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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Urchin on November 24, 2006, 03:22:07 AM
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See Rule #7
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uh oh.
my girlfriend and i were planning to go to best buy to try to get one this morning.
not looking forward to this.
hope it isnt so bad here...
p.s. - sorry you didnt get that laptop. :(
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Hey guys, just spend a little time shopping on the 'net. You'll find good deals, you'll stay warm, and the frustration level is much, much lower. It amazed me the cattle mentality of buyers when I worked retail. All that effort to save a few bucks. But, if that's what people like to do, more power to them. Sorry ya got pissed Urchin but, this is not something that's ever going to be polite, nice or easy to deal with. Retail IS hell...and the customers make sure it stays that way.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Hey guys, just spend a little time shopping on the 'net. You'll find good deals, you'll stay warm, and the frustration level is much, much lower. It amazed me the cattle mentality of buyers when I worked retail. All that effort to save a few bucks. But, if that's what people like to do, more power to them. Sorry ya got pissed Urchin but, this is not something that's ever going to be polite, nice or easy to deal with. Retail IS hell...and the customers make sure it stays that way.
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so you are saying that its not really worth it to try for the 599 dollar 12" averitec dual core laptop with the gig of ram...that i can find it elsewhere for the same savings?
note: this would be my first early morning shopping adventure. i usually do it your way.
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You have a brain and a moderate level of known intelligence that I can tell. Surf the web, search for a deal, most likely you'll find it. Don't be a slave to retail marketing!!! STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:D
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lol.
yay! then i can sleep!
(we had this whole, "well if you want to stay up we can go" thing...and i am like...will i regret not doing so and etc...you know, the whole make her happy thing...but now i can just point to this and say "look, a retail 'authority' that i read on the boards says it isnt worth it."
thanks man.
:aok
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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That's why I don't participate in those panic-buying deals. People really get all wrapped up over a stupid bargain or whatever. The only way to do it is to find a store that just isn't very popular and hope that your item doesn't sell out in the first 60 seconds.
But people (shoppers, sheeple, whatever) really get too worked up over these, so I just don't play. It's an ugly demonstration of human greed and frankly I don't want to be associated with people demonstrating that sort of slavery to consumerism. I'd rather do without than be in a group of holiday panic-shoppers. It's pathetic and embarassing watching people behave that way.
Starving ethiopians... I could see that kind of behavior if you were giving out a limited amount of food to those people, but for people who already have too much crap, it's just brainless consumerism. Pathetic.
That said, I went to the AAFES base exchange and bought a cheapo one-day-only-sale home theater setup for my wife. She is absolutely not interested in what the tv sounds like but I hate those crappy tv speakers when watching movies, so getting a $190 surround sound system and dvd player for $89 was the only sensible way to solve that particular dilemma. But I showed up at 6pm and didn't have to fight the hysterical crowds. I walked in, got only the one item I wanted, and left. If they'd been sold out, too bad, I don't really need it anyhow.
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"But people (shoppers, sheeple, whatever) really get too worked up over these, so I just don't play. It's an ugly demonstration of human greed and frankly I don't want to be associated with people demonstrating that sort of slavery to consumerism. I'd rather do without than be in a group of holiday panic-shoppers. It's pathetic and embarassing watching people behave that way."
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I agree and would go so far as to say stores that encourage (through these early bird sales) a scene where violence could happen is irresponsible at best, and sadistic at worst if the management gets their jollies watching such a scene unfold. I don't do business with companies handing out lottery tickets to wait in a parking lot to purchase their products.
Should be first come first serve, and Urchin was there among the first. Pretty crappy way to do business imo. You Urchin were there with your car and it cost you gas to go there. No reason to make you leave. You were there for an advertised sale. If it was some safety reason, maybe they shouldn't be having sales where someone could get hurt. I might complain about it, but it would be hard to not start cussing, and once I did that I wouldv'e lost. I guarantee you Urchin, you ain't the only one p'od that attended that sale. Dunno...if enough people complained, it might make 'em think. It's not logical. If they're desperate enough to have a sale like that, why turn away (and turn off) customers?
Many years ago (1983) an airline was offering free tickets to Puerto Vallarta if you brought in 50 count of various items. It was a scavenger hunt. Welll... my friends and I thought we'd try for it, and decided to go for the 50 helium filled balloons...(our intelligence dept. indicated no one had showed up with that yet.) We high-tailed it to a novelty shop before they closed at midnight and purchased the balloons and fitted them all in my 64 Super 88 and arrived to the airport at about 3 in the morning. We were about 70th in line and were there three hours. Thought we had it in the bag when someone about 10th in front of us produced a handful of non-helium filled balloons and won on that item. As if they couldn't see us standing there like idiots with 50 filled balloons!!!:rolleyes:
Oh well such is life.;)
Les
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People like you kept piling onto those cops till they caved in for them.
You should've followed your instinct ("knowing so") and camped within sight of either the parking lot, or its most fluent entrance. By the time enough people had arrived, you'd have played your Urchin "I was here first" act, and gotten a front row spot on the starting grid.
You play too fair, then retrospectively piss your own self off for having played that strategy.
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Is that for me Moot?
Les
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No, Urchin. :)
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It's all good.:) Btw, that scavenger was fun, even if we were bamboozled. Darnit, I really wanted to go to Puerto Vallarta.
Les
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I just made a great deal _online_ today.
Those of you who know about laptops are aware that HP came out with a new line of home/small business laptops in the 9000 series with AMD or intel core 2 duo laptops.
Well the now "old" 8000 series is on sale almost everywere so i orderd one with these specs today
Intel core duo T2300, nvidia 7600 grapichs with 256mb dedicated ram. 2gb of ddr2 ram, 2x80gb internal harddrive and a nice 17" screen.
Price is not relevant as youcant really compare us vs here, but its alot chaper then the new series if you can go without core2 and do core duo instead adn dont need the webcam. (im not getting the vista cupon with it but im not going to use vista either.
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LOL I nodded off at my desk lat night and woke up about 3 AM.
Started heading to bed and saw my son up and getting dressed.
Asking him WTF he was doing he told me he and his friends were headed out for one of those "ASS Crack of Dawn" (LOL Love that line) Sales.
Best Buy was supposed to be offering some sort of deal on routers and he wanted oen so he culd use his XBox in his Dorm
I just chuckled at his insanity But have always been a firm beleiver in letting my kids learn non lethal lessons for themselves when they want to do something really silly
So I just Told him to make sure he let the dogs out..and back in, before he left and went to bed.
Now I get up and see him sleeping in his clothes on his bed. But I dont see any boxes or bags.
So now Im wondering and thinking how he made out and maybe he inherited the gene from me that loathes waiting in long lines for anything.
I imagine I'll be hearing pretty much the same story when I ask hi what happened later LOL
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dred let us know what happened :)
The one and only time I tried one of those sooper early sales, I actually got lucky. I showed up half an hour before store open, and got in line like a good little brainwashed consumer. Doors opened, screaming people rushed in pushing and shoving. I walked calmly to video card section and grabbed the one remaining sale video card. It was a 128 meg GeForce 4 4200 for about 30% below normal retail price, back when you could overclock one of those by quite a bit. It was quite a deal but after that I decided there wasn't any product on any store shelf in the world at any price that was worth that kind of hassle ever again.
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fascinating story. I'd queue up for free fellatio performed by a pretty woman who gargled inbetween services rendered but that would be about it.
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My wife, her sister, my sister, and my stepmom are all out on one of these shopping trips right now. It's 6:25 here in pacific land, and she left at 4:30. I kept asking off handedly if any of the places she was going had electronics. Maybe there's a Wii in my christmas future...
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i went to the store and got stabbed for a gameboy. I DIDNT EVEN HAVE A GAMEBOY! :mad: :furious
but i got me a nice hat and got lamp a new shade.
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Shame it had to be edited.
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See Rule #4
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well, i just got 3 10x/100X telescopes, 1 for each of my nephews and 1 for me...bird watchin on the beach...ahem... 10 bucks each. suggested retail? 79.95. walgreens.
then i got a brand new 12' averitec laptop with a amd 64 processor, 512 ram, 80 mb hd dual layer dvd burner for the mrs. (black case. simple, yet elegant presentation...not boxy at all.
$385 at office max.
of course, i live around destin florida...so there are not as many people running around in the peripheree , mrs. 88 is the accounts manager for destin commons mall and i tell you it is total zoo over there.
glad to have skipped that part...glad to have found some new toys for the tinker'n.
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Before the thread is locked, why was the post deleted?
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See rule #4
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Originally posted by Chairboy
My wife, her sister, my sister, and my stepmom are all out on one of these shopping trips right now. It's 6:25 here in pacific land, and she left at 4:30. I kept asking off handedly if any of the places she was going had electronics. Maybe there's a Wii in my christmas future...
My wife left this morning and I think I woke up around 10am. She's still out of the house. I actually ENCOURAGE her to shop, it means I can have peace and quiet until I start playing some Pink Floyd, AC/DC or something.
Personally, I rarely shop after Thanksgiving. Santa Claus can take that PS3 that "little timmy wants, but causes Mom and Dad to act worse than the children they're buying it for" and shove it up their butts.
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Originally posted by JB88
well, i just got 3 10x/100X telescopes, ...bird watchin on the beach...ahem...
Did you buy a bottle of hand lotion too?
:D :rofl
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Black Friday was my first day of work last year. I was supposed to be there at 4AM, didn't get there till 5AM. When I got there, besides catching a bunch of stuff from both of my bosses it wasn't too bad until we opened the doors 3 hours early at 6AM. By 7 o'clock the Robosapiens (20) were sold out, the Ipod homes(100+) were sold out as well as other toys like a Power Wheels Escalade. I think Robospaiens were about $70 iPod homes were $99.99 and the Escalades were $200 or $300 I guess. I work on cars now, and cars don't break down the day after Thanksgiving.
Anyway, I feel sorry for anyone in retail that had to work this morning, I'd like to head to Sears at some point for some tools but I'm not sure.
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ummm..... IN?:confused:
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Originally posted by Suave
Before the thread is locked, why was the post deleted?
I actually read the first post and I dont understand it either but...
Thats not my call to make.
In any event. Talke do the kid.
He went. by the time he got in they were all sold out.
Said he was going to get a good deal on a 100 Gig hard rive but for whatever reason decided against it.
Said the mobs were insane and just like the original post claimed there was like 1000 people ther waiting to get in
Havent ascertained why yet as I was only talking to him to get a phone number I left on my buletin board I had forgotten.
Anyway. Knowing him he only tends to make a mistake once.
I doubt very much he will be getting up at 3 AM to try and get something on the cheap again
Heard on the radio today a recording of what happened at one best buy here.
They discrobed it as being as if "they were a groupd of starving people and someone was giving away free bread"
Radio claimed up to 1000 people as well.
Seems to be a common theme
anyway on the recording
You could hear the manager of the store yelling at the crowd as though they were the idiots they are
"HEY! THERE ARE NO MORE TICKETS! EVERYTHING IS REGULAR PRICE!"
Used to have a word for people like that where I come from......
"SUCKKERRRRRS!"
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Originally posted by Suave
Before the thread is locked, why was the post deleted?
Apparently stringing a bunch of asterisks together breaks rule #7...
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Rule 7? I followed the thread for a couple of hours and never saw that coming. Not a single IN until the first moderation...
Just lock the thread already, sheesh. Sorry skuzzy, but deleting the the first post in an active non-flaming thread and then not locking it is teh s700p3d. All you're gonna get is another ten "WTF!" posts just like this.
Yea, mod this out for back seat moderation... Whatever. Just lock the thread and you won't be bothered by all the WTF posts.
Sheesh.
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The last bitter paragraphs did it, not the actual plot or arguments.
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Originally posted by JB88
...bird watchin on the beach...ahem...
I don't think anyone else caught that.
I love bird watching too.
The big breasted dodo's are my fave.
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EDIT- yeah I see someone else picked up on it. Dangit.
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