Originally Posted by pompousjohn

To me it comes down to: Some people value their time and effort and have better things to do and some people don't. We call the first kind "business people" and I am one of those.

But beyond that, the "savings" are bullshit. At best, Black Friday is a hoax to relieve retail inventory of last years models so they can make room on the shelves for the Holiday Inventory. But worse than that many retailers have special "Black Friday" items that are one letter different than the popular item's model # and missing some of the usual features, making them easy to mark down, and if fact impossible to sell at the normal retail pricepoint. Consumers are so busy fighting over the inventory they never really take a good look at it.

Fuck it all.