Best Buy; Bird Road Miami store experience

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Well, I woke up at 8am and could not get back to bed, so I quickly called my girlfriend and said wake up, lets go!! She was all mumbling about being tired and I said no, lets gooo!! So I quickly pack my warm stuff and get a folding chair, throw it in the car and off to get her.

 

So we get there at 8:54am Thursday and all excited about being #1 and #2 (she claims she is #1, so I let her. haha). Then at 9:18am, someone else comes!!! Wow, they sure do come early. So he puts up a little tent and my girlfriend goes in it to get warm. Then people start trinkling in all day. Pretty boring when almost everyone speaks spanish and I don't, but thats why I got a girlfriend who can translate for me. haha.

 

So then the front wall of BB is eventually full and people start curving down towards the back. Some girl decides to make a list of people's name and tries to act like she is the boss. Whatever, we give her our names and we basically know who the first 20 are since we have been there forever all day. We didn't care because we were #1 and #2. People come with more tents, someone sets up his laptop to watch movies for everyone; fun times. It is better to be in the front though, a lot less noise and more relaxing. We played some cards and nintendo DS at night to pass the time.

 

Some guy drove buy in one of those red Lamborguini scooters and was showing it off to everyone for about 15 minutes. I didn't really care, but it was fun to watch since I was bored. Must of been a REAL REAL expensive car!!!

 

Then its around 3am and BB employees come and everyone gets antsy and people walk over to the front to ask them questions. The "boss" and her friends try to organize the line and tell people to get in a tight line so no one gets in and talks to the BB employee who is stationed at the door to work the line and he says ok. BB was stupid and set the sprinklers on, and half the line on the side of the building got soaking wet and it was real funny. A cop was there organizing the line...turned out she was off-duty and wanted to shop too, so she used that to get near the front. haha. Another on-duty cop was there too who was helping. Anyone who walked to the front to talk to the employees, everyone was yelling in spanish "line line line". Then they started to hand out tickets; they worked the line real well and we all got what we wanted in line. And for some reason, they put all the carts OUTSIDE, and when they open, people have to run to get carts!! So being #1 and #2, when it opened, my girlfriend got the carts and I didn't move until she brought them to me. Then off we go!! VROOOM

 

Apparently, the items are spread out and you have to pay for the ticketed items as you get it (WHICH IS REAL STUPID). I saw the 22 inch Westinghouse monitor, grabbed that and went to the cameras. I got a digital camera, and I had a ticket for a camcorder, but I had no idea the camcorder was there; so I didnt get that at the time. Then I meet with my girlfriend in the laptop line, which was real slow and only had 1 register for that. After 30 min in that line, we split up and went to the tv line and I went to the digital camera line. HUGE HUGE LINE and only 1-2 registers for each station. There was no way in hell I was going to wait over an hour for each of those items at that time. So I told her I am taking her home then going back. She wanted to wait with me, but I couldn't handle the store anymore. So I took her home and went back. I went straight to the head general store manager and told him I was the first one in line (showed him my tickets with #1 on each item) and said that I feel sick and dizzy and just plain out tired and could not wait in both lines for the items because it would take at least 2 hours. He said to talk to someone else who would help me. So I talked to him; he got my 2 items and out the door in 10 minutes!!! YEAH!!

 

So all in all it was a good time there. It was real organized due to the people in line and I had a good time. Next year they should not have you pay when you get the ticketed item. They should just have the ticketed items all in 1 place and a lot of registers there. They should also serve some donuts or coffee. I already sold both of my laptops for 100 profit each after I got home too

[Jasonlh1]

I had a great experience in Culter Bay, Miami FL. I got there at 3:30 PM. Got both laptops, emachines, and both cameras and camcorders. Was able to leave the store at 5:20 AM with everything and headed to Staples. But that's another story.