Stanley

My dad gave me his old Panasonic TV that he bought back in '08 with the Bush stimulus money. That big fucker is a bitch to move and puts out an ungodly amount of heat, but it's still going strong and I refuse to get rid of it.

INSANE how heavy entertainment systems use to be, to hold up old fat backs

I know it sees a lot of action, but I wouldn't go so far as calling your mom's bed an entertainment system..

Lol "fat backs"? You mean CRT's?

This is commonly parroted and while it does happen it isn't the case for literally every single deal.

My roommates and I bought a TV in September and paid the extra $50 or whatever to be able to get a refund if a better price came up. For Black Friday, that TV is ~$250 less than we paid for, and we're getting our money back.

Black Friday/ Cyber Monday can be great times to pick up on deals and many items reach yearly lows for these sales, you just need to not blindly purchase things or fall into the hype. The way I look at it is, if I already know I want/ need it, I'll look around on Black Friday for a good deal. But I won't let deals on these days be the thing that tells me I want or need something.

The other one is they actually make a slightly different model where it's using cheaper hardware like a slower cpu and nobody really notices or cares because it is cheap but they probably won't last that long. You can verify by looking at the long model string and see if you can find any info online. If it matches the regular one great, but sometimes it's not.

"I read this online and so now I repeat it online to others to seem smart and give myself a smug sense of satisfaction."