Black Friday 2008
Posted by TimothyNov 14
For the last two years, I’ve basically given up my Thanksgiving Thursday in exchange for a long cold sidewalk outside of Best Buy. My parent’s house was a wasteland of non-technology, but in the two years that have transpired, they’ve gone up to the HDTV lifestyle, multiple modern day computers and high speed Internet. No longer do I feel like trips back home are on a farm. So now I wonder, is there a point going for year 3?
www.blackfriday.info has the Best Buy ad as well as the Circuit City ad up. I’ve gone through the BB one and noticed absolutely nothing worth spending nearly 18 hours in the cold for. I think the last piece of digital wizardry I could use is a camera, but even that isn’t too big of a deal for me since I’m not one to take a lot of pictures anyway. I could also stand an upgrade from my 256MB thumb drive to an 8GB one. But I don’t need black friday deals to buy those since they continuously drop in price. I imagine in 6 months I could get a 32GB thumb drive for these prices.
So for the first time in 3 years, I can look forward to a day of turkey and possibly a whole lot of Rock Band with my family.
2 comments
Comment by Mike on November 19, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Black Friday is SUCH a joke. My time is worth WAY more than any discount i could get on Black Friday. Often times I do roll into some stores in the late afternoon and pick up something that was highly discounted, but I guess the point of the matter is that I don’t NEED anything, and if I did ‘need’ something I would have already picked it up. In terms of technology, prices drop significantly after black friday anyway and drop again after the holiday season.
Point is I have a vacation time, and to me that is worth more than time and a half of pay.
Comment by Timothy on November 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM
Considering on my vacation my options are sit at home and watch tv/play games vs go get early Christmas presents, I feel like my time isn’t spent too horribly given my alternatives. Deals are hit or miss though.