Black Friday

Today is the day that everyone has been waiting for. Everyone went to sleep last night at a leisurely 8 o’clock, with stomachs stuffed with pumpkin pie and turkey, to prepare for the havoc that has already broken forth today. Sadly, I am not a participant (I have an appointment to get an ingrown toenail cut out, hey; someone has to make sure the hospitals make a profit to right?) However, the thing I’m sure of is that at 5:00 this morning, all hell broke loose in what is known as consumer and retail heaven: Black Friday. Black Friday gets it’s name because the day after thanksgiving is generally the day that puts retailers out of debt (the red) and into their profit margins (the black) thus: Black Friday. Here are just a few of the things that might be making stores go black today.

Xbox 360 – Remember that other console…? That one that people can still buy… yeah, that’s the one.

The new Tickle Me Elmo – For some reason people still buy this confounded thing year after year…you can get the same responses from a newborn-child. And those are a lot easier and more fun to get.

Gift Cards – For some reason, people go to the store early to get some great gifts, realize that they are already sold out, and buy gift cards…

Notice, the PS3 and Wii are not on this list. The only people they’re making money for is people selling them on Ebay.

My favorite part of Black Friday is the fact that you can watch on the news people fighting over “must have” items. And it’s sort of funny really. These people want to save an extra 10% on an item that they could just buy next week, and then they end up paying a couple of grand in hospital expenses because they broke their nose fighting over said item. Of course, none of that really matters because all of it’s on a credit card that they’re never going to pay off anyway. Gotta love America!

Myself, I think I’m going shopping tomorrow…

~ The Wonder Waffle

Letterman rocked black friday oh it was so great no I mean great I gave a big huge smile. I got flash drives, a deep fryer (wonderwaffle we will soon commence deep frying experimetns, a blender, a hard drive some 1 gig disks, a black eye i got from the guy from the labeler. Laughs at the people waiting in the best buy line that went aroudn the store and half way into the next store overs parking lot. A lot less sleep then I should have. The mad rush into stapples. If you were not at some shot gun start this morning I do piddy you.
~Letterman

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PS3 Launch Approaches

And if you have the means, I'd highly recommend you pick one up...and then sell it on ebay. The common thought among the gaming websites this week is the idea that if you are able to get your hands on a PS3, you should sell it on ebay (for prices somtimes exceeding double what you paid for it) and then use your actual profit to purchase a console for yourself later.

The fact that Americans are willing to pay double retail price for an untested, brand new console is quite interesting. One can look back and remember what happened last year with the Xbox 360 which was also making enormous profits for people selling it online. As it turns out, there were funamental flaws in the firmware and patches were required to stop games from freezing. And people were paying upwards of a thousand dollars for this.

One can only assume that the PS3 will have the same problems, sure they will be fixed...but it will have problems. And people are still willing to pay this much money.

The funny thing is, these are the people who are complaining about the PS3's base $500 price point. And yet they will pay $1000 for the console....me, I think I'll stick with my Xbox for the time being. Maybe when they lower the price, I'll pick up a 360. But it's not really that big a deal anymore. Graphics in my opinion don't really make games more fun anymore.

But that's just me...

~ The Wonder Waffle

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