Cyber Monday Deals - Best Message Boards

Find the Forums with Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

Nov 19, 2009 Melanie Zoltan

Chasing Black Friday deals has become an art form. But what about Cyber Monday deals? Find the best message boards with up-to-date Cyber Monday sales.

The day after Thanksgiving has historically been the first day of the Christmas and holiday shopping season. Over the past decade, this day has taken on new retail importance as "Black Friday," a day when shoppers flood the stores in search of gifts. Retailers, hoping to capitalize on early sales, lure gift buyers with massive sales on Black Friday, with "doorbuster" discounts of 50-90% on specific items. For those shoppers who don't want to get up for sales that begin as early as 4am, there are Cyber Monday deals.

Cyber Monday Sales

Cyber Monday began as a response to Black Friday, as online retailers watched their own Friday sales plummet when shoppers flocked to "bricks and mortar" stores to take advantage of incredible gift deals. Online retailers needed a gimmick to help boost their early holiday sales, and thus Cyber Monday sales were born. Online stores such as Amazon, Apple, HP, Harry and David, Wine.com, and Dell, as well as merchants with both building and online presence such as Best Buy, ToysRUs, WalMart, Target, Kohl's, Dick's, Sears, Home Depot, Lowe's, Staples, Office Max, Fry's, Bed Bath and Beyond, JCPenney and more, offer solid discounts on specific items for one day only in this Internet equivalent to Black Friday.

So where can shoppers learn about Cyber Monday deals? Online message boards, of course!

Best Message Boards for Cyber Monday Deals

For deal hunters, the online message board has become the water cooler for the frugal. Deal message boards are designed to help buyers find sales, and true frugal shoppers combine a sale with an online coupon code. The two best message boards for Cyber Monday deals are:

FatWallet.com - Fat Wallet will leave shoppers with fatter wallets, with a Hot Deals channel that contains a wide array of information about Cyber Monday sales and Black Friday as well. Most users post a special sale, and other users chime in with ways to tweak the deal and make it even better. Fat Wallet also has "Fat Cash," a system users can sign up for to get cash back for online purchases.

SlickDeals.net - Slick Deals is like Fat Wallet on steriods. Where Fat Wallet users might combine a sale with a coupon, Slick Dealers will take the Cyber Monday deals to a whole new level, posting about timed deals, limited quantities, and loopholes that sweeten the price. Check Slick Deals frequently, because information quickly becomes out of date for gift shopping on Cyber Monday.

Both sites have entire threads or channels devoted to Cyber Monday, and the membership levels are high enough that turnaround and input on new deals is very high. Both sites are the authoritative sources to consult for Cyber Monday sales.

Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday

Some people have turned Black Friday into as much a part of Thanksgiving as the turkey itself. Get up at 3am, get some coffee, map out the sales, power shop, and return before 10am with a full car. For other people, the thought of appearing at WalMart of Staples at 5am to buy a printer or a netbook is inconceivable. Sticking with Cyber Monday is ideal for shoppers looking for specific items from online retailers, while Black Friday tends to appeal to people buying a wider array of goods, or buying for larger numbers of gift recipients. There is no right answer to the question of which is better; that depends on the gift shopper.

To learn more about holiday gift giving and Cyber Monday, please read Best Secret Santa Gifts and Warnings About Deals for Cyber Monday

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