RE: Anyone who went to Staples last Black Friday...

aphex

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Did the chair's on sale go first?

I live less than 10 seconds from the nearest staples and am debating whether or not its worth it to get up damn early to get a nice leather chair on the cheap.

Anyone who went last year know?
 

DeviousTrap

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No clue. My staples was deserted last year. I showed up and there was myabe 30 people in line at 5:45am. That being said I had no problems getting 3 chairs.

The year before they had a ton of people. :confused:
 

aphex

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Hmmmm, maybe i'll sleep in....

Last year i was up at 3:30 so i could get to work at CircuitCity for my lovely 17 hour day :D
 

bubbadu

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As a staples employee, I have worked the last 2 black fridays, we should have plently of the chairs. You could always buy the item ahead of time, and then come back, sometime after 6 am obviously to PM, you didnt hear that from me though :p Hell you could buy it tomrorow and still be within the PM range if the stores have them in yet. I will be on vacation for the OSU/Michigan game and will get to miss it this year :p
 

RossMAN

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Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)
 

z0mb13

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where can I find out the pic of this chair?

I tried going to staples website and put in the number, but it didnt work

 

amdskip

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I'm actually going to get the cheaper staples chair, it looks better from what I can figure out. I will be getting a chair though. Last year the store I went to had probably 20 chairs total.
 

Rob9874

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)

I haven't done Black Friday in a couple of years. Obviously, people stand in line at 5am or earlier to make sure they get the best deals when the stores open at 6am. So how can you do more than 1 store? Maybe 2, if another store opens at 8am? Can you still get deals several hours after a store opens?
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: Rob9874
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)

I haven't done Black Friday in a couple of years. Obviously, people stand in line at 5am or earlier to make sure they get the best deals when the stores open at 6am. So how can you do more than 1 store? Maybe 2, if another store opens at 8am? Can you still get deals several hours after a store opens?

First you need access to the BF ads, next what time the stores open then you have a game plan.

It helps to prioritize and stagger the times you're going to be at certain stores.
 

Mik3y

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i'm just gonna go to Fry's with 3 friends and we're all gonna go split up and get a ton of everything. :D

btw, my friends and i are camping out there at night. :beer:
 

z0mb13

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Rob9874
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)

I haven't done Black Friday in a couple of years. Obviously, people stand in line at 5am or earlier to make sure they get the best deals when the stores open at 6am. So how can you do more than 1 store? Maybe 2, if another store opens at 8am? Can you still get deals several hours after a store opens?

First you need access to the BF ads, next what time the stores open then you have a game plan.

It helps to prioritize and stagger the times you're going to be at certain stores.

:music: He's makin a list, and checkin it twice, gotta make sure which store has best price, coz grand nagus is coming to town... :music:

:D:D
 

LordMorpheus

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I can only thank the gods above that I'm not going back to work at the CC warehouse until december. Good lord, Black Friday is like the Battle of the Bulge to CC warehouse guys. The veterans all talk about it in hushed tones. Except it happens once every year.

I dunno, the day after christmas might be bad, esp. with all the returns we will be getting cause its part of our job to carry the larger items in for customers, pack them up and whatnot.
 

upsciLLion

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Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Rob9874
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)

I haven't done Black Friday in a couple of years. Obviously, people stand in line at 5am or earlier to make sure they get the best deals when the stores open at 6am. So how can you do more than 1 store? Maybe 2, if another store opens at 8am? Can you still get deals several hours after a store opens?

First you need access to the BF ads, next what time the stores open then you have a game plan.

It helps to prioritize and stagger the times you're going to be at certain stores.

:music: He's makin a list, and checkin it twice, gotta make sure which store has best price, coz grand nagus is coming to town... :music:

:D:D

How many forums are you going to post that in? ;)
 

notfred

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Originally posted by: aphex
Did the chair's on sale go first?

I live less than 10 seconds from the nearest staples...

You live in the Staples parking lot, or you live in a cardboard box behind staples?
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: aphex
Did the chair's on sale go first?

I live less than 10 seconds from the nearest staples...

You live in the Staples parking lot, or you live in a cardboard box behind staples?

Look at my picture

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Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: aphex
Did the chair's on sale go first?

I live less than 10 seconds from the nearest staples...

You live in the Staples parking lot, or you live in a cardboard box behind staples?

Look at my picture

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||staples
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street

behind?
 

DrPizza

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everything cheap vanished in the first few minutes at my staples.
Buy early... do a return repurchase. Shouldn't be a problem.

edit: the ad isn't out yet... how were you supposed to know that you should wait :D
Just politely say to the manager now - "you usually have chairs on sale on the friday after thanksgiving [don't refer to it as black friday - that indicates at least minimal saviness] Should I buy this chair today, or should I wait until I see if you or any other stores have good deals on chairs on that day?"
 

Anubis

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ive never gone shopping on black friday, most likly never will

i typically get up around noon on that day, and then watch TV nd eat leftovers


also its a 45 min drive to the closes staples/BB/CC/Mall .... so its just not worth it at all
 

z0mb13

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Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Rob9874
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Staples will be 4th on my list of stores to hit.

It's going to be a LONG day :)

I haven't done Black Friday in a couple of years. Obviously, people stand in line at 5am or earlier to make sure they get the best deals when the stores open at 6am. So how can you do more than 1 store? Maybe 2, if another store opens at 8am? Can you still get deals several hours after a store opens?

First you need access to the BF ads, next what time the stores open then you have a game plan.

It helps to prioritize and stagger the times you're going to be at certain stores.

:music: He's makin a list, and checkin it twice, gotta make sure which store has best price, coz grand nagus is coming to town... :music:

:D:D

How many forums are you going to post that in? ;)

I got no love from the gottadeal forums



 

hevnsnt

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Originally posted by: bubbadu
As a staples employee, I have worked the last 2 black fridays, we should have plently of the chairs. You could always buy the item ahead of time, and then come back, sometime after 6 am obviously to PM, you didnt hear that from me though :p Hell you could buy it tomrorow and still be within the PM range if the stores have them in yet. I will be on vacation for the OSU/Michigan game and will get to miss it this year :p

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