Black Fridat @ Best Buy

My wife and I accompanied a couple of friends on black Friday to Best Buy… what an experience. The 4:00am awakening was well worth the deal just to witness the line that extended from best buy to the nearest store half a mile away. We stand in line for about half an hour and got free donut while we were waiting.. it was fun. After we finally entered the store, although really crowded, people were ordered; our friends got what they were looking for (a gorgeous 42” HDTV) at a really good price. All in all, a cool experience :)

The only complaint was that I got the wrong version of the 300 DVD. Instead of picking the special edition I chose the normal edition and got charged full price instead of the black Friday price; the cashier wasn’t kind enough to let me know my mistake. Fortunately I did realized of my mistake the same day and got chance to exchange the DVD and get a refund back.

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