Hacking NetFlix : Black Friday Deal: Roku HD XR for $64.99 (50% Discount)

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Black Friday Deal: Roku HD XR for $64.99 (50% Discount)

Roku is getting in on the Black Friday excitement and offering the new Roku HD XR for only $64.99, half off of the $129.99 list price. To take advantage of this special offer to go to http://blackfriday.roku.com at 8am PT (11am ET) and enter the code "hdxrsteal." Note: Roku is only offering 500 at this price, and they warn that the Roku servers may overload due to the "extreme nature of this offer."

November 27, 2009 | Permalink

Comments

Of course I see this 12 hours after I bought the Insignia Netflix-Ready Blu-Ray player off bestbuy.com. argh.

Posted by: Seth | November 27, 2009 at 08:34 AM

got one!!!!
with tax it came out to $76.36.

Even though I already have a TiVo-HD for my Netflix streaming, at this prices it's worth the effort :-)

Posted by: Ivan | November 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM

I kept trying but couldn't get in... and now it says they're all gone. Oh well.

Posted by: Scott | November 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM

What a waste of time. Failed servers and then Roku disabled the Checkout button. Ridiculous!

Posted by: Bob | November 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Got an Order Confirmation e-mail from Roku, and my bank account shows the deduction. The last page of checkout froze on me, but I guess I was successful. I won't be too excited until the little guy is on my doorstep.

Posted by: Kam | November 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM

I got in after a LONG time and it said I had 4 in my shopping cart so I tried to hit the down arrow to get it down to one and of course after a while it came back and said my cart was empty!!!!!!!!!! #@[email protected]#!
I emailed them and I am currently on the phone with them to see what they can do.

Posted by: WC | November 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Total fail.
I got on initially but after clicking the number on the order page, it dropped me. After multiple reloads, I got in again, and same thing again.
They blew it on how to handle so many and being fair about it.

Posted by: J | November 27, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Wow, worst experience ever! I had the item in my cart with the coupon code and entered my credit card number but the order never went through. And then after several attempts to reload for about 30 minutes, I tried to repeat the same process and it tells me that I cannot use that coupon code any more. So sad.

Posted by: J L | November 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM

After reading these comments, I'm glad I got the Netflix-Ready Insignia Blu-Ray 12 hours before this sale was announced.

Posted by: Seth | November 28, 2009 at 09:48 AM