is anyone else underwhelmed with the BB and FS boxing day sales?

[BobW]

The FS flyer is cracking me up on their "regular prices"... BFG 6600 FT is reg 319?? no kidding you can put a big number sale on it if you list that as the regular price.

Mostly, stuff like that will actually cause me to tune their advertising out over the long run rather than make me want to step in their store.

[vellan]

lots and lots of MIR too

very disapointing

definitely not worth waking up early for, although i would love the wireless for my new laptop....

[akito925]

Yep, I'm underwhelmed as well. I wanted an LCD Monitor, but everything on sale at BB/FS is a Generic Brand except for the Samsung 19 inch.

yeah I'm looking for lcd tooo! but everytyhing at futureshop is all generic and theres nothing good at all that interests me.. to get.

[Unicron]

Yes, very

would have been nice to see A NEW xbox instead of a factory refurbished for $159.99 and it doesn't look like it comes with any games

[boo4842]

The pc games are OK, but not really what I was hoping for either. I'll pick up guild wars, and probably WoW too. I just bought AOE III for $60 3 weeks ago or I would have got that as well.

I was glad I didn't see a clearence lappy, cause I just bought one 2 weeks ago and was worried about the FS and BB sales. Experience should have told me not to worry. Nothing like the sub $500 lappy deals on Black friday.

Walmart and Staples are the same - not worth going to either

[Vinman]

In a way, this is good news, as I can spend the day relaxing, playing with all my current tech toys.

[silvermark]

I don't know if the deals are disappointing, but there sure isn't anything I'd buy...

Does any store have a 10% off anything or something? That would rule... every customer could get what he really wanted at a lower price.

[mizer]

lots and lots of MIR too

very disapointing

definitely not worth waking up early for, although i would love the wireless for my new laptop....

I'm with ya there.... well....not in bed with you...er... oh... you know what I mean.....the not getting up part

you can get the DI-524 from FS now for $29 which isn't too bad.... bit flaky on the WPA until I realized that I could falsh the firmware with the 624 software....imagine that....2 models from d-link with the same hardware....go figure....alternatively just get a 624 for $49

[CorSter]

i'm going to Future Shop for the Notebook RAM...

future shop has 20 per store, best buy has 40 per store

so there should be 100 along the Yonge University Spadina Line.

[DJ_Peanuts22]

quite disappointed, nothing really worth getting for me this year.

looks like i'll be sleeping in while ppl are lining up and fighting off others to get their deals

[MrDisco]

i dunno...to me the FS/BB boxing week sale seems pretty lame. the only thing that caught my eye were the pc games for $30.

[diwana]

the big screen tvs are at a pretty good price...

55" grand wega for $3000 at BB
60" grand wega for $3300 at FS

i'm gonna go the bay and try and PM it and use a truckload of gift cards...even though most places dont PM on boxing day, I'm pretty sure I can get them to PM those prices...speaking of which, does bay do 110%, or do they just match? or is it one of those YMMV things? (i heard from somewhere they do 115%)

[masterhapposai]

possibly the.worst.boxing.day.ever

[impostor]

The FS flyer is cracking me up on their "regular prices"... BFG 6600 FT is reg 319?? no kidding you can put a big number sale on it if you list that as the regular price.

I think that's ridiculous too, but FS isn't the only retailer guilty of doing this. The CT Boxing Day flyer has in small print on the bottom of the last page:

Regular prices shown are the prices at which the products have been sold by Canadian Tire as of November 17, 2005."

So maybe FS is just using an even earlier reference date.

[kcjchan]

Are there any items that may go on sale and not advertised in the flyer?