Black Friday is upon us
By Ryan Block 
posted Nov 23rd 2006 12:33PM
posted Nov 23rd 2006 12:33PM
Hey everybody, you know what tomorrow is. Besides being the soulless testament to rabid consumerism that makes even most Americans wince, it's also possibly the best single day to get low, low prices on all kinds of consumer electronics. So make sure you get those good Black Friday deals in for us to share with everybody else! Oh, by the way, Amazon's kicking black Friday off a little early. If you hadn't heard, they're selling 1,000 Xbox 360 Core systems for $100 at 11AM PST today. Good luck.Your pals,
Engadget
P.S. -Happy Turkey / Tofurkey day!
P.P.S. -You guys didn't think we'd leave you in the lurch tomorrow if you didn't want to brave the e-tailers and retailers, did you? Good thing, too, because we're giving away a booty load of gadgets -- check back tomorrow for Engadget's Black Friday giveaways.
Engadget, what say you?
I guess I am going to be one of many trying to get that deal from Amazon because I am short a 360 these days.
Engadget why must you tell everyone!! Now my chances just got lowered another 36% ahhh!!! That Xbox 360 must be mine!
I got one! looooooooooool!!!!11111111
Yep, I dont know how im going to get that Xbox now that you mentioned it on engadget.
I do believe your right Liore Shai, Unless tons are away from computers and did not see the post but it will be harder than it was already going to be.
JERKKKKKKKKKS! Don't tell the world, it's already going to be hard enough with it being on digg, but engadget on top of it!? Jerks!!!!!!!
I was originally waiting on a price drop until I found out about the $100 core earlier. Just hoping to have one of the 1,000 fastest clicking fingers on the internet in an hour.
DAMMIT engadget, this was a SEEK-A-REHT
Damn, Amazon is already refreshing slow for me.
Gonna go to best buy at 3:30 to try to score a wii. It's their grand opening tomorrow. I have a couple of friends who are gonna get there at like 1 or 2.
As far as the xbox 360 goes... i'd enjoy seeing the web statistics for the site for the 5 minutes leading up to 2pm.
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GO VEGAN!
Wish i lived in America now...or Amazon did international shipping to UK for the 360.
sadly enough...the amazon page is already slowing down like hell...even if you are shopping for other stuff.
man oh man, I am getting load times close to a minute for amazon's page
sold out
WOW! Those Xboxes went fast!
The site doesn't refresh anymore ...what a joke
Amazon sucks! I got the deal and it asked what 13 plus 16 was for verification. I typed in 29, clicked the "I Agree" box and what does Amazon tell me? That's right, 13+16=29 is NOT correct. They give me another math problem to answer but by the time I was able to submit that one, they were gone. Since when is 13+16 not equal to 29? Something isn't kosher over there.
Gee, thanks engadget. Thanks a million for posting this.
Amazon.com is TOAST... i havent been able to get a page load for over 10 minutes now.
wow amazing, all sold out 2.01PM EST?
all gone.
Well... I was able to click on the deal button on two computers, enter the question (which was just the sum of two numbers), hit the checkbox to agree and got pushed to a page that said they were all gone already.
SO CLOSE! :-(
yeah still not working for me either...
Everyone in my household got one.. 3 computers... 3 orders.. SWEET.. EBAY-- here I come.
Fuckwad: No more than one of each offer can be redeemed per household, per customer, per credit card, or per shipping address.
I sure hope they cancel your order, you greedy bastard.
Got a refresh right at 2:00 and the offer was gone from the page.
Wish I had a T3 connection. Just cable. :(
Thats what is weird my browser never slowed down really (like not loading) 12 rolled around (I am in mountain time) I clicked I want this promo) I added the little math problem they asked me and Got the confirmation page saying I won
I can't believe they seriously went that fast
Yeah - Amazon really screwed this one up. They were totally unprepared for the load and most people can't even get a response from their horrible servers.
I am boycotting Amazon for this shopping season, and I encourage others to do the same.
You're boycotting Amazon because you don't think you were given a fair chance to win a discounted item?
Boo-Hoo
so...what was the trick to getting one? I got only to the code page...
Yeah, I wonder if ANYONE got any. It seems the crash was worse than the Wii!
I added to cart about 1 second after 11:00 PST and it still says $300...
Lol, you should have read the instructions. You can't just add to cart, you have to by through cusomters vote page.
You did it completely wrong. If you had read anything about the offer, you'd know that you have to order it through the voting page and receive a code.
Arrrrgggg, i refreshed twice, and then it said sold out at 11:05! grrrr!
People actually got it? I can't ping or load amazon.com on my 8mbit cable connection.
Yeah I went to my email and confirmed that I did if you got one they should have sent you an email with a copy of the discount code
Damn, no more?
I was waiting for this day for all of this last week, oh well.
looks like amazon went down right at 2pm EST... I've tried on multiple computers at the same time to connect... even pinging the domain fails... so looks like amazon couldn't handle it... i wonder if they will delay the sale or something
Some people were able to get them, they're all gone.
I couldn't, it wouldn't load or ping for me starting around 10:55.
Jesus! all gone in 4 minutes! didn't even had a chance to see the website after 10:58...wow!
I wasn't able to load Amazon.com up to 5 minutes before 11:00. Really cheap.
So how could so many of us get blocked out and some people "get 3 on 3 computers"? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I still can't get any Amazon page to load.
THANK YOU ENGADGET! YOU ONLY ADDED A MILLION COMPETITORS FOR ME! AND YES, I AM YELLING THIS AS I TYPE!
I started refreshing the page at 10:55am PST, no response. Amazon was completely nuked. The page finally refreshed at 11:05am PST, all sold out. :(
This sucks, my page only refreshed once like ten minutes after the deal started, and they were all sold out.