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Black Friday deals?

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Didn't get to buy too much since I was working, but here's what I got:

South Park Season 1: $10
South Park Season 3: $10
200 blank DVDs: $20 (two spindles of 100)
Microsoft Optical Desktop 1000: $20

What'd you get?
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I went to Walmart at 6:00am looking for 6 items, 4 of which weren't even part of the 6 hour sale, and they were still sold out. I also wanted that $10 guitar from Toys 'R' Us, but that was gone too. So I didn't get jack.

It was actually weird this year, because the shopping mindset had completely changed. With the exception of Walmart, no stores around town was really busy that early. It was the slowest Black Friday morning for a number of retailers around town. Toys 'R' Us had short lines. Meijer's parking lot was practically empty. My sister-in-law called and said the mall and Kohl's was quick to get in and out. Going into work at 11am at Best Buy, we thought we were screwed budged-wise. But then suddenly around 2pm, people just started showing up. We actually had more traffic by 3pm than we did all morning. It was as everybody wanted to go shopping, but didn't want to wait in line, so they left in the afternoon instead. And because of that, the biggest crowd came in the afternoon from the same people trying to avoid the crowd. Really bizarre Black Friday.
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I got Left 4 Dead for the 360 for $50. I really only went just to see what it was like. I never expected to see large crowds around all 3 entrances to Yonkers at 4am and a pretty large line at Toys R Us that long before they opened. I went into Toys R Us around 9am and the line twisted and turned all the way aroudn the store, it had to have been at least a two hour wait to get to checkout. I dont think I am ever going to try fighting those crowds for whatever sales they were waiting for.
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Got a TMobile G1 for 99$ at Navarro (a South Florida local drug store/grocery store chain, it's basically spanish cvs/walgreens/eckards). Called up tmobile first to see wtf but apparently the store was taking a huge loss on each one just to get people in there.

Only place I went on black friday, sauntered in at noon. Good day.
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I went to a couple of stores with my father, including a Circuit City store that was closing. Here's what I ended up getting (the closing Circuit City had all 360 games 20% off):

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith - $39.99
Oblivion - $23.99
Infinite Undiscovery - $47.99
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Post by Sir C.A.T »

Starsky & Hutch - $2
Spider Man 1 & 2 - $2
Blade - $2
Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny - $2
Spaceballs - $2
Joy Ride - $2
Borat - $2
Wedding Crashers - $2
300 - $6
Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4gb - $10

I went to Wal-Mart at about 4:30 A.M. It was pretty busy but the people were quite courteous.
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Post by S. Thompson »

The wife and I got quite a few items. Many of them we'll be giving to each other for Christmas, but conveniently "forgetting" about them beforehand...

Games
Doom 3: $10 (Finally will be playing it) :o

Music
Pearl Jam - Binaural: $3

DVDs
Charlie and the Chocolate Family: $5
The Departed 2 Disc Edition: $5
Hot Fuzz: $5

DVD Sets
Robot Chicken, Season 1: $12
Robot Chicken, Season 2: $12
Nip/Tuck, Season 1: $14
Nip/Tuck, Season 3: $14
Nip/Tuck, Season 4: $14

Lots of stuff!

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Post by impetus »

I got smart this year and did everything online.

4 GB Corsair RAM, $50 ($15 AR) at NewEgg
Dark City - Director's Cut (Blu-Ray) - $13 at inetVideo
lvl - Home RE:mix (MP3 Album) - $4 at fixtstore.com
Metallica - Death Magnetic for GHIII - $12.50 pts from Xbox Live
Okami (Wii) - $15 at Amazon
We Love Golf (Wii) - $20 at Amazon

Several $5 MP3 albums from Amazon:
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Moby - Last Night
Portishead - Third
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Post by curt_grymala »

We didn't really get any major Black Friday deals this year, other than some practical stuff like clothes, etc. for about 85% off.
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