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black friday auction GEESH!

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People will indeed try and sell anything if they think they're a buck or two in it for them.

 

BTW -- I understand the concept (sale flyers) but what exactly is the origin of "black friday?" Sounds like a stock market crash...

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The origin of the term "black friday" came from the time when a business would sell alot of product on the day after thanksgiving and will help the business get out of the "red" (loss of profit) and into the "black" (making profit).

 

-mike

 

P.S. I hope I described this well

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Ah! That makes a lot of sense. Don't have that here in Canada (probably because our Thanksgiving is over a month earlier, and isn't associated with any shopping binges, except on turkeys) so I couldn't figure out what it was. :-)

 

(Plus, as I recall the Great Depression was brought on by a massive stock market crash in 1929 that was dubbed "Black Monday" so naturally, a similarily-named Friday didn't sound too appealing. :-))

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