Black Friday 2008

[SoMiss2000]

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mustve been a minimal amount of folks shopping this year

I started to go out...then decided against it.

[23]

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I think alot of folks did what you did

There wasnt alot of excitement this year

[Stumbleweed]

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I want Vista so that I can actually use 4 GB of RAM. Also, I think it looks really nice and I don't want to pay $150 for an old piece of software that I already own. That said, if I can manage to not have to pay for XP (getting my license codes and doing a clean install), then I'll just do that to save some money until I feel that 4 GB and Vista is absolutely necessary.

[daflyboys]

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I want Vista so that I can actually use 4 GB of RAM. Also, I think it looks really nice and I don't want to pay $150 for an old piece of software that I already own. That said, if I can manage to not have to pay for XP (getting my license codes and doing a clean install), then I'll just do that to save some money until I feel that 4 GB and Vista is absolutely necessary.

Sometimes if you catch the right M$ tech and explain the situation, they give you a code. It may take you a couple of calls, but might be worth it.

[RubenDouglas]

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thanks guys. now its a matter of trusting myself in putting it all together. ive done each individiiually over the years so we shall see if I actually take the bait and challenge myself

[SlimKibbles]

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This was in an article on the Cincinnati Enquirer website about Black Friday in the Cincinnati area. Thought it was funny.

... Among the first in the Best Buy store in Florence was not a typical customer. Bengals wide receiver Chad Ocho Cinco, aka Chad Johnson, arrived early to get some bargains. Ocho Cinco acknowledged his benching last week for being late to a team meeting.
'We go a little goofy'

"I was bad last week. Sleepy,'' he said. He said he was in the store to buy coach Marvin Lewis a gift.

Seen later with a Rock Band kit, portable stereo and a Cuisinart four-slice toaster, Ocho Cinco said, "I've been trying to call coach, but he doesn't answer." It was 5:25 a.m. ...

[Stumbleweed]

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Hilarious.

"Sorry about that practice last week, Coach Lewis... here's a toaster and Rock Band for your PS3!"

[Mike Lowe]

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Anywhere you can still snag games, like NBA 2k9 for PS3, for $29.99?

[triplej96]

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I got to walmart around 3:40 am and managed to fight the stampede and picked up the 129.99 bluray player along with a few blus at Wallmart and Circuit City. I'm now blu Selling all my HD DVD stuff now.

[Holic]

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Crowds weren't that bad at all here. The wife and I went to Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Target, and Best Buy and were home by 9 after we stopped and had breakfast.

Also did quite a bit of shopping online this year. Last night, and this morning to be exact.

[skitch]

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Did my shopping online...

Probably going to head out to Wal-Mart in a little bit and see what's left.

[Blzer]

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My Black Friday was half-disappointment, half-Godsend.

The biggest disappointment was Best Buy. Like previous years when they'll only show a few covers DVDs that will be cut and when you go there almost all of them are cut in price, I assumed the same for Blu-rays, especially when there was a section that said "Assorted Blu-ray titles: $16.99" or whatever it said. Needless to say, I only left with four Blu-ray movies, because none of the other ones on my list were cheaper than Walmart's normal retail price. I had a list of 45 movies, by the way. So I was outside of Best Buy for five hours for four movies... however, I have to admit that if I was even an hour later to get in line, I don't think I would have gotten a chance to get any of those four movies, so in the end I guess it was still a good thing.

Fry's was worse (but also better in terms of deals), but I'll explain it for a later time. I didn't get any sleep last night, literally... so I'm going to sleep now.

At least I got my 750 GB external.


EDIT: By the way, as I left Fry's, there were two paramedics rushing in with a stretcher. I guess someone got the wrong end of the knife.

[mjb2124]

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mustve been a minimal amount of folks shopping this year

I laid in a warm, comfy bed and enjoyed my rest as many others ran around looking for deals.

Personally, there is no deal worth getting up and going to the store at 4am on a day off. I'll pay the extra money and keep my sanity!

[mgoblue]

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I laid in a warm, comfy bed and enjoyed my rest as many others ran around looking for deals.

Personally, there is no deal worth getting up and going to the store at 4am on a day off. I'll pay the extra money and keep my sanity!

I got a good GPS off of Amazon, no getting up early or anything. Granted, I had to work today, but still wouldn't have done the 4am thing, nothing else I really want (and all the GPS's I could get in person were ok, but was worth spending a bit more for what I get)

[mjb2124]

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They also have some insane TV deals like this 40" Toshiba 1080p LCD for $679: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...5&sku=T24-4004

Not bad at all. My wife is buying me an HDTV for the bedroom for Xmas and I was looking at a 720p Samsung 37", but might have to go for this since it costs about the same and is 3" larger.