Do you plan on shopping on Black Friday?

[INFRATOM]

One year I thought I shop online and avoid going to stores early... I waisted 2 hours clicking on the page in Amazon.com Black Friday deal and at 11AM said I was not among the first 1000 lucky ones!!! The year after that I went to Frys at 5AM it was hard to find a parking spot so I parked 2 blocks down the road but at Least I got couple of good deals. Even there they give numbers and if you don't get in line quick enough you loose the deal. On that day all the college campus was there getting the numbers and swapping with each other. They put 5 of something at half price and has time factor too like between 6AM to 8AM so you have to pick what you want and which store has it then you loose opportunity for the rest. Its more like a game of greed than shopping.

[SingSing]

For where to shop, see http://www.blackfriday.info/

[zoobie]

holy cow...one store is opening at 4 a.m...unbelievable!

[SingSing]

This site is easier to spot what you want to stand in line for: http://bfads.net/

[edDV]

holy cow...one store is opening at 4 a.m...unbelievable!

I leaned a lesson the hard way last Black Friday at Staples. They post the best Black Friday deals online midnight eastern time but block online orders until 6AM EST store opening time which is 3AM PST. I decided to go to the store at 5:15AM only to find they let people in early and the laptop (qty 20) I wanted was already sold out. I went home to find the web site was sold out as well.

I should have ordered online at 3AM and gone back to sleep.

[M Bruner]

Fudiciary restraints prevent me from engaging in this perennial part of our cultural heritage.

[hudsonf]

holy cow...one store is opening at 4 a.m...unbelievable!

The stores in the shopping center where my son works are opening at 12 midnight.

[SingSing]

This poll is still. Yoda313 is camping outside Bestbuy?

Can't be! There are no Thanksgiving in Canada.

[edDV]

Maybe we can start a Black Friday"wish list".

I'll start with a Hauppauge HD-PVR for home and a USB stick ATSC/QAM tuner for my traveling laptop.

[edDV]

This poll is still. Yoda313 is camping outside Bestbuy?

Can't be! There are no Thanksgiving in Canada.

The cold white north must celebrate the harvest early in October as I recall. They're huddlin' underground in deep freeze by now.

[MJA]

Welps! it all depends if my name gets chosen by amazon.com's black friday deal for the Sony PS3.
http://www.ps3daily.co.uk/20081121/ps3-black-friday-deals-199-playstation-3-and-blu-ray-bundle/
I know it's a million to one shot to be chosen but what the hell you neva know!

If I don't get chosen then I'll be at some store early in morning for a blu-ray player or something. I haven't decided just yet what I'd like to buy. I bought my Sony 40 inch LCD TV from Sears at last year's Black Friday. It was like a stampede when the doors opened up.

dang it .i didn't win

[hudsonf]

Maybe we can start a Black Friday"wish list".

I only want one thing. Friday nights Mega Million Jackpot ($111 million)

[yoda313]

This poll is still. Yoda313 is camping outside Bestbuy?

Can't be! There are no Thanksgiving in Canada.

Nope not yet. There are some things at Meijer - a regional chain similar to kmart and target etc...

I'm going for a 50.00 7" portable dvd player and a 50.00 7mp digital still camera. Both are no namers but these are the cheapest store deals I've found. There are name brand portable dvd players that are cheaper elsewhere. But the stores don't have both a cheap dvd player and a still camera together. I'm suprised that the cheapest name brand still camera I've seen in the ads so far is at 70.00 or 80.00.

I'm also debating about picking up a no name digital picture frame.

The deals start at 5am but the store is one of those that is open 24 hours. I'm not sure when I'll go. They say they have at least 30 of each pre store. I'm hedging to go at 3:30am and I might wait inside. I don't know how they are going to do it for waiting people with the store already open. I've never done a black friday at a store that was already open.

This should be interesting

Edit -also whats the crack about canada? I'm in Michigan..... Hmm....

EDIT 2 - by the way Canada does do a Thanksgiving celebration but theres is in October.

[zoobie]

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HT & Good luck!

[budz]

Welps! it all depends if my name gets chosen by amazon.com's black friday deal for the Sony PS3.
http://www.ps3daily.co.uk/20081121/ps3-black-friday-deals-199-playstation-3-and-blu-ray-bundle/
I know it's a million to one shot to be chosen but what the hell you neva know!

If I don't get chosen then I'll be at some store early in morning for a blu-ray player or something. I haven't decided just yet what I'd like to buy. I bought my Sony 40 inch LCD TV from Sears at last year's Black Friday. It was like a stampede when the doors opened up.

dang it .i didn't win

I didn't get chosen either but a friend in Maryland did. She contacted me and told she'd buy it for me and all I'd have to do is pay them back. I decided not to get it since if there's any defects on the PS3 it would be a hassle to return. My luck with electronic stuff has been shitty this month. It took me a month to complete a custom pc that I did for a friend. I had to return the aftermarket cpu cooler 2x's, a intel e8500 cpu 1x and 3 motherboards 3x's. I consider that shitty luck!

[edDV]

FWIW Black Friday Alert

Canon HV30 $649.99 Circuit City
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/Search.do?searchType=user&keyword=Tday&searchSection=All

HP EX470 Mediasmart Home Server $399

[yoda313]

Well I did get my camera and portable dvd player after all.

Unfortunately the store wasn't organized for lines. I had to go seperate departments to get what I wanted. It would have helped if they had passed out maps that the staff had.

Anyway I did get the 7inch dvd portable dvd player and the 7mp camera. Both are the GFM no name brand.

I figure if the people I'm buying them don't care for the brand they can return them and upgrade to kodak or samsung or something.

[edDV]

I got the HP EX470 Home Server. Frys.com had it for $350 but were out of stock by 6:10 AM.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Walmart employee dies when crowd tramples him:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458744,00.html

[budz]

All I got on Black Friday was a new digital cable box. Smoke alarm went off at 2a.m. in my computer room. I found out the digital cable box was hot. So I powered it off then went back to bed and woke up at 4a.m. to find the damn digital box was still very hot. I pulled the power cord to cut the electricity. Got down to Sears at 4:30 a.m. only to find that the lines were long in front of the electronics dept. doors. I told myself forget it and went back home.

Got back down to Sears at 9:15 a.m. to stand in line for the Oceanic Cable Time Warner counter. They have a little kiosk in Sears. After getting my new digital box I walked over to the electronics dept. to see if they still had the 42 inch Panasonic 720p Plasma available. I wasn't to hear that they still had it available but it had to be picked up at their distribution warehouse which was what they had customers do last year.

I'll end up getting a Panasonic BD35 blu-ray player from Amazon.com. Just waiting for the price to drop a lil more.

[SingSing]

I got most of my stuff from Sears on Black Friday : A table saw, a K-cup brewer, clothings, MP3/video player, a RADAR detector, and flash drive/disks.

Sears and Home Depot have most of the sales items right up front, I hardly have to find anythings. If the items are available, I just grab and line up to pay.

[zoobie]

I was in a crowd once that was packed so tight, I could lift my legs off the ground...

[edDV]

I was in a crowd once that was packed so tight, I could lift my legs off the ground...

Sounds like rush hour on a Tokyo commuter train. I saw people popping to the ceiling.

[SingSing]

I was in a crowd once that was packed so tight, I could lift my legs off the ground...

Sounds like rush hour on a Tokyo commuter train. I saw people popping to the ceiling.

In Tokyo, the male commuters squeeze the ladies, and now there are subway cars for women only during rush hours.
Soon, we will have lady only line at retail stores during Black Friday. I bet the stores will put lady specific items at those lines.

[edDV]

Tiger Direct still has "Nov" specials I just bought my third 1TB drive ($109-$30 rebate = $79). That helps my home media server. Blank 3.5TB so far ready to suck everything in.

Server arrived this morning FedEx (less than 24hrs.) even though I paid only $6 normal ground.

[zoobie]

now you're talking...thanks ed...I'll check it out

as far as "women only" goes, I believe the American television
industry has discovered that they really don't need the male viewer...

[edDV]

now you're talking...thanks ed...I'll check it out

as far as "women only" goes, I believe the American television
industry has discovered that they really don't need the male viewer...

Yep. They prefer to reach us over internet.
We tune out for TV commercials.

[yoda313]

We tune out for TV commercials

Or hopefully we've recorded them and skip them entirely - either after the whole show is recorded or while time slipping it

[SingSing]

Get even better deal on Boxing Day sales than Black Friday. Dear Canadian Retailers please invade U.S.A.

[Mastrocalo]

Love buy at Internet