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Eli1

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Time is money, bro. All that time wasted standing in line could have paid for better stuff. :p
lol For real, that’s why I felt like a fool when none of the big expensive items were on sale. Basically you had 50% off or 75% off on stupid gadgets or digital cameras which were the hot new thing back then.
But if you want to buy a new fridge or stove? Nope, no sale there.
Nowadays it’s all digital sales but the name and the tradition continues. Now it’s more like Black Monday sale in the digital world because most of the stores have shut down, especially after COVID.
And yeah, it doesn’t seem to have the same impact as back then, since there as so many sales throughout the year and this one seems like just another sale.
Amazon will probably make a cool billion this year tho, from all the stupid gadget sales this coming Black Friday or Monday.
 

HealthAndHappiness

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Indeed, this is about saving the planet. Why make a new thread when one exists already?
You‘re an artist Bob, so you should appreciate this.
So, how about you? Have you done any standing out in the cold for a super Mario game or a laptop or a new set of painting brushes?
I can't argue there. I've been guilty of doing a search and talking to someone who might have been dead for half a decade myself. Lol.
I'm bad about checking dates.

As to black Friday sales and standing out in the cold all night, you'll need to ask my brother. He's the video game addict that stood outside Best Buy all night years past for the latest game upgrade.
Then he turned around and sold it for a profit. Lol.


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Not while he was still in line though..😄
 

Eli1

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Then he turned around and sold it for a profit. Lol.
You know, for some of these folks who have a mindset to collect things and never open them .... turns out that's quite an investment.

For example, a first generation iphone with 4GB or memory, unopened from the box, sold for around $200,000 in an auction.
Similarly a NES Mario game, from the late 80s, unopened from the box, sold for some insane amount of money too.
 

HealthAndHappiness

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You know, for some of these folks who have a mindset to collect things and never open them .... turns out that's quite an investment.

For example, a first generation iphone with 4GB or memory, unopened from the box, sold for around $200,000 in an auction.
Similarly a NES Mario game, from the late 80s, unopened from the box, sold for some insane amount of money too.
That's a major investment. It's kinda like the right crypto currency though. When Bitcoin was introduced, I would have invested everything in that had I known.

Another thing is that the seller knew where to sell in order to reach that market with the rare phone collectors.
 

Lynx

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You know, for some of these folks who have a mindset to collect things and never open them .... turns out that's quite an investment.

For example, a first generation iphone with 4GB or memory, unopened from the box, sold for around $200,000 in an auction.
Similarly a NES Mario game, from the late 80s, unopened from the box, sold for some insane amount of money too.
I know these people exist, but I do not understand them. If you never take it out of the box you can never use it. If you can never use it you are not fulfilling its primary function.

And if you have that much money to pay for something you will never use... Could you give me some? =^.^=
 

Magenta

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I know these people exist, but I do not understand them. If you never take it out of the
box you can never use it. If you can never use it you are not fulfilling its primary function.

And if you have that much money to pay for something you will never use... Could you give me some? =^.^=
My daughter once bought a second-hand laptop that was in its original packaging, never opened.
It was a 10" touch screen model and many years ago; the seller had won it at his staff Christmas
dinner, but had no use for it himself. So on Christmas day I drove her half-way to meet this guy
so she could buy it from him, at the side of a gas station. LOL. She still uses that laptop to this
day. I bought a similar one, which was my first portable computer. I loved the touch screen but
some of the keyboard keys along the bottom row become non-functioning after quite a while.
 
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Gojira

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how many of you think its worth camping out in front of a store on black friday?
Absolutely not, especially since I can shop online anyway.
 
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Gojira

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My kids are all grown up now so no need to shop on Black Friday. Also, it's no longer what it used to be. It used to be the lowest prices of the year now it's just another sale. Back in the day I did a lot of Black Friday shopping. I'm not above suffering a little to pay less for something I'd buy anyway. One year I bought 3 or 4 laptops for the kids. Not a one of them ever had a problem, they eventually were retired from old age.
I picture several laptops with gray hairs sitting together around a table in a park...

"Back in my day the PII was the kicker!"
 

Magenta

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It's crazy! They've had the "deals" online for a few weeks already. They're not even worth it!
Heh, my daughter told me a year or so ago that the online sales start "early" and
by the time the actual day rolls around, all the good stuff is already sold out LOL.
 

Eli1

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Heh, my daughter told me a year or so ago that the online sales start "early" and
by the time the actual day rolls around, all the good stuff is already sold out LOL.
Yes, it doesn’t have the same effect anymore. They do week long sales now so that old habit of staying outside in the cold for hours …. Is history now.
 

gb9

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Yes, it doesn’t have the same effect anymore. They do week long sales now so that old habit of staying outside in the cold for hours …. Is history now.
a long time ago, i worked near a shopping mall. on black friday, the place was beyond crazy.

long lines. people lining up outside for hours, the ladies in the office at my work place would meet there at 5 am to go get in line for stores to open at 7.

and the traffic??

that would take a another thread to explain that!!
 

Eli1

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a long time ago, i worked near a shopping mall. on black friday, the place was beyond crazy.

long lines. people lining up outside for hours, the ladies in the office at my work place would meet there at 5 am to go get in line for stores to open at 7.

and the traffic??

that would take a another thread to explain that!!
Yeah the spectacle as is illustrated by those gifs and clips above is what made it entertaining. :LOL:
 

Tall_Timbers

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It's crazy! They've had the "deals" online for a few weeks already. They're not even worth it!
Black Friday isn't what it used to be. For some stores it's a year round event of mediocre sale prices. Wal*Mart already had a Black Friday sale on 10 Nov. I'm sure they'll have a few more where they try to get rid of junk from their inventory.