Re: What time to show up at Best Buy on Black Friday?

From: Keith Williams (krw_at_att.bizzzz)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:18:44 -0500

In article <6u-dnU2FAari5xfenZ2dnUVZ_tKdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Mikein562athotmail@hotmail.com says...
> Andrew White wrote:
> > Then prepare to be surprised a lot! Go ahead and find any Toshiba
> > laptop anywhere online for that price. Or a 200 Gb hard drive for $29.
> > Or a dual-layer DVD burner for $19. Or a 1Gb Secure Digital card for
> > $29. That's just a small sample of deep loss leaders that stores like
> > Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Staples an a handful or others had on
> > this Black Friday.
> >
> > You CANNOT find deals like that elswhere; not even close. That's why
> > people stand in line for hours to get them. The stores loose a bunch
> > of money on these items, but more than make it up on others,
> > especially given the fact that the supplies for such items is always
> > extremelly limited.
>
> so unless youre among the first 20 or so, youre basically wasting your time.
>
I showed up at the local Staples at 8:30 or so. They still had
piles of the $29 disk drives, $19 DVD burners, and $3/50 DVD+R
blanks (snagged one of each). I missed the USB sticks. :-( 

-- 
  Keith

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