Black Friday: You in - OR - over it?

[VintageMike]

I'm there...online. Couldn't pay to go to a store. Freeze your A** off for hours to save $150 on a TV? I' gladly pay full price on a regular day or better yet find the best price when I'm ready. Not only that I don't just hate crowrds, I really, really hate them. To the point where if I have to play human bumper cars I need to leave because I get angered to the point of wanting to throw elbows and punches.

[megoapesnut]

I once accidentally visited the US on Thanksgiving weekend and tried to go shopping, you're all nucking futz.

Ha! That'll teach you.

[GHVersion12]

Unfortunately I have no choice but to be at a mall as I work there I will be from 9:00 pm thanksgiving night until 9:30 am Black Friday morning. The best part is I can not park at the mall or I can be towed because the mall has off site parking for employees on major holidays so I will be getting dropped off and picked up not to mention dealing with the crazy foreigners that frequent this place on a regular basis.

[MegoSteve]

I'm in, but only online. I'll be up at midnight tonight refreshing bfads.net to see when stores take their sales live online. My only real target this year is a $3.99 copy of The Lego Movie on Blu-ray.

I have to admit that I enjoy going out on Black Friday to gawk at all the shoppers, but only off-peak. I do most of my Christmas shopping online, so there's no pressure on me to buy anything or stand in long lines to pay for the couple things I might find.

[jimsmegos]

I'm glad to see we are all of one mind proving once again Mego people are the best people

[Grimjohn]

Over it. I do the majority of my shopping online. The only gifts I go into a store for are the liquor gift box sets and I buy those a week or two before Xmas. This year I will be spending my Black Friday with a needle, thread and the cut patterns of the clothes I have to sew for the customs I am working on

[JWLJN]

I don't do it, but I have some interesting memories from when I was in retail and had to work it. Shifts go by in a flash, and the craziness could get downright hilarious. The TV deals, at least at Best Buy, are exactly what you hear. They were models that we never carried any other time, and some of them even came in pink boxes.

My favorite memory was finding a couple of the dirt cheap DVD titles that someone had left away from the sale bin. I picked them up and tossed them in, and five people pounced simultaneously.

-J\/\/

[madmarva]

I'm going to be around 70,000 fanatics, but not in a mall. Going to the Arkansas-Missouri football game.

Other than groceries, I'm pretty much an online shopper. I can't remember the last time I've been to a mall, but to each his own.

[cjefferys]

Way over it. I never braved the stores on Black Friday, I hate crowds, but I used to go nuts buying DVDs and Blu-rays on Amazon during Black Friday week. But now since I don't buy nearly as much physical media as I used to (I no longer feel the need to own everything I want to watch), paired with Amazon's rather pathetic sales selection this BF, I'm sitting it out completely for once. Feels liberating!

[Werewolf]

I've never really done Black Friday. I don't like crowds and standing in checkout lines for hours is not my idea of fun.

[jwyblejr]

After I saw that Walmart pretty much has quite a bit of their Black Friday stuff still in the stores for awhile after the madness,I thought "what's the point?"

[Iron Mego]

I hate crowds more than I like a great deal, so Black Friday has never appealed to me. Plus I like to sleep in during my holidays!

[ODBJBG]

Love it. Go every year. Never wait in any lines. Get stuff super cheap. You just gotta know what you're doing.

[enyawd72]

My wife and I tried it for the first and last time about 3-4 years ago. She thought it would be fun. I saw human behavior that disturbs me to this day. It was the same year that Wal-Mart worker got trampled to death.

Never again.

[spacecaps]

I prefer to shop on what I call "White Wednesday" (patent pending.) In case you're interested, you just missed it. But don't worry, in just 364 days, you can participate in this little known life hack. Pick a store and go there the night before Thanksgiving. There's no one shopping. You have the entire store to yourself. Buy what you like and if it happens to go on sale the week of Black Friday, bring the store receipt in and most places adjust the price for you. Word is born!