Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? 189
theodp writes "Take a gander at the 2013 Black Friday ads and your head will be spinning with deals that seem too good to be true. And while the WSJ will try to slap you back to reality with a story on The Dirty Secret of Black Friday 'Discounts', it's still hard not to get jazzed over the prospect of picking up an iPad Mini w/$100 gift card for $299 (Walmart), a 16GB Nexus 7 for $199 (Staples), or a 32GB Microsoft Surface for $199.99 (Best Buy). So, if you're playing the game this year — either online or in-person (hey, what could go wrong?), — what are your top tech picks for Black Friday? Any strategy for improving your odds of getting them?"
Buy buy buy! (Score:5, Insightful)
Consume, you fucking motherfucker, consume! Buy that shit, we don't care if you don't need it, buy buy buy!
Re:Don't! (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't stress out, don't skip spending time with your family and friends, don't become part of a violent mob.
. . . spending time with my family and friends is becoming a part of a violent mob . . .
Black Friday is for Amateurs. (Score:5, Insightful)
Pro shoppers do not shop on Black Friday. It's crowded, noisy, simply annoying...wait and shop when it's less busy. Yes you miss out on some loss-leaders, but don't give into the hype, you will enjoy your Christmas better.
Re:Nothing! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Don't! (Score:2, Insightful)
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Tyler Durden - Fight Club
Re:Nothing! (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess I'm just a bad consumer (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Ammo (Score:0, Insightful)
How about all those responsible owners that forget they are carrying a weapon until they get to the scanner at the airport?
Personally, I'm all for people owning guns, but fuck-ups like the above should definitely get you banned from any future ownership.
The NRA has time and time again supported these kinds of people owning them, so how can you justify membership?
How about this? (Score:5, Insightful)
How much would you be willing to pay... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I guess I'm just a bad consumer (Score:4, Insightful)
That's called "privilege." *Most*people would be "happy with what [we] have"if we had the kind of money needed to have 6 computers, 'decent' (read: likely quite pricy) flat-screen TV, a presumably-'nice' car, a boat, and funds to travel around the world to tropical paradises. Most folks aren't anywhere near that lucky, even if they're careful with their spending.