Black Friday at Fry's questionably worth it.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:12 pm
A friend (bringing his bro along) and I decide to go to Frys to wait in line at 12am (0000 hours) which was pretty much really late considering we went around the corner of the building and then some to find the end of the line. And its a large building definitely trouncing Best Buy. The only stores I know of that could possibly defeat Frys in size is Costco/Sam's Club, and Frys is all electronics (wootz).
Anyway they opened at 5 so that amounts to 5 hours of waiting in line (cold cold cold cold), 2 hours of shopping, 4+ hours of waiting in line to pay (DUDE.) where the line snaked around the store zigzagging through the aisles with the end marked by a dude holding a shitload of balloons. We then waited in my car for an entire hour before we could make it out of the parking lot. This amounts to about 13 hours at Frys.
OMG. I do not want to do that again.
However! The spoils:
Cooler Master 632 ATX case
FREE after MIR
Cooler Master Hyper TX2 775/AM2 CPU cooler (its of the sideways blowing variety like the freezer 64 pro)
FREE after MIR
Belkin 4 Port USB hub
FREE after MIR
Buffalo 500GB External USB hard drive
$79.00
Inland Pro Sound blah blah shit 2.0 speakers
$14.99 (it was actually a mistake for another model which would have been 3 bucks)
EVGA 6200LE PCI-Express 256MB
FREE after MIR
Emprex 18X DVD Burner
$14.97 after MIR
Creative SB Audigy 2 Value (dunno what it is exactly but its an Audigy 2.) $19.99
Belkin 375VA UPS
FREE after MIR
Emprex 4GB flash drive (same as I got a few months ago)
$12.99 after MIR
Motorola H700 Bluetooth Headset
$29.99
Coolmax CD-350 IDE/SATA 3.5" or 2.5" drive to USB adapter (complete with power adapter of course)
FREE after MIR
Total after MIR before tax: $171.93
Was the suffering worth it? :X
Anyway they opened at 5 so that amounts to 5 hours of waiting in line (cold cold cold cold), 2 hours of shopping, 4+ hours of waiting in line to pay (DUDE.) where the line snaked around the store zigzagging through the aisles with the end marked by a dude holding a shitload of balloons. We then waited in my car for an entire hour before we could make it out of the parking lot. This amounts to about 13 hours at Frys.
OMG. I do not want to do that again.
However! The spoils:
Cooler Master 632 ATX case
FREE after MIR
Cooler Master Hyper TX2 775/AM2 CPU cooler (its of the sideways blowing variety like the freezer 64 pro)
FREE after MIR
Belkin 4 Port USB hub
FREE after MIR
Buffalo 500GB External USB hard drive
$79.00
Inland Pro Sound blah blah shit 2.0 speakers
$14.99 (it was actually a mistake for another model which would have been 3 bucks)
EVGA 6200LE PCI-Express 256MB
FREE after MIR
Emprex 18X DVD Burner
$14.97 after MIR
Creative SB Audigy 2 Value (dunno what it is exactly but its an Audigy 2.) $19.99
Belkin 375VA UPS
FREE after MIR
Emprex 4GB flash drive (same as I got a few months ago)
$12.99 after MIR
Motorola H700 Bluetooth Headset
$29.99
Coolmax CD-350 IDE/SATA 3.5" or 2.5" drive to USB adapter (complete with power adapter of course)
FREE after MIR
Total after MIR before tax: $171.93
Was the suffering worth it? :X