Blowoutcards Black Friday Post Your Haul Thread

[FortyFour]

Mine will be here on the Friday.

A nice way to end the week.

 

[trademhigh]

Wow, I missed out. What exactly happened?

 

[ctmike]

Wow, I missed out. What exactly happened?

Well, in a nutshell, beginning at 6am eastern on twitter and blowoutcards.com they announced blowouts on certain products in limited quantities every few minutes and you had to be quick to decide if it was a product you wanted and it was a good price. If you were lucky enough you were able to buy them, if not, you missed out. You had to get all the way through checkout and pay before they ran out or you wouldn't get the item, so it left no time to combine purchases so you had to pay separate shipping on each deal. This ran until 4pm in the afternoon although they took several breaks throughout the day and after 3pm eastern they didn't sell any more product. Instead at around 4pm they announced that at 6pm eastern that evening they would announce via email and on their website the additional specials that would run throughout the weekend while supplies lasted. During the 6am-4pm sale you could only purchase 1 or 2 of each item but after 6pm you could purchase unlimited quantities. Some people thought it was bad that if you stayed with them all day you could have just bought the items at 6pm but all the items weren't available in the evening and some sold out just as fast because there was no limit. Sorry you missed out but yes there were some absolutely great deals. Some other products weren't very good deals.

 

[FortyFour]

Wow, I missed out. What exactly happened?

Not much.

They discounted stuff that they had a lot of.

Still fun though.

 

[trademhigh]

Wow, I missed out. What exactly happened?

Well, in a nutshell, beginning at 6am eastern on twitter and blowoutcards.com they announced blowouts on certain products in limited quantities every few minutes and you had to be quick to decide if it was a product you wanted and it was a good price. If you were lucky enough you were able to buy them, if not, you missed out. You had to get all the way through checkout and pay before they ran out or you wouldn't get the item, so it left no time to combine purchases so you had to pay separate shipping on each deal. This ran until 4pm in the afternoon although they took several breaks throughout the day and after 3pm eastern they didn't sell any more product. Instead at around 4pm they announced that at 6pm eastern that evening they would announce via email and on their website the additional specials that would run throughout the weekend while supplies lasted. During the 6am-4pm sale you could only purchase 1 or 2 of each item but after 6pm you could purchase unlimited quantities. Some people thought it was bad that if you stayed with them all day you could have just bought the items at 6pm but all the items weren't available in the evening and some sold out just as fast because there was no limit. Sorry you missed out but yes there were some absolutely great deals. Some other products weren't very good deals.

Oh well. Sounded like fun. I wouldn't have had the patience anyways.

Thanks for the summary!

 

[ctmike]

Wow, I missed out. What exactly happened?

Well, in a nutshell, beginning at 6am eastern on twitter and blowoutcards.com they announced blowouts on certain products in limited quantities every few minutes and you had to be quick to decide if it was a product you wanted and it was a good price. If you were lucky enough you were able to buy them, if not, you missed out. You had to get all the way through checkout and pay before they ran out or you wouldn't get the item, so it left no time to combine purchases so you had to pay separate shipping on each deal. This ran until 4pm in the afternoon although they took several breaks throughout the day and after 3pm eastern they didn't sell any more product. Instead at around 4pm they announced that at 6pm eastern that evening they would announce via email and on their website the additional specials that would run throughout the weekend while supplies lasted. During the 6am-4pm sale you could only purchase 1 or 2 of each item but after 6pm you could purchase unlimited quantities. Some people thought it was bad that if you stayed with them all day you could have just bought the items at 6pm but all the items weren't available in the evening and some sold out just as fast because there was no limit. Sorry you missed out but yes there were some absolutely great deals. Some other products weren't very good deals.

Oh well. Sounded like fun. I wouldn't have had the patience anyways.

Thanks for the summary!

Yeah it was fun at times and frustrating at times. The first hour or so (before I personally got into it, was out shopping some earlybird specials) the website crashed and they did some things on ebay but it got settled by about 7:30am or so. Some of the deals weren't really deals but the banter back and forth on the thread here was really fun and kept us going.

 

[cmixer]

yeah; it was one of those
"I survived Blowout Black Friday & all I got was ..."
moments

 

[rsmath]

I wonder how many millions of dollars of inventory they sold on Friday and if the poorer deals as the day went on helped them turn a profit eventually by the time all was said and done with Friday.

 

[brianga26]

I am keeping my fingers crossed I can sell those 2006 Draft Boxes at the next show for about $90.00 a piece. If so, I can turn a nice profit.. Thoughts??

 

[rsmath]

Yeah it was fun at times and frustrating at times. The first hour or so (before I personally got into it, was out shopping some earlybird specials) the website crashed and they did some things on ebay but it got settled by about 7:30am or so. Some of the deals weren't really deals but the banter back and forth on the thread here was really fun and kept us going.

It was fun for me - I guess I'm pretty good working the 5 year old PC whose HD I hope crashes sometime so I can get a new pc.

I got everything I wanted except the documentary case.

the BO forum/online site worked better about 1 hour into things when I guess the less-willed people got frustrated and gave up and headed to the malls or went to bed.

It was fun watching the twitter exchanges of people asking for more football, or where is the basketball, or just complaining because they are slowpokes or didn't know the best ways to try to find out and procure items fast enough.

 

[allstars]

These were some good deals, they cleared storage space, and made some money.

Tru dat, but I'd say they recouped some money more than anything.