Cool Tech Reviews

Amazon is another online retailer that isn’t worrying about the traditional distinction that Black Friday is for brick and mortar stores - they are having their own Black Friday Sale online and as a matter of fact it has started already! Some tech bargains that I saw:

• Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame (Clear & Black) reduced 31% to $89.99.
• TomTom ONE 125 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator reduced 44% to $99.99.
• SanDisk Sansa View 32 GB Video MP3 Player reduced 43% to $199.99.
• Sharp Aquos LC42D64U 42-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV reduced 33% to $999.98.

They are apparently rotating the deals, so it may well be worth checking in from time to time to see what is new.

The distinction between Black Friday and Cyber Monday for online retailers is blurring as evidenced by my annual email from Toshiba Direct which lists laptop bargains for both days, although they are strictly an online retailer while Black Friday was traditionally for those hardy folks who want to wait out in the cold on the day after Thanksgiving for the doors to open at a brick & mortar store.

In any case, as I have mentioned previously, I am a satisfied owner of a Toshiba laptop, so if you are looking for one you won’t go wrong if you take advantage of one of the Toshiba deals:

Black Friday (11/28/08)

Save on Black Friday with coupon code ACCESS20 - Take 20% off all Toshiba genuine accessories - 11.28.08 Only!

Black Friday Exclusive: Take an unbelievable 30% off Satellite laptops

Cyber Monday (12/01/08)

Toshiba pays your sales tax with the purchase of a Satellite or Qosmio laptop priced at $499 or more on 12.1.08 only!

Take $10 off $50+ or $20 off $100+ orders! Includes Satellite and Qosmio laptops and accessories. Use coupon code BF1020 at checkout. 11.29.08 - 12.1.08.

In particular, the 30% off a Satellite laptop on November 28 looks very good, but as always you might care to check your favorite online store in case they are doing even better on price.

Wal-Mart is famous for their instore Black Friday doorbusters, but you may not realize that they have a large online operation which has Black Friday specials as well. This year both online and instore had a calendar of special sales starting on Monday Nov. 19 and continuing through the end of the month. They will have Cyber Monday and Beyond Online Specials starting Monday the 26th and lasting through Nov. 30, but right now following the link takes you to the two day post Black Friday sale and here are some of the online bargains.

Plasma TV - Philips 50″ Plasma HDTV with Digital Tuner, 50PFP5332D for $1397.00 which is at least $100 less than anywhere else I have seen.  You can get free shipping by having them send it to a local Wal-Mart store and picking it up yourself.

Digital Camera - Kodak 7.1 MP EasyShare ZD710 Digital Camera w/ 10x Optical Zoom & Image Stabilization for $149.00.

There are a variety of LCD TVs as well. I’ll be interested to see what they come up with for Cyber Monday.