ryleeblack Posted November 16, 2005 Posted November 16, 2005 Can you guys post your Fry's Electronic's BF experiences? I haven't really read that many in the current threads that we have, and I'm curious since this is my first BF. I'm nervous now. It's like, what should I expect? I called up my local Fry's (SoCal ) and they open around 6am, and they said the line begins around 3am. That is all I got so far about Fry's. Any help would be appreciated. ^^ Also, would you recommend buying the brand GQ for a laptop? That is the top priority on my shopping list this year.
akcyr Posted November 16, 2005 Posted November 16, 2005 we arrived last year at Fry's around 5:00am. The line was already around the building. We had gone for the 5.0meg Olympus digital camera. At 6:am they started letting people in. It was total chaos. They had no security and people just started rushing the door. No control whatsoever. I can tell you they let us in and then we went to the camera area. We were then put in 3 lines. One for the Olympus, one for the HP 2.0 meg for $49.00 and one for the digital camcorder they had for $149.00. What a mistake. We waited for awhile then my husband decided to leave the line while I waited. He noticed that at the back of the store the wharehouse doors were open and there were a couple of guys handing stuff out. He realized that one of the items was the camera we were wanting to buy. He grabbed one. This was no where near the line where they had us wait and the guy told him it was the last one. He called me on my cell phone to tell me he had the camera. I left the line not saying a word. People were getting impatient and no employees were anywhere. This was the most unorganized place I have ever been on after 4 years of BF shopping. We were happy to get what we wanted and they definately had great prices but it was completely full contact shopping! I was actually nervous being there. I would rather camp out all night at BB than go through that again.
ryleeblack Posted November 16, 2005 Author Posted November 16, 2005 I was sort of expecting that sort of memory. I was hoping not to though. lol. Thank you for your reply. ^^
freesia39 Posted November 16, 2005 Posted November 16, 2005 i have never gone to fry's early - last year i went at 11am, and they had a lot of the regular deals i was there for still. this was in northern california - i usually only shop at the sunnyvale store, and if there's anything good, i'll be there again.
jaxx25 Posted November 16, 2005 Posted November 16, 2005 Yes pretty much it is chaos. I went last year and arrived at 5am also and there were a few hundred people there. This is one of the smaller stores and when the doors opened, you can just imagine. I went to get the 25" tv and there were 3 lines of chaos but i got my tv thanks to customers telling employees people were cutting in line. The worst part was trying to figure out where the line to pay was. There was supposedly some employee standing at the end of the line with some balloons. It took 20 minutes to find him. This is of course after I had to have an employee pull my shopping cart from the front because i couldnt get it through the aisles. Luckily I did come away with everything I wanted and made a nice exit across the street to Staples. And of course I plan on going to Fry's again this time around too, lol.
ryleeblack Posted November 18, 2005 Author Posted November 18, 2005 Thanks jaxx25, akcyr, and freesia39 for your replies. I appreciate it. :)
stationchief Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 Thanks jaxx25, akcyr, and freesia39 for your replies. I appreciate it. :)Hope they didn't scare 'ya into not going to Fry's on BF.
Jenniferharrison82 Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 I used to work at frys and it can get crazy :)
BruschiFan Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 I just moved to an area where there is a frys, will their ads be posted on this site, or only in the local paper?
EliteABombAZ Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 I just moved to an area where there is a frys, will their ads be posted on this site, or only in the local paper?Fry's ads vary by state.... so unless Brad gets the sales for every state, i doubt it.
RossMAN Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 I just moved to an area where there is a frys, will their ads be posted on this site, or only in the local paper?Probably only in your local newspaper, it's just 6 days away.
gisellerol Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 does anyone know if there is a fry's in chicago
freesia39 Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 does anyone know if there is a fry's in chicagoi don't know how close this is to chicago, but it's the only one in illinois. Downers Grove, IL 3300 Finley Road 60515 (630) 390-2100
kevinC Posted November 18, 2005 Posted November 18, 2005 I was in a Fry's yesterday. If you go in, you can start to tell what some of their BF items will be. They are starting to stack them out on the floor already.
ryleeblack Posted November 23, 2005 Author Posted November 23, 2005 I was in a Fry's yesterday. If you go in, you can start to tell what some of their BF items will be. They are starting to stack them out on the floor already.Thanks for that tip. ^^ Gonna check it out tomorrow.
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