What are your Black Friday plans?

[saint]

Oh, and having said all that, and having what I observed echo'ed to me by my wife and mother in law who were in line at Toys R Us at 3 AM -- I don't understand this report from Fox News at all:

Black Friday Sales Up 3 Percent From Last Year
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,459226,00.html

Not in my neck of the woods. We went into Nordstrom's and saw no less than 5 sales people dejectedly wandering around looking for customers. There were so few customers it looked like a few minute before closing, not in the heat of the busiest part of Black Friday (roughly 10 AM).

My wife points out though that maybe because the deals weren't as good that margins may have been better, making it more profitable for dealers.  Dunno.

[NIVO]

walmart was effin crazy. Employees were clueless(more than usual) about unwrapping palletes. So idiot customers decided to do it for them, it was a spectacle, just one big mess turning into chaos. You couldnt even get within a 150ft radius of the electronics section at all.

On a lighter note, there was approximately 12 people at Office Max. I scored a nice HP ALL-in-One I had my eye on for $49, so the efforts werent a total bust. Picked up a decent secondary pair of earbuds at K-fart for $10 and im actually impressed by how they sound. I'll be mowing in style this spring    Tons and tons of external drive deals about, but I wasnt impressed to be honest. Definitely a lackluster BF. I am the same as saint, been doin it for as long as I can recall. But this year was abysmal. Advertised minimum limit of items were not even close as to what was printed in ads. They of course "claim" it was misprints so they get away with it. From what I saw in my neck of the woods, LCD TV's were of course the big ticket items. And surprisingly I saw alot of cookware and crockpots being bought up  Didnt see 360's, wii's ps2's or even ps3's flying off the shelves either here  But a ton of Guitar Hero and Crockstar crap being sold as well as alot of PSP and DS deals. Thats about all i recall.......oh almost forgot, scored seasons 9-10 of simpsons thinking I was all caught up, only to see on the shelf that season 11 is out! DOH! It was sold out, so ill be lookin for it as well now. Now to stay up late or early monday morning depending how you look at it for the CyberMonday deals. Lots of free shipping to be had on those folks, so keep your eyelids taped open at 3am, cause the fury will begin right in front of your keyboards. Game On! 

[shardian]

I have to ask Saint - if you were already 60th in line and knew you wouldn't be getting any of the tickets you wanted, why did you stay?

P.S. Best Buy and pretty much all the other retailers put almost all of their Door busters online starting on Thursday. That $199 LCD TV Best Buy had? I stared at the 'Add to cart" button for a while Thursday morning before declining. And to think people would be lining up that night for what they could buy right now? HILARIOUS!!!

[saint]

I have to ask Saint - if you were already 60th in line and knew you wouldn't be getting any of the tickets you wanted, why did you stay?

P.S. Best Buy and pretty much all the other retailers put almost all of their Door busters online starting on Thursday. That $199 LCD TV Best Buy had? I stared at the 'Add to cart" button for a while Thursday morning before declining. And to think people would be lining up that night for what they could buy right now? HILARIOUS!!!

You don't know how many tickets they have, and not everyone in front of you wants the same item you want. I'm usually 50th to 60th in line, and this is the first year they ran out before they got to me.

[shardian]

It seems it is standard practice at Best Buy for the 1st people in line to take one of EVERY ticket since they are not limited to a few items. Then they try to sell them or just abandon them later. 2 years ago my friend got one of the $180 desktops at 10am because of an abandoned ticket I found just laying in a buggy in the parking lot.