What’s Black Friday?
[quote]Bullmoose wrote:
What’s Black Friday?[/quote]
The day after Thanksgiving, and when most stores have huge discouts because it’s the kick-off of the big Christmas shopping season.
People go crazy, trampling over eachother to get the best items at the biggest discounts.
Watch the news on Friday or Saturday. I’m sure there will be videos of people going nuts.
[quote]SWR-1240 wrote:
Watch the news on Friday or Saturday. I’m sure there will be videos of people going nuts.[/quote]
With humanity being at its all time high, I’m pretty sure you can see that any day.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
SWR-1240 wrote:
Watch the news on Friday or Saturday. I’m sure there will be videos of people going nuts.
With humanity being at its all time high, I’m pretty sure you can see that any day.
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Any ideas for the best place to get an nice fridge? My wife and I move into a new house and we need a damn stainless steel fridge. If I have to camp out I will…although DB has a better idea.
I don’t see it being worth going out, unless you live in a really desolate area. The majority of the deals you see on Black Friday are available leading up to the Christmas if you pay attention to those various deals sites floating around the internet. The only thing that’s really been nice are the Westinghouse TV’s BestBuy has marked down, but everything else really isn’t incredible.
If you care to check out the deals this has a pretty comprehensive listing: http://bfads.net/
Though again, you’re probably going to save less than 10% more on Black Friday than you will with some of the deals leading up to the end of the year. A difference on an expensive product of $50-100 isn’t worth standing outside all night and fighting with morons as far as I’m concerned.
[quote]vbm537 wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
SWR-1240 wrote:
Watch the news on Friday or Saturday. I’m sure there will be videos of people going nuts.
With humanity being at its all time high, I’m pretty sure you can see that any day.
Any ideas for the best place to get an nice fridge? My wife and I move into a new house and we need a damn stainless steel fridge. If I have to camp out I will…although DB has a better idea.[/quote]
Yeah that’s right, you just moved down to Temecula right? Hows’ the new pad?
(sorry can’t help you in the fridge department)
B.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Some of us married guys actually have sex with our own wives.[/quote]
Give Barney a week and he’ll be married…
I am an assistant manager of a large department store, so I will be working and dealing with the crowds. It’s not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. 80% of Black Friday’s business is done by 2pm, so as long as you can make it through the morning, it’s all good.
Well, I’m pleased to report that myself and a friend arrived at our nearby Best Buy yesterday (thursday) at 1pm and were 4th and 5th in line. I got both sale laptops and the 32" LCD HDTV that I wanted.
Now I’m going to sleep. haha
Good site for deal locating:
I’ve been sitting in the apartment all morning. I watched a movie and I might walk over to the video store and get another.
I’m thankful that I’m exempt from the whole shopping thing at holiday times. And I’m exempt for two reasons:
- I have no money
- Even if I did, no one expects anything from me. In fact, I think most people gloss over my existence entirely. And at present, that is working well for me.
I had to work, our system for activations went down across the country, no new sales for pimpy 
worked in retail…i hate black fridays
Anyone know why they call it Black Friday?
[quote]RoadWarrior wrote:
Anyone know why they call it Black Friday?[/quote]
One theory is that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts.
Black Friday is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year’s profits (the black). – wikipedia
[quote]biglift88 wrote:
RoadWarrior wrote:
Anyone know why they call it Black Friday?
One theory is that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices would use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink to show positive amounts.
Black Friday is the beginning of the period where retailers would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year’s profits (the black). – wikipedia[/quote]
Yet another reason to love Costco and Wal-Mart. Yes there can be some line-ups, but they’re rather constant.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Yeah that’s right, you just moved down to Temecula right? Hows’ the new pad?
(sorry can’t help you in the fridge department)
B.
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Hey Brad, thanks for asking. We are still on the process of moving in…no fridge yet. The house is new so it’s been a pain trying to get everything hooked up. Now we have an empty house so we have to start getting things little by little.