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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2011 10:48:12 GMT
HLJ have flat rate shipping all day: Special Black Friday shipping offer from HLJ is on now!
As we announced yesterday, we are now offering very special Black Friday "all-you-can-ship" flat rates on SAL and EMS shipping! For 24 hours only, starting from 2pm November 25 to 2pm November 26 (Japan Standard Time, GMT + 9), SAL orders will ship for no more than 980 yen, and EMS orders will ship for no more than 1,980 yen. That's per order, for any size order placed during the campaign for in-stock and shippable items. We're sure you can imagine the incredible savings these flat shipping rates offer!
For all the details on this amazing campaign, click HERE! Be sure to read all the terms and conditions Why yes I will have the Cyberverse Shockwave & Ratchet that BBTS don't seem to be able to get me.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2011 19:23:20 GMT
HLJ have flat rate shipping all day: Special Black Friday shipping offer from HLJ is on now!
As we announced yesterday, we are now offering very special Black Friday "all-you-can-ship" flat rates on SAL and EMS shipping! For 24 hours only, starting from 2pm November 25 to 2pm November 26 (Japan Standard Time, GMT + 9), SAL orders will ship for no more than 980 yen, and EMS orders will ship for no more than 1,980 yen. That's per order, for any size order placed during the campaign for in-stock and shippable items. We're sure you can imagine the incredible savings these flat shipping rates offer!
For all the details on this amazing campaign, click HERE! Be sure to read all the terms and conditions Why yes I will have the Cyberverse Shockwave & Ratchet that BBTS don't seem to be able to get me. I am slightly confused how the Black Friday thing (a US shopping tradition) applies to a store selling from Japan. Not complaining, just mildly confused! -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 25, 2011 21:11:09 GMT
It's appealing to US users.
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Post by Nigel on Nov 25, 2011 21:12:12 GMT
HLJ's owned by an American ex-pat, I believe. It's the Amazon-led Black Friday assault on UK retail that I find more bizarre. Black Friday is the start of the post-Thanksgiving sales in the US, the name presumably coming from the massive custom that shops receive, meant in a negative sense because it's so overwhelming for the retailer and also a nightmare for the shopper. The UK equivalent is something like the first day of the January sale at Harrod's. I'd love to know who was the marketing genius that turned it around and made it a promotional tool. Outside the US, though, it really is meaningless; it's a normal shopping day everywhere else.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 25, 2011 22:58:36 GMT
It's appealing to US users. Yes indeed, but I thought the idea/fun was in U.S. folk going to U.S. stores to buy stuff rather than from other countries on the internet? Perhaps any U.S. chums can enlighten me? I know little of this retail holiday, I do admit. For instance, when it's a bank holiday here I don't expect to get deals from other countries on the same day. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 26, 2011 12:57:06 GMT
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Post by legios on Nov 26, 2011 16:31:22 GMT
Ah-hah! That story gives us another suggestion as to the meaning on "Black Friday", as the day on which retailers move into the black from the red.
I do think it is odd that Amazon UK have been bombarding us with offers in the run-up to an event we don't even celebrate. What is their next plan - Fourth of July Sales?
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 26, 2011 16:38:45 GMT
I am not complaining - it let me get the Sketchbook pro app for my ipad at a cheap rate.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 26, 2011 16:46:09 GMT
Ah-hah! That story gives us another suggestion as to the meaning on "Black Friday", as the day on which retailers move into the black from the red. Yes, did you not know that? Mind you given the ammount of Haloween stuff over here the last few years .....
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Post by legios on Nov 27, 2011 20:13:11 GMT
Yes, did you not know that? Nope, never heard anyone advance a reasoning for the name. Whenever I have run across it there has just been a mention of "Black Friday" and the assumption that everyone already knows what and why it is. I have learned something this weekend..... Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2011 20:25:53 GMT
I have only recently become aware of Black Friday and what it is for folk in the U.S.
Sounds like my idea of Hell, really, both for consumers and retail workers.
-Ralph
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