Comments on: Our Day After Thanksgiving Shopping Experience

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:54:02 +0000

You Americans are crazy, though the Boxing Day sales can cause some madness here – never as much as that though.

By: curtissthompson

curtissthompson — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:04:26 +0000

yeah…living in Madison WI…somethings like BF can be a bit crazy…and of course theirs always Halloween on State Street here with all UW – Madiosn students (once #1 party school)

but yeah that laptop i got a great deal on…and will get something like 20-25 dollars back via Reward Zone card..and a few other small discounts…the laptop ended up costing more towards 800 dollars….but if their was 15 bucks in gift card for each 100 dollars spent..that would have definitely given me a decent amount of spending money in the future.

ill have to check my receipt for it when i get a chance here. Do you know if their is a link to this deal anywhere on their website still or if it was listed anywhere in their BF ad in the newspaper? did you happen to get the gift cards on the spot…or have to get them via mail, or come back for them?…just wondering b/c that money in gift cards would come very useful in the coming month here

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:00:37 +0000

Jason- which Chicago area Best Buy out of curiosity? Both Ryan and I are from the north suburbs of Chicago.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:56:34 +0000

Curtiss: Your Best Buy sounded even worse than ours! At least you weren’t hoping to get one of the super hot items that the rest of the mob was going for.

The $15 gift card thing I thought was a national thing because our Best Buy has done it for the past several years. It is is only available for the first seven hours or whatever but maybe you should call them and ask if you were supposed to get one. It also says on your receipt the amount of the giftcard that you were supposed to get.

Jason: I wonder why there was nearly no one in line at your stores? I would have liked to been in those lines much more.

Edit: I just noticed that you said 7PM not 7AM

By: Jason He

Jason He — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:50:12 +0000

At a Chicago-area Best Buy that I went to, there were 30 people in line at 7PM. A nearby Circuit City had 10 people waiting, and a CompUSA across the street–which I think was opening at midnight–had about 60 people outside.

By: curtissthompson

curtissthompson — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:33:24 +0000

I know the monitor your talking about..tickets weren’t sold in lines outside before the store opened for me either (though I wasn’t in the market for one). I was however in a line that had those exact same monitors in a pile stacked right next to me….I literally had to jump out of the way of several shoppers going crazy to get one of the 30 my Best Buy had. Literally when i got in line…1 monitor was taken every second that passed by….it came to the last one and 2 shoppers literally dove for the box and got it at the same time…the woman glared down at the other guy holding it….ready to fully attack him, had he not let go. It was insane

I myself was only in the market for a [bestbuy.com] any other cheap computer components for a new desktop ill be building soon….my best buy had a line at least 500 people, but i think it was much closer to 1,000 (honestly). I was about 100 people back…knowing that the laptop i was going for i would likely get regardless of those in front. by the time 5 oclock came around people were let in in increments of 50 people at a time, in a single file line, with the automatic doors only a couple feet width open. bestbuy employees and police were regulating the people in line…once in their i waited in computer products line for 3.5-4 hours just to get a chance to get 1 of 6 of the laptops i wanted, luckily i got the 2nd to last one and a good deal on a HDD.

bestbuy is always the worst of all tech stories when it comes to nuumber of people in competion for deals and speed of lines because of it, but they did have the only deal on this laptop in my county, thankfully bestbuy is getting a little more organized when it comes to check out…otherwise i’d have been in line to check out for 6 hours easy. definitely worth the wait..and always a fun experience to see what happens

i saw on my local news several people buying one of only a few Wiis that were in stock in the city on BF and destroying them in front of store lines..to see people’s reactions…never a dull moment on BF, that’s for sure

btw Ryan…what was this deal you get $15 best buy gift card for each 100 dollars spent? was that a national deal or just for you best buy? i hadn’t heard of it, and seeing as i dropped 1000 dollars on BF…that’d have been a good deal…ontop of Reward Zone points and 12% off that I used on purchases.

By: Mo

Mo — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:23:39 +0000

Rub3X wrote:

Bleh I went at 2am and there were hundreds of people in all best buys. I just went to a game stop at 4am and camped for more Wiis. 50 people in line with 4 Wiis total. 0 PS3S = pissed off people. I was #2 in line though

So how do you like gaming on the Wii? That was the whole reason why I got my TV yesterday so that I can game with progressive scan.

By: Mo

Mo — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:22:22 +0000

I really didn’t except to get anything yesterday I just went to Best Buy with my father. And as we were browsing through the store we came across a whole row of their store brand TVs (Insignia). I got myself a 24 inch SDTV for $99 plus a $20 mail in rebate. That was a good deal, I jumped that because my old TV was about 16 years and I need one with component since my gaming wasn’t looking too good on a old TV.

By: Rub3X

Rub3X — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:19:09 +0000

Bleh I went at 2am and there were hundreds of people in all best buys. I just went to a game stop at 4am and camped for more Wiis. 50 people in line with 4 Wiis total. 0 PS3S = pissed off people. I was #2 in line though

By: Bamboo

Bamboo — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:45:29 +0000

I hate to tell you guys, but I checked bestbuy.com and found out early that you could click on the item when you were looking at the Thanksgiving weekly flyer, and it would come up with a page where you could add it to a shopping list, or a blue button that said “buy online”.

If you clicked buy online early THURSDAY morning, you could buy just about all the items, except a few of the crazy deals like the $250 laptop. I know the monitor was one, because I was about to cry for talking myself out of buying one. Had it in the shopping cart and everything. I finally decided I need to build a whole new rig at x-mas and just keep my 21″crt and 19″lcd dual setup for now. I did end up ordering the 250gig Western Digital Book harddrive off the back cover of the add, since it was only $69, and no rebates.

I also got the 2gig thumbdrive from Circuit City for $12.99 after rebates, which was better than BB’s that had it for $29.99.

There is still some stuff left on BB.com, check it out.
(sorry, all the monitors are gone, and the site is loading pretty slow right now to boot. )