ZDnet is reporting that Microsoft’s iPod-killa is experiencing a slow start. ZDnet was unable to find the mp3 player at most retailers, and experienced mixed reviews at a local Best Buy.
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Morning Deals
By 11.15.06
• Chick-Fil-A: Be one of the first million to sign up and get a free breakfast.
AmEx Opens Shopper Sanctuaries (Cardholders Only)
By 11.14.06
AmEx installed opened a special “member’s lounge” this week in The Mall At Short Hills, NJ, aka, the epicenter of poop.
Morning Deals
By 11.14.06
• Threadless: $10 shirt sale! Until x-mas, they’ll be adding new shirts every day. Threadless shirts are a great way to appear quirky and nonthreatening.
Skip Black Friday Lines
By 11.14.06
If you’re not going for a door-buster or a super-limited item, this trick could save you a lot of time when shopping on Black Friday.
Consumer Reports Warns Against Extended Warranties
By 11.13.06
Consumer Reports has an excellent article this morning warning against the fraud that is the extended warranty. From the article:
Best of Both Worlds
By 11.13.06
ZDNet is reporting that MacMall is selling Macbooks that are pre-loaded with both Windows XP and MacOS. You can get your dual boot system in two flavors: Apple’s free BootCamp 1.1 which allows you to boot either operating system, or Nova Development’s Parallels Desktop … which allows you to run both at the same time.
HOWTO: Make Black Friday Count
By 11.9.06
If you like jostling in a sea of shoppers for limited deals and waiting in the cold, Black Friday is the shopping holiday for you! Here’s how to get the most of Friday, November 24.
Like.com Finds What You Like
By 11.9.06
Like.com is a brand-new search engine that allows you to search by looking at shoes and accessories featured in celebrity photos. Sounds lame, and it is, until you realize that you can draw a box around the exact part of the featured accessory you like… and like.com searches for other products that have that same feature.
Morning Deals
By 11.9.06
• American Apparel: 15% Off /w Voter Stub or Sticker. Ask them which of their cotton basics goes well with waterboarding.
Smack Deal Of The Day
By 11.8.06
Jellyfish’s Smack Deal of the Day goes on at 1pm. It’s like Woot! except a reverse auction: as units sell, the price goes down. The game is to buy the product at the lowest price possible.
Morning Deals
By 11.8.06
• Shoebuy: 20% Off with coupon code: 20GETREADY06. Stack with 65% off sale items for a great deal. Free shipping and free returns.
Big Titty Mannequins
By 11.7.06
Mannequins are disturbing enough, but do we really need to give them size D breasts?
Morning Deals
By 11.7.06
• L.L. Bean: Storm Chaser Jacket for $39.95. Free shipping with coupon code: 2324840. You can have any color you want, as long as its vapor gray.
Morning Deals
By 11.6.06
• Woot: iRobot Roomba Discovery SE for $149.99. It’s no replacement for a mop, but it will get the floors decently clean. Oh, and steal your husband.
Retailers Say Walmart’s Early Black Friday Won’t Affect Prices
By 11.5.06
Will Walmart’s extremely early holiday price cuts, or “rollbacks,” inspire other retailers to follow suit?
