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Black Friday sales for MAME builders
ChadTower:
Good enough. Cold doesn't bother me either, growing up in Canada. For me the struggle is a babysitter.
ahofle:
I agree with Chad. Being warm and snuggled in my bed that morning and safely distanced from obnoxious shoppers (not you guys, the other shoppers LOL) is well worth the couple hundred dollars or so of potential savings to me. In fact, I never even bother to go shopping that entire day -- it's just too crazy. Anyway, it's not like that's the only day of the year you can get a great deal on something.
Why do the retail stores bother to do this anyway? Seems like more trouble that it's worth to them.
Chris:
Because it gets people to the stores. Last year I went for Walmart's $400 laptop. The line for it went around the store, but they only had 30 of them. But I saw disappointed people leaving the line picking up other deals. (I didn't get the laptop.)
Note that different stores may have different pricing. Last year two walmarts 30 miles apart had a $100 price difference on the laptop.
shardian:
One year, I worked for my brother-in-law to buy stuff on Black Friday. I got to buy a TON of stuff with his credit card. That was pretty fun. Oh, the reason was he has a back-woods store he sold the stuff at for the next month.
ChadTower:
Loss leaders... they take a loss on a few items to get people in and buying the high margin stuff that goes with it. For every one of those $500 LCDs they take a 25% loss on they probably sell $150 in 500% margin cables to go with it. Plus the person is going to buy a bunch of other regular margin stuff while there.
I guess some of my issue is that my family tends to not spend tons and tons and buy a lot of expensive stuff for the holidays. We get together, have dinners and parties, stuff like that, but gifts usually tend to be small and in the lesser cost range than a lot of the stuff here. So really, if I were to go out and freeze my sack off for hours to get into the store and drop a couple grand on tons of Best Buy toys for everyone, I'd get the same fleece coat/old movie DVDs/clearance coffee table books in return. Not exactly the spirit of the holiday, I know, but that is what it is.
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