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captain_slinkyJust got done looking at all the "Black Friday" advertisement (which you can find in advance at http://www.slickdeals.net) and all i can say is MEH.
No insane discounts. No limited quantities at this price. No free giftcard for the first 50 people in line. Just "Oh PLEASE come and spend money at our store on Friday morning so we will then have the money PLEASE!!!"
Didn't see a single thing that would inspire me to sit outside in the cold at 4am on Friday morning. Not even the big-ticket items that were supposed to have awesome deals this year (Big-Screen HDTV, Laptops, GPS Navigation) had anything that wasn't an average every-day special price.
I tell ya... when *I* was a kid, Black Friday MEANT something! It used to be SPECIAL! Now it's just gotten entirely too commercial.
No insane discounts. No limited quantities at this price. No free giftcard for the first 50 people in line. Just "Oh PLEASE come and spend money at our store on Friday morning so we will then have the money PLEASE!!!"
Didn't see a single thing that would inspire me to sit outside in the cold at 4am on Friday morning. Not even the big-ticket items that were supposed to have awesome deals this year (Big-Screen HDTV, Laptops, GPS Navigation) had anything that wasn't an average every-day special price.
I tell ya... when *I* was a kid, Black Friday MEANT something! It used to be SPECIAL! Now it's just gotten entirely too commercial.
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Date: 2008-11-21 03:47 am (UTC)