Tell that to the woman who almost died in Michigan today.Black Friday is overrated.
What time did you go to these stores?
the idiots crowded at the stores like sheep...i'm doing all my buying online and letting the Fed Ex and DHL guy keep coming to the house here..i will not set foot in one store and haven't in a long time during this time of year.
From the week of Thanksgiving to XMas i avoid the stores like the plague.
That dumb ass fell and never tried to get up.Tell that to the woman who almost died in Michigan today.
I bet you that same winch is gonna sue the store!
Might be kind of... you know... hard when you have hundreds of dumb s all stampeding into a Wal Mart.
NO wait, she had to put her wig back on!
leno just showed it twice!
I think you can only order those at the store. They are CTO. They stopped ordering them because they went over the limit and they don't know if they will get any in time for the holidays.
LOL you purchased a monitor for the intent of temporary use and returning it? That's funny. I don't know weather to laugh or cry on that. You don't have an ethical problem with doing that?
Except you can buy beer and wine...if you want liquor, you have to go to the "liquor store".None of those. Mostly just HEB. It's practically a monopoly here.
It's a good grocery store though -- it's similar in design (and quality) to most Ralph's in Cali.
I miss buying liquor at the grocery store( shopped at Lucky's )
Yeah I have been here for 3 years and I still don't know what times you are allowed to buy liquor/beer/wine. In Cali it's simple, buy anything before 2am, any night of the week. Here it's like.... buy beer from a grocery store between 9am and midnight except the third Tuesday after the autumn equivinox, Sundays, or on nights when the Spurs lose in double digits ... or something like that.Except you can buy beer and wine...if you want liquor, you have to go to the "liquor store".
I miss buying liquor at the grocery store( shopped at Lucky's )
hahaha Black Friday
Black Friday was an awesome day for the E-Bay shopper!
noone was online bidding, so if you were dumb enough to list your to end yesterday then I'm sorry to say it either went unsold or was snipe at mere pennies by cheap as folk like me!
NWT Gap jeans - $3
NWT Levi's - $5
NWOT 2 pr Old Navy boyfriends - $15
NWT Lucky Boyfriend jeans - $23
NWOT - Applebottom jeans - $18
NIB Ocean Wonders baby gym and tunnel - $17
3 Whozitt developmental rattles - $16
whoooo freaking hoooooooo
Yeah, I got some good stuff on ebay yesterday too.
I did until my hard drive crashed. Maybe if *you* spent $300 on an extended service plan that they'd be kind enough not to take 6-8 weeks to fix the damn thing when it breaks.
And that really wasn't my intent when I bought it, we're getting a computer for my daughter for Christmas and I would just pass it on...but when I started using it I didn't like it at all.
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There's an episode on Mythbusters that shows that there are several shopping days that are actually worse than Black Friday. I'd say the tax-free weekend was considerably worse.
No one else I talked to today had any horrific problems, either. Why are you trying to make it sound so ominous? Because a lady in Michigan got trampled .... out how many people, exactly, that went out yesterday?
I went around 6:00pm.
I went shopping for 6 hours yesterday....I guess I'm the lone person around here who actually enjoys Black Friday?
Damn, and I bought Gap Jeans yesterday morning at 7am for $48 thinking that was a good deal....Black Friday was an awesome day for the E-Bay shopper!
noone was online bidding, so if you were dumb enough to list your to end yesterday then I'm sorry to say it either went unsold or was snipe at mere pennies by cheap as folk like me!
NWT Gap jeans - $3
NWT Levi's - $5
NWOT 2 pr Old Navy boyfriends - $15
NWT Lucky Boyfriend jeans - $23
NWOT - Applebottom jeans - $18
NIB Ocean Wonders baby gym and tunnel - $17
3 Whozitt developmental rattles - $16
whoooo freaking hoooooooo
How much do you pay for shipping those things Obiwan? Like isn't shipping $10-15 bucks for those $3 GAP jeans?
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/thank...g/shopping.asp
Claim: The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S.
Status: False.
Origins: The day after Thanksgiving is the day millions of Americans, enjoying a rare Friday off (and a dearth of football games on television), head for the malls to inaugurate the Christmas shopping season. "Black Friday" (as it is known in the retail industry, supposedly because it's the day retailers turn the corner and see their balance sheets move out of the red and into the black) is regularly cited as "the busiest shopping day of the year," but although it may be the day the greatest number of holiday shoppers traipse through malls, it isn't the biggest day of the year in terms of dollars spent:
Popular belief has it that the Friday after Thanksgiving is the busiest shopping day of the year.
These days many shoppers buy with the holidays in mind all year long. Decorations go up around Halloween, and some Santa Clauses arrive at malls before Thanksgiving. Some shoppers got an early start Thursday at a limited number of stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart Super Centers, which were open on the holiday. To be sure, there are still intense crowds on the day after Thanksgiving — led by the "doorbusters" who show up at dawn for early-bird sales.
"It's one of the busiest days in terms of traffic but not in sales," said Pam Rucker, spokeswoman for the National Retail Federation. "But the mystique is still there."1
"People just want to get out and do something on that day," said Jay McIntosh, director of U.S. Retail and Consumer Products for accounting giant Ernst & Young. "They do because of all of the incentives to shop, but many aren't buying."2
Sales figures e on the day after Thanksgiving, drop sharply, then steadily increase throughout December. The result is that Black Friday generally ends up ranking as the fifth biggest sales day of the year at most (and sometimes less), behind the four days comprising the two weekends before Christmas. The day on which holiday sales peak varies depending upon which day of the week Christmas falls upon, but the highest sales day is usually either the last Saturday before Christmas or December 23.
According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, the top shopping days for each of the last twelve years have been as follows:
* 2004: Saturday, Dec. 18
* 2003: Saturday, Dec. 20
* 2002: Saturday, Dec. 21
* 2001: Saturday, Dec. 22
* 2000: Saturday, Dec. 23
* 1999: Saturday, Dec. 18
* 1998: Saturday, Dec. 19
* 1997: Saturday, Dec. 20
* 1996: Saturday, Dec. 21
* 1995: Saturday, Dec. 23
* 1994: Friday, Dec. 23
* 1993: Thursday, Dec. 23
Holiday shopping patterns may change in years to come due to the increasing prevalence of shoppers' using on-line sales outlets for their holiday purchases. For now, however, Wal-Mart still remains the top holiday-gift destination for U.S. shoppers.
Additional information:
Christmas Shopping Facts and Figures Christmas Shopping Facts and Figures
^^I hate Wal-Mart with a passion....
the Gap and Levi's were from the same seller so I'm getting combined shipping. Plus i just bought another pair of Levi's fro mthat seller this morning for my sister. Altogether the shipping on those 3 pairs will be $8 parcel post.
the highest shipping cost I'm paying is $11 UPS ground on the baby gym.
Believe me - shipping is a BIG factor when I'm deciding what I'll bid on. It could be the PERFECT item.. but if shipping is all out of whack then heck no! I will not bid.
I think my best overall deal was on the applebottom jeans.... $18 + $5.95 shipping = way less then $90+ retail.
the Gap and Levi's were from the same seller so I'm getting combined shipping. Plus i just bought another pair of Levi's fro mthat seller this morning for my sister. Altogether the shipping on those 3 pairs will be $8 parcel post.
the highest shipping cost I'm paying is $11 UPS ground on the baby gym.
Believe me - shipping is a BIG factor when I'm deciding what I'll bid on. It could be the PERFECT item.. but if shipping is all out of whack then heck no! I will not bid.
I think my best overall deal was on the applebottom jeans.... $18 + $5.95 shipping = way less then $90+ retail.
You probably bought those from my brother Elmo's Ebay Store. where was the seller from?
he's a big seller of Gap, Levis, and Abercrombie on there.
seller was from chicago... doesn't have a store front.You probably bought those from my brother Elmo's Ebay Store. where was the seller from?
he's a big seller of Gap, Levis, and Abercrombie on there.
no it wasn't him then
Ah, yes, Black Friday. Now, if you are trying to get one of the hot deals, it's crowded, busy, unpleasant and you could be trampled. And you have to wait in line. In New Braunfels, people were camping outside Circuit City at 7 pm Thursday to get the great $200 laptop deal at 5 am Friday.
Now, if you don't need one of those deals, going shopping around 7 or 8 in the morning is ideal - the early shoppers are out of the way, you are well in advance of the lunchtime crowd and all the early deal checkout folks are still on shift.
It's beautiful.
I heard people talking about hating Walmart while they were having coffee at Starbucks. That was one of the best moments of my life. Hypocricy is a beautiful thing....
Oh, but one good thing come out of Black Friday this year. Watching that woman get knocked over on television and worry about getting her wig back on before getting trampled has to be one of the top ten funniest moments this year.
That's funny. Because EBay raked in the most money from the online shopping sites, including Amazon, Wal-mart etc.Black Friday was an awesome day for the E-Bay shopper!
noone was online bidding, so if you were dumb enough to list your to end yesterday then I'm sorry to say it either went unsold or was snipe at mere pennies by cheap as folk like me!
NWT Gap jeans - $3
NWT Levi's - $5
NWOT 2 pr Old Navy boyfriends - $15
NWT Lucky Boyfriend jeans - $23
NWOT - Applebottom jeans - $18
NIB Ocean Wonders baby gym and tunnel - $17
3 Whozitt developmental rattles - $16
whoooo freaking hoooooooo
Caught a bit of it on cnn this morning on a roundtable regarding onine sales during BF.
I walked into CompUSA at 6:30 PM and walked out with the last 200 gig harddrive for $29(AR of course), wireless router and 2 wireless cards for $2.99 each(AR).
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