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- CyberSmackdown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+94Instead of shooting this footage, your ass should have been in there upgrading that camera!
- stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48Could have done without that stupid music...thank goodness for mute.
Anyways, I was thinking since all of those people were packing in bestbuy, it would have been funny to see all 4 walls fall over because the store could not take the pressure....like in a cartoon....
What? You mean, life can't be compared to a cartoon? Well I never.... - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41@ Julek
if it was better than dvd quality than why chop it down so much? youtube can handle more than 5fps you know. no need to make it so *****. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35A city of fools.
- andrewry, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Running of the soccer moms!
- pegothejerk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25can you imagine if people put this much energy and money into lining up outside legislative buildings and began lobbying for what they thought should be changed, if even just one day a year? the whitehouse? the pentagon?
imagine. - oMeSSiaHo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Wow! I've worked a few Black Fridays at Circuit City and always wondered what it looked like from the outside. If you think that's bad, imagine all of those people running after you for a $200 laptop.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21this is every city in the USA
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Faster, you little consumer piglets. It's you or them.
- Tayls, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Welcome to America. We enjoy consuming whatever you feed us.
- TheDigger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19This is sad...
- mwosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Yeah, that got boring after about 22 seconds.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21OBEY
CONSUME
MARRY AND REPRODUCE
NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT
STAY ASLEEP - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Consumer herd animal stampede.
- Aliarse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Sheeple.
- kodek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Can you imagine if people didn't steal comments from the link itself and post them as their own? Imagine.
- Blarbo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Here in Washington, the first people lined up at the Bellevue Best Buy at 12:30pm the previous day... so we went to Staples instead. Still crazy, but nothing compared to stupid Best Buy.
- raabco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The undead that eat brains of both sexes?
- whiskeysquared, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I was one idiot in a line at a best buy this morning. I got there at 1am, and I was number 278 in line. Fortunately, our best buy planned ahead and lined shopping carts in front of the store to block people from the parking lot from getting into the line when the doors opened. And they had 5 or 6 cops supervising the line, and actually calling out line jumpers and kicking them off the grounds. It was very orderly and effective. And I got my two laptops for $250.
- NateB2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I was disgusted by this video and all the comments regarding experiences with Black Friday. Thanksgiving is a time to be *thankful* for what we have, *not* to stand in line for more stuff that will be outdated/useless within 3-4 years (if that).
Is it just me, or has Black Friday exponentially expanded in the past couple of years? Our family always had fun on Friday: we would get up fairly early, go the stores that had doughnuts and pastries, and shop for Christmas presents. It was a fun time. Now, it seems that in order to get good deals, you have to stand in line on *Thanksgiving* and wait. Consumerism at its finest...
Regarding Best Buy, it seems to me that they purposely have a few sales items in stock. Is this so? Whenever I go their store to get some sales item, if I do not get there within the first 12 hrs. of the sale, the item is gone. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Amazing. I'm sorry, I'll just wait until after the holidays when this stuff goes on clearance and is begging to be sold.
- MudMan69, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Time to call the fire marshal. I think they exceeded their maximum occupancy by several hundred.
- shirosamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That is insane. What were the managers thinking at that Best Buy? The one in the Milwaukee area went very smoothly. I got in line at about 7:00 PM as #38, then there were several hundreds lined up about 90 minutes before the store opened. However, they only let one hundred people in every couple minutes, so it wasn't like a stampede. Went very smoothly for me, I had my tickets for laptops/PC stuff and went for the only thing I wanted that was actually in the store (22" Widescreen Monitor) and got out of there in about 20 minutes. Had to wait in line for about 10 hours though... feel sorry for the people in that video who waited only to be passed up by a mob of insane shoppers.
- kritic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What city was this?
- halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7a world of fools
- itsxtian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5no part 2 is necessary.
- cdrobins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Its Crazy what people will do to save an extra buck
- Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If I could save $500 by sitting outside the White-House, count me in!
- dogearedboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It was really bad in NYC also. Even before they opened the doors the line collapsed and it turned into a mob. Best Buy really needs to find a better way of doing this stuff.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We did our Black Friday shopping in New England this year...Circuit City (line went around the building once, two people deep), then Best Buy (line went around the building twice, five people deep each time), then Staples (4 people on line), then Radio Shack (ummm...needed a headset?...nobody on line but me :)), then K-Mart (not busy at all)...
I took a photo of the Best Buy PARKING LOT at the shopping mall, and the line to get into the parking lot extended outside the mall, onto the highway, half a mile back (will upload picture soon) - RomeyRome, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8*****' animals. I'd rather pay more on-line than deal with a bunch of broke bums looking for a $29.99 DVD player.
- Kujila, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I worked today at Best Buy (not the one pictured) from 4 AM to about midnight with some breaks and all...
What gets me is the people that come in late in the evening and get REALLY PISSED that they can't get their $275 laptop.
Surprisingly, most people were nice today. Aside from the floods of people asking about the laptops and notebooks which sold out in five minutes and the phone calls complaining that our website is lying. - grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6American Gluttonistic Consumerism at its finest!
- davidod87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And the frame rate drops to 2/sec why?
- Rageous, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I was working the St. Peters, MO store... running the computer department. When I arrived at 4am, we had a line wrapped completely around the store and back up front, then continuing all the way to the parking lot... at least 5,000 people. We had people vaulting the barricades we'd created to run for the 22" Westinghouse widescreens for $200, and the pallet full of $5 packs of 100 DVD-Rs was gone inside of five minutes.
Remind me when handing out tickets for doorbuster laptops not to yell "$250 TOSHIBA NOTEBOOK" for everyone in the line to hear loud and clear... I was nearly mobbed. The first guy in line showed up at 1pm Thanksgiving afternoon, most of the people who snagged the tickets were there by 5 or 8pm. Anyone who waited until midnight was SOL.
Unbelievable sight... wish I'd taken pictures. - se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ha ha! This happened at my bestbuy! I was in the middle of the line, and the moment the doors opened, some impatient little punk decided to run up the front of the line. Needless to say _EVERYONE_ behind me sprinted to the from doors, and it turned out just like this. I however, and small enough to squeeze between people, andIi quickly sprinted to the back of the store.
There was a line of about 40 people just to get to t he monitors section, and I saw about 7 or 8 people walking out with 22 in westy's. I just asked the salesperson if they had any left, and he went ahead of all the people, and grabbed one for me, needless to say, everyone was pissed! BUt I got my $200 22" westinghouse monitor, and free $30 giftcard, so all's well that ends well! - rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hey, serious question - I've always known Black Friday was the best-selling day of the year, but has it really grown in the last like, 2 years? I honestly don't understand why there was 1,000 people shopping today, preventing me from picking up a new Wii game. My roommate came home and said that Best Buy had 2GB drives for $4. Is it normal for places to hold Black Friday deals like this? She said a lot of sales ended at noon. WTF?
So, for those that actually do this, instead of sitting home and drinking all day like me (day after Thanksgiving = the best holiday ever after St. Pat's), do you just go for the deals? Is it really worth it? Maybe it's just because I *hate* crowds, but I can't imagine anyone waking up after eating a great turkey dinner and saying "Hey, it's 4:00 am. I think I'll go stand outside with a bunch of other people so I can buy stuff". - ReapCorp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3wow. this is amazing compared to the best buy that I worked in today. It was organized and no one was butting in line like those people running from the parking lot. lol.
- Icyfenix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3nice to work in a warehouse, best buy's maximum occupancy is 3700(or at least mine is)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Maybe asking your question in English would help with obtaining a response...
- WildYams, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Why do you think Dawn of the Dead took place in a shopping mall?
- se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, and they need to get everone a hat, and a wine glass, which they have to balance the wine glass on the hat, and If it's broken, they don't get into the store :).
- pegothejerk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3hey moron.. I am zero-brane. Pego The Jerk.. use google and you'll figure that out. Imagine if people researched before commenting. Imagine.
- se1zure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what you are forgetting is...
You can burn _any_ quality movie to a dvd :)
This guy chose to use his camera o the mode that said "*****" - tehdvd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2the people who waited outside our circuit city store left a whole bunch of mess. freaken animals ya hear!
- ilferetl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@damageinc: deja vu .. swear i read the same exact comment on youtube .. oh i did gg copy/paste.
anyway ..
and btw, even with the tickets for doorbuster items, people still run to get inside the store. we tried telling them there was no need, but i guess those $4.99 100-pk of dvd's were worth running for - revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Where can I get a t-shirt that says that on it?
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tell your boss to stock more and you won't have that problem. ;-)
- SubWolf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Glad I didn't attempt a 200 mile drive to Albuquerque last night to get my hands on cheap hardware, looks like it would've been MADNESS!
- whiskeysquared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The first guy in our line was there at 11am thanksgiving day. I got there at 1am that morning and as I was #278 in line I didn't even get a glimpse of the person handing out the vouchers for the $250 Toshiba. I only saw a dude walking back with two of the vouchers, and he gave them to me, well I paid him for his time. So I'm the proud owner of two. And yes, they're superb.
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