Bloody Amazon Black Friday!

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Amazon are doing a 'Black Friday' (started today, finishes Fr - hence name) where each hour they flog summat off dirt cheap. I pressed BUY at 09:00:01 for Take That's new CD at £1 (for SiL) and have been "waiting in the queue" ever since...

I'm 37+3 and have been sleeping about 3 hours a night. AIBU to just go back to bed and sod the savings?!

Hadn't even heard about it! Seems that a lot of people are quite annoyed about it though

Everything is selling out in seconds. I was watching the Harry Potter 1-6 blueray collection and it was gone in about 3 seconds.

Lots of people are ranting about it. It was advertised to look as though the offers would last far longer than the 30 seconds or so that they seem to be!

I was going to have a look but judging from everyone else's reactions I don't think I'll bother.

Grrrr. I was after a nice Le Creuset dish and they basically sold out instantly! I blame you, Quizteam, for alerting me to its existence

The Le Creuset went in under a minute!

I tried for TT's album but told me they had sold out after a few minutes. Did manage to get Golden Eye game for the Wii tho, all I need now is to get a Wii..don't like my chances!

somebody must be getting the deals though, or in my computer illiterate innocence are there just a few computer geeks out there with clever gadgetry to snap up the bargins?

Some people will definitely be using automatic scripts. It'll all be on e-bay by this afternoon

what's black friday mean?

What are automatic scripts?

Black Friday is the term they use in America for a sale they have the day after Thanksgiving. Apparently it's quite mad, people stampeding over each other!

I think it's a con! The items I've seen come up for sale are gone faster than you can hit 'refresh'! Comments on Amazon itself are calling for Watchdog to investigate - don't waste your time.

You don't need to hit refresh

no you don't - I was just using the phrase 'faster than you can hit refresh'. Did you nab anything TH

Yes, you should go back to bed and forget all about it!
and so should the rest of you..
(ulterior motive emoticon)

LOL at 6%!

Oh sorry I thought that was what you were doing!

I got the Golden Eye Wii game, other than that I only tried for take that's album. Not much else I want from today so will have a look tomorrow. Have you tried to buy many items?

There are also smaller deals underneath the lightening ones. I am wondering how many they have of each item!

Mmm, lovely sleep. Bet 6% has got all the good stuff . Got up all refreshed and ready to fight for the 6pm slot... It's a farkin socket set! As long as I have a hole in me arse, you can bet I'd bloody get that Still, that's Mr QTB's Crimbo sorted!

wtf! how can it be sold out in less than 1 second?????

I just clicked to buy the mysterious offer and it was gone!

Hurrah! Got an electric shaver! Not really very exciting, but DH did mention yesterday that he would like one . RRP £100, already £43.99 normal Amazon price, £31.99 Black Friday price. Good deal?

The mystery one was a telly. That was always going to go quickly.

My technique - make sure your cursor is hovering where the 'add to trolley' button is and click the moment you see the screen begin to change.

it was a tv for me at 6pm lol

I would have bought the shaver too if it popped up

they must have different ones at the same time?

Right. Am going for Domestic Goddess thing at 7pm, which is hopefully Nigella's new book, and House box set at 8pm.

There are 3 items showing up for each time for me, but you'll only have time to go for one, I think, even if you have multiple windows open.

I only saw the telly, but I only just discovered the black friday thing

I'm clearly an amateur.. frequently outbid on ebay too, lol