Black Friday! Friday! Going to Shop on Friday!

Zonugal

PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR CAPITALISTIC BATTLE!!!

So with us all putting together wishlists for the Secret Satan thread and Black Friday approaching us in three or so weeks I felt we could have a nice thread on gadgets, gifts and general recommendations for this holiday season.

Be it video games!


Toys!


Clothing!


Either way we must hunker together and protect ourselves during this dangerous time unless we want this to happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2BSuvScKo

So what do you folks want and/or need for this Christmas season?

Stale

You could not pay me enough to leave my home on that day

Zonugal

Stale, you know turtling always fails to a zerg rush.

Hobnail

How many souls will be ground to a bloody pulp 'neath the crocs of the horde this year

Goose!

I don't wanna hear about your racist capitalism holidays.

BusterK

I am not a person who endorses buying things online
But I certainly endorse it for Black Friday
It makes things so much easier

That being said I do like going to the stores in the afternoon when after the bruhaha has died down and look through the small items that might be worth picking up

Goose!

PS I have worked all day on Black Friday in a mall. It is incredible.

Jasconius

Every aspect of Black Friday is awful and shameful.

BusterK

Jasconius wrote:

Every aspect of Black Friday is awful and shameful.

awful and shameful is the exact opposite of how I would describe the flat screen TV I bought last year

Hobnail

That lady right there would stamp all the bones right out of your face for half off a Billy Bass, garunteed

Goose!

Seriously. I got a tablet for like $200 off.

Olivaw

Online shopping on Black Friday is the only way to shop

Eff going out on that day

BusterK

Really in the afternoon, it's not that bad
No different than any other weekend

The weekend before Christmas though
That is shit all damn day

Macro9

I desire nothing on Black Friday save my well earned rest after devouring enough food to feed a small African nation the previous day.

Stale

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Jasconius

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

but but but but

Moriveth

Stale wrote:

You could not pay me enough to leave my home on that day

Word. Granted I did buy stuff on Black Friday once but I was working at the store at the time.

BusterK

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Maybe she enjoyed doing it more than working at McDonald's

WeedLordVegeta

Sorta tempted to go to a mall and film black Friday

MoA isn't far either

Moriveth

I might do some online shopping on Black Friday, I dunno.

Jasconius

BusterK wrote:

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Maybe she enjoyed doing it more than working at McDonald's

I'd tell you what the point is, but you don't have a telescope strong enough to see that far above your head

BusterK

Seriously, the whole Black Friday crush of humanity is true for about six or seven hours
And then it dies down considerably

George Fornby Grill

Gonna be at home during this shit, taking my camera and making a series of photos called "Riding Dirty: Black Friday." It will focus solely on disgruntled walmart patrons riding hover-rounds. I will use edge-tension as much as possible to communicate that said patrons are just too large to capture completely.

Stale

BusterK wrote:

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Maybe she enjoyed doing it more than working at McDonald's

The kind of person that would enjoy the ravenous throngs of bargain shoppers clawing each other for 20% off barbies?


These will be the first sent to the death camps when I rise to power.

Sweeney Tom

BusterK wrote:

Really in the afternoon, it's not that bad
No different than any other weekend

The weekend before Christmas though
That is shit all damn day

This.

2 years ago, I went with family to see a movie in theaters the weekend before Christmas.

Holy. Jesus.

An hour and a half just to exit the parking lot to get out of the theater. Plus another hour just trying to leave the mall parking lot.

Now everybody around me knows why I give gifts every day of the year. Because fuck trying to do anything the week before Christmas. You can't even go into my local mall, let alone get out.

George Fornby Grill

Stale wrote:

BusterK wrote:

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Maybe she enjoyed doing it more than working at McDonald's

The kind of person that would enjoy the ravenous throngs of bargain shoppers clawing each other for 20% off barbies?


These will be the first sent to the death camps when I rise to power.

Black Friday Gulags

HallowedFaith

I worked at Circuit City for a Black Friday. It's called Black Friday because that is the color of the SOULS OF HELL'S ARMY THAT RISE TO DEVOUR ANY RESEMBLANCE OF HUMANITY.
This year I am just sending 99% cards that say "I am 99% sure that I am too broke to send you anything but this card telling you I am broke. Merry Christmas!"

I'll probably put antlers on my dog and take a picture and put it on the cover.
It's funny because he isn't a real reindeer.

Tonkka

Stale wrote:

You could not pay me enough to leave my home on that day

Yep.

Zonugal

I absolutely love the entire conception of Black Friday. A whole day devoted to pure, ungodly capitalism wherein ordinary people become animals in pursuit of materialistic goods.

I personally will be going this year to Best Buy with my best friend simply to engage in the process. I don't even need anything, I just want to put myself in the middle of that battle.

George Fornby Grill

Zonugal wrote:

I absolutely love the entire conception of Black Friday. A whole day devoted to pure, ungodly capitalism wherein ordinary people become animals in pursuit of materialistic goods.

I personally will be going this year to Best Buy with my best friend simply to engage in the process. I don't even need anything, I just want to put myself in the middle of that battle.

Take things from carts, put them in other carts.

Hobnail

George Fornby Grill wrote:

Stale wrote:

BusterK wrote:

Stale wrote:

I worked retail during black friday for two years.

Back then I still interacted with my family. My aunt at the time was bragging about how she saved nearly 200 dollars.

"Great, how long did it take?"

I think I shopped for 16 hours.

"And how long did it take you to prepare?"

I spent a week or so... maybe 4 or 5 hours a day.

"So lets be conservative and say 14 hours total. So you spent 30 hours of your time, to save 200 dollars. That's under 7 bucks an hour."

But... it's money I saved!

"Indeed. But you've set your value at 6.75 an hour. That's minimum wage. You could have worked at McDonalds and been every bit ahead. More so."

Maybe she enjoyed doing it more than working at McDonald's

The kind of person that would enjoy the ravenous throngs of bargain shoppers clawing each other for 20% off barbies?


These will be the first sent to the death camps when I rise to power.

Black Friday Gulags

The first three hundred people into the store are funneled towards trap doors which empty into reinforced shipping containers. The next fifty people are mangled by clogged trap doors

mensch-o-matic

I hope with the advent of the PSVita I can grab a regular PSP on the cheap-ish for Black Friday

Or at least some half-off vidjas

I wont be able to go out though

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I might buy a tv. Perhaps online. Last year we got 2 Samsung Fascinates for a $1 a pop.

Garlic Bread

The day after Christmas is much worse than Black Friday

Zonugal

George Fornby Grill wrote:

Zonugal wrote:

I absolutely love the entire conception of Black Friday. A whole day devoted to pure, ungodly capitalism wherein ordinary people become animals in pursuit of materialistic goods.

I personally will be going this year to Best Buy with my best friend simply to engage in the process. I don't even need anything, I just want to put myself in the middle of that battle.

Take things from carts, put them in other carts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo

Raijin Quickfoot

Black Friday has gotten ridiculous. This year stores are considering opening at midnight. You know, fuck those of us that work in retail. We didn't want to enjoy the holiday with our families. People need shitty deals on garbage products. That's what the majority of Black Friday has become. Most of the deals aren't even worth it anymore.

BusterK

Keith wrote:

The day after Christmas is much worse than Black Friday

Yes it is
Though for sheer anger and distress I'd still go with the weekend before Christmas
Everyone is mega stressed

Really people get too worked up about Black Friday
It's more of it concentrates the crazy into a couple hours instead of the whole day

skettios

oh geez
is it that time of the year already?

Garlic Bread

BusterK wrote:

Keith wrote:

The day after Christmas is much worse than Black Friday

Yes it is
Though for sheer anger and distress I'd still go with the weekend before Christmas
Everyone is mega stressed

Really people get too worked up about Black Friday
It's more of it concentrates the crazy into a couple hours instead of the whole day

Oh yeah, the weekend and few days before Christmas the customers are definitely angrier

but the day after Christmas is nonstop people

skettios

Places are opening even earlier this year.
Target, Macy's and some others are opening at midnight.

Garlic Bread

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

Black Friday has gotten ridiculous. This year stores are considering opening at midnight. You know, fuck those of us that work in retail.

GameStop has been doing this for a couple of years