Do people have lives anymore? I drove by a Best Buy around 9pm on the way home from a family member's house and there was a HUGE line outside. The parking lot was packed with cars and more people were driving into the lot. What deal is worth sitting outside for 8+ hours to get?

I have a hypothesis:
The people who took adjustable mortgages and didn't understand the terms are the same people standing outside of stores tonight.

 

Yeah I never really got why anyone would spend 8+ hours in the cold for a shitty $200 laptop when they could prolly go work for those hours and buy something that is worth having.

 

The prices arent much better than what you can find online anyway. People are idiots.

 

no doubt about it.

 

They are not idiots. They are sheep conditioned by shopping pride.
I thought that I'd swing by Circuit City this morning - which is right down the street from me, to look at PDAs for my wife. There was a line outside the store to get in. I quickly changed my mind. Then I was going to go to Costco to buy a case of oil for SPLNDID and it was PACKED too! Wal-Mart was decent, so I bought oil there and immediately went home to my garage.
Yeah, it is nuts. Create a frenzy and you can make bucks.
Beany Babies anyone?

 

Heyyyyy

This was my first year participating in Black Friday Shopping. I arrived at my Best Buy at 7:30pm last night and was #163 in line out of #1000. They handed out wristbands to the first 1,000 to guarantee your spot in the store and they handed out doorbuster specials that only got to about the 200th spot. I needed a few things that they had good deals on so I took the plunge, brought a sleeping bag, my ipod, and some water, and saved some buku bucks.

I'm very happy with my Garmin GPS and Canon DSLR.



Oh, and there were about another 350 or so people waiting behind the first 1,000 people.

 

Herd mentality at it's finest. I do ALL my shopping online, no fighting traffic, no finding parking spaces, no lines, no wrapping, no boxing and shipping myself. A few clicks and I'm done.

 

The easy way is to just isolate yourself from your family so you don't have anyone you have to buy for

Worked for me for the past few years...No malls, no parking, no surfing the net looking for deals, etc...

 

FedEx Loves you.

 

i went to the best buy thing and stil got my garmin and i was after the crown.. i went to the one at supersttion