Black Friday Plans anyone?

FirstNissan · Nov 18, 2011

So whats the plan fellas? Have you planned out your shopping trips and deals that you want to snag.
I scoured bfads.net and have now figures out my plan:
Best Buy- Garmin $85 GPS and Philips 9" DVD player for $59
Then off to Modell's sports store for some outerwear- $10 hoodies
So where are you guys going?

opus1 · Nov 18, 2011

Nowhere near anything retail....but that's me.

Colt45ws · Nov 18, 2011

Im staying home. No need to deal with that garbage.

Also, Wrong section?

Popinski · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
Im staying home. No need to deal with that garbage.

Also, Wrong section?

+1
Black Friday proves that humans are idiots. People basically risk their lives just get a good deal.

wwillson · Nov 18, 2011

Stay as far from the mall areas as possible. I have no use for black Friday...

Wayne

HyundaiGuy · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: Popinski
Originally Posted By: Colt45ws
Im staying home. No need to deal with that garbage.

Also, Wrong section?

+1
Black Friday proves that humans are idiots. People basically risk their lives just get a good deal.

In a previous life I worked retail. Black Friday weekend was horrible. I'm actually thrilled that I will spend Black Friday at the office.

aquariuscsm · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: Popinski
Black Friday proves that humans are idiots.

I agree COMPLETELY! Black friday is sooooooo discusting! Those people need:

A life
A hobby
A job
All of the above

Schmoe · Nov 18, 2011

May be horrible and I don't think I'm an idiot, but daughter wants a laptop and the wife wants a LCD TV....Walmart.....Compaq laptop.....198. Emerson 40 inch LCD....248. Bluray player....79 bucks. SHOW me where I can order those things at that price ONLINE and I'll do it.

Quattro Pete · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: wwillson
Stay as far from the mall areas as possible. I have no use for black Friday...

Wayne

Same here.

BTW, taking wife out for dinner to your neck of the woods today.

eljefino · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: Schmoe
May be horrible and I don't think I'm an idiot, but daughter wants a laptop and the wife wants a LCD TV....Walmart.....Compaq laptop.....198. Emerson 40 inch LCD....248. Bluray player....79 bucks. SHOW me where I can order those things at that price ONLINE and I'll do it.

Yup, go big or go home. Fighting over a $5 DVD that's normally $10 is ridiculous.

When electronics were bigger bucks, like a $1000 computer for $300, I used to go, but stopped around 2002-2003 when the proletariat started going. I had a system: 3am, then 2am, then 1am, which kept me 10th in line. It also helps that the mall I went to is a cement jungle that funnels icy cold wind down around the crowds.

If you go, bring a dunkin donuts styrofoam cup full of booze! Give it away to your "friends" in line.

If you like riots and lame deals, wal-mart is a contender. Imagine a well organized line lined up against the cement building and a mob just across the fire lane in the regular car parking lot. Mob cuts line when doors open.

Colt45ws · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: Schmoe
May be horrible and I don't think I'm an idiot, but daughter wants a laptop and the wife wants a LCD TV....Walmart.....Compaq laptop.....198. Emerson 40 inch LCD....248. Bluray player....79 bucks. SHOW me where I can order those things at that price ONLINE and I'll do it.

All junk.

Bambam · Nov 18, 2011

I'll be home in bed !

SrDriver · Nov 18, 2011

Will stay at home - mix a couple of hot toddies and avoid the crowds. Flu is going around here now and yet another reason for avoiding it.

saberz · Nov 18, 2011

I used to, but my last foray on Black Friday(2009) ended horribly. Apparently everyone and their mother wanted to copy me and leave for Woodbury Commons(outlets). I left at 9PM, usually a 45 minute drive and they open at 12. I used to make it up there by 11 taking my time, grabbing coffee etc.

Not that time, bumper to bumper traffic for 6 hours! No exits between on ramp from 287 to 87 by Harimon. And by the time I did get up there, parking was at maximum capacity and wouldn't allow anyone in, had to drive 4 exits down and get bussed in via a school bus(this I did not do). I turned around and went home, signed onto Amazon and ordered all the presents and had them there by Tuesday lol.

So I do it online now. Though I'd like to experience it one more time but I honestly don't have it in me anymore.

Gonna sleep in and read about the next fatality/injury due to the crazy people. I'm also concerned about theft, its gotten really bad around our area.

Kuato · Nov 18, 2011

I never shop on the day after Thanksgiving. Plus, I'm in the business of making other people happy on holidays, so I'll be working.

Drew99GT · Nov 18, 2011

I might do as Gary Allen did - go to the mall and engage in social observation. Watch people trip over each other to purchase Chinese made trinkets on credit.

4D-56 · Nov 18, 2011

I will stay home, spend zero and remember that we are slaves to marketing, ads, and "retail therapy".

we have enough
we are enough
we do enough

Eddie · Nov 18, 2011

Staying home and watch the fools on TV.

Loobed · Nov 18, 2011

Originally Posted By: FirstNissan
So whats the plan fellas?

stay home and watch all the you-tube videos of the crazy people killing trying to kill each other for Chinese made junk.

mpvue · Nov 18, 2011

I'll be on the road, long road trip to see the in-laws in Louisiana. should be in TN, AL or MS on friday.

'black friday' reminds me of a guy I used to work with, 1st time he heard the expression he goes:

"black friday? what, they already have Martin Luther King Day, that wasn't enough?"

he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer...

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