Black Friday Deals [Archive] - Revision3 Forums

bogotoko

11-22-2007, 01:53 PM

Just got an email about Heroes Corner (http://www.heroescorner.com/)having a 50% off sale on Marvel, DC and Image titles this Friday (Nov. 23) for 24 hours.

It looks like its only on their pre-order comics though...no graphic novels :(

Well, still not bad if you're looking to try something new in comic titles.:)

Happy Thanksgiving!

six-gun

11-22-2007, 03:02 PM

This is the most non-spam, spam we've ever had ;)

Thanks for the heads up though :)

ghostevo

11-22-2007, 04:33 PM

esophagus

11-22-2007, 08:07 PM

Dang. Only graphic novels. That's still an amazing deal, just not for me.

ghostevo

11-22-2007, 08:26 PM

Dang. Only graphic novels. That's still an amazing deal, just not for me.

I think it's only on pre-order comics, and not graphic novels. Isn't it?

esophagus

11-22-2007, 09:00 PM

I think it's only on pre-order comics, and not graphic novels. Isn't it?

Oops. Yeah. That's what I meant to say.

six-gun

11-22-2007, 09:49 PM

I haven't seen any Black Friday deals worth leaving the house ;)

bogotoko

11-22-2007, 10:02 PM

thanks for the info bogo. You said DC, Marvel and Image, is Dark Horse not included then?

P.S. They just had a captain america graphic novel deal last week. One of the other members here posted about it. That might be why it's pre-floppies only.

It only mentioned DC, Marvel and Image. I'm guessing Dark Horse isn't included... the best way to find out is check for Dark Horse titles tomorrow.

ghostevo

11-22-2007, 10:02 PM

I don't think anyone should leave the house on black friday. :D

esophagus

11-23-2007, 12:07 AM

I haven't seen any Black Friday deals worth leaving the house ;)The joys of the internet. Even Canadians can celebrate this wondrous day.

acomicbookgirl

11-23-2007, 12:51 AM

I'm sad that I have to go to work tomorrow so no Black Friday sale for me.. My CBG though is giving me a discount on a trade though since I was not going to to be there for the sale..

bogotoko

11-23-2007, 12:36 PM

The internet brings our world a little closer :)

bogotoko

11-23-2007, 02:32 PM

Who was woke up at 5 in the morning with crazy people in your house getting ready to stand in those crazy lines? Yuck! Thank goodness for the internet... no lines, and easy check out.

mikegraham6

11-23-2007, 03:16 PM

I've got to ask my American friends: why is it called "Black Friday"?

Is it because participating blackens your soul?;)

seriously though, why is it called that?

paper

11-23-2007, 03:24 PM

Close enough. FromWikipedia:

Stress from large crowds

The earliest uses of "Black Friday" refer to the heavy traffic on that day, an implicit comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Tuesday (the 1929 stock-market crash) or other black days. The earliest known references to "Black Friday" (in this sense) are from two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, that explicitly refer to the day's hectic nature and heavy traffic. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:

Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army-Navy game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.

The derivation is made even more explicit in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:

Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. . . . . "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."

Both articles have a Philadelphia dateline, suggesting the term may have originated in that area.

Accounting practice

More recently, a false assumption has been circulated that the term originates theory that retailers 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, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts. Black Friday, under this theory, is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black). (Retailers' profitability varies, but some retailers are indeed dependent on the holiday season for their profits.) This sense has been traced back to a November 26, 1982, broadcast of ABC News' World News Tonight, which said:

Some merchants label the day after Thanksgiving Black Friday because business today can mean the difference between red ink and black on the ledgers. But this year hefty sales are vital not only to the stores but to the entire economy.

The primary flaw in this theory is that retailers (and their stockholders) would assume an acceptable loss for nearly eleven months out of the year in the hopes of finally earning a profit in the last five weeks. An examination of the quarterly SEC filings of any major retailer such as Wal-Mart [1] or Target [2] clearly shows that retailers intend to and actually do make profits during every quarter of the year. Because the heavy traffic etymology is contemporaneous with the earliest known uses of the term, while the black ink theory apparently was not suggested until several years later, the accounting practice origin is likely to be Urban Legend.

mikegraham6

11-23-2007, 03:42 PM

are the huge sales a new phenomenon? I only really remember hearing about this madness about 5 years ago

maybe the news just didn't pay attention to it like they have now?

paper

11-23-2007, 03:43 PM

It's always been this way.

hank41

11-24-2007, 04:31 AM

I worked from 6:30 to 12:30 at a GameStop today and it was hell. We sold 24 Wii's before we opened.

luthor

11-24-2007, 04:33 AM

hank41

11-24-2007, 04:36 AM

good decision. It's worth dying for half off a Dolph Ludgren Box Set

mikegraham6

11-26-2007, 01:58 PM

I went to bed at 2ish this Morning and got up at 4ish this morning, with the thought of going to Detroit for some Black Friday-ing. By the time I got to the Border, traffic was lined up for miles and miles and miles. In a post 9/11 World, it was going to be at least 3 or 4 hours until I got across the Tunnel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit-Windsor_Tunnel). I said Eff it and came back home and went back to bed.

since a big part of my job is reporting on Border news, i read a few really f'ed up stories about border delays. did you know that a few weeks ago the border cops held up a few quebec firetrucks because one of the firefighters didn't have his drivers license? they were called in by the detroit fire dept. to help and they couldn't even get there in time, they were delayed for hours. There was a similar delay for an ambulance that was transporting a heart attack victim to a hospital over the border.
And now they are talking about putting in fingerprint scanners for all ten digits at the beginning of the new year. It's just madness, and it keeps me away from the border for sure

jaflanagan

11-26-2007, 05:24 PM

since a big part of my job is reporting on Border news, i read a few really f'ed up stories about border delays. did you know that a few weeks ago the border cops held up a few quebec firetrucks because one of the firefighters didn't have his drivers license? they were called in by the detroit fire dept. to help and they couldn't even get there in time, they were delayed for hours. There was a similar delay for an ambulance that was transporting a heart attack victim to a hospital over the border.
And now they are talking about putting in fingerprint scanners for all ten digits at the beginning of the new year. It's just madness, and it keeps me away from the border for sure

At least they weren't accosted by gun-toting wackadoos claiming to be unofficial border patrol.