Blackfriday Shopping? What did you buy?
polycounter lvl 18
Woke up at 4am today and drove over to my local Compusa and waited in my car while all the idiots outside waited in line in 35 degree weather. Of course once the doors opened everyone was allowed in, there was no wait at all. I bought 2 xbox logitech controllers for $14 (was supposed to be $25) and got the GTA3 + Vice City Double pack for $20. Later on I took my little brother over to EBgames and he got Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, which I definitely recommend to everyone who has GC, it is a farking sweet game, has a fun as hell multiplayer, I wish I could unpak it and check out all the models in 3ds max 
Anybody else get any cool toys?
3 cheers for the American Capitalism machine!
Anybody else get any cool toys?
3 cheers for the American Capitalism machine!
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But I did buy a kick-ass laptop from xtremenotebooks.com a week ago, so I'm counting that for my unwise Thanksgiving shopping spree. ;P
EDIT: Rogue, or Kub could you guys link the : ) (no space) back to
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving here in the states. It's the biggest shopping day of the year here. A lot of companies have huge sales, but only for like 2 or 3 hours really early in the morning. So you have to get up at the crack of dawn and many of the bigger companies are swamped with people. I usually avoid it.
-some sort of italian olive oil dispenser with a twin brother, for....something else liquidy i suppose. For my best friends wife.
Im not buying anything else.
-R
I must be getting old
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hehe, YES YOU ARE
actually no i bought nothing at all, nothing i say.
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I must be getting old
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hehe, YES YOU ARE
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cute.
Scott
Had half wanted to go to Target at the opening at 6am, to get the GBA for 40$, but we drove by at 5:15 and there were already 50+ people waiting in the cold. Also drove by Best Buy & Staples as they were on the way home, and outside each were at LEAST 100 people lined up. Crazy.
It was also national buy nothing Day. I hate the fact I am *supposed* to buy stuff, so I bought nothing. I hate consumerism.
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You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
oh i picked up a couple of dvd's "the magnificent butcher" and "starship troopers" i'm not sure if they were on sale or not, i didnt actualy look, i didnt even know it was a special shopping day till i realized how crowded the store was
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o you can stick your thumb in the eye of consumerism, only means you will pay more when you end up buying it next week.
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These days are meant for you to buy things you wouldnt otherwise buy. To get you in the store and buy "A". Its psychological in nature for when you are in that store you see "B" for such a price, and because of the time limit purchase B, though you have no need for B.
Its the same idea of the bidding frenzy near the end on some ebay items. We have a tendency to question people who bid such large amounts. But they both rely on that same impulse buy due to time constraints.
Seriously have we seen any good examples here that deal other than materialistic objects? Did grocery stores have a 5 hour sale? Did real estates offer a discount for the first 50 customers to purchase a home?
Don't forget this idea also:
Something else to think about the frenzy and "gotta have", consumerism enstows. When we get a object we are after our happiness "peaks" momentarily. Then drops off as we know have that item. Then we find though more things we want as to regain that happiness/completeness.
All rather like a drug.
Mojo just got pwnt