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AZWification said:

There weren't many Black Friday delas here in Romania, so I don't have an amazing story to tell..


I don't know why there would be black friday in romania to begin with.



I was walking down along the street and I heard this voice saying, "Good evening, Mr. Dowd." Well, I turned around and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name.

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Went to mine, all the good shit was sold out, bought a $9 Christmas Toblerone and got out.

WOO big spender here :P

I bought One Directions new album...dont judge



HesAPooka said:
AZWification said:

There weren't many Black Friday delas here in Romania, so I don't have an amazing story to tell..


I don't know why there would be black friday in romania to begin with.

Other countries are adopting it. The UK did this year and I don't think they've ever had any major black Friday sales ever before. Its a great way for retailers to make even more money and profits. Afterall, all those "discounts" are kinda a scam. Retailers increase the prices a day before and then attract customers with 50% off sales. And every year people fall for all those "sales". 



    

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Went to my local Best Buy and went to an aisle where the long line was meandering through. Then I said: "Yes they still have them in stock!". Everyone around me went into attack mode wondering what the great deal was. Then I reached out and picked up an AC power cord and then went to the back of the line.



MoHasanie said:
HylianSwordsman said:
There were long lines out the door everywhere I looked when I was driving to a buffet for Thanksgiving dinner. I stayed far away from them. I was having none of that bullshit ruining my Thanksgiving. As for day of, I stayed home, because again, it's bullshit. Not endangering my life to save a few bucks on electronics.

You can still get lots of good deals online...

Damn right. Cyber Monday's where it's at, bitches.



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My experience was rather dull really, which was somewhat surprising. Never went to black friday before myself, but my mother is a shopping addict so it was old hat for her. Drove by target near my house about five minutes before they opened and the line was completely around the store and into the back, so I refused to even try and drove her to wallmart which was even worse. Told her I didn't want her getting trampled in this nonsense and she could do her shopping tomorrow.

Head home and drive by that target and the line had already dissipated so I figure we can try it. Get lucky and get a parking spot right up front, while my mom does her thing I go to the electronics section figuring everything had been raided by now, but find it rather orderly. Wound up getting their lbp3 and lego batman ps4 bundle + an extra controller free as a 'doorbuster' apparently.

Game racks were all unlocked and I picked up the evil within, watch dogs, infamous second son, wolfenstein and shadow of mordor all for $25 each, alien isolation for $35 and thief for $15. Head to check out and every single lane is open, didn't have to wait at all to get checked out; the only line I saw at all in the store was for people wanting ipads. In all I was in there maybe a little more than ten minutes, though I wound up waiting in the car a while for my mom to finisher her crap.

On a normal day at target I'd have to wait ten minutes for an associate to unlock the racks for a game and then fall in line behind a dozen people at the only two checkout lanes they'd have open at the time to pay. This black friday wound up being the most convenient experience I had shopping at a retail store, ever.



Kerotan said:
KLAMarine said:

That's a good question: why does it say 19.99? Mislabeling or misplacement of boxes?

Because they're all the PS4's bought with the scam for $10 so they're selling them with a massive 100% mark up.

I, what?

...Oh, you're referring to people buying PS4s with the price match thing right?.. Lucky scammers! They scammed walmart so I can't complain.



My wife told me there was a fist fight over a Barbie doll. She won.



HesAPooka said:
AZWification said:

There weren't many Black Friday delas here in Romania, so I don't have an amazing story to tell..


I don't know why there would be black friday in romania to begin with.

Hmm.. I don't get why you're saying that.. :/



                
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For what it's worth, my brother recently picked up an x1. Told him to call over our cousin who loves his 360 and he told me our cousin bought an x1 too.