Black Friday

julian4239 · Mayor Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 211

Anyone here shopped on Black Friday? I can't believe the deals out there. My fiance and I got a nice Ipod music boombox for only 39 bucks at Best Buy. When I went to Circuit City, the same thing was selling for 99 bucks.

Anybody has any interesting black friday stories, like being runned over by mobs?

Coda1108 · Mayor's Aide Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 130 Location: PA

My Black Friday story was priceless in Coda-World.... I stayed up late Thanksgiving night, so I slept in and left the retail mob-handling to others. Then when I finally decided to grace the day with my woken self, I ran some errands (bank, cable co., etc.), then stumbled into the office to catch up on some work without any interruptions!!!!

I'll shop some time in mid-December Smile

julian4239 · Mayor Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 211

A friend of mine stayed up for the 3 am opening in best buy in ohio. He said it was worth it because he got a lcd screen tv for only 100 bucks.

aima123 · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject:

What do you mean by "Black Friday"?

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving (a November holiday always on Thursdays in the US). It's a big shopping / sale day.

aima123 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks reviewer for the explanation. We don't have such kind of holiday in our country. We only have a haloween holiday here but not a Black friday.

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

Basically, Black Friday is the start of the Christmas shopping season, which is a very big deal in the US for merchants. They call it Black Friday as it is usually the day that businesses go "in the black" (rather than "in the red" - that they are finally making a profit over their yearly expenses).

classyred · Mayor's Aide Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 68

I have always gone out shopping on black Friday, but this year I did all my black Friday shopping on line, still had some great deals but only had to stroll over to my computer instead of fighting the crowd. I like it so much that I will do it again that way next year.

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

That sounds like a pretty good idea Classyred. I have avoided the stores a lot this holiday and did a lot of shopping online. Much less stress!

classyred · Mayor's Aide Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 68

you have got that right reviewer, i am finding i do more and more shopping on line between holidays and the price of gas. If i could figure out a way to grocery shop that way i would be happy.