Black Friday Deals

[Ballistics]

Anyone have any anecdotes about some equipment they picked up on sites like Adorama or B&H on black friday?

 

[480sparky]

About 3 years ago, I snagged a 1tb external drive for $40 at Frys.

 

[Ballistics]

About 3 years ago, I snagged a 1tb external drive for $40 at Frys.

WOW! Even for today's standards that's a steal, but 3 yrs ago?

 

[480sparky]

It may have been 2 years ago. I'm not sure. But still, 1tb at forty clams was well worth the trip. I didn't even have to be standing in line at 3AM to get one. I rolled in around 10 or so.

I'm not a big fan of getting up early, bashing other shoppers on the noodle and making a mad dash for a half-dozen of whatever junk the store just happens to be overstocked on. The only other Black Friday deal I can claim is a top-of-the-line KitchenAid drop-bowl mixerhttp://www.kitchenaid.com/flash.cmd?/#/product/KP26M1XWH/ for $150.

 

[Ballistics]

Yeah, I was just wondering if people got any deals online. Im not a late night shopper myself.

 

[Derrel]

I was able to nab some SanDisk Extreme III 30 MB/second CF cards at Fry's at $49 each on a Black Friday deal, back when they were "the" hot "big" CF card, and quite expensive. I bought three of them, and have been pretty happy with them. That very same year, SanDisk had some pretty hefty rebates on its higher-capacity CF cards.

Speaking of deals...there might be some good rebates on Gitzo tripods this November at local brick and mortar dealers across the USA...up to a $200 rebate for a tripod set and legs turned in!!!

 

[DiskoJoe]

I was able to nab some SanDisk Extreme III 30 MB/second CF cards at Fry's at $49 each on a Black Friday deal, back when they were "the" hot "big" CF card, and quite expensive. I bought three of them, and have been pretty happy with them. That very same year, SanDisk had some pretty hefty rebates on its higher-capacity CF cards.

Speaking of deals...there might be some good rebates on Gitzo tripods this November at local brick and mortar dealers across the USA...up to a $200 rebate for a tripod set and legs turned in!!!

I got a 8gb card for $20.

 

[Ballistics]

How much were the cards at the time? Do you guys remember?

 

[jwbryson1]

LR3 50% off.

 

[Derrel]

When I got my 8 gig III's, they were available on a black Friday deal from Adorama for $69.95 each, so I ordered three. They were $109 normally as I recall. Then, I went out to Fry's to give my credit card a walk and let it take a leak, and Bammo! super, in-store Blow Out price of $49...this was in late 2008 as I recall...maybe it was 2009...those two years kind of blend together for me.

One thing I learned years ago was not to ever spend "too much money" on cutting-edge CF cards that were either ultra-large for their era, or ultra-high performance for their era...back then, 8 gig cards were really quite rare, and the 30 MB/second SanDisk's were the absolutel fastest cards on the market--and, this is the critical part--I bought them specifically because of Rob Galbraith's CF Card Database performance figures because they were to be used with a Fuji S5 Pro camera....a camera that writes 25 Megabyte files, and has a rather small buffer and rather slowish write-to-card times. The S5 Pro was/is one of the absolute worst cameras in terms of write to card speeds, and a test I found showed that with the San Disk 30 MB/second cards, the camera was over twice as fast at clearing the buffer as with some other cards...

Even though the cards were priced fantastically, I had other, smaller Ultra II's and III's in 2-gig size...I knew that if I waited a year or two, memory prices would be lower, and capacities would be higher. In 2001, I payed $400 for a 1-gig IBM Microdrive, which was a negotiated price, down from $499 sticker...today I can go to Rite-Aid and buy a faster, 1 gig CF for $12.99...