Xbox 360 Fanboy

Not exactly horror, but the morning line still progressing at 5 at noon at best buy.

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i saw this one huy hold a sign that said "will suck dick for gow"

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I work at the Circuit City in South Portland, Maine and I witnessed a mob of people tear into one of our endcaps in an attempt to scrounge as many $49 Game Boy SPs as they could. Someone even ripped out our DS download station thinking it might contain some sort of handheld gaming device. My own life was put in jeopardy when I had to restock said endcap. It was not unlike feeding seagulls at the beach.

On a more positive note, we sold a boatload of 360s today. We had an offer going where you got a free game of choice (up to $59) with every system purchase. It definitely seemed to go over big.

I also had to reset our PS3 interactive three times today because it kept locking up. And it's less than a week old. The general consensus in the retail world is that people seem to be more than happy getting a 360 over a PS3. I even overheard a guy say, "Shit, the 360 looks better than this!" while his buddy was playing the PS3 (which froze up on him shortly thereafter).

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I work loss prevention at Best Buy in Humble TX. Before we even opened the store we had a streetcorner preacher in line and 2 guys arrested for wrestling. Oh... and they were wearing luchador masks. They weren't in line... they just wanted to put on a show. Unfortunately their wrestling was for real, not a coreographed show, so all it did was get them some shiney silver bracelets.

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Cruised over to Best Buy just before noon, navigated around slow moving shoppers hunting for bargains, picked up an Xbox Live Vision camera, wireless headset, Viva Pinata and a 2 gig SD card for the Wii, bypassed the massive lines infront of the main cashiers by using an impromptu station in the middle of the store and left without much fuss.

Gruesome! Although except for the SD card, none of the stuff I bought (even in other stores) was on sale. Also got a memory card adapter for the PS3. I'm an equal opportunity gamer, not one of those Wii60 folks.

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I, personally stay in every year only going out for necessary bags of cheetos and pop-tarts. However, my friend went out to Wal-Mart to snatch up one of those $300 32" HDTVs they had on sale. Upon opening the door the entire line flooded through the door and a woman fell to the floor, being trampled by a few people stepping over her back with her child crying next to her. He, being a good Samaritan and an aspiring law-enforcement officer, stepped back to help her up. She was worried about him not getting an HDTV and he was only concerned for their well being. Needless to say, the 7 HDTVs they had in stock were gone in mere seconds after the rush, but the fact that that woman was nearly trampled was a travesty.

Another story I personally experienced today was some total slaughter on Gears of War.

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My grandma tells me that she walked in to Gamestop today around 10 am and they had 2 PS3's in...and she didn't buy one.....the horror! "I tried calling you but your cell phone was off!"

I won't be able to sleep now.

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I saw a elderly lady get elbowed in the face, by some young punk! Who was after a Wii. After seeing this act of violence, some other customers and I helped her up and made sure she was OK. She also was there to get a Wii for a grandson. My friend who also helped her up proceeded to chase this guy down, only to knock his lights out! He never got his Wii. >:) We then tell her about the 360 and how her grandson would probably love it just as much, but we all know much better. :) She took our advice and purchased one of the last remaining 360's.

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Crazy stories... I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Quebec. I went to my local Futureshop cause they had a nice deal for a 360 with 4 or 5 games for free. Funny thing was, the store wasn't crazy busy, no lines, no gaming craziness and get this, about 15-20 Wiis and no one touching them. No PS3s though. I'm happy with my 360, I got a 20" LCD monitor to go with it so yah, quite happy.

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Sorry, that's canada... hope none of my fellow Canadians are reading, lmao

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i work at best buy.. and needless to say being at work at 3am sucked. not was really off too bad this year other then watching people freak out when we had some PS3's delivered at like 10am. one big guy threatened a supervisor.. that was funny.

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The PS3 at the Best Buy in Pineville, NC (just outside Charlotte) was NOT EVEN WORKING when I went by there today. I asked one of the salesdroids about it and he just shrugged.

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I tried to stay up as late as possible on Thursday so I would wake up late. My wife got up in the morning and told me it was 7:15. I told her my plan worked. Then she said just kidding, it's 6:15. DANG IT! EB Games is opening at 7am! I couldn't fall back asleep (only seconds had passed) so I put on some clothes and a hat and went over to the EB Games. The Wal-Mart parking lot overflowed into the Stapes parking with just a small sliver infront of the EB Games open. The Radio Shack nextdoor was probably just as packed as Wal-Mart. I waited in line with a couple of drunk kids and some woman who didn't want to be late for work but enjoyed laughing at the wasted idiot, but we were still about 15 people back. A girl in the front said they gave away all the Wii flyers but everyone else thought it was a trick. I looked at the Staples line and cruised over there for the digital picture frame for the in-laws. Went back to EB Games and got 2 used PSP games and 2 Gamecube games (they had 7 Wiis and 0 PS3s) when I got home I realized they only gave me 1 free in the BUY 1 GET 1 FREE sale, so I packed up my Xbox and controllers and got $96 for my trade-in (kept the games) on an Xbox 360 Premium, free Call of Duty, and a free 1-year EB Games warranty. Also returned the 4 used games I just bought.

So now I am part of the Xbox 360 club.

Due to the nothing really worth getting stuffs, this will probably be my First and Last Black Friday Celebration. (Not counting the $96 trade-in, Xbox 360, free game and digital picture frame).

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MY DAY WAS PERFECT.

Went to my bestbuy in NYC soho at 12am in the pouring rain and waited in line with some people i didnt know but everyone was cool and we talked so i didnt mind the rain much, played some DS with some kid when it stopped raining. We waited to about 6am to get in, nothing bad happened, no fights just the occasional pushing and shoving. When i got there i was number 50 on line only to be number 130 when they started handing out tickets for stuff.

At the end i came out with the last ticket for the 42" LCD HDTV for $1,000USD. -- Best fucking deal of a lifetime.

EBgames was only down the block so at 6:30am i went over there after i took care of the TV ( Got It Shipped ) and guess what - 6 people on line making me number 7 and the 6 people in front of me are all waiting for PS3s, once the store opens they say no ps3s and they all leave -- i go inside and ask for a WII and they have -- so got my wii and tv and im super happy.

MY DAY WAS PERFECT!

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No mega deals, apart from Condemned:CO for $19 at Best Buy and finally seing the MS Wireless Steering Wheel at retail (gorgeous). BUT I have a good laugh to share:

Walking into the electronics dept. at my local WalMart I see a glorious black PS3 display (not a kiosk, since you couldn't actually play it.) To my bemusement, I noticed the screen had frozen. It was Resistance:FOM locked on a single frame! Priceless... and it wasn't in a tight 'shell' enclosure like the 360 kiosks - plenty of room to breathe.

Didn't a bunch of PS3's overheat inside kiosks at the Tokyo Game Show? I guess they didn't learn their lesson... Anyway, all the kids were glued to the 360 kiosk, natch.

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I got my Wii at costco on wensday for 330 dollars and Zelda and Excite Truck. The only Black Friday shopping i did was Small Arms on Market place from the comfort of my couch. God bless digital distribution.

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My black friday sucked. I woke up at 3:30 to go to the local EB Games for a Nintendo Wii. On my way out I even hugged my Zelda that I had purchased earlier. I was so hyped up even though it was 28 degrees outside. I was stupid enough to wear jeans and a light sweatshirt. I am fifth in line for the Wii. The other guys had been there since the previous night. The manager walks up at 5:45 and informs everybody that she has 4 Wiis. I was crushed. She said she had two more but they were preordered. My logic is that if i was out in the cold for 3-4 hours I deserve it more than the guy still toasty in bed. So I walked over to Target and waited for an hour only to hear the "WE HAVE NO PS3s OR Wiis IN THE STORE" speech. I was horrified. So here i wait drooling over everybody elses perfect stories.

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I avoided Black Friday (was going to wait outside Toys R Us for the Wii). On Wednesday, I called up my buddy, who is a manager at EBGames. He told me he had 8 Wiis in stock, but if I wanted one, I had to come Friday at 7 AM. Shoot.

I called him back later, and asked if I could buy the Wii Wednesday after the store closes. He thought for a moment, and then agreed. So I picked up my Wii on Wednesday night at 9:15. Bam! Got to sleep in on Friday then :) Pays to know people!!

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@ 17.

Dude, dont sweat it - Check back this week, my friend works at ebgames and said they are getting them in next week as they come in from HQ.

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR - DONT CALL - GO TO THE STORE AND ASK!

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I went to both Best Buys in town hoping to play a Wii. They just had one on display, but the real joy of the trip was seeing the PS3 frozen on Motor Storm.

So I schooled all the kiddies in Guitar Hero 2

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