Black Friday Cheers and Jeers

A pretty good report on what retailers/online stores deserve praise and what ones deserve scorn:

http://dealnews.com/features/Black-Friday-Cheers-Jeers-2009/332676.html

Amazon comes out on top by a mile, apparently matching prices in almost real time to competitors, and not just Walmart. I'm hoping this trend continues. Roku really screwed up by not having sufficient bandwidth and having people lose their half-price products already in their carts. Not good. I would have liked to have gotten in on the Roku HD-XR (wireless N) box that went for $65.00 (half price).

I did get $25 worth of free Sharpie pens from Staples, but a big jeer to them for advertising a coupon code on the weekend for this sale and having the coupon code ruled "invalid" on the website. A call to customer service today got me the credit for that, but seemingly thousands of others had to get the same credit applied after the fact.

I also dug deep into the wallet for a couple of $10 Zune Premium Headphones from Newegg; very good price.

How'd you make out?

I'm going to keep my eye on Amazon for the rest of the sales season just to see what they'll match.