Well I think experience helps. I've been a happy Black Friday participant for years - always among the first in the queue. Also planning and making sure your are SUPER EARLY in the queue. I look forward to it all year long - Black Friday and MacWorld Expo San Francisco the second week in January - also coincides with my birthday - are my two favorite holidays. The complaints come from people who did none of the above. If you do not take it seriously and plan in depth, you will have a lousy experience. Plus I live only 30 miles from a Fry's Store - which is unlike any other consumer electronics/computer chain in the world. Although there were good deals at Staples and CompUSA, Fry's had the killer deals.
I don't consider my purchases needless consumerism because I need an endless supply of Hard Drives long term as they are now cheaper than DV Tape when obtained at sales like last Friday and other Holidays. I will also be first in the queue the day after Christmas at Fry's and perhaps Staples for some more hard drive deals. None are open yet so only the Maxtor says on the box. Maxtor from Singapore HItachi from Japan I guess Acom Data - Don't know -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Nov 27, 2005, at 6:14 PM, Brett Gaylor wrote: > Taylor - where are those hard drives made? Are we paying what we > SHOULD be for them? I have a hard time believing that someone, > somewhere, isn't paying the price for that cheap hard drive, in > cheap labour, environmental destruction, or a dead end minimum wage > job in a box store. > > In canada it's the day after christmas, and its called Boxing Day. > I personally hate it - i used to work at a record store called A&B > Sound that had famous Boxing Day Sales - I saw people get in fist > fights over cheap hunks of plastic, yelling at each other over car > stereos - it was definitely not cheery. Sounds like your > experience was positive, but I found it to be some weird lord of > the flies electronics orgy of needless consumerism, basically > everything wrong with North American society rolled into a single > event. But then again, I'm not looking for a hard drive at the > moment....</rant> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
