I’m not particularly fond of T-Mobile’s network, at least around my area; but that sure is one hell of a deal if you know of any happy customers in your region. They don’t have the HTC Incredible that I just upgraded to, but they DO have some other nice phones like the HD2 which you may want to check out. They also have a decent selection of android devices (like the incredible) because they have been carrying android phones longer than the other major carriers.

Details are obviously sketchy, and who knows if this materializes, but if you’re in the market for a new phone/contract, you might want to wait it out until this weekend before you pull the trigger.

For a limited time, you will only pay $9.95 for each additional license! Even better still, you CAN combine this special with our exclusive coupon code NEVR1 during checkout.

Normal price: 29.95+29.95 = 59.90
Sale price       : ( 29.95+9.95 ) -  20% = 31.91

That is an effective savings of almost 50%!!!! To put it another way, when you combine these two offers, you actually get your second copy for about 2 dollars!!! As you continue to purchase additional licenses, your discount will get even larger.

Don’t miss out, because this is one heck of a deal.

Should you spend hours before you leave the house doing price comparisons on every item you might conceivably walk past during that day? Probably not… Are you going to look up half of those same items next week because you didn’t make it to the store on time? Even less likely… All the same, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come home after impulsively buying something, only to find that I could have saved 20-30 dollars simply by crossing the street to the competitors. That lost money adds up fast. Think of all the other impulse buys you could have made with that money.

So, here’s what I do, and hopefully it can save you as much as it’s saved me!

Imagine you and a friend are shopping and something catches your eye. You stare at it for a second, you start thinking things like, “I really could use one of those” and “wouldn’t that look great next to my [whatever].” You start to get that burning feeling in your wallet that just won’t go away. You quickly snatch it off the shelf, throw it in your cart and go merrily on your way.

But wait… Your friend tells you that Big Bobs Widget Bin (all the way on the other side of town) has the same thing for half off. “Great, now you tell me; we were just there!” you scold your friend. Even still, you would have to be crazy to pass up a deal like that.

Fortunately your friend, like me, carries their trusty smartphone. They power it up, zip over to Big Bobs website, and there it is- half off and everything. They flash the screen to the clerk; a few keystrokes later your friend saved you 50 bucks- all for 2 minutes worth of work.

Think about that for a second, if you were paid $50 for every 2 minutes of work you did… you would be making $1500 dollars an hour. When was the last time someone paid you $1500/hour? Personally, I can’t think of once. This will obviously help far less during your $3 – $5 purchases and much more on $50+ purchases. I be posting again in a few days some tips that work well on any items, large or small.

Some things to know

• Most stores will price match a competitors store.
• Some stores have different sales in-store and on their website. Most of them will adjust the price, but only if you tell them to.
  One place that comes to mind is Harbor Freight Tools. I save TONS of money every time I go there simply by checking their website first.
• There’s not many, but some stores will EVEN match internet prices!  The ones that do may have some limitations, and most will only match the after-shipping price… but what do you have to lose?

Slacker 4GB Wi-Fi Portable Radio Player w/ 25 Stations, Black

Retail Price: $249.99
Sale     Price: $49.99

I’ve been looking at these things for a year or so, and they seemed so freaking cool. The only problem being that they wanted a relative fortune for them, when normal MP3 players could be purchased for dirt cheap. For a very short time I imagine, that has changed.

If you haven’t been looking into these, they are basically the same as  a normal mp3 player, except for one thing. Instead of spending HOURS buying, ripping, finding, and loading songs, then repeating every few weeks when it feels stale…. Slacker will automatically choose and download songs that you will like. With wifi, you only need to plug it in to charge it. It intelligently decides what songs to download based on what artists/songs you have told it you liked or didn’t like while you were listening. The more you listen, the more accurate it tunes to your exact taste.

I can now be a complete slacker, and never reload my mp3 player again! Hurry up before Buy.com says it was a typeo!

From MFG:

Personalized Radio: The Slacker Portable is the first portable player to deliver a true personal radio experience. Whether you listen to one of over 100 expert-programmed Slacker stations or your own custom stations, Slacker learns your tastes and automatically delivers new music personalized just for you. The more you listen, the better the music gets. For Free: The Slacker Portable delivers free access to millions of songs from thousands of artists. All of the music you hear on Slacker.com is automatically sent to your Slacker Portable for free. You will always have new songs and classic tunes without paying a dime. Everywhere: The Slacker Portable is the worlds first radio player that gives you uninterrupted access to your music wherever you are. Thousands of songs are stored on the Slacker Portable to fill up all of your personalized radio stations. Those songs are automatically refreshed each time you hit a Wi-Fi hotspot to keep the music fresh without doing any work.

Effortless Create your own unique radio experience with Slacker Personal Radio. You know what you like–Slacker knows how to deliver it. Slacker’s Internet radio offering is built on the expertise of DJs from all over the country, and just by listening, you make Slacker even smarter at delivering more music that you love.

Music DiscoveryPerfect your listening experience using Slacker’s exclusive personalization tools. With the buttons, tell Slacker Radio which songs are your favorites–and which ones you never want to hear again. Fine-tune any station–get more hits, or request older artists over new, for instance. Album reviews and artist bios come with every song and are delivered right to your Slacker Portable. View them on the 4-inch color LCD.

Advanced Radio ClocksSlacker DJs operate using a proven method of picking and mixing songs to deliver excellent musical variety that complements your tastes. This patent-pending DJ technology is embedded in the Slacker Portable to create the very best radio stations. The more you listen, the better it performs to deliver new music you’ll love.

Slacker Basic Radio: Free Take the world’s first-ever personal radio player with you for nonstop, customized music wherever you go. On the Slacker Portable, store thousands of songs for repeated listening, or connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot to get new music instantly. With hours of battery life, the Slacker Portable is built to go where you go. Plus, it’s all completely legal. Slacker has unique licensing agreements with thousands of record labels to give you free access to a variety of music. By working directly with the record labels, Slacker gets the latest content to ensure your radio stations always stay current.

Ad SupportedTo offer your favorite music for free, the Slacker Basic Radio service might play one to two ads an hour. That’s significantly fewer ads than traditional radio, so you can relax and easily enjoy your favorite music.

To start off, if you’re like me, you’re probably subscribed to dozens of store newsletters… that is, in addition to being an avid reader of my site for the select deals I think deserve being posted. I don’t know if you noticed …but my email has been blowing up with a mass of back to school sales lately.

Most of it is trash that you really don’t even want; however the one or two really nice deals are usually gone before you get a chance to read them. So, using a form filling program like RoboForm may make the difference between catching, or missing the sale of a lifetime. You even get a discount from SiberSystems just for being a reader of our website.

When you go to RoboForm‘s website, just enter the coupon code NEVR1 and you will receive 20% off your entire order. That can really add up if you’re a proud parent buying it for all your college-bound kids… you can even grab yourself a copy while you’re there!

“Did you expect me to argue with the guy???  … I’m not cheap you know!!”

You may recognise or perhaps you have been in the above conversation. Chances are the people who refuse to haggle are the same people who happily clip coupons, or read through the sale flyers first thing sunday morning. Ask yourself, is negotiating a 5-10% discount any difference than saving a 10% off coupon for weeks or more until “one day when you need it?”

I would also like to dispell the myth that “not being cheap” has anything to do with being ripped off for something. Depending on where you are shopping, this may actually be commonplace already. It’s just that you never asked, so nobody ever told you.  

If this sounds interesting at all, you should probably check this article at pcworld posted today. The author “mark” called his cable company with the complaint that he (as a loyal customer) was paying more than new customers. In my book, this means he was being ripped off, paying nearly three times what he should. I have done something similar a number of times in the past, and it usually works beautifully.

I won’t go into too much detail, because then you wont read the article, and it gives you a play-by-play of his whole conversation which is quite useful. What I will tell you, is that missing out on promotions is all too common for people who don’t speak up.

Tips:

1. Be polite but firm. You know what you want, now get it!
2. First contact customer support. Then speak to a manager. If you followed tip 1 you will get an ACTUAL manager rather than the buddy of the first rep.
3. Stress the point that you have been a loyal, and repeat customer (you are, aren’t you?). You would really like to continue service/purchasing, but their price is simply too high. If one is available, mention a competitor who has a lower price, even if the service is not quite as good (within reason).
4. If the manager is unable to help, ask for the retentions department and repeat with a manager if necessary (if they do not have a retentions department, ask for cancellations, then double check). If you notice in his log, they transferred his call/chat to ‘another department.’ This was likely a rep in the retentions department.
5. Failing all of that… wash rinse repeat.

Many times one rep will be in a bad mood for one reason or whatever and won’t help, even though they can. Trying again doesn’t hurt… but if you don’t get something accomplished after once or twice, you’re better off calling their bluff and switching, or try again in a few months.

We’ve been working hard over here behind the scenes. We’re going to start posting more soon.

However, in the meantime… we have started posting brief sale announcements to our twitter page, since they take much less time to lay out and post. So, definately check that out.

As always, we’re only going to post deals we think are actually good products for good prices. We try very hard to not become another site that posts ‘just anything’ that happens to be on sale.

While normally, RoboForm makes things much easier to create an account, or update an existing one… Today is the BEST time to get RoboForm. The reason? Let’s face it, the best sales on black friday do not last long at all. On more than one occasion I have purchased something online at a sale price, later finding out the retailer will not honor the sale because they ran out of stock. This has even happened on major retailers websites, even when the purchase was done while they supposedly had plenty in stock.

So how does RoboForm help you? Well, with RoboForm‘s help you can finish your checkout faster. When a etailer runs out of a product, the available stock is given on a first-come first served fashion. Normally a 1-2 minute delay while you find all your information is simply a unnecessary inconvenience. On black friday, it could be the difference between getting a product on time, getting it late, or never getting it at all!

ALRIGHT! Now that you’re all psyched up about getting RoboForm and blowing your savings on a new iphone, or big screen tv for you or your lucky family members… just remember to use the coupon code NEVR1 when you check out. Why? Because then the people at sibersystems will give you 20% off… What is better than saving money on something that helps you save money? The answer: nothing!

Samsung 19 Widescreen LCD Monitor

Excerpt

See the bigger picture with the new Samsung 19-inch widescreen display. Ideal for the deadline-driven professional, this stylish monitor gives you plenty of extra space for multi-tasking, so you can accomplish more in less time. This Samsung 19 inch LCD monitor boasts 1000:1 high static contrast ratio, 8000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 1440 x 900 resolution, and 300 cd/m2 brightness. All of these features provide crisp, clear images, and the fast 5 ms response time also delivers outstanding image quality. Its innovative height-adjustable stand gives you the flexibility to change your viewing position – even to a complete vertical angle – to ensure maximum comfort. This monitor is also energy-efficient and VESA compliant. For professional performance at an affordable price, order the Samsung 19-inch widescreen display.

HP Compaq 6820s Notebook PC

Excerpt:

The HP Compaq 6820s Notebook PC delivers a fresh new look with a wealth of integrated features at a price you’ll appreciate. With ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 dedicated graphics, a 17-inch diagonal widescreen display and a starting weight of only 6.5 lbs, your work will come to life.

I looked around a little bit, and found dozens, possibly hundreds of items listed at steep discounts. They also have what they are calling "gold box" deals which get replaced every day at midnight… so check back daily for more great deals.

I saw everything from jewlery, watches, GPS units, printers, monitors, televisions, usb sticks, hard drives, memory… everything. Take a look around, and see if anything interests you. It beats the heck out of waiting in line for hours on friday. Then again, if you are particularly self loathing sort, you can buy from amazon AND wait in line for the best of both worlds!

Anyway, you better check them out quick… before the good stuff gets sold out. Also, remember to check our feed often, because we’re going to be announcing a lot of other black friday stuff very soon!

Note: Fixed link to amazons sale, sorry