Post-Christmas shopping

[CanadianChris 0]

Any good deals? And was it sheer hell?

 

I'm currently shopping for an LCD HDTV online at Future Shop (37" Sharp Aquos for $1500) and Best Buy (37" LG for $1000), and I'm beating my head against the desk. BOTH sites are down after heavily promoting their online Boxing Day sales that both start tonight at 8. I can see this happening maybe 3-4 years ago, when online shopping was fairly new, but you'd think they'd have figured out how to handle all their web traffic by now.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Speak for yourself. Our local Kmart is open until 11pm tonight.

[Hawk 34 0]

Yep. On the way home from a family thing, I stopped at a Wal-Mart that was still open because I realized we were out of milk and I know my mother has this thing about hot chocolate on XMas morning and all the krogers and biggs were closed. There were people still shopping getting DVDs and stuff. Talk about pushing things off to the very last minute.

[Red Baron 0]

I work at Tommy Hilfiger and everything is 50% off.

 

Ugh, I hate dealing with foreingers.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I work at Tommy Hilfiger and everything is 50% off.

 

Ugh, I hate dealing with foreingers.

They've got stars in their eyes.

 

 

CC, Their TV's are that cheap? Wow. My Wal*Mart's hyping a 42 plasma for 1000. It's made by ILO, which aren't nearly as bad as the no-namedness would suggest, but compared to an LG? That Aquos is a steal at 15 hun, while we're at it.

[Ginger Snaps 0]

I may get a new phone. There are some good deals this week.

[Craig Th 0]

My gf and I were board last night and wanted to return some gifts we got. Nothing was open. Target, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, everything. And this was at 7 pm.

[CanadianChris 0]

CC, Their TV's are that cheap? Wow. My Wal*Mart's hyping a 42 plasma for 1000. It's made by ILO, which aren't nearly as bad as the no-namedness would suggest, but compared to an LG? That Aquos is a steal at 15 hun, while we're at it.

TVs are starting to come way down. It's gotten to the point where I can realistically think of putting a good 26" LCD in my computer room for way under a grand.

 

I finally managed to get the Aquos an hour and a half after the sale was supposed to start. I checked Best Buy's site after I completed the order, and it was still down.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

My gf and I were board last night and wanted to return some gifts we got. Nothing was open. Target, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, everything. And this was at 7 pm.

As it should be. 7pm? For god sakes let them get home.

[Craig Th 0]

It's X-Mas eve! I need to get some more gifts.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

My Wal*Mart's hyping a 42 plasma for 1000. It's made by ILO, which aren't nearly as bad as the no-namedness would suggest, but compared to an LG? That Aquos is a steal at 15 hun, while we're at it.

 

I'd stay away from any Wal-Mart TVs, even if they are name brands. I recall reading they're able to offer them for cheaper prices because the sets are made up of inferior/older parts.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

It's X-Mas eve! I need to get some more gifts.

 

And they need to go home and celebrate Christmas.

 

Also, Bruiser, that should be obvious. I mean, there's a reason Wal-Mart has lower prices - it's cuz they have shitty merchandise.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

My Wal*Mart's hyping a 42 plasma for 1000. It's made by ILO, which aren't nearly as bad as the no-namedness would suggest, but compared to an LG? That Aquos is a steal at 15 hun, while we're at it.

 

I'd stay away from any Wal-Mart TVs, even if they are name brands. I recall reading they're able to offer them for cheaper prices because the sets are made up of inferior/older parts.

Appliances in general have gotten worse. I recall buying a board game, I think it was the Game of Life, and being stunned by how cheap the plastic pieces were.

[Craig Th 0]

It's X-Mas eve! I need to get some more gifts.

 

And they need to go home and celebrate Christmas.

 

Also, Bruiser, that should be obvious. I mean, there's a reason Wal-Mart has lower prices - it's cuz they have shitty merchandise.

Umm, there are more religions out there. The Jews could work or something.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

So you want Wal-Mart to hire only Jews from now on?

 

Then how you gonna shop on Hanukah?

[luke-o 0]

Well the christians and muslims can cover those shifts.

 

Anyways, im after a new DVD player. Either a multi-region one or one that i can hack. Because the one i have at the moment is neither and its starting to bug me. Then im planning on buying Clerks II, An Evening With Kevin Smith II and Police Squad on region 1 DVD.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

My "big" gift was an XM satellite radio, which comes with a car kit. I need to figure out how to install it, and I'd also like to get a "home adapter" kit for it.

 

Also got "New Super Mario Brothers" for Nintendo DS...only problem is that I don't actually _own_ a Nintendo DS. My Mom was confused and thought I did. So, now I gotta figure out if I return the game, or splurge and buy the thing.

 

Oh, I need to find time to play my new copy of Civilzation 4, but who knows when that will happen.

[Stephen 0]

On boxing day I picked up all 4 voumes of the James Bond boxset for $50 each, and the Eric Bischoff book Cash creates Controversy which was 30 % off at chapters.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

i went this afternoon to see if i could find any good deals on clothes. Didn't really find anything to suit me, but I did stop into a bookstore and picked up "Good Omens", to add to my collection of shit I need to read.

[King Kamala 0]

I got Saturday Night Live: Season One on DVD for $42 yesterday at Best Buy.

 

 

I'm going to pick up some new books today and I'll probably try to pick up Da Ali G Show: Da Compleet Seriez later this week.

[Matt Young 0]

I'm picking up Gears of War and Zelda: Twilight Princess, both $40 this week at Target (and I get afriend's employee discount).

[The Metal Maniac 0]

I snagged Spider Man 1 and 2, and Shadow of the Colossus for $30. I think I'm going to be sending my brother back in to get me Simpsons Seasons 2 and 3, since they're on two for $35 and he hasn't gotten me a Christmas present yet.

[CanadianChris 0]

I finally picked up the complete series of The Office (BBC version) for $40, the Beverly Hills Cop series for $25, and a $50 Phillips DVD player. I struck out trying to find a smaller LCD TV for the den, though. No big names, and I refuse to put money down on the second- and third-tier brands. And it was absolute mayhem. Some bitch stole my parking space that I'd been trying to find for fifteen minutes. I had a brief thought of just parking in front of her car and going into the mall.

 

Oh, and the Aquos came this morning. Man, does it ever look nice. It'll look even nicer when we switch to cable in a couple of months so we can get all the HD channels.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I finally picked up the complete series of The Office (BBC version) for $40, the Beverly Hills Cop series for $25, and a $50 Phillips DVD player. I struck out trying to find a smaller LCD TV for the den, though. No big names, and I refuse to put money down on the second- and third-tier brands. And it was absolute mayhem. Some bitch stole my parking space that I'd been trying to find for fifteen minutes. I had a brief thought of just parking in front of her car and going into the mall.

 

Oh, and the Aquos came this morning. Man, does it ever look nice. It'll look even nicer when we switch to cable in a couple of months so we can get all the HD channels.

 

Who's your provider? I was under the impression Bell had the most HD channels with 28, but a buddy of mine is home from college in Ottawa, and though he told me so drunk, he said Rogers had 32 HD channels. </marvin>

 

What size, by the way?

[Red Baron 0]

I believe Rogers does have more HD channels than Bell.

[Zack Malibu 0]

I went out on the day after Xmas expecting to burn through gift cards and let that be that. Instead, I wound up finding some very good sales on clothes. In one trip to the mall I wound up grabbing 2 hoodies, a dress shirt, a polo, 2 t shirts, and a hat at Hollister, a wool jacket at Aeropostale, and a pair of boots at Aldo, and spent less than $200.

[CanadianChris 0]

Who's your provider? I was under the impression Bell had the most HD channels with 28, but a buddy of mine is home from college in Ottawa, and though he told me so drunk, he said Rogers had 32 HD channels. </marvin>

 

What size, by the way?

It's a 37". I would have preferred a larger one, but we couldn't fit any larger ones into our entertainment unit, and it would have been too much of a hassle to get rid of the entertainment unit.

 

We're with Bell, but we subscribe to the VDSL service (through the phone line) since we live in a condo apartment and can't get regular ExpressVu. It doesn't have HD capability. It's being replaced by IPTV, but that's not expected to be rolled out until probably 2008, by which time we'll be long gone to Rogers.

[Art Sandusky 0]

$50 of my cash went to an eighth.

 

The other $25 was spent on gas, booze, and cigarettes.

 

A local music store gift card netted me a $6 used Terminator 3 and the Ministry of Sound's Annual 2007.

 

With my Barnes and Noble card I got the February issue of Car and Driver, a Batman/Superman comic collection, and the entire Crisis on Infinite Earths story in one book. For some reason I couldn't find anything else I really wanted there and couldn't find where the hell the Doonesbury collections were after looking at the Humor section yielded nothing. I'm most excited about the comics for some odd reason. I wanna see what all the fuss is about.

[Jericholic82 0]

My gf and I were board last night and wanted to return some gifts we got. Nothing was open. Target, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, everything. And this was at 7 pm.

As it should be. 7pm? For god sakes let them get home.

thank you, I had to be there at opening at 7 pm and got likean hour of two of sleep cuz I was there late on sat night. we still ahd people at 6 oclock wanting to come in but thankfully they locked the door and let no one else in, but the bunches of people on line got to be rung up, thereby avoiding a riot. but I still had customers wanting help, and some guy actually seriously asked me if we were open tomorrow (0n xmas day) get a life people! I swear some people would love to live at CC at seems, weve actually got CC groupies for lack of a better term

 

then my dumb ass boss has to give us a big pep talk thank you speech and keep us there an extra 20 mins.