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Will Cyber Monday 2009 Be Bigger Than Black Friday?
As the great recession of '09 kicks into high gear this upcoming holiday season, traditional retailers are certainly going to scratch and scrape for every consumer dollar available. Things traditionally kick off into high gear around Thanksgiving friday, otherwise know as Black Friday. The term Black Friday was coined early on as it was typically the day when most retailers were 'in the black' for the year. Lately, Black Friday has featured early bird specials and midnight opennings that draw some of the largest crowds for the season.
A few years ago, a phenomenon known as Cyber Monday has joined Black Friday as a great day to score online deals. Cyber Monday has several definitions, the first being the Monday following Black Friday. As office workers settle back into 'work' on Monday, they are greated with cyber monday deals that both brick and morter & online only merchants feature on their web sites. In addition, Cyber Mondays are also considered every Monday (following Black Friday) leading up to Christmas.
Several factors could contribute to Cyber Monday continuing to see growth this year:
- Taxes
- This might be one of the final 'hurrah' years for online merchants such as Amazon.com to offer tax free deals on merchandise. As state revenues continue to decline, will this be the last year for this tax 'loophole'?
- Price of Gasoline
- It is up, it is down, but generally it cost money and time to hit all those Black Friday specials across American suburbs.
- Retailer Bankruptcy
- As more traditional brick and morter retailers go belly up (Circuit City, Linen & Things, etc.) there will certainly be less Black Friday bargains to be had. This will particulary affect the smaller strip malls that no longer have big retailer 'anchor stores' to draw in crowds.
So all told, Cyber Monday is a very long way off from taking over for Black Friday sales dominance, but perhaps 2009 might be the tipping point?
What do you think?
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This is PacSun's biggest sale of the year!
Take an additional 50% off all markdowns + use the coupon code below for an additional 15% -20% off!
The coupon is automatically activated during checkout (valid through July 7th)
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Grab the LifeGear hand-cranked Flashlight and Radio for $25 w/ free shipping. It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Thursday, July 2, 2009.
Equip yourself with the Life Gear LGTF38 and you'll have multiple tools in one--flashlight, radio, reading lamp, emergency siren, cell phone charger, and more. The rugged, hand-crank-powered Life Gear is perfect for camping, handy for electrical outages, and indispensable in emergencies.
Check it out: Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day
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$25 Restaurant.com Gift Certificates for $2.00!
Take 80% off $25 Restaurant.com Gift Certificates. Enter in your zip code to see the participating local restaurants.
After searching, you can then buy a certificate for 80% off (using the code). You print out the coupon and take it with you to the restaurant. The individual restaurant guidelines vary (minimum purchase, days of week, etc.), so check them out...
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- Click here: Restaurant.com - Take 80% off $25 Gift Certificates
- After adding the certificate to your cart, use coupon code DISH
  
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Grab McAfee Total Protection for $12.99 (Reg. $79.99). It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Thursday, June 18, 2009.
Check it out: Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day
Product Features
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- QuickScan--Checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked
- Network Monitoring--Alerts you when intruders connect to your home network
- Age Appropriate Searching--Sets the proper content filtering levels of search engines
- Anti-virus/Anti-spyware--Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware
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Grab the Creative Labs Vedo High Def (720p) Pocket Video Recorder for $129.99 (Reg. $229.99). It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Monday, June 16, 2009.
Check it out: Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day
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Catch the perfect snowboarding stunt, your baby's first steps or your kid's graduation, share it online and save it for a lifetime with Creative's Vado HD Pocket Video Cam. The thin, lightweight Vado HD is small enough to fit easily in a pocket, purse or the palm of your hand, and it captures video in 720P high-definition quality with just the touch of a button.
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Get $25 off $100 purchases at SportsAuthority.com!
Coupon ends June 21, 2009.
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$25 Restaurant.com Gift Certificates for $2.00!
Take 80% off $25 Restaurant.com Gift Certificates. Enter in your zip code to see the participating local restaurants.
After searching, you can then buy a certificate for 80% off (using the code). You print out the coupon and take it with you to the restaurant. The individual restaurant guidelines vary (minimum purchase, days of week, etc.), so check them out...
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- Click here: Restaurant.com - Take 80% off $25 Gift Certificates
- After adding the certificate to your cart, use coupon code PRESENT
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FREE BUDGET SHIPPING
List price: $14.99
SAVE 66%
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AWESOME!
Grab either the FartMaster or BurpMaster Talking Pen for $4.99 w/ free shipping over at Buy.com.
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Fart Master Details:
Embarrass your friends and shock your neighbors with your secret weapon Fart Master! Six Hilarious fart sounds you can let loose anywhere and blame it on your closest friends. Convenient pen lets you carry your "arsenal" wherever you go.
Six fart sounds:
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- Squeeker
- Blowing Mud
- Heiny Burp
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Burp Master Details:
This handy pen is a surefire way to make your friends laugh anywhere you go. The Burpmaster is a pen with built-in burp sounds that you can call up at the touch of a button. Each burp was carefully recorded and is an authentic recreation of actual burps.
Three burping sounds:
- Burpula
- Bubbles
- Mount fast
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BestBuy.com has just kicked off their online only Memorial Day Specials.
Highlighted deals include:
- Free Blu-ray Movie w/ any Blu-ray player
- 15-20% Off Select Speakers
- Free $25 Gift Card w/ 120GB Zune
- Save $50 on D-Link Extreme N Gaming Router
- 50% Off All Game Downloads
- Plus more...
Check it out: BestBuy Online Only Memorial Day Specials
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Grab the Magellan Maestro 4350 4.3 Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic for $179.99 (64% off). It is the Gold Box Deal of the Day for Friday, May 15, 2009.
Check it out: Gold Box Deal of the Day
Designed with the driver in mind, the Maestro 4350 features a 4.3-inch widescreen anti-glare touchscreen, Bluetooth, real-time traffic updates, and 2D and 3D maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico--all packed into a streamlined design that will add a bit of flair to any interior. Other features of the device include the customizable OneTouch menu, media player, wireless FM transmitter, and the power of AAA travel office pre-loaded into its 2 GB of memory. 
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Check out the Buy.com weekend specials section.
Deals include the DaVinci Code (DVD) for $6.25 w/ free shipping.
The DaVinci Code (DVD)
Most of these promotions will run Friday through Sunday...
Check it out: Buy.com Weekend Specials List 
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Grab the Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB for $59.99 (reg. $100). It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
Check it out: Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day
With its sleek design and huge capacity, the Seagate FreeAgent Go portable makes it easy to take your photos, music, videos, and documents anywhere. The FreeAgent Go also features a convenient USB 2.0 bus powered interface that lets you use the drive with a single cable for power and data. 
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Grab Babylon 5: The Complete Series for cheap!
Save 65% on all five seasons of "Babylon 5," the epic sci-fi series often considered one of the greatest and most influential TV shows ever made. It is the Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day for Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
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The epic sci-fi series Babylon 5 was a unique experiment in the history of television. It was effectively a novel for television in five seasons, consisting of 110 episodes with a clear beginning, middle, and end. The first season introduces the main characters, headed this year by Commander Jeffery Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle), and familiarizes the audience with the unique environment of a five-mile-long space station in the year 2257. The first episode, "Midnight on the Firing Line," plays at a breathless pace, introducing Commander Susan Ivanova (Claudia Christian) and establishing the conflict between the Narn and Centauri races as represented by their ambassadors, G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas) and Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik). B5 hits warp speed with a run of exceptional episodes building to the season finale. The two-part "Voice in the Wilderness" has Mars breaking into open revolt against Earth and the discovery of a "Great Machine" on the dead world Epsilon 3. Referencing 1950s sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, the story leads to the superb time-travel-based "Babylon Squared." Season finale "Chrysalis" proves more than just the usual television cliffhanger, placing Minbari ambassador Delenn in conflict with her ruling Grey Council and forcing on her a decision that laid the groundwork for Babylon 5's eventually becoming a great love story.
Delenn's future love interest, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) arrived on Babylon 5 in the first episode of season 2, "Points of Departure." The show marked the handing over of command of B5 to Sheridan from Commander Jeffery Sinclair, actor Michael O'Hare becoming a victim of studio politicians who wanted a bigger star in the leading role. "Revelations" explains that Sheridan's wife, Anna, died during an archaeological survey of the world Z'ha'dum, the name being just one of many references to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (the bridge at Khazad-Dum). "The Coming of Shadows" proved to be Babylon 5's finest hour to date, and in "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Sheridan learns that Morden was on the ship on which Anna died. Three exceptional shows conclude the season. The Narn-Centauri war escalates in "The Long, Twilight Struggle," Sheridan faces a most unusual ordeal in "Comes the Inquisitor," and in "The Fall of Night" all hope of peace is shattered as a nerve-racking assassination attempt reveals a startling secret about Ambassador Kosh.
"Matters of Honor" launched Babylon 5's third season with the introduction of the White Star, a spacecraft added to enable more of the action to take place away from the station. Also introduced was Marcus Cole (Jason Carter)--in another nod to The Lord of the Rings, a Ranger not so far removed from Tolkien's Strider. A third of the way through the season "Messages from Earth," "Point of No Return," and "Severed Dreams" prove pivotal, changing the nature of the story in a way previously unimaginable on network TV. Earth slides into dictatorship, the fascistic Nightwatch takes control of off-world security, and Sheridan take decisive action by declaring Babylon 5 independent. "Interludes and Examinations" presented the death of a major supporting character, while the two-part "War Without End" reached apocalyptic dimensions in a complex tale resolving the destiny of Sinclair and the fate of Babylon 4, resolving a 1,000-year-old paradox and presenting a vision of a very dark future for Sheridan and Delenn. All this was trumped by the monumental "Z'ha'dum." In the preceding "Shadow Dancing" Anna Sheridan (Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner's real-life wife) returned from the dead, no longer entirely human. In the mythologically resonant climax Anna invited Sheridan back to the Shadow homeworld with no hope of survival. Just as in The Lord of the Rings Gandalf fell into the abyss at Khazad-Dum, so Sheridan took a comparable leap into the unknown on an alien world.
Season 4 began on a high point with the Centauri Prime in the grip of the insane Emperor Cartagia (Wortham Krimmer) and a run of six shows leading to the climax of the war against the Shadows in "Into the Fire." If this colossal narrative was resolved a little too easily and the ultimate aim of the Shadows turned out to be a tad disappointing, it still proved to be the most powerful slice of space opera to ever grace the small screen. In the aftermath the sheer scale dropped back a little but the pace never slowed as the rest of the season played out in one relentless cycle of conspiracy, betrayal and conflict, Babylon 5 siding with the rebel Mars colony against the totalitarian Earth. On an unstoppable wave fuelled by roller-coaster plot twists and spectacular action shows from "No Surrender, No Retreat"--when Sheridan avows to overthrow EarthGov--to "Rising Star"--when the aim is realized--Babylon 5 achieved a consistent excellence rare in television.
The final season found Claudia Christian departed and Ivanova replaced by Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Tracy Scoggins), who in a soap-opera twist turned out to be Sheridan's first wife. Sheridan was promoted to President of the Interstellar Alliance and the action moved to a group of telepaths seeking sanctuary from the PSI-Corp on B5. Meanwhile the aftermath of the Shadow War was explored, and as usual the season picked up toward the end, with a string of fine political episodes. The final episode, "Sleeping in Light," was directed by J. Michael Straczynski and made an epilogue to the series. Set 20 years later, after all the sound and fury this quiet, elegiac tale is the apotheosis of the love story that proved the balance to the tragedy of the preceding darkness. A personal story resolved against a background of the epic, at once transcendent, deeply human, and profoundly optimistic, "Sleeping in Light" is as moving as any hour in the history of television drama and a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to one of the greatest series ever made. --Gary S. Dalkin 
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60% Off Dilbert 2.0
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams' beloved comic strip with 60% off Dilbert 2.0. (hardcover) today only.
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Book Description
Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." --Suzanne Tobin, Washington Post
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor.
This special slipcased collection--weighing in at more than ten pounds with 600 pages and featuring almost 4,000 strips--takes readers behind the scenes and into the early days of Scott Adams's life pre-Dilbert and on to the success that followed when Dilbert became an internationally syndicated sensation.
Divided into five different epochs, Dilbert 2.0 gives readers a glance at some of Adams's earliest strips, like those created for Playboy, and a peek at an abundance of special content ranging from numerous rejection letters to Adams's first cartooning check, and more.
Adams personally selected the material for this collection and offers original comments and humorous asides throughout. Also included is a piracy-protected disc that contains every Dilbert comic strip to date and that can be updated as new cartoons are released.
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25% Off Sports Authority Friends & Family Promo
Everyone is family this weekend!
Take 25% off a single item (exclusions apply) through April 19, 2009.
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