First off, thank you all for praying for my safe return from my Black Friday shopping (You did, didn't you?) Anyway, I got to Walmart around 4:45 and didn't get out until 4 hours later, almost 9. I picked up a 4 GB Xbox 360 and a 32" Funai LED HDTV (very impressed BTW, excellent picture) Both were right at $100 ($99 and $98). Those were my big purchases among other things. Stood in (checkout) lines with friends for about 1 1/2 hours. I'm still not sure why, but I really had a good time out there, despite all the people. And, call me crazy, but I'm getting ready to head out to Menards and back to Walmart to see whats left!
Black Friday report
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Originally Posted By: montero1
I'd rather put a cigarette out in my eye than go and stand in line with a bunch of trash. Nice that it paid off for you and no one was trampled, beaten or Robbed.
It was pretty mellow this year. I'm not gonna lie and say nothing happened, but no one got beat up, there was just alot of pushing and shoving. The 4 cops walking around Walmart probably helped.
I'd rather put a cigarette out in my eye than go and stand in line with a bunch of trash. Nice that it paid off for you and no one was trampled, beaten or Robbed.
It was pretty mellow this year. I'm not gonna lie and say nothing happened, but no one got beat up, there was just alot of pushing and shoving. The 4 cops walking around Walmart probably helped.
LOL @ montero1...
Black Friday is just another manufactured scheme cooked up by Big Marketing. I don't need anything that badly that I'd be willing to stand in line for 4 hours at oh-dark-thirty.
Unless it was tickets to The Beatles Reunion Tour.
Black Friday is just another manufactured scheme cooked up by Big Marketing. I don't need anything that badly that I'd be willing to stand in line for 4 hours at oh-dark-thirty.
Unless it was tickets to The Beatles Reunion Tour.
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Originally Posted By: RF Overlord
Unless it was tickets to The Beatles Reunion Tour.
Heck yes!!!!!!!!!
Unless it was tickets to The Beatles Reunion Tour.
Heck yes!!!!!!!!!
Unless you go to a small store, like a Pep Boys, dealing with Black Friday is not worth the trouble. Last year, Pep Boys had great deals on Techron.
At the huge chain stores, if you wait out the crowds, a lot of the good stuff will be gone or damaged; but if you join the crowds there is plenty of bait-and-switch going on.
At the huge chain stores, if you wait out the crowds, a lot of the good stuff will be gone or damaged; but if you join the crowds there is plenty of bait-and-switch going on.
I was at Wally yesterday at 6:00 pm in myrtle beach to pick up an iPad mini for net $200. Crowds were insane but tame. I have to get the item shipped to my home store 2 states away, but this was my first ever voyage into the great "Friday/thursday" adventures. It was kind of fun.
When business success and "health" of the economy is judged by this manufactured national buying holiday you know we're in trouble.
However, as with just about any other event there will be those who have fun with it. Funny how we pay constant lip service to being unhappy about the offshoring of our manufacturing and the fact that we refer to a lot of this stuff as "cheap Chinese junk" for the rest of the year and we now go through such ordeals to buy it for even less money than usual. It is also interesting to me how the pollution in China seemed to peak with the season in which they were loading up the shipping containers to send us this stuff.
Buy less, but buy better.
However, as with just about any other event there will be those who have fun with it. Funny how we pay constant lip service to being unhappy about the offshoring of our manufacturing and the fact that we refer to a lot of this stuff as "cheap Chinese junk" for the rest of the year and we now go through such ordeals to buy it for even less money than usual. It is also interesting to me how the pollution in China seemed to peak with the season in which they were loading up the shipping containers to send us this stuff.
Buy less, but buy better.
Hate to say it...but.....saving coin is still just that...saving some coin. Like renegade....got to wallyword right at 1700 (out at 2100)and it was NUTS (got that same TV too, a 32 inch for 98 bucks...SERIOUSLY? How can you complain about that?). Glad to hear the picture is pretty good, haven't hooked it up yet. Got a killer deal on a Galaxy 3 10 inch tab for the daughter, scored a wireless printer for 69 bucks. I know....spent....holy cow...over 900 dollars but SAVED money for the exact same products....I mean....the newest Star Trek DVD for 9 dollars? King comforters for about 30 bucks??? This wasn't a knee jerk, shopper impluse deal...items we'd been eyeing for a few months. So....you fight crowds for 4 hours and save hundreds??? I just don't get you nay-sayers!!!!!
All of my BF purchases ever have been online. They're always things I've been planning on buying that I can genuinely use, and I make sure the BF deals are really a bargain before ordering.
In the past I've bought tires from DTD, a TV from Newegg, my laptop last year from Newegg.
This year I ordered a Hitachi miter saw online.
In the past I've bought tires from DTD, a TV from Newegg, my laptop last year from Newegg.
This year I ordered a Hitachi miter saw online.
Originally Posted By: Schmoe
Hate to say it...but.....saving coin is still just that...saving some coin. Like renegade....got to wallyword right at 1700 (out at 2100)and it was NUTS (got that same TV too, a 32 inch for 98 bucks...SERIOUSLY? How can you complain about that?). Glad to hear the picture is pretty good, haven't hooked it up yet. Got a killer deal on a Galaxy 3 10 inch tab for the daughter, scored a wireless printer for 69 bucks. I know....spent....holy cow...over 900 dollars but SAVED money for the exact same products....I mean....the newest Star Trek DVD for 9 dollars? King comforters for about 30 bucks??? This wasn't a knee jerk, shopper impluse deal...items we'd been eyeing for a few months. So....you fight crowds for 4 hours and save hundreds??? I just don't get you nay-sayers!!!!!
Lol, glad to hear you got what you needed. Just to give you a heads up, I had to edit the picture settings on the TV to get it to look great, right out of the box it was a little off. Just click menu on the remote and switch the picture setting to standard.
Hate to say it...but.....saving coin is still just that...saving some coin. Like renegade....got to wallyword right at 1700 (out at 2100)and it was NUTS (got that same TV too, a 32 inch for 98 bucks...SERIOUSLY? How can you complain about that?). Glad to hear the picture is pretty good, haven't hooked it up yet. Got a killer deal on a Galaxy 3 10 inch tab for the daughter, scored a wireless printer for 69 bucks. I know....spent....holy cow...over 900 dollars but SAVED money for the exact same products....I mean....the newest Star Trek DVD for 9 dollars? King comforters for about 30 bucks??? This wasn't a knee jerk, shopper impluse deal...items we'd been eyeing for a few months. So....you fight crowds for 4 hours and save hundreds??? I just don't get you nay-sayers!!!!!
Lol, glad to hear you got what you needed. Just to give you a heads up, I had to edit the picture settings on the TV to get it to look great, right out of the box it was a little off. Just click menu on the remote and switch the picture setting to standard.
We just went black Friday shopping, me for the first time. The prices were too good to pass up on mattresses. Bought 2 Simmons Beutyrest Recharges for my parents at mattress Firm. Retail was $1500 bucks and they had them on sale for $599.
Sales are to be had pretty much anytime of the year. If you know what you want, track it for a while, you can catch a great deal. You are the hunter in strategic strike shopping. Black Friday as others have said is a huge marketing ploy. The entire intent is to place a few items on sale as lures, if you have no info on what the price was 2 weeks/ 2 months ago you are caught. It gets worse cuz then while you are there you are barraged by so much info and craziness you become the prey for even more items.
Patience and a clear mind is the key to good savings.
Patience and a clear mind is the key to good savings.
Originally Posted By: Schmoe
Hate to say it...but.....saving coin is still just that...saving some coin. Like renegade....got to wallyword right at 1700 (out at 2100)and it was NUTS (got that same TV too, a 32 inch for 98 bucks...SERIOUSLY? How can you complain about that?). Glad to hear the picture is pretty good, haven't hooked it up yet. Got a killer deal on a Galaxy 3 10 inch tab for the daughter, scored a wireless printer for 69 bucks. I know....spent....holy cow...over 900 dollars but SAVED money for the exact same products....I mean....the newest Star Trek DVD for 9 dollars? King comforters for about 30 bucks??? This wasn't a knee jerk, shopper impluse deal...items we'd been eyeing for a few months. So....you fight crowds for 4 hours and save hundreds??? I just don't get you nay-sayers!!!!!
I'm sorry but buying more and more 'stuff' don't always mean you 'saved' money. Standing in lines....pushing and shoving like a bunch of mind numbed cattle....that's not living to me. No dignity in being a slave to consumerism. Yes, I appreciate a good deal when it's something I want or need. But Black Friday? No way....I'll never do it. Frankly, I feel it's beneath me. If I can't afford an item and need to partake in such low-brow shopping....then perhaps I need to do some self examination and prioritization. At the very least....leave it up to the women who are far more used to such mayhem. Camping out to get some childish electronic 'toy'.....or running to a shelf to grab some silly gift item for some spoiled relative....no, not for me and it NEVER will be.
Enjoy the writhing masses....I'll do any of my shopping when I feel it can be done in a more comfortable fashion.
Hate to say it...but.....saving coin is still just that...saving some coin. Like renegade....got to wallyword right at 1700 (out at 2100)and it was NUTS (got that same TV too, a 32 inch for 98 bucks...SERIOUSLY? How can you complain about that?). Glad to hear the picture is pretty good, haven't hooked it up yet. Got a killer deal on a Galaxy 3 10 inch tab for the daughter, scored a wireless printer for 69 bucks. I know....spent....holy cow...over 900 dollars but SAVED money for the exact same products....I mean....the newest Star Trek DVD for 9 dollars? King comforters for about 30 bucks??? This wasn't a knee jerk, shopper impluse deal...items we'd been eyeing for a few months. So....you fight crowds for 4 hours and save hundreds??? I just don't get you nay-sayers!!!!!
I'm sorry but buying more and more 'stuff' don't always mean you 'saved' money. Standing in lines....pushing and shoving like a bunch of mind numbed cattle....that's not living to me. No dignity in being a slave to consumerism. Yes, I appreciate a good deal when it's something I want or need. But Black Friday? No way....I'll never do it. Frankly, I feel it's beneath me. If I can't afford an item and need to partake in such low-brow shopping....then perhaps I need to do some self examination and prioritization. At the very least....leave it up to the women who are far more used to such mayhem. Camping out to get some childish electronic 'toy'.....or running to a shelf to grab some silly gift item for some spoiled relative....no, not for me and it NEVER will be.
Enjoy the writhing masses....I'll do any of my shopping when I feel it can be done in a more comfortable fashion.
I find this whole black friday rush to be one of the most disgusting aspects of our culture.
Buying stuff not needed with money one does not have.
You could not pay me enough for me to subject myself to such masses of miserable foolish mindless zombies.
Perfectly trained consumption monkeys.
Sickening.
Buying stuff not needed with money one does not have.
You could not pay me enough for me to subject myself to such masses of miserable foolish mindless zombies.
Perfectly trained consumption monkeys.
Sickening.
I agree it's stupid to buy stuff you don't need, or even really want for that matter, especially on credit, but in our case, we needed new mattresses, and the price was too good to pass up.
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