Woman camps out at Best Buy nine days before Black Friday

Yeah, I'm always looking for a bargain, too, but really! "Usually we come six or seven days ahead and we've never been first," says the 43-year-old woman. "We're just have a hooting time." (TampaBay.com)

Comments

[jj]

How stupid.

[sometimesilie]

ditto.

This does not touch the gentleman in Philadelphia (who admitted he did not have a job) that camped for a week outside of a sneaker store to buy "Sean Carter" sneakers for 200 some odd dollars.

[BlueMary]

Oh, I don't know, its not really any different than tailgating. Of course it must be nice to be able to blow off nine days of job and household related responsibilities with zero fallout. I can't get a freaking week's vacation myself.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

This is getting Fn rediculous. No wait, it was getting Fn rediculous two years ago.

I tried this a few years ago (here in Wisconsin). Yep, the cold makes it that much more enjoyable.

Last year, I heard stories of punks showing up 1/2 hour before opening, jumping in line, and threatening anyone who objected, fights breaking out, etc.

And a whole lot of more fun when (and no one thinks of this) the line to check out once you get in is 2 hours long, with the same skipping, pushing, and shoving.

As if life wan't hard enough as it is.

The good thing this year is that I can't afford to buy Christmas gifts, so the whole problem is eliminated.

What should really happen, is th stores should allow you to pre-register for a lottery up to say, a week before Black Friday. With some kind of notification and other processes that prevent this nonsense.

[Aaron]

They could have easily made $500 working somewhere at minimum wage. I don't understand this.

[Phranqlin]

Some people just don't have enough to do.

[TequilaJoe]

Ah they are having fun, not breaking any laws and are not in any danger of being sterilized anytime soon.

[jj]

There are so few things for sale on Black Friday that aren't on sale the rest of the year. Why bother? Christmas is way to material.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

jj:

They offer quite a few products with incredibly low prices (with limited numbers). That gets the hype up and in turn, asses in the store. The rest of the merchandise is priced at a good normal sale price. The best case however, is you buy some other products at a modest sale price, and accesories for the other junk you bought at full price, and put it on a store house credit.

The question is why can't they offer such good deals at other times of the year?

[Sheila]

I assume these "cheap" items are loss leaders.

[Max Headroom]

Get. A. Freakin'. Life.

[Lambiepie]

this sort of thing just depresses me
what are they planning to buy that this becomes the solution?
good thing they make a party of it (before the shoving, and drunken slurs start)

[jdotglenn]

Jesus must roll over in his secret grave every Christmas shopping season...

[Max Headroom]

@Aaron: What's to understand here is that "shopping" has become an applauded national sport. It's not about buying things you need, or sometimes even things you want - it's about going out, credit card in hand, and bagging crap. Crap you never knew existed and were happy without. Crap you don't need. Crap that will end up in a closet, given away or in a landfill to make room for more crap. But it's all about the "thrill" of going out to hunt, find, and spend.

[Tom Weidermeijer]

She is either an attention whore or an idiot.

I am voting for both.

[Sigh]

After all that nonsense, I would want the store to pay me, not the other way around. Get a job at Best Buy for the holidays. Or maybe, create photo albums for your children or something.

But how is she allowed to hold spots for her kids and husband, etc.? If that is the case, why not hold spots for 100 people and sell those spots to the highest bidder? Or, why doesn't the store do the same?

So many idiots, so many ways to part them from their money.

[twerp]

I'm with BlueMary. I wish I had the time to waste. Although, I'd rather spending it having sex on a beach somewhere after throwing down some dos equis ;-)

[Somebody]

Isn't that Buy Nothing Day? She won't get nuttin'!

[dru]

What depresses me most about this extremely depressing article is that, according to the lady, this is the 6th year of her or her family queuing up at least 6-7 days before Black Friday.

This lady claims she's 43. Okay. That means she's old enough to know better, (or to have learnt her lesson after the first couple of tries).

Thanksgiving must really stink in her household, if they can't all be sitting down together.

And the animal control person should've been looking to ticket this gal instead of the pink poodle pals lady. Just saying.

[Krash]

Hey Man, what's the News here?
Just more insipid commercialization with a touch of Jerry Springer. Can you say "Bread and Circuses"?

Great! Now try "America is going to Hell in a Hand-basket."

[Krash]

@ Max

You forgot to add "what they don't have."
As in, "Use the credit Card to Spend what they don't have."

[The Hermit]

Would be funny if she was at the wrong entrance.

[pollysmith]

Nothing is that important for me to buy that I would wait outside for days. I hated waiting in line to get into the movie theater to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows for half an hour

[wank]

What is "hooting time?"