View Full Version : Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to BLACK FRIDAY RAGE THREAD
Magus
11-24-2011, 12:23 AM
Huh, well this Best Buy ad says "online and in-stores", that must mean I can buy it online Thanksgiving Day?
Huh. Nope, clearly has the higher price. Guess I'll refresh.
...haha, they've got to be joking.
Right?
Right?!
...
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, does anyone know where I can find that $199 PS3 bundle online? Please! Please?!
In-store only?! Oh God. Oh God please.
Shit. Shit. Shit. No. I don't want to go to town on Black Friday. No.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why?! Why?!! *sobs* EVERYBODY HAS IT! WHY CAN'T THEY JUST SELL IT ONLINE! GAMESTOP, BEST BUY, TARGET, WAL-MART, EVERYBODY IS SELLING IT AT THE SAME PRICE! THERE IS NO COMPETITION HERE! JUST SELL IT ONLINE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO ACTUALLY COMPETE! WHY?!!
Help. Help me. No. Don't want to. Drive. People. Animals. They're like animals masked in human flesh. Monsters. Monsters! So many. Thousands. Tens of thousands. They don't know how to drive when there's only a few dozen of them. Why?
Why?
This is supposed to be a joke. Please laugh at it or me.
In all seriousness, no idea. I have pretty much zero plans to do anything on Black Friday whatsoever. Not shopping for anyone, I'm too broke to buy shit, gotta play catchup with my bills. Not sure why there's so much stigma about buying things online... I think it may just have to do with getting people to support physical establishments over just ordering shit all the time... or because they hate us and want to watch us fight to the death over that last bottle of shitty department store cologne.
Krylo
11-24-2011, 12:34 AM
Try working retail on Black Friday.
Edit: Black Friday deals aren't available online because then there wouldn't be any scarcity involved, and much less cross purchasing. The whole point of having Black Friday sales work how they do is that the stuff is only what's on hand and only that day until it sells out. In this way they attract people to the store who will then generally buy some things that AREN'T on sale, as well as limiting the amount of their profits that are cut into by the sales themselves.
Putting it online means that they have to sell it to anyone who can log on between 6am and noon or whatever, with no limits on in store stock, and online shoppers are much less likely to buy more things while they are on the site. In other words making Black Friday deals open to the internet kind of ruins the entire point of Black Friday. For the retailers.
Try working retail on Black Friday.
You mean Black Thursday? Because some fucking stores are actually launching their sales as early as 9:00 pm Thanksgiving Day.
DarkDrgon
11-24-2011, 01:51 AM
don't online sales usually start monday? Cyber Monday is still a thing, right?
Hatake Kakashi
11-24-2011, 02:38 AM
Occupy Black Friday.
http://eatingtolive.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/canadian-flag-640.jpg
don't online sales usually start monday? Cyber Monday is still a thing, right?
;)
Viridis
11-24-2011, 03:19 AM
I'm working 'blitz' Black Friday, Thursday night at 10pm until 7 the next morning. I'm apparently monitoring a line for two hours then helping hand out televisions. I expect it to be either frantic or mind-numbing.
Krylo
11-24-2011, 09:58 AM
don't online sales usually start monday? Cyber Monday is still a thing, right?
As far as I know! The sales usually aren't quite as good, though, and holding them after the weekend keeps them from interfering with Black Friday.
Terex4
11-24-2011, 01:44 PM
Black Friday is all about strategy. This year we have six people dispersing to various stores and we have lists and cash amounts already figured out. A large thermos of coffee is a must, and since I'll be trapped inside without access to a smoking section, I don't anticipate the other animals effectively pushing me around.
Magus, what you need is someone trustworthy to brave the crowds for you.
Magus
11-24-2011, 02:10 PM
Try working retail on Black Friday.
Edit: Black Friday deals aren't available online because then there wouldn't be any scarcity involved, and much less cross purchasing. The whole point of having Black Friday sales work how they do is that the stuff is only what's on hand and only that day until it sells out. In this way they attract people to the store who will then generally buy some things that AREN'T on sale, as well as limiting the amount of their profits that are cut into by the sales themselves.
Putting it online means that they have to sell it to anyone who can log on between 6am and noon or whatever, with no limits on in store stock, and online shoppers are much less likely to buy more things while they are on the site. In other words making Black Friday deals open to the internet kind of ruins the entire point of Black Friday. For the retailers.
GLARGHLBLARGEFUCKLE (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+Computer+Entertainment+America+-+PlayStation+3+%28160GB%29+Complete+Entertainment+ Bundle/3803107.p?skuId=3803107&id=1218435166909)
Apparently they were selling it online but I had to wait until 6 a.m.?! What the fuck. Do they write these unwritten rules somewhere? 12 a.m. is when Thanksgiving fucking starts, Best Buy! That's why I was up last night! Fuck you!
That or 6 a.m. rolled around and they just automatically put a "sold-out online" notice up there, in that they never actually planned on selling that shit online at all.
Guess who's not buying this PS3 bundle at Best Buy tomorrow? I will jam into the three or four tiny mall Gamestops to buy this shit, just watch me. I'll be jostling like a motherfucker, Best Buy.
I WILL BUY THIS SHIT AT WAL-MART OR TARGET IF I HAVE TO. THAT IS HOW MUCH I HATE YOU BEST BUY.
walkertexasdruid
11-24-2011, 03:22 PM
No Black Friday for me, though I have it off. It is going to be a light Christmas this year.
Magus
11-24-2011, 04:30 PM
I guess GameStop has this same deal. Even with shipping costs, when you factor in gasoline costs and STRESS costs, I might as well order it through them. It's a win-win, I don't have to fight for stuff with old ladies, and GameStop has more money for their conspiracy to destroy the video games industry.
Professor Smarmiarty
11-24-2011, 05:46 PM
man who buys shit at stores anymore. Amazon will hook you up with free shipping and massively cheaper as they don't need to maintain storefronts or sales staff.
Fifthfiend
11-24-2011, 05:58 PM
The more the retail industry thrashes against Thanksgiving the more awesome it makes Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is like, the Occupy Wall Street of holidays.
Magus
11-24-2011, 10:38 PM
man who buys shit at stores anymore. Amazon will hook you up with free shipping and massively cheaper as they don't need to maintain storefronts or sales staff.
True, but they don't seem to be offering the $200 dollar PS3 bundle. Also that free shipping is always like, 15 days or something. More than willing to put up with that most of the time, though, since it does save a lot of money.
EDIT: Haha, for some reason the Black Friday bundle on Amazon is like, 600 dollars. That makes zero sense. The different parts of it separately add up to about 320 dollars or something.
Bard The 5th LW
11-25-2011, 12:00 AM
Its like running of the bulls. Heard a guy got trampled to death at Wal-mart once.
Kyanbu The Legend
11-25-2011, 02:29 AM
Me and my uncle tryed to buy the limited adition Blue Wii from walmart.
We walked into that store, saw a huge line in the electronics section that was more or less an mass cluster of people. After about mins we gave up and went home.
My god that store was a freaken maze of people clustered at every turn. And I strangely loved navigateing through it all. X3
Viridis
11-25-2011, 08:24 AM
Our sale was orderly. Everyone had their tickets by 12:20 and then we loaded TVs onto trucks for like two hours.
walkertexasdruid
11-25-2011, 10:06 AM
My mom is working 7-5 at Kohls on Black Friday. I hope she survives in one piece.
Fifthfiend
11-25-2011, 07:02 PM
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwjkdsnyCvQRyB8JtbtoGpQOh6wg?docId=103b26e95 14b47bf8939f419ee8bbafb
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (AP) — A robber shot a Black Friday shopper who refused to give up his purchases outside a Walmart store, leaving the victim hospitalized in critical but stable condition after one of several violent incidents in California that marred the annual bargain-hunting ritual, authorities said.
At another Walmart in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, a woman trying to get the upper hand to buy cheap electronics unleashed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppers, causing minor injuries to 20 people, police said.
Nique
11-26-2011, 12:53 AM
I took my wife out for some knitting needles tonight and the stores were still busy. Pretty nuts.
Nique
11-26-2011, 12:59 AM
Guys, I like to buy things but sometimes I feel bad about buying things! How do you think I should feel about my role in this our culture of consumerism?
Magus
11-26-2011, 01:09 AM
Well, in figuring out where the most likely place to find a PS3 at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, I hit upon the sheer genius of going to the store nobody goes to...Target
Red Dead Redemption is fun!
Fifthfiend
11-26-2011, 06:07 AM
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/real-story-behind-black-friday
THE MORE YOU KNOW
Archbio
11-26-2011, 06:30 AM
Knitting needles, Nique? That's just not playing it safe.
Krylo
11-26-2011, 09:37 AM
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/real-story-behind-black-friday
THE MORE YOU KNOW
I'm disappointed. With all the deaths and injuries surrounding Black Friday shopping in recent years I had expected it to be traced back to that.
Betty Elms
11-27-2011, 08:11 AM
I love black friday, much in the way that I loved "Bridalplasty" and want M. Night Shyamalan to make another Last Airbender movie. Which is to say "with complete sincerity." There's no ironic distance in the act of watching culture dive to new lows and disappoint me in new and exciting ways, just the sensation of SHIT I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FEEL JOY ANYMORE BUT THANK GOD I CAN STILL FEEL SOMETHING. I'm like a hate-junkie, shooting up more and more trying to experience that first magical high again.
Professor Smarmiarty
11-27-2011, 08:28 AM
What happened to our "No hipsters" sign on the door?
Betty Elms
11-27-2011, 08:39 AM
What happened to our "No hipsters" sign on the door?
Fetishistic hatred and irony are separate entities. I sometimes watch Family Guy ironically, I eat KFC Double Downs because gazing into the abyss gets me off.
Professor Smarmiarty
11-27-2011, 09:01 AM
Well this is related to the old chinese room problem. As I stand however, you are both getting your kicks from acknowledged terrible things and whatever intermediary processes you are going through is just mental wizardry.
synkr0nized
11-28-2011, 02:42 AM
I went and stood in a line outside of a Best Buy for their midnight opening Thursday night/Friday morning. When we entered the line, it was at least halfway around the store, in the back.
We got in ~20-30 minutes after first getting in the line.
I purchased the two things I had come for, both advertised in the print ad. There were more to be had. (OP: I could have bought you the PS3 bundle had I known. Hope you still got it!)
No one was rude. No one caused a ruckus or fought anyone or destroyed products. Most folks made jokes with one another while waiting in line.
"Black Friday" is only as bad as your fellow customers decide to make it.
Commence arguing that point like gangbusters Black Friday customers.
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