store. - Get Dressed for winter Specially if you are in East coast or North. You dont want to catch cold or get Sick while bargain hunting. It will kill the deal :) - Shop Online. These days most Black Friday items are available online as well. Checkout dealsofamerica for all online deals. This is one of the best and most frequently updated website on the web so you are sure to get all bargains there. With rising gas prices, sinking temperatures (harsh winter) and many online deals with Free Shipping Offers, Online Shopping is gaining ground. - If you miss the deal, No problem! We highly recommend you to visit dealsofamerica every hour - throughout the year - as they have new deals every 30 minutes or so. You are likely to see black friday like deals throughout the year.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 06:55:06 +0000
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