Cyber Monday 2017 Ipad Deals

Apple's 10.5-inch iPad Pro on the left and an iPhone 7 on the right.

Did you make the same mistake I did?

On Black Friday and over the Thanksgiving weekend I set my sight on a 10.5-inch iPad Pro with 64GB of storage. Best Buy and a couple of other retailers online listed the Apple tablet for $525, or about $125 off the regular price. I went so far as to add the iPad to an online Best Buy shopping cart.

Only I never pulled the trigger. Maybe there'd be an even better deal on Cyber Monday, I thought, or at the very least the same deal would be made available.

The strategy backfired. By Monday, Best Buy's price was back up to $649.99, and the best online deal for the iPad Pro I came across elsewhere was $599 at New York retailer B&H Photo Video.

Now that Black Friday is in the rear-view mirror, you may be experiencing similar remorse that you didn't buy when you had the chance. But shopping experts say that all isn't lost. There are still deals to be had, with promotions possible all week.

Amazon is still advertising offers under what it refers to as Cyber Monday Deals Week, with other retailers also floating the Cyber Week term. On Tuesday, in fact,, Amazon listed the very iPad Pro I'd been looking for $599, lower than its day before price, and matching what B&H was selling it for.

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That said, there are slimmer pickings overall, at least for the moment.

David Kender, senior vice president of editorial at Reviewed.com, a member of the USA TODAY Network reported that Cyber Monday was a great day for bargain hunters, better than Black Friday in terms of what you could find online. A day later, however, "we're seeing that a lot of our favorite deals have disappeared. More than half among what we thought were the best."

One surprise breakout star highlighted by Reviewed.com on Cyber Monday, was an AncestryDNA kit for $54.99. The price climbed back up to $69 Tuesday on Amazon. That's also the cost of the rival 23andMe DNA kit, the same price Amazon was charging on Cyber Monday.

Manufacturers and retailers push certain items and product categories on or before Black Friday. They may be trying to move inventory, generate traffic (in stores or online), or lure you into a particular ecosystem—Amazon, say, for its Alexa-driven products or Google with various Google Assistant offerings. Meanwhile, consumer electronics retailers may be offering TVs at steep discounts, not necessarily to make big bucks on the TV itself, but rather to make a killing selling pricey cables or speakers.

What that all means was that by Monday the retailer/manufacturer, if not the shopper, may have fulfilled the mission at hand for some products.

But while the exact same item you want may no longer be available, at least for the price you were hoping or willing to pay for it, you may still get an excellent deal on something similar, says Matt Sargent, senior vice president with Magid, a retail consultancy.

"Over the last few years, and particularly this year, we have seen the overall cadence of deals stretching out or flattening out before the traditional start of the holiday season," says Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Kantar Retail. She says some retailers start advertising Black Friday promotions as early as November 1. And she says we may see additional promotional spikes in a few weeks, so there's at least some cause for optimism.

One reason, Kennedy says, is that "the rise of online shopping has made pricing in general, whether you're shopping in April or the middle of July, more transparent to shoppers."

So where are the best deals right now? Video game junkies can still get the Xbox One S console at some retailers for $189, about a $90 discount. Another option is the PlayStation 4 Pro console bundle for $399.99 on Best Buy.

And eBay is selling a Apple MacBook Air for $744.99, down from the regular price of $999. On Cyber Monday, one unit was sold at that price every 5 seconds.

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