Black Friday
Hope some of you are enjoying the day after Thanksgiving. Our business opened at 7am today and while we aren’t retail (technically), we are very close to retail and my goodness, you’d think people were saving billions of dollars today.
The Target next door was MOBBED. Same with Wal-Mart..and this was at 6.30AM. I read all the circulars and didn’t really see anything that compelling this time around…but I guess some people did.
I heard that at Best Buy there were people camping out a la PS3. I’d love to hear your stories. Around my neck of the woods, there was a lot of Wii discussion. Specifically, GameStop would have them today. They didn’t. Big shocker. How did you do on Black Friday. Do you have any horror or success stories? Post away….
Oh and memo to Wal-Mart and GameStop — if you want my continued business, how about talking to me like a customer and not like someone annoying you. As someone who has dropped probably tens of thousands at GameStop, it’s not like I’m just bugging you for the Wii. Christ, I am still paying for that Atari 7800 on my credit card. Sorry to bother you to see if you have a fucking console. You know, I’m sure it’s annoying answering the same question…may I make a recommendation — how about answering the phone that way instead of saying you can sell your games. I know that. I don’t know if you have the Wii. Welcome to GameStop, we won’t have any Wii’s or PS3’s in Stock until March, how can I help you makes more sense :).
November 24th, 2006 at 11:37 am
My Black Friday has been great. I just got up.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
nothing special this year, but new to the 360 so 1 picked up a few budget titles;
Halo 2 $16.99
Perfect Dark Zero $16.99
Call of Duty 2 $19.99
November 24th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
I went to CompUSA about 10:00 last night. They had one left of the Nyko Dual Charger for the 360 controllers, with two battery packs, that I was looking for. The line to check-out was about 450,000 people long. I put it down and went home.
There were people in the back of the line with one BlueTooth headset in hand. Can you save enough one headset to be worth an hours-long wait to pay for it?
November 24th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Free online shipping, baby. That’s the way to go.