m3000: Do these people not realize that TV is probably cheaper online then at best buy? Their black Friday sale prices don't even beat Amazons normal prices

Maybe I just want to trample some old ladies.

Christmas isn't all about the gifts.

The Angry Hand of God: Best Buy's only purpose is to let me check something out in person before I buy it over the internet.

The comments section blaming 'Obama' and 'welfare' certainly speaks volumes of the magnitude of American stupidity on display.

Rhiannon Buckingham = Fleetwood Mac and Cheese

Ed Finnerty:

Maybe I just want to trample some old ladies.

Christmas isn't all about the gifts.

That is so beautiful.

_{/runs off to trample}

Where do these women work? And even if they don't work, wouldn't they rather be at home then save 200-300 dollars?

I can conceive of nothing short of Beatles reunion^* tickets for which I would camp out, or even wait in line for more than 30 minutes.

* And even then, only if it featured the reanimated corpses of John and George.

This morning our local TV news did a piece that had three rather large young ladies(?) That were setting up for black Friday.
They said that even if they didn't get the, whatever they were hopping for.
That maybe they would meet some cute guys.

remember short small bursts...don't go full auto or you'll waste ammo

They should be lining up outside Sports Authority to get a great deal on a treadmill.

/go ahead, picture them sweating in spandex

The Flatscreen of Amontillado?

/love your obscurity/literary notions

Most aprapos button ever?

swangoatman: the fat one is engaged..
facebook.com/rhiannon.buckingham

I'm sorry. You will need to be more specific.

"Last year, I came on Tuesday and I was 17th in line," she said. "They only had 15 TVs."


And yet your fat-ass came back.

zvoidx: I've always wondered; when someone camps out to be one of the first in line; on the morning of the sale does the store always honor this? I've seen so many videos of BF where walls of people are rushing the store/how would camping out really matter?

Some time before opening, Best Buy sends an employee to walk down the line and offers each person up to 2 tickets for doorbuster items of their choice. To clarify, a ticket is for a specific doorbuster item (e.g. maybe you are there for the TV that's half price, another guy wants a ticket for the cheap laptop, you would receive different tickets).

The doorbuster items are not on shelves but instead must be claimed at a special booth by showing your ticket. Mobbing the front door at opening time won't do you any good because you don't have any tickets for the good prices.

Despite what you're reading here in this thread, most stores do genuinely have 1 or 2 deals that are truly exceptional, and I would totally consider such deals if there was 0 hassle involved. But it's not 0 hassle, it's more like near-infinite hassle, so I do not shop on Black Friday. Though if you wait until the middle of the afternoon, it's just like any other day of the Christmas shopping season - crowded but bearable with no significant deals to be had.

Go away Black Friday Shoppers, you are drunk.

It'd be a shame if someone followed up on what, if any, government benefits these folks or their families are collecting such that they've got an entire goddamn week to sit outside a store.

Better than black Sunday.

zvoidx: I've always wondered; when someone camps out to be one of the first in line; on the morning of the sale does the store always honor this? I've seen so many videos of BF where walls of people are rushing the store/how would camping out really matter?

You either get the TV, or your next-of-kin get a nice settlement.

Sybarite: BunkoSquad: Couldn't we just wall them off permanently instead?


The Flatscreen of Amontillado?

For the love of god, Sybarite, you owe me a new keyboard.

super_grass: OPPORTUNITY

COST

People like this think "opportunity cost" is what you pay to get those great videos of how to turn your debt into wealth by working at home and powering your car using nothing but water.

Sybarite:
The Flatscreen of Amontillado?

No, don't build in a flatscreen. That would be rewarding their behavior. Just wall them in with regular bricks. Airholes optional.

What happens when someone wants to line up for Thanksgiving Day sales? Do they start two lines for that morning?

What a useless bunch of meat-sacks.

I was going to post some snark about all this, but actually took the time to read the article.

FTA:"Last year, I came on Tuesday and I was 17th in line," she said. "They only had 15 TVs."

I think I can understand where she's coming from on this one. I wouldn't be waiting in line for 3 days for a few hundred bucks off a TV, but it would really suck to go through that and NOT get your cheap TV.

i like how all the comments are like "get a jerb"

like it is easy. it's hard enough especially if u have a criminal record

If they had spent that time working, they could afford to get a good television instead of the cheapest piece of crap money can buy.

Those women have some *SERIOUS* Cajones

OPPORTUNITY

COST