Boutros said: So now Canada is the best as we have BOTH Black Friday and Boxing Day! :D |
Not yet, only a few retailers offered sales this year. Also the ones that did didn't offer all of the same deals they did in America.
EBGames and ToysRus are the two Canadian retailers I thought of checking out. But both stores didn't have the games I wanted or movies. So I still had to go south, Best Buy and Future Shop both have weekend sales this weekend but they aren't on par with Americas. Unfortunately I think it will be another two or so years before Canada completely catches up. I hear Boxing Day is moving south more and more each year as well. Hopefully in a few years Canada will have amazing Black Friday's like the US, the US will have amazing Boxing Days like Canada.
On topic, I went intending to spend only 300$ but ended up at 950$ plus tax, here's what I got
Games
-Batman Arkham City (360) 29.99$
-Crysis 2 (360) 39.99$
-Sonic Generations (360) 29.99$
-Rayman Origins (360) 39.99$
- Deus Ex (360) 39.99$
(Gifts for family, games - DiRT 3 (14.99$) and Forza 4 (34.99$)
Movies
- Captain America BluRay (19.99$)
-Xmen First Class BR (9.99$)
-Pirates of the Caribean BR(24.99$)
- Austin Powers Collection BR (29.99$)
-Narnia Voyage of the Dawn Tredder (17.99$)
- Fast and the Furious all five of them BR (50$)
- Bourne Collection BR (30$)
- Transformers Dark Of the Moon BR (14.99$)
-Bad Santa BR (7.99$)
-Brides Maids BR (14.99$)
- Sucker Punch BR (7.99$)
-Arthur BR (14.99$)
-I-Robot BR (8.99$)
-The Last Airbender BR (8.99$)
-Due Date BR (14.99$)
- Unknown BR (9.99$)
-Horrible Bosses BR (11.99$)
-Machette BR (9.99$)
-Cop Out BR (7.99$)
-Armored BR (7.99$)
-Battle Las Angeles BR (9.99$)
-The Other Guys BR (11.99$)
TV seasons
- Burn Notice Seasons 2,3 (14.99$ ea)
-NCIS Seasons 1-6 (14.99$ ea)
-24 Season 8 (14.99$)
-Big Bang Theory Season 4 BR (18.99$)
-Walking Dead Season One limited Special edition Best Buy Exclusive (32.99$)
Music
- Disturbed Down With the Sickness (12.99$)
-Linkin Park Hybrid Theory (10$)
-Linkin Park A thousand suns (12.99$)
Ummm yah I got way to carried away, fortunately my credit cards were both frozen. They thought that the cards had been stolen so both Capital One and CIBC froze my accounts. If they hadn't I probably would have started buying more gifts, I had just finished shopping for myself and was starting to look for gifts.... Man I'm so screwed financially!
I also had bought stuff on behalf of two friends which brought my bill much higher but both of them will repay me and those items aren't really mine. This is a perfect example of someone poor buying every movie and game they want all dirt cheap for affordable prices. In fact my credit card use had been an average of 50$ a week and I had only bought two games and no movies in the last six months, I waited for Black Friday so I could buy everything cheap.
Mythe said:
Boutros said: So now Canada is the best as we have BOTH Black Friday and Boxing Day! :D |
To be honest Boxing Day is nothing special. I walk into a store on that day and everything is the same price.
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Dude Mythe do you do your research and hit multiple stores on Boxing Day? I can say last year I spent 700$ on boxing day and I saved over 1,500$. I got some movies and games cheaper then they were on Black Friday. You just have to do your research and line up early, if you get into the store right when it opens and you know exactly which stores to go to and when you can save a fortune.
Also while a lot of the same deals come on Boxing Day, their are others that never came on Black Friday. I remember back when TP had come out it was 19.99$ brand new on GameCube from Zellers months after release, as was SSX and other titles. Movies and TV series are amazingly cheap I picked up every season of 24 for 8.99$ ea and same went for Two and Half Men.
You just need to do some research, also remember Best Buy Canada price matches on Boxing Day. No other retailer does so hit them first because if you bring your flyers from all the other stores you don't have to fight over the few copies. Then if Best Buy doesn't have them in stock head for your second chance at the actual retailer.