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Old 11-24-2006, 11:36 AM
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Black Friday INSANITY

My wife decides to get up at 2:30 AM to get in line at Best Buy for the 5 AM deals. She gets there before 4 AM and the line wraps completely around the store and makes several loops and ends up by carpetland. She estimated 1000 people in line. So she gives up there and gets in line at Shopko. Shopko is similar to Target for those that don't have one. She is actually near the front door there, should be a piece of cake. As five AM approaches people start sliding along the wall to skip to the front of the line. At 5 they just open the doors and people just explode into the place pushing and shoving. It's every man or woman for themselves. She gets to the 7" DVD player stack and gets one from the bottom layer. People were taking armloads of these and the 15 dollar DVD players next to them. The mad rush of people pushing and shoving made her give up her shopping expedition and she made for the checkouts like a Salmon trying to swim upstream. She came home and collapsed on the sofa. Is this what christmas has come too?

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Old 11-24-2006, 11:41 AM
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My wife had all the Xmas shopping done a month ago. She and my mother are at the spa today
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Old 11-24-2006, 12:01 PM
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Old 11-24-2006, 12:02 PM
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Old 11-24-2006, 02:38 PM
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I could never understand the black Friday phenom. I read somewhere that most of that stuff can be found on sale again a day or so before Christmas. So why the rush?
The average person is a moron.
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Old 11-24-2006, 03:35 PM
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My wife had all the Xmas shopping done a month ago. She and my mother are at the spa today
Had mine done in September.....I start in january......
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Old 11-24-2006, 03:51 PM
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This type of thing is so not me. Unless they were giving away a Bugatti Veyron to each of the first 50 customers, you would literally have to hold a pistol to my skull to prompt me to wait in line for hours for "discounted" products.
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Old 11-24-2006, 03:55 PM
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Had mine done in September.....I start in january......
We're so much alike. I start my Christmas shopping in January as well...for the preceding Christmas. My brother also drips with holiday sentimentality. For years I would give him a cash Christmas gift and would receive his cash Christmas gift a few hours later, an amount that was exactly 50% of what I gave to him. One year, sharpie that I am, I said that I would give him his "gift" after I received his. That was in 1992. I'm still waiting.
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Old 11-24-2006, 04:00 PM
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We're so much alike. I start my Christmas shopping in January as well...for the preceding Christmas. My brother also drips with holiday sentimentality. For years I would give him a cash Christmas gift and would receive his cash Christmas gift a few hours later, an amount that was exactly 50% of what I gave to him. One year, sharpie that I am, I said that I would give him his "gift" after I received his. That was in 1992. I'm still waiting.
Ditto.

My wife does most of her Christmas shopping throughout the year on ebay. So many of the people we give gifts to want gift cards, that she finds them on ebay for a discount off of the face value of the card.
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Old 11-24-2006, 04:14 PM
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Its ridiculous. I don't give many gifts, I hate it. I give people I am close too one good thing each, that I buy a day or two before Christmas. This year Christmas is on a monday, I'll do my shopping thursday morning.

Saving a couple bucks isn't worth waking up early and fighting the crowds.

Christmas is getting crazy, what happend to just sitting around a good meal with family? Screw the crap, all it does is break.
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Old 11-24-2006, 11:09 PM
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Can't argue with the fact that this is a sick way of buying stuff;
But,
my son (18) and 3 of his friends slept out at Best Buy last night. I stopped by around 9:30PM 1/2hr after they got there, and they were about 100 in line. Just onto the grass past BB & Beyond.
There was maybe 150 people there, mostly teens and 20's, and they were having a blast. Reminded me of whenwe waited on lines for concerts in the good ol days. Except alot cleaner, and we never played Monopoly waiting on line for Dead shows, and I don't think anyone had a baby at Best Buy.....lol
I gave my son 200. to get me a digital camera, and keep the change. I got a nice 7.1 MPX Kodak thingy, and he got $60. for the effort.
A friend of his got a Toshiba laptop for 250.
Being that most of the people I saw were young I think it was a pretty cool opportunity for them to take their weekly checks and buy stuff they normally couldn't afford.
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Old 11-24-2006, 11:15 PM
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Can't argue with the fact that this is a sick way of buying stuff;
But,
my son (18) and 3 of his friends slept out at Best Buy last night. I stopped by around 9:30PM 1/2hr after they got there, and they were about 100 in line. Just onto the grass past BB & Beyond.
There was maybe 150 people there, mostly teens and 20's, and they were having a blast. Reminded me of when we waited on lines for Dead shows in the good ol days. Except a lot cleaner, and we never played Monopoly waiting on line for Dead shows....lol
I gave my son 200. to get me a digital camera, and keep the change. I got a nice 7.1 MPX Kodak thingy, and he got $60. for the effort.
A friend of his got a Toshiba laptop for 250.
Being that most of the people I saw were young I think it was a pretty cool opportunity for them to take their weekly checks and buy stuff they normally couldn't afford.
Dude... your just a TIGHT WAD! Why else would you run your Benz on Veggie oil!... Happy Thanksgiving!
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Old 11-24-2006, 11:19 PM
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I was going to get in line at BestBuy for a Westinghouse 22" LCD monitor they were selling for $200 ($300 off retail). I got there at 3am, saw the line for about 1/4mile and said "Fu*k that."
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Old 11-24-2006, 11:55 PM
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Dude... your just a TIGHT WAD! Why else would you run your Benz on Veggie oil!... Happy Thanksgiving!
LOL......

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Old 11-24-2006, 11:57 PM
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I was going to get in line at BestBuy for a Westinghouse 22" LCD monitor they were selling for $200 ($300 off retail). I got there at 3am, saw the line for about 1/4mile and said "Fu*k that."
That's cause you got there at 3AM....
WTF were you doin' till 3 that was more important to you than saving your lazy ass 300bucks?????


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