Well, I had been planning for the Black Friday specials for about a month or longer. I read a bunch of articles on this site as well as many others in trying to assemble a decent list of parts for my budge/midrange computer. Anyway, when the time came, (most of my purchases were to be made at newegg) the specials offered were either (a) not that special, or (b) well, there is no (b), because they weren't that special. There were a few discounts on some parts, such as motherboards, hard drives, flash drives, etc. that I purchased. But the savings were nothing compared to all the hooplah surrounding other more mainstream items, such as big-screen TVs, or netbook computers. In essence, the savings that I got didn't seem unique to the Black Friday myth. They could have been a weekly promotion, not unlike those seen in those BestBuy newspaper circulars. Also, the free shipping deals weren't nearly as extensive as the media hyped it up to be. In newegg's case in particular, they applied to some items, but not others. So I wound up spending quite a bit on shipping alone. And don't get me started on taxes.
I don't know if the mood I'm in now as I write this is more from the disappointment stemming from the lack of deep discounts on my purchases, from the conflicts with my credit card company which locked my credit card for possible fraudulent usage with such impeccable timing that by the time the card was restored the items I tried purchasing at the discounted price were no longer available, or from buyer's remorse that rears its ugly head whenever collectively large purchases in a relatively short timeframe are made. There goes my savings again.
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