d_kuhn :
Sheesh... did Amazon send new cars or free superbowl tickets to all the media organizations in the US? This non-news has been spammed everywhere for the last two weeks How is it news, does ANYONE actually care? I have amazon prime and I know I don't care... this is just another company advertising a big sale that's almost certainly smoke and mirrors like "Black Friday deals" (as in... we'll mark it up 50% so we can later mark it down 40% and tell you you're getting a smoking deal!)
"smoke and mirrors like 'Black Friday deals'"
I have to disagree. I've seen stuff marked at the same price all year then suddenly on black friday it's 20% off. Apparently you've never spent a year pricing the same item repeatedly to see it finally go on sale on Black Friday. There are some REAL deals to be had but you have to do your research and figure out what's a deal and what is total BS.
Total BS items:
Anything that doesn't have a universal fixed price like blue jeans for example.
The $150 jeans that were marked down to $75 are still not worth $75.
The Playstation 4 that was $299 all year and now is $249... (How can you claim something like that is smoke and mirrors? That's just ignorant.)