Last year I got to BB about 10am. I knew the hard drive I wanted would be gone, but my wife was next door and Linens N Things and I didn't want to go there.
Anyway, sure enough, there was a big empty space where the drives should have been. Knowing that people hide things I started to look through all of the drives that were still there (and not on sale). The top of the boxes looked indentical, and I know I would have hidden a drive there - it doesn't stand out the way one in a freezer would.
I didn't find any and was about to walk away when an employee walked over and dumped 5 or 6 drives in the empty space.
I asked him if these were the drives that were on sale and he didn't know, but he said, "I have been finding these around the store all morning."
Sure enough, it was the drive I wanted!
Of course, I still had to deal with the checkout line that went around the entire building and was estimated to be 3 hours long. There was no way my wife would have been ok with that.
I wandered around for a few minutes and found a subwoofer and some DVDs I wanted, but was thinking about putting them all down since I knew I couldn't wait in that line.
I happened to be in the back of the store, in the stereo area and saw a folding table with only 3 people lined up at it.... there was also a register on the table.
I didn't know what the deal was, but I figured I would get in the line and the worst that could happen is that I would be told to get in the real line, this one was for VIPs or something.
I waited about 5 minutes and then the guy rang me up, no questions, no strange looks... and all this time people were getting in the "real" line and waiting 3 hours!
All told I was in and out in under 30 minutes.
I think this register was supposed to be for people that were signing up for satellite TV or something (there was a lot of DISH equipment there and some banners), but they rang me up, so I didn't question it.
I just want to thank the people that hide stuff and don't go to pick it up early... you made my BF 2004!
