So who was crazy enough to get up early.

dragon300zx · November 25, 2005

I went to Circuit City to get the 199.99 out the door laptop. But by the time I got there at 4:20 am they were all gone. Seeing as this made me cranky and I wanted to get a new laptop as this one is 4+ years old and I'm starting to have a fair amount of problems with the battery and the screen has a ghost spot, plus the old celeron 1.1 processor with a 233fsb is soooo slow. So I settled for going to compusa and getting the 299.99 after rebates (I hate rebates (523.79 including tax out the door 180.00 in mail in rebates)). Shouldn't have bought it.

gus · November 25, 2005

If i get up at 4:20am mate im running late.

To hell with shopping....grab your camera & go find a hill/bridge or something & wait for the sun to come up.

dragon300zx · November 25, 2005

Humungus wrote:

If i get up at 4:20am mate im running late.

To hell with shopping....grab your camera & go find a hill/bridge or something & wait for the sun to come up.

Sun doesn't start coming up till bout 7:30 am these days. And its freaking cold out. -1 degree's f (not c) according to the news. Unlike the other people I stood outside for 2 minutes. I found out the first places was out of the laptop I wanted already so I went to the second place and they had their doors open early.

gus · November 25, 2005

Wow that late...our sun rose at 4.45 this morning.

I wait for it each day with my coffee & a friendly neighbourhood black cat that has no tail. The conversation is light.....i always want to ask him what happened to his tail but i can never find the right moment to broach the topic.

I think it would ruin our relationship so i leave it alone.

behr655 · November 25, 2005

You are probably better off. That Curcuit City deal was tied to a 1 year AOL contract.

Bear

dragon300zx · November 25, 2005

behr655 wrote:

You are probably better off. That Curcuit City deal was tied to a 1 year AOL contract.
Bear

Same thing at compusa but I have to keep aol for troubleshooting problems on clients computers so I am just killing my old account today since I signed up for the new one. Saved $250 for spending the 15 a month I normally would. The circuit city one had better specs but the one I got will do for what I need.

LiquidOps · November 27, 2005

I got in line at Best Buy at 10:30pm Thanksgiving Night...

we were about 100 people back at that time

flyingdutchie · November 27, 2005

Around that time i was sound asleep! I felt great when i woke up... a little full of the thanksgiving dinner, however.

I think it's amazing how commercialized thanksgiving has gotten. Opening stores a 5 am (or even earlier) so that people can satisfy their buying frenzies...? Even fights broke out between shoppers. I just think it's a little bit sad.... But it fits in really well, into the 'consume (even) more' society.

LiquidOps · November 28, 2005

hey... I picked up a digi cam for the wife

Regular 300 I think down to 130

couldn't go wrong there....

but don't tell her... it's a surprise

They were sold out within an hour of opening

So who was crazy enough to get up early.

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