so what happened to you? Last year I dented my car in ridiculous traffic, for which we couldn't even find parking, then waited in line for count em SEVEN hours for a $100 laptop deal for which we found out the store only had 3 of them in stock. Its a way for them to get you in their crap stores to buy crap at only moderately discounted prices that you didn't even really want or need in the first place. S C A M
Waited in line at Target for over an hour and a half in the freezing cold. The line was decent and well-mannered, we were about 25th in line, until around 5:30am, when people started milling around in front of the store doors in the parking lot, and attempting to budge in line stealthily (seriously, like we aren't going to notice that suddenly someone is right behind us who wasn't there 10 minutes ago). The line basically was supposed to be single-file, to the left of the doors, against the building front. The security guards tried to disperse the people who were massing in the parking lot, then settled for just keeping them back.
Target had a huge line of shopping carts blocking off the front, but as soon as the doors opened, I could see a bunch of college age men JUMPING the barricade of carts, and basically trying to leap over people to get in! I was scared for my life at that point, and just tried to keep my younger sister in hand's reach so we didn't get separated. The guards managed to grab a couple of the jumpers, and told them that they were not going into the store at that point, but a few got by, and nearly knocked over people.
We ended up getting most of what we wanted (okay, one specific item, and one that ended up being better), but we just could not believe what we saw that day. People would take things out of other people's carts!!!! It was a free-for-all.
I later found out that the group of guys that had charged the doors was well-known for snapping up tons of black friday electronics and toy deals, then selling them on eBay closer to Christmas.
I don't think there is anything that could induce me to leave my parents' home at 4am this year, even though we did end up saving well over $100.
