Tip 1: Stay home and nurse your hangover instead.

Rapmaster2000: Tip 1: Stay home and nurse your hangover turkey coma instead.

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Tip 2: shop for deals at sites like slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com

They have deals every day that beat black Friday deals.

I also find it amusing to watch them pick apart Black Friday ads. The consensus this year is that the deals pretty much stink, with very few great deals.

albo: Rapmaster2000: Tip 1: Stay home and nurse your hangover turkey coma instead.

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Why can't it be both?

/Pops has a kegerator of Yuengling waiting for me.

Boy, I'm glad I don't work retail anymore... Black Friday was one of those days where you didn't feel like coming in, you didn't feel like staying for you whole shift, and you wished the sweet hand of Death would come down from the sky and bless you with oblivion.

I still work on Black Friday, but it's in an office answering phones... And hardly anyone calls because they think we're closed. I expect to be on Fark & Wikipedia a lot that day.

BigBooper: Tip 2: shop for deals at sites like slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com

They have deals every day that beat black Friday deals.

I also find it amusing to watch them pick apart Black Friday ads. The consensus this year is that the deals pretty much stink, with very few great deals.

Years ago, I got my wife 12 place settings of discontinued Noritake china for $300. Retail was nearly $2K. I got laid. Thanks Fatwallet!

/csb

I just don't have the disposition to participate in Black Friday sales. They always remind me of the end of The Magic Christian (movie).

The best deal I've seen so far is the PS3 one at Walmart, with Gamestop having an ok one. Every other deal seems pedestrian or very limited quantities this year.

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CarnySaur: I just don't have the disposition to participate in Black Friday sales. They always remind me of the end of The Magic Christian (movie).

CarnySaur: I just don't have the disposition to participate in Black Friday sales. They always remind me of the end of The Magic Christian (movie).

Please do not trample the Wal-Mart temp employees.

Don't by the "Red Matter" it will just turn your house into a black hole.

I got suckered into going out once on Black Friday.

Once.

I make a decent enough living that standing around for 12 hours in the freezing cold, then stampeding through the aisles with a bunch of wild-eyed morons isn't worth $500 off a lousy Chinese-made TV.

I love hearing the horror stories about Black Friday. I don't know why, but it is relaxing to me. I am thinking of getting Total Fark for a month or two just to see all of the Black Friday threads. Maybe because I worked in retail in college.

foo monkey: BigBooper: Tip 2: shop for deals at sites like slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com

They have deals every day that beat black Friday deals.

I also find it amusing to watch them pick apart Black Friday ads. The consensus this year is that the deals pretty much stink, with very few great deals.

Years ago, I got my wife 12 place settings of discontinued Noritake china for $300. Retail was nearly $2K. I got laid. Thanks Fatwallet!

You had to spend $300 to get your wife to have sex with you?

rmz:

You had to spend $300 to get your wife to have sex with you?

I'd say he got off pretty cheap.

If you get up at 4:30 in the morning to stand in line in the freezing cold for a store to open just so you can fight 10,000 other mouth breathers like a pack of wild animals over a piece of plastic from China, you are an idiot. That is all.

//don't tell my wife I said that.

rmz: foo monkey: BigBooper: Tip 2: shop for deals at sites like slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com

They have deals every day that beat black Friday deals.

I also find it amusing to watch them pick apart Black Friday ads. The consensus this year is that the deals pretty much stink, with very few great deals.

Years ago, I got my wife 12 place settings of discontinued Noritake china for $300. Retail was nearly $2K. I got laid. Thanks Fatwallet!

You had to spend $300 to get your wife to have sex with you?

He got off cheap! (no pun intended)

I picked up a 52" 1080i HDTV for $400 on Black Friday a couple of years ago...NEVER again.

/It was CRT though
//I froze my balls off outside Wal-Mart from midnight to 5 AM

Tip regarding televisions: the price the store paid for an LCD TV is typically list price (NOT promotional price) divided by 1.5.

pd771: The best deal I've seen so far is the PS3 one at Walmart, with Gamestop having an ok one. Every other deal seems pedestrian or very limited quantities this year.

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WTF is up with the 360 deal? While for the PS3 they are offering InFamous and Arkham Asylum games and the Dark Knight on Blu-Ray, they are offering...two Madagascar DVDs and the video game? WTF is that lame sh*t?!

They had a better deal with the 360 Arcade 2 weeks ago: it came with a $100 gift card. I finally grabbed one to go with my PS3 because, hey, it was effectively $100 off.

Had it long enough by now to say without any reservation that the PS3 is the far better console, though...nevermind the 360's noise, the online seems laggy as hell...but oh well, my CoD playing buddies are 360 guys, so...

And yes, I still feel soul-raped for shopping at Wal-Mart.

wal-mart.... this company takes out insurance policies on its workers without them knowing.... what more do you need to know?

I worked one BF at Best Buy, my job was to stand next to a pile of portable DVD player cases and hand them to people after they picked up the dirt-cheap store brand portable DVD player from the pile right in front of mine.

Still blows my mind how I'd just thrust it at them, saying "here, you want this, too" and they'd all say "oh, yeah," take it and walk off.

Whodat?: I worked one BF at Best Buy, my job was to stand next to a pile of portable DVD player cases and hand them to people after they picked up the dirt-cheap store brand portable DVD player from the pile right in front of mine.

Still blows my mind how I'd just thrust it at them, saying "here, you want this, too" and they'd all say "oh, yeah," take it and walk off.

Hurrah for excited sheep.

Wait, black friday is bullshiat!? STOP THE PRESSES!

mod3072: If you get up at 4:30 in the morning to stand in line in the freezing cold for a store to open just so you can fight 10,000 other mouth breathers like a pack of wild animals over a piece of plastic from China, you are an idiot. That is all.

//don't tell my wife I said that.

4:30? Last year people were lining up in front of Best Buy on Wednesday. What an idiotic way to spend Thanksgiving.

I woke up at 3am a few years back to get some videogames and DVDs. I knew I wasted my sleeping time when I realized you don't need to get up insanely early for items like those.

Kanyon: It was CRT though

A 52" CRT? Did you have a flatbed truck to pick it up?

PINEAPPLE.

I went shopping once on Black Friday...back in nineteen hundred and ninety two. It wasn't even places that had these crazy sales and it still was enough to make me say....never again.

/I'll be nursing a vodka/turkey hangover out on the disc golf course whilst drinking more vodka.

Hagbard23: Kanyon: It was CRT though

A 52" CRT? Did you have a flatbed truck to pick it up?

My brother has an old 37" Mitsubishi CRT monitor. It was for industrial use and weighs like 300 lbs.

52" sounds improbable.

tricycleracer: albo: Rapmaster2000: Tip 1: Stay home and nurse your hangover turkey coma instead.

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Why can't it be both?

/Pops has a kegerator of Yuengling waiting for me.



I miss Yuengling....have 1 for me. None here in Wisconsin

Whodat?: I worked one BF at Best Buy, my job was to stand next to a pile of portable DVD player cases and hand them to people after they picked up the dirt-cheap store brand portable DVD player from the pile right in front of mine.

Still blows my mind how I'd just thrust it at them, saying "here, you want this, too" and they'd all say "oh, yeah," take it and walk off.

did 6 of them working at best buy...would just stock all the items on endcaps and then when the doors opened run to the back of the store climb up a ladder and watch the flood of fatties fly through getting there useless shiat. Seriously sounded like a herd of wild animals fighting over $99 desktops and $20 dvd players

Kanyon: I picked up a 52" 1080i HDTV for $400 on Black Friday a couple of years ago...NEVER again.

/It was CRT though
//I froze my balls off outside Wal-Mart from midnight to 5 AM

Did you have to use one of those helicopters that carry HVAC units to mount on top of highrises to move the farker?

Buy things online.

A) No wasted gas.
B) No dealing with a-holes.
C) No dealing with things being out of order (even when they are out of stock online, they simply ship it when they got it!)
D) No sales tax (and with amazon, no shipping either!)
E) Compare all the prices on one convenient website.
F) Even cheaper than most stores.

mcreadyblue:

My brother has an old 37" Mitsubishi CRT monitor. It was for industrial use and weighs like 300 lbs.

52" sounds improbable.

Not improbable at all. A couple years ago I had a 65 inch Hitachi CRT, 1080i. It weighed less than 300 pounds. Probably around 200. I got rid of it because it took up way too much floor space though.

As far as transporting it, it'll fit in the back of an S-10.

My wife and I already finished our Christmas shopping this year.

\smug.

Tourney3p0: mcreadyblue:

My brother has an old 37" Mitsubishi CRT monitor. It was for industrial use and weighs like 300 lbs.

52" sounds improbable.

Not improbable at all. A couple years ago I had a 65 inch Hitachi CRT, 1080i. It weighed less than 300 pounds. Probably around 200. I got rid of it because it took up way too much floor space though.

As far as transporting it, it'll fit in the back of an S-10.

Are you sure it wasn't DLP? I've never heard of a 65-inch CRT, let alone one that was 1080i.

Boycott Black Friday!

Seriously, the manufactured consumer madness has to end somewhere, and I'm certainly thinking the "Black Friday" tradition is a good place from which to start. When folks die because sociopathic shoppers are worked into a froth by retailers anxious to make a profit off fake shortages, bait-and-switch tactics, and other shoddy business practices, it's gotta stop.

Stay home, stay warm, stay comfortable, stay safe.

Boycott Partypoopers!


:)

ROFLWAFFLE: Tourney3p0: mcreadyblue:

My brother has an old 37" Mitsubishi CRT monitor. It was for industrial use and weighs like 300 lbs.

52" sounds improbable.

Not improbable at all. A couple years ago I had a 65 inch Hitachi CRT, 1080i. It weighed less than 300 pounds. Probably around 200. I got rid of it because it took up way too much floor space though.

As far as transporting it, it'll fit in the back of an S-10.

Are you sure it wasn't DLP? I've never heard of a 65-inch CRT, let alone one that was 1080i.

According to howstuffworks ( Link (new window) ), 40 was the biggest marketed.

You probably had a rear projection tv. I think a crt with a 60 inch diagonal screes would need to be 5 foot long as well.

This black friday is gonna be the worst one one record. Massive tramplings, murders at the hands of gun carrying a-holes, etc...
Why do I believe this?

Ok

1) The economy. Sure last year is when it started (Bush is to blame of course) however, more and more people have had to live with it for over a year unlike last year. The media has created part of the panic as well as people really truly falling on hard times. Because more and more people have hit rock bottom, there is more desperation ergo, more fights.


2) Teaparty WHARRGARBL the "I bring guns to town hall meetings Obama nazi socialist muslims niggra president ain't gonna take my guns so I bring them everywhere" is gonna be out in full retard force.


This will not end well.

HempHead: ROFLWAFFLE: Tourney3p0: mcreadyblue:

My brother has an old 37" Mitsubishi CRT monitor. It was for industrial use and weighs like 300 lbs.

52" sounds improbable.

Not improbable at all. A couple years ago I had a 65 inch Hitachi CRT, 1080i. It weighed less than 300 pounds. Probably around 200. I got rid of it because it took up way too much floor space though.

As far as transporting it, it'll fit in the back of an S-10.

Are you sure it wasn't DLP? I've never heard of a 65-inch CRT, let alone one that was 1080i.

According to howstuffworks ( Link (new window) ), 40 was the biggest marketed.

You probably had a rear projection tv. I think a crt with a 60 inch diagonal screes would need to be 5 foot long as well.

yes i think he just got CRT confused with rear projection. Most common and best rear projections came from Samsung and their DLP lines which actually were pretty nice. I saw of those over 50 inches in peoples homes and it was like having a small car parked in your living room. I know a guy who has one of the original 50 inch rear projections that first hit the market and it's massive, probably weighs over 300 easily.

Britney Spear's Speculum: This black friday is gonna be the worst one one record. Massive tramplings, murders at the hands of gun carrying a-holes, etc...
Why do I believe this?

Ok

1) The economy. Sure last year is when it started (Bush is to blame of course) however, more and more people have had to live with it for over a year unlike last year. The media has created part of the panic as well as people really truly falling on hard times. Because more and more people have hit rock bottom, there is more desperation ergo, more fights.


2) Teaparty WHARRGARBL the "I bring guns to town hall meetings Obama nazi socialist muslims niggra president ain't gonna take my guns so I bring them everywhere" is gonna be out in full retard force.


This will not end well.

I'm inclined to agree, mostly for reason #1, though. When you think about it, #2 is just a consequence of #1.

/will be sleeping in on Black Friday, no matter how hard my mother-in-law tries to convince me that shopping with her is "bonding" and Black Friday is a "tradition"
//I hate shopping even in the best of circumstances.

Forty-Two: When you think about it, #2 is just a consequence of #1.

When you think about it even more, 2 caused 1. Because 2 voted for Bush in the 1st place.

TheGhostofFarkPast: yes i think he just got CRT confused with rear projection. Most common and best rear projections came from Samsung and their DLP lines which actually were pretty nice. I saw of those over 50 inches in peoples homes and it was like having a small car parked in your living room. I know a guy who has one of the original 50 inch rear projections that first hit the market and it's massive, probably weighs over 300 easily.

I'm still of the opinion Samsung's DLP TVs are the best HD TVs out there. I have a 52" that's about three years old. While the base goes back about 13 inches at its deepest, the majority of the set is only about 2 inches deep. It weighs about 30 pounds. Only thing I've ever had to do with it is replace the bulb about a year ago.

Forty-Two: //I hate shopping even in the best of circumstances.

A woman who hates shopping? Processing....divide by zero error

alright, you bastages.. this article/thread and similar (see: Toy stock 2009 v 2008) caused me to run to amazon in a blue panic and order most everything on the lists last night...

...if cyber monday rolls along and kicks me in the ass, i'm gonna be back for you.

Here's my trick: Don't buy shiat.

I have a secret trick to get around the rush in Sales. I buy stuff at other times of the year. Sure it costs a lil extra, but I'm laughing when I don't have to deal with the crush!