Black Friday Wrap Up

Black Friday has come to an end; I hope that everyone out there got some pretty good deals. I didn’t do so bad myself.

Like most Black Friday Shoppers, I have a list of items that I hope don’t run out before I get to the store. Here my list below:

Target-
iPod Touch 32GB $295 + $30 Gift Card

Radio Shack-
Skull Candy Inked Earphones $9.99

Staples-
Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 $9.99

From that list I managed to get everything but the webcam which I’ll discuss in a paragraph or two.

Starting with Target at 5:00 am, I’d estimate that there were about 1500 people at my local Target, the line snaked all the way around the building. After the doors opened and all the nuts who were there since midnight ran in, it took about 5 minutes for the line to end. I ended up waiting in line for about one hour to get the iPod Touch, there were only about 200 people in the line, I was about number 20ish. I still can’t comprehend why 20 people can’t go through a line quickly and be on their way, but that’s not important.

Since I already knew that Target would be pretty packed, I sent a friend of mine to Radio Shack which is conveniently about a block away. Traditionally (at least in my area) no one ever goes to the Radio Shack on Black Friday, one or two stragglers here and there but never a big crowd. This year I was wrong, a decent amount of people (I’d say maybe 250, but that’s a very rough estimate) showed up. My friend still managed to get the Earphones at their discounted price.

Finally Staples, I really must say that I was disappointed with Staples this year, I was maybe 5 minutes late and the store was packed, but there was nothing on the shelves, and also nothing in anyone’s hands. This either meant that Staples had a busy Thanksgiving sale the previous day, or they just didn’t have anything in stock. So in regards to the webcam, I drove back to Radio Shack and bought one of the Gigaware webcams for about the same price.

And just a little tidbit, the iPod Touch is awesome, and though Gigawares stuff is usually pretty cheap in nature, the video quality of the webcam is very fair.

Here is a photo of the  “loot”.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and Black Friday!