Black Friday doorbuster deals: The TVs, phones, and PCs that aren't total ripoffs

Legitimate Black Friday deals are notoriously difficult to snare—and finding them seems to be getting harder every year, as store opening times creep closer and closer to Thanksgiving dinner.

To make things worse, many of the purportedly great doorbuster deals advertised on Black Friday are of dubious value, what with questionable hardware and one-off Black Friday “exclusives” that have never undergone independent critical evaluation.

And yet these deals bring eager consumers out in droves. Even the name “doorbuster” implies a certain level of potential danger, as the prospect of saving a few bucks sometimes brings out humanity’s ugly side.

[Related: Black Friday: The truth about its dubious deals]

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