Advice for "black friday"

[Pi rules]

Do you think it would be better to buy a digital camera today (or anyday until Christmas) for $150 that's slightly worse (smaller LCD, .1 less MP, only 16MB storage vs. 32) or another one that I would have to wait in line for tomorrow morning for only $130? Also, what time do you think I would have to go and wait (the store is Best Buy)?

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[Nick Grana]

First of all, I wouldn't venture to the curb on 'Black Friday'.
I saw, on tv today, a 6 megapixel camera for $199.
I figure next year I can get one for 10 bucks.

I did do a slightly early thing one year on Friday (few years ago). A 20" tv was going for $89. I got up at 6:30 and ran into Walmart at 6:45 back to the the tv section. "Where are those $89 tv's?"
Oh, that's K-mart with that sale.
Crapola. Ran (drove) to K-mart 100 mph only to find the entrance of the store lined with people to the left and people to the right just waiting to get in. Must have been a couple hundred people. Needless to say, I went home....slowly. Bought same tv a few days later at Walmart for $79.
It was for the grandkids to do their games on. They and I were happy.

[sho-dan]

mmmmm Black and Blue friday.go for it, be a storefront zombie and park yourself at the store by 4am or wait and enjoy your weekend

[uripyores]

I thought they changed it to Buy Nothing Day.

We don't have it here [as far as I know] we have January Sales.
Which always seem to start sometime in december for some reason.

I would rather wait for the prices to sink too.

[Pi rules]

I would rather wait for the prices to sink too.

They almost never sink lower than they are on "Black Friday". For example, there's a $150 PC (not very good, obviously, but good enough to run Office apps), $350 notebook, $10 512 MB SD cards, $30 120GB HDDs, etc.

[The Dude]

Best advice: STAY HOME (Its gonna be crowded)

[Pi rules]

(Its gonna be crowded)

There were only about 400 people at Best Buy when I got there. So, we decided to go to ShopKo, where I saw a digital camera with less features for less than $100. 3x optical zoom, 4x digital, 5.2 MP, 1.5 LCD, etc. Not the best, but it will fit my needs.

[uripyores]

So we'll be expecting to see a picture of you in the gallery now, you have no excuse.

[Pi rules]

Just put a picture of Harry Potter in there (just kidding). That's what everyone says I look like (although I still deny it).

I just killed the batteries (NiMH)...1 hour of constant LCD usage does that.

[enat66]

Went to staples today, where they had a 512MB USB 2.0 flashdrive. Arrived at 6:20am, the line for checkout looked to be a good three hours long and the usb flash drives were long gone.