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Black Friday sales for MAME builders
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 13, 2006, 01:28:24 pm ---
Well, I know people wait outside Walmart for hours. So I could imagine them having 20 of that 200G drive in stock and there being 20 people in line.
I wonder how one would verify whether or not online ordering will be honored.
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The ads may say. I recall seeing that being more prominently displayed last year.
ChadTower:
Downloaded the ad... it says that the prices will only be honored in store and that that only applies to the items on page 1.
The hard drive is on page 2.
saint:
Well, if you're willing to take a gamble 4 AM isn't that bad of a time to get in line. I'll be there about 2:45 I think (Best Buy) :)
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 13, 2006, 01:14:23 pm ---
I've always stayed the hell away from stores during the holidays... but I have need for hard drives and there are a couple of Staples near me. How does this usually work? Is this the sale where people start to show up at like 4am?
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ChadTower:
For what? I can't imagine sitting in line for hours in below freezing temperatures unless I was starving and they were giving out food.
saint:
Actually I don't really want anything this year so I'm not sure I'm going, though I probably will. Previous years I've bought cheap computers and laptops, computer bits, etc... Last year I think we bought 3 e-machines for various people who wanted/needed a computer. $200 or so for a complete PC including XP OS, monitor, decent CPU and RAM specs, etc... I also pick up the newest version of Symantec's antivirus, CD and DVD media, power strips, UPS, etc... for free after rebates up to a relatively few bucks. Typically I'll outfit myself for all computer projects I'll do during the year with what I pick up on Black Friday.
This year at Best Buy it's a Celeron D 352, 15" LCD monitor, Canon color printer, 512 Mb RAM, 100 gig HD, DVD/CD-RW, Windows XP -- $189.97. If you're after a general purpose family computer that's a heck of a deal.
When I'm ready to buy a wide-screen tv one day that's how I'll probably do it also.
It's also fun to do, kind of like tailgating. Freeze your butt off with a bunch of other good-natured (mostly) folks, hit the masses for an orgy of shopping, go to Circuit City after BestBuy to pick up straggling items if they still have any, and then the mall to shop until meeting the wives for lunch at Ruby Tuesday's. Then the men carry about a million packages that the women have picked up at the toy stores and elsewhere in the mall, drag them out to the car, maybe do a bit more slower-paced shopping and head for home.
Good times.
--- saint
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 13, 2006, 03:27:04 pm ---
For what? I can't imagine sitting in line for hours in below freezing temperatures unless I was starving and they were giving out food.
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