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Best Buy's Mac Sale Over

Thursday November 27, 2008 8:38 am PST by Arnold Kim
With early hints at only modest sales at Apple stores, it comes as a surprise that Best Buy's Mac sale appears to be over. The retailer's site no longer shows the $100-$150 discounts on new Macs.

At this time MacMall sales (chart) remain in effect. Official U.S. Apple Black Friday sales should be published later tonight but it appears that modest ($100) discounts will only extend to the iMac and MacBook.

Update: The sale was originally planned only until Wed night.
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840quadra
42 months ago
Well so much for planning on taking advantage of this on Friday. But, I don't believe the item I was after was going to be on sale anyway. Curious to hear about the sales totals though.

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caffeinejoe
42 months ago
Wow!! That was quick. Looks like it will have to be the Apple store for me.
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mkrishnan
42 months ago
On a scale of one to evil, how evil am I that I kind of want Best Buy to go out of business? I mean, slowly, so that all the people who work for them can be absorbed back into the economy, and all, but ultimately disappear forever? :o
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Mac Brown
42 months ago
Interesting. I wonder if BB is gearing up for bigger discount on Macs tomorrow.

Would rather have the money go directly to Apple anyway. Hopefully we'll see some competitive discounts.
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Mykbibby
42 months ago

Wow!! That was quick. Looks like it will have to be the Apple store for me.


That's the reason Apple pulled it... :rolleyes:
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darwinian
42 months ago
The BB sale plus no tax in NH saved me about 250 bucks on a new MBP. Minus the 7 for filling up my friend's gas tank, and dinner for $30, I saved 213 bucks, which is better than nothing! My understanding of this sale, from our local ad in MA, was that it was to end yesterday.

Interesting. I wonder if BB is gearing up for bigger discount on Macs tomorrow.

Would rather have the money go directly to Apple anyway. Hopefully we'll see some competitive discounts.


I don't think they'd do that, because they know they'd get a huge backlash from annoyed customers.
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xamkil83
42 months ago
I thought the discounts would at least continue through "Black Friday". They are not listing any new prices on the mac line for "Black Friday" which is really disappointing. For once I had planed to buy a new MBP somewhere other than the Apple Store, not any more.
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skucera
42 months ago
Did anyone actually look at the print ad? It was clearly a "4 days only" sale, from Sunday through Wednesday. Why am I the only one not surprised the sale is over when it was supposed to end?
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Robb315
42 months ago
The flyer that came out with the sale on Sunday said it was only a pre-thanksgiving sale for four days only anyhow.

skucera beat me to the punch.
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arn
42 months ago

Did anyone actually look at the print ad? It was clearly a "4 days only" sale, from Sunday through Wednesday. Why am I the only one not surprised the sale is over when it was supposed to end?


you are correct. my mistake.

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