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Buy.com Responds To Alleged Bait & Switch Scam - Extending The Deal On Orders Placed

Posted by Phillip Brunelle at Monday, November 29, 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Article by: Phillip Brunelle


Aliso Viejo, California
- With Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday shopping sales behind us, thousands of consumers are still left in the dark from a Black Friday deal gone bad.

Buy.com Fraud? - Buy.com Customers Want Answers - Charged For HDTV They Won't Get!

Posted by Phillip Brunelle at Sunday, November 28, 2010
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Article by: Phillip Brunelle

Aliso Viejo, California -Buy.com just released their Black Friday sales report saying that Black Friday produced record breaking numbers for the consumer goods website. What the press release failed to mention was the record breaking number of people who were falsely directed to buy.com for a Black Friday deal on a HDTV that many people believe never existed, while a few other people are saying the deal did exist, but later found out they really didn't get a deal at all after getting order cancellation emails the next day.

Cyber Monday - Find Cyber Monday Sales Early With Online Ads

Posted by Phillip Brunelle at Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Boston Massachusetts
Article by: Phillip Brunelle

Tip For Finding Cyber Monday Deals Online Now Looking At Google Ads!


The only thing better than the sales & deals of Black Friday is the growingly infamous Cyber Monday.

Cyber Monday was created by the National Retail Federation and first announced in 2005. Cyber Monday is a second wave of holiday sales & deals which takes place on the first Monday following Black Friday, but rather than consumers flocking out to stores and camping out all night long to be first in line for the best deals of the year, consumers can get Cyber Monday deals in the comfort of their home.

On Cyber Monday, a one day only sales blitz involving thousands of retailers and consumer goods websites takes place online. Each retailer and consumer goods website offers their best deals, and often times their sale of the year on many items. Since Cyber Monday follows the sales & deals offered on Black Friday, consumers can expect to see online deals that will either meet or beat the deals seen just a few days earlier on Black Friday.

Like many holiday sales, there are pros and cons for consumers shopping on Cyber Monday. The sales you see advertised and the deals you see mentioned online, are only offered online. If Wal-mart is offering the best deal you ever seen on a HDTV you won't find the sale in any of their stores, since it's Cyber Monday you will only find this deal on their website, and make your purchase online. An obvious pro is that you get to shop online for Cyber Monday deals from the comfort of your own home, but a con is that just like the Black Friday sales you seen in the stores where they advertised while supplies last, or limited items available, the same goes for online shopping.

While you get to shop online in the comfort of your home for Cyber Monday deals, so are millions of other consumers around the nation. If you don't have quick fingers, you just may lose out on some of the best Cyber Monday deals, which become available online in just one minute after 11:59pm Sunday night.

Finding Cyber Monday Deals Now:

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The trick to catching the holiday sales and getting the best deals is finding out about the Cyber Monday, Black Friday, and other holiday shopping sales early so that you are prepared to know just where to go and just what you are getting when you get there. When it comes to shopping online for holiday sales such as Cyber Monday, ty searching online for the deals as some of the retailers put out teases and leaks to some of their products & best deals. One trick to finding some of the best deals for Cyber Monday and other holiday sales is paying attention to advertisements, and I don't mean the sales flyers that retailers put out, but rather online ads such as google ads seen around the pages of websites, such as this one.

When a retailer or consumer goods website is about to kick off a big sale, such as the upcoming Cyber Monday sale, whether the sale is an in-store only sale or offered online, retailers and website's alike begin what's called an online advertising campaign where they utilize the services of pay-per-click ad programs such as the google ads that you see on just about any website that you go to. If the website that you are on carefully placed keywords about a particular topic, such as we have here with Cyber Monday sales and deals, then the ads that display on the page should all be relevant to Cyber Monday deals.

Retailers and consumer goods websites setup these online ad campaigns days in advance prior to the sales beginning, and most of them begin advertising these online ads right away in hopes of people noticing the ads in time for a sales event such as Cyber Monday. This means that consumers are able to get an early start on their online shopping and know just where to go and what they will be buying for Cyber Monday and other holiday sales events.

While some anxious consumers are searching for the deals being offered online for Cyber Monday, other consumers are focusing their attention to the ads displaying on the pages of websites to get an idea of just what they can find on the sales event, and some even getting those Cyber Monday deals before they are even available to the public. You would hear more about this trick to finding holiday sales and Cyber Monday deals early, but one of the policies of Google is for those advertising google ads on their websites to not encourage people to click on their Google ads.

One of the top selling Black Friday deals were HDTV flat screen televisions. People were able to save more than 50 - 70% off the normal retail prices on Black Friday and they will certainly be able to save this same amount, if not more on Cyber Monday holiday shopping sales online. Don't spend more on electronics this holiday season, shop online on Cyber Monday and save money on your purchase of a new HDTV Television, Laptop, or other electronics with some of the best deals you will see this year all on Cyber Monday!!! Consumers searching for the best holiday deals on HDTV's, computers & laptops, ipods iphones itouch and other electronics can find holiday shopping sales early just by looking at the ads around the website that you are on! Since retailers advertise their sales early online, consumers can get those online deals early too by finding and clicking on the ads!

While this article is mentioning Google ads as a way to finding Cyber Monday sales and deals early, we are not encouraging you to click on any of our own ads should they be displayed on this page. Visiting any website and clicking on any static links or ads is completely up to the person visiting the website. Webmasters should never encourage people to click on ads on their own pages.

Black Friday Buy.com HDTV Bait & Switch SCAM - PLUS Find The Best HDTV Deals & Sales HERE!

Posted by Phillip Brunelle at Friday, November 26, 2010
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Friday, November, 26th, 2010
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Article by: Phillip Brunelle

The word spread like wildfire when Sean Portnoy, a writer for ZDNet.com blasted the internet on the evening of Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 with the 'best HDTV Black Friday deal anywhere'. The Black Friday deal buster was reportedly being offered by Buy.com for a 42-inch Plasma 1080p HDTV by Panasonic for only $298 which was more than $250 less than any other advertised sale price for the same television anywhere else, including online & in-store Black Friday sales.

Portnoy reported that the Black Friday deal being offered on Buy.com for the 42-inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV "will provide superior picture quality compared to the 40-inch 1080p Westinghouse LCD TV" which was the next best HDTV deal on Black Friday being offered by Target for the same price of only $298. Portnoy then continued on with his comparisons, conveniently cross-promoting yet another deal being offered on Buy.com for the next best television deal being offered on the website.

Since the Buy.com corporate office is located in the pacific time zone, the Black Friday deal would not be offered on the website until after midnight pacific time, or after 3am here on the east coast, according to Sean Portnoy (ZDNet.com) Which in his words was " Finally, a Black Friday HDTV sale that’s worth getting up in the middle of the night for."

The ZDNet.com article was picked up by mainstream media outlets and became the buzz on the internet leading right up to the Black Friday midnight event on Buy.com but to everyone's surprise midnight on the west coast came and went, and the deal was never available on Buy.com as reported. In fact, several minutes had gone by, and yet no such deal was offered on the main page of Buy.com, the "today's deals" page, and not even on the actual item description page for the Panasonic Viera TC-P42U2 HDTV 1080p 42" Plasma TV.

It wasn't until almost 30 minutes later that any changes at all happened on the website, but again to everyone's surprise the only update indicated that the TV was now "sold out".

While many people would think that possibly Buy.com had a limited supply and quite possibly sold out in seconds, many other people know that the deal was in fact never published to the website at all. In total I personally had 16 people whom all had the main page to Buy.com opened in one tab, and the item description page for the "Black Friday HDTV deal of the year" opened in another tab. Some of us were continuously refreshing the page manually, while a couple of us, including myself, had an internet refresher program that was automatically refreshing the page every second, and yet not one of us seen any change on the HDTV price until the only change published to Buy.com indicated that the TV was "sold out".

Quite certainly there are thousands of disappointed people today who were waiting up all night for this Black Friday HDTV deal to become available on Buy.com when in fact there never was any such deal to be offered in the first place as Sean Portnoy of ZDNet.com reported in his article.

Conveniently ZDNet.com went on to mention in their article (more than once) that Buy.com would have several other HDTV deals being offered on Black Friday, but to the millions of people whose attention was captivated by the best HDTV Black Friday deal buster the only deal that truly mattered was this 42-inch Panasonic 1080p HDTV for only $298 since it was the leading Black Friday HDTV deal, which strangely never appeared on Buy.com after midnight as it reportedly should have.

As a consumer, myself, hoping to take advantage of this Black Friday deal, it's apparent that Buy.com gathered information on the best HDTV deal being offered on Black Friday, which happened to be a comparable (but lesser quality) HDTV being offered by Target for the same price of $298, and then plotted a mastermind publicity stunt in collaboration with ZDNet.com, as a news source, to reach a widespread internet audience, and eventually the mainstream media, and in with the intentions on bringing the internet traffic to their website seeking the best HDTV deal ever on Black Friday.

The question now is just how many people heard of this Black Friday deal on the Panasonic HDTV for $298 on Buy.com and flocked to the website in time for the deal, and just how many of those people actually went on to purchase a different HDTV from the list of legit deals being offered on the website after seeing that the HDTV they were originally attracted to, as the best Black Friday HDTV deal, was no longer available, and in fact, never actually had a published price of $298. The TV remained at its original price of $659 on Buy.com until the website was updated with a "sold out" notice to its visitors.

Will Buy.com or ZDNet.com care to comment to the public on this issue? After all, it did appear to be the best Black Friday deal, and not just for the price of the Panasonic HDTV, but also for the convenience of not having to stand outdoors for hours in a line of hungry consumers ready to pounce onto the same item like a flock of starving seagulls going after the same piece of bread. Instead it appears that an event took place that was nothing more than an unethical publicity stunt, and an easy way out as to not be considered as false advertisement since Buy.com never actually published word of this deal themselves, but instead used their resources with ZDNet.com to mislead people to their website for a deal that was never going to exist, hoping that with all of the internet traffic that one of those conveniently cross-promoted HDTV's mentioned in the ZDNet.com article will be purchased in place of the Hoax HDTV deal.

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