roflwoffles
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What if I previously purchased a product at Best Buy and the price is now lower in your Friday advertisement, TV ads or on BestBuy.com? What if I find a lower price available at a Best Buy competitor on Friday?
The Best Buy Store Price Guarantee and BestBuy.com Price Guarantee does not apply to our or our competitors' items for sale on November 28th and 29th.
Please try to find the answer to you question in the forums before posting it in a thread. There are links to BB BF policies all over this forum.
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In b4 closed thread...
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I've looked all over the forums, and I can't seem to find any information on the bonus doorbusters. If anyone has any links to the items, it would be greatly appreciated.
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We will be in Okemos, MI - Meijer, Wal-Mart, Target, TRU, Kohl's maybe, and the mall.... We are so excited, bring on the ads!!!
Finally! Someone else in my city!!!
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Brad is right - they are holding back some of the best deals just like they did last year.
When and where do I find these deals?
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is it possible this is a fake? there arent many items in there, and the ones that are suck.
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A few comments on this thread....
Best Buy has loss prevention staged throughout the line, anyone caught selling a ticket will be arrested and lose their tickets. It is not recommended. In the past I wish someone would have sold me their ticket for the laptop, and where you are saying people sold their laptop ticket for $50, I would have jumped as high as $150 for that ticket.
There are no "loss prevention" people at my best buy, as best buy has nothing to lose when people sell tickets. Also, the tickets have no face value, so scalping laws do not apply to them, and thus, the worst that could happen is a manager could ask you to leave. If your BB and state have laws and policies that could cause you to get arrested, I feel bad for you.
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Let´s suppose this scenario: Best buy will have an early bird of 10 42" LCD TV at $399. You arrive Wednesday at 4:00 pm and there are already ten people in line, so you are number eleven. You decide continue at line.
What will you feel if one hour before best buy open the doors, customer number 10 sell his ticket to someone who arrived 5 minutes ago?
First of all, I hope to god there is a TV that size for that cheap.
I would feel anger at myself for not getting there at 3:00PM. Early Bird gets the early bird items. Also, if you are number 11, you are first up to buy a ticket off of someone else. Its just the way it is at BB on BF. Fight it all you want, and get angry at the people who do it, but BB does this to create more sales.
In response to the one ticket per person idea: what would stop someone from just having their friends show up just before they hand out tickets, and have them grab one each?
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line jumping is my #1 piss off. Also huddling around the DVD box comes close. I always hide my shopping cart close by when I need to grab DVD's this way I take what I need and move away quickly.
How the heck do you hide your shopping cart??? The store is packed with people.
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I've sold tickets in the past, but to the people who got there 30 minutes before the store opens thinking they will get doorbuster items. Those who get there a little after me shouldn't have to worry if it's not an item I am there to buy for myself. If I happened to get the last ticket for an item I don't want, but the person behind me does want...I give them the ticket.
Definitely. I agree with this. I am not going to be a total jerk about it. But I will almost definitely be the first person in line, so the people immediately behind me will get tickets for their items too. It's the people about 20-30 people back where it starts to get nasty.
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Where did you find the hot coco that heats itself?
It's 2 bucks at wal-mart.
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Come on, those Spartans made a believe out of me today!
That game was sloppy, but amazing! I notice you are from Clinton township, where at, as that is where I hail from, and where will you be on BF?
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Imagine you take the last ticket for some item. The person behind you shows up 30 minutes after you , because she is taking 24 credit hours. You choose to sell (for money) her the ticket, although she has never made more than $6.40 per hour.
Clearly, making a quick buck at the expense of others doesn't phase you.
btw, that's me standing behind you. Please don't justify greed with some sob story about making above minimum wage and taking a mediocore class load.
If anyone showed up 30 minutes after me(which would be about 9:30pm Wednesday) they definitely would not have to worry about not getting a ticket.
Also, in regard to your personal attack, MSU does not allow students to take more than 16 credits without approval from the dean. In addition, no one in Michigan can (legally) make $6.40 an hour, as minimum wage is $7.40 if you are 18 or older.
Off topic, but out of curiosity, if you are taking 24 credits, are those semester credits? And what level classes are those? That credit load would be impossible at MSU.
Back on topic, I am hardly making a quick buck. I think we are going to just have to agree to disagree, because neither of us is changing anyone else's mind.
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money money money. Even during holiday seasons.
If you are standing out and sleeping on concrete for the sole purpose of selling tickets for money...you probably need to get a better job.
Hopefully the people you anger won't see you and jump you. You've seen those BF videos how crazy people get over money......
anyways, it's a personal decision about ethics. If you think there is absolutely no shame or selfishness/greed, you may want to re-evaluate your morals as a human being. Money is just paper.
The MAIN reason I am going is to get a good deal on a(n?) HDTV. Selling tickets is a bonus. As for getting a better job, I am an 18 year old college student working 21 hours a week @ $7.86 and hour, on top of 15 credits. Job offers are pretty slim when your school enrolls over 46,000 students.
Because money is just paper, and so are the tickets I will take, I feel NO shame in trading one for another.
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How is it wrong? If a person is willing to give up their time, Thanksgiving, endure the weather, lack of bathrooms, etc.... in order to make a few bucks I don't see what the problem is. Everyone has the opportunity to sell tickets, but just because you and most other people aren't willing to camp out for 36 hours doesn't make it wrong..........
If the stores really wanted to fix the problem, they'd actually have more then 20 or 30 of each ticket item in the store.
Amen brother!
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Yes I have and when I did I had about 100 people behind me 3 hours later. BF line form very early.
Heh, I wasn't quoting you. I realize where you are it gets pretty hectic early, but in East Lansing, typically people dont start showing up until thursday evening.
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I think is not fair for people near behind you. They arrived only minutes behind you and they are losing one opportunity because you want to do business....
Remember, this can happen to you....
Just my point of view...
Have you ever line up for black friday over 30 hours in advance? That early, people dont arrive every few minutes. They arrive every few hours until thursday night, when they trickle in constantly. I will probably be first in line wednesday night, and the people 30 or so back, when the tickets start to run out, will probably have arrived hours later.
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OK, I have a question. How many tickets are you talking about? I mean, do you stand in line for 24 hours, for 1 ticket, and sell it for $50.00? Or do you get 5-10 tickets and sell them for $50.00 ea? If you got 1 ticket, I can see where selling it would be okay but if you got several with the intent of turning around and selling them, aren't you screwing the other shoppers? You've become the doorbuster at that point - right? Or am I looking at this wrong?
I've only shopped BB one year - and I got what I wanted, and the sales people were great. So, do they generally have a limit on the # of tickets you can get? (And I'm talking for 1 specific item)
I am actually going to be in line for over 30 hours. I am going to grab 1 ticket per item, which is the limit. I will probably buy about 3 of those items for myself. I am looking for a 42-46" hdtv, and maybe some cheap computer components. I will sell the other tickets I don't use. I can see how this might anger other people, but the way I see it, they are buying the time from me that they weren't willing to spend in line.
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I am in East Lansing, and I plan on getting there sometime wednesday night.
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What do you guys do for food? I'm probably camping out from Wednesday night, and propane is preferred.
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I'm going to have to check local ordinances because its possible something similar was passed here at MSU, but I doubt it.
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I just did some research because I plan on selling some tickets, as I am spending my time(=money?) to get these tickets. In Michigan, there is a law against scalping, but it is designed for sporting events, and prevents reselling tickets for more than their FACE VALUE. As BB tickets have no monetary value, they are exempt from this law, I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.
The way I see it, I am in college, and I could always use some extra money. If a person is willing to camp out for over a day on concrete, miss Thanksgiving dinner, and endure Michigan's subzero nights, I think they have a right to sell the tickets they receive.
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East Lansing, MI. Best Buy!!!
People Already In Line - Post Your Reports
in 2008
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6-12 hours? Ha! Try 30+