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Caption Contest: The Wait For The iBestbuy Begins
... Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean Best Buy isn't releasing the next retinest, fingerprintscanniest, NSA-trackingest, 6-8 inchiest gizmo and instead these people are simply taking a 10 day break from their highly paid, quality jobs just to wait in line for a $98 TV?
From 19 Action News: Anxious Black Friday shoppers are already camping out at the Best Buy at Chapel Hill in Akron.
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This makes me very sad.
And the S&P500 is at 1800... oh wait, it failed at that magic number.
LOOK OUT BELOW!
just the manager's teenage son... gets to skip school and earl a little cash posing as bait for the sheeple.
how long before some genius realizes the people in those tents have money?
and if they have money, and the genius does not have money, one simple transaction, facilitated with a baseball bat or small handgun and bammmmm....genius has money
Can't wait to see the video of those campers getting stampeded and trampled when the doors fly open.
....hopefully they will have their Brosurance
Just the Geeksquad who cannot afford homes, nothing to do with Black Friday (which is BTW racisct)
Four person made in China dome tent : free, when you return it to Walmart within 14 days of purchase, piss stains and Ripple on the floor or not.
$98 dollar 32" TV purchased for $150 EBT dollars and a half prescription of Ritalin : priceless....
Idiocracy has arrived, in full, sordid fact.
These same retards waiting in line for cheap, useless shit would all gladly be tattooed with a brand name/logo on their forehead for $5 per month.
SlutSurance would be more useful in a tent
They are in tents. They qualify for Hobosurance.
Man, what desperation by the retailers to generate some excitement for the bleak Holiday shopping season!
And oh yeah... Seeing those tents really makes me want to go to Best Buy and shop with a bunch of vagrants!
Way to go Best Idiots! You just lost my business for good!
looks like freddie in that tent...........
The only reason to ever go to best buy is to physically see something you are preparing to buy on the internet. Every time I have to buy something there due to an emergency business need it is usually twice as expensive for an inferior product you can find on the internet.
They also handle portable electronics and Li-ION battery recycling. I go there to throw stuff away (in an environmentally responsible manner), not buy.
It is about time to rephrase FSA definition. This is what This nation is guys.
Will the ARMY be enforcing that price?
Maybe the free sh*t army.
Wonder how much Best Buy pays those people to camp there, creating a false economy? Sounds familiar....
Sigh
RIPS
EDIT:
Bestbuy: "I learned it by watching you daddy."
No No.... see through the lies.
New Headline/Story- Fixin it for you Tyler. ;)
"Needy Walmart workers, Camp in front of Best Buy to save money[Redacted] Help Economy and Contribute to Country."
Employees of a local Walmart saving money, by camping in the parking lot of adjacent Best Buy. Workers at Walmart have been seeking charity food for their underprivelaged workers through a company sponsored food drive. Walmart manager stated " Im just glad to be able to help American Jobs, America and Obama on this one". One unnamed camper says, "Im just tryings to dos my part for Obama, i gets paid 5 dollas ( Holla) a day to camp here by Best Buy management. Walmart evens hooks me up with first dibs on the dumpster dive when Mc Dowells shuts down for the night". Upon hearing this, the BLS revised employment numbers upwards. Someone familiar with the situation said, "Its really helping out the local community and economy, now that these WORKERS are here, there are less vagrants camping outside Best Buy every night".
As night set in one patron of Best Buy stated " It sounded like a loud sucking sound, but it was really a globalized corporate monopoly blowing kisses to the local community, see Perot was an idiot". Said patron, then turned away to take a bite of his Walmart Mcdonalds Cheeseburger......
I dont want to be greedy..anyone want to finish the story?
Ohh, the fun possibilities with this story.
Rips
"I'll give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast."
That picture is just twointents (too intense?).
I saw three tents at WalMart. Moar, bithcez.
That's in Akron, OH...there are no jobs.
That's just a better location than under the freeway overpass.
Tents? Looks like Japanese style employee housing.
Looks like Circuit City without the glitter!
Just...just....start the zombie apocalypse already. Good grief.
Women queue here for your 6-8 inchiest gizmo, batteries not included.
That picture is a reminder for Pamela Anderson to pick up a new bra at VS...
If there is a 'christian god' a tornado will touch down right on those tents before wiping out the Best Buy store in the process.
are you posting from a desk top, laptop or tablet. and now, whats the difference between you and them? you have a job where you post on this site? congrats......i guess.
seriously, wishing ill will on those that have been struck down by bernanke and obama makes no sense to me.
What's the difference? I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
First you missed the sarcasm secondly I guess you like most others fall too easily for the illusion.
Those are Best Buy tents out there drumming up publicity ahead of Black Friday including whatever people they maybe paying to habitate in them.
The show must go on and the illusion maintained at all costs for the good of the institutions.
Too bad there isn't a Best Buy in Zucotti Park. What happened the last time some people set up tents there for days, again???
Since nothing is taught in school these days, for the benefit of our younger bretheren, from John Donne's meditations:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee ... .
These are paid queuers. They are thus not only helping the economy that is 70% relient on consumption but they help reduce the unemployment rate since the BLS no doubt subtracts a (much modelled) figure of black market employment from the official stats.
Exactly. This is why iPad launches are staggered. The professional line waiters have schedule contraints.
No squating here ya hobos, this is private land.
Best Buy Akron... a top 5 Ohio destination.
I'm sure these people are taking the next 10 days to meticulously plan their Black Friday shopping spree assault. They have a floor plan of the store with all their big purchases marked like a treasure map. If I were the manager, just to fuck with them, the night before I'd completely rearrange the store.
I cannot understand why you are not banned yet; it's African American Friday.
These dumb fucks will spend more eating fast food for 10 days then they will save on electronics. Not so secret truth of Black Friday door busters. They produce special shittier quality TV's just to sell on Black Friday. That $98 TV will probably stop working in a year.
Yep - and the world is running out of Rum. But you can buy my inventory of Rum at 25% over list price. Get it while you still can.
Fuck you Best Buy - stirring up the lemmings and spooning it to the media because you company is in the fucking shitter!!!!!
No one is spending. The economy is an $85B per month pump into the markets for the MSM to spew happiness while Main Street starves to death.
I'm not in too good of a "this is what passes for capitalism?????" mood either. just start giving everything away so we're all on the same sheet of "it's all about drug induced stupor ism" mode. is there anyone out there ready to be "psycho analyst in Chief"? America is a bummer...being bummed out is what it means to be American now.
Greatest Country in the WorldTM
Livin' in Amurika...Oooow! Hy dee hy..
Seriously, does anyone know if this happens anywhere else in the world or is rabid consumerism confinded the U.S.?
In china and india the newly minted middle class retards stand in long security lines every weekend to go to shopping malls and eat at fine establishments like...Pizza Hut!
Pizza Hut used to be awesome then I think they stopped using butter in/under their pan pizza, or their pizza is imported from China. It awful.
same thing with little caesars pizza
i make better pizza anyway
fresh dough, my tomatoes,goat cheese, peppers, yum
My wife promised me she would do all the canning in the family. She lied and my tomatoes died. I got a damn business to run around here, and hell, I an't that damn clean of a guy.
Long queues for consumer goods are common in communist countries or any country with a planned economy. Used to be something of a national sport in England and the Soviet Union.
They need to get away from the high stress of cashing their dole checks and vacation on Best Buy's doorstep.
Can't you buy this sh*t on the interwbs? I can think of a lot better places to set up camp. It makes me want to get a bear suit and scare the sh*t out of their dumb&sses. Rarrrrr, I am in front of you, rarrr, does this come in black, rarrrr!!
Those shoppers need to go home, pop some valium, and relax, it's obvious they're two tents...
i-diots
What is really ironic is that all this pathetic, cheap Chinese crap, clothes, shoes, tools, gizmos, etc are all designed to last only a couple of years (if that), so not so long after a reset will be of no use to folks...
I guess that's good because it won't be long before there'll be jobs for medieval craftsmen style blacksmiths, cobblers, horsetrainers and seamstresses...
looks like "the great reset joke" was on us. "now sit back and enjoy those higher prices!"
If a person could fix these moulded plastic sneakers that tear up after 3 months.... They could really do well for themselves.
Not as well as Wall St, City of London, Ferrari... But at least as successful as the Dollar Store.
I guess that's good because it won't be long before there'll be jobs for medieval craftsmen style blacksmiths, cobblers, horsetrainers and seamstresses...
DONT FORGET WHORES! Won't somebody PLEASE think about the whores!?
Akron Ohio: these are 20 something's living in Mom and Dad's basement unemployed and with $20K plus of student debt who are more than happy to get away from the questions about finding a job and helping out around the house to buy a $98 T.V. to play video games on.
There will be smoking, drinking, and screwing in the tents after dark; and lots and lots of happy meals.
It all makes perfect sense (only Best Buy's stock price doesn't).
You hit the nail on the head. I grew up in that area, and I've watched it degrade over the years into a cesspool. There was a brief time when it looked like they might turn it around, but it has accelerated to the downside over the past few years..
Have you ever been to Steubenville? Wonder what that's like now. Left there 15 years ago, many good people, but the crime, the crime, the crime, and unfortunately haven't wanted to visit that much.
Yes I have. One of the scariest experiences I have ever had in my life is when a friend of mine and I made the mistake of going to a "social event" in that area. Just driving through there put a number of grey hairs on my head.
West Virginia may be for (sheep)-lovers, but Ohio is for losers; it's like New Jersey, but more inbred and with a lower class of grafting .gov criminals.
Q. How do you circumcize a West Virginian?
A: Kick his sister in the chin.
Steubenville and Youngstown/Boardman are truly scary.
For fun, check out Portsmouth. Home of the oxycontin and meth zombies.
The loss of manufacturing in this country is devastating.
Hey, that sounds a lot like 39th and Prospect in Kansas City.
I challenge anyone to find a finer specimen pool of hoodlums and thugs.
You call 911 to the area for an assault or drive-by and the dispatcher will literally laugh and ask "Why are you in that part of town, anyway???"
Good times.
These clowns in the tents might as well spray paint a bullseye on them with a sign reading "Rob / Rape / Assault Me!"
flash mob best buy!
Take and Dash!
Best Buy employees now homeless.
Oh SNAP
Perhaps the joke is on us this is just a rouse perhaps they are homeless and are kicked out of every other nesting place. Hiding in plain site so to say.
Caption Contest? I'm sitting here in a parking lot, in a tent, for shit I don't need. What the f*ck else am I going to do? That's f*cking grim.
Put a cup out there and they can earn that 98 bucks by the time African American Friday comes along.
pods
I LOL'd and people in the office did the prairie gopher thing to look at me.
African American Friday.
Solid gold, right there pods.
What's with that parking lot? The shit looks like a dirt path.
Not sure why but picture of that beat up curb and pavement makes that picture look depressing as shit.
And one good gust of wind and bye bye tent and it's contents. I don't think those cinder blocks are quite up to the task.
People waiting in line for propaganda boxes
spending the 10.5 missing hours of the work week camped out.
Seriously, do these people NOT realize that money is only a time substitute?
We trade our time and labor for money, and these people are going to waste 10 DAYS to save like 300 bucks? So we are looking at like 30 bucks a day?
I guess Ohio is worse off than I thought?
As for TVs, my buddie got a flat screen years ago and was showing it off. I told him nice TV to be kind, then quipped "Do they put anything better on that TV, or just the same shit as is on all the other ones?"
pods
I suppose some people here will be deamnding that these folks get at least minimum wage for their efforts which is lending itself to free advertising for best buy.
By the way, I was happier with this store before they started hounding me every fifth step.
I've never had a migraine headache, but if I did, it would feel like it does when I am in a Best Buy.
pods
Correct, I forget about that God-awful music blarring. Back in the day, this place used to be full of happy shoppers and employees. Now, it can just go away.
Ohio, especially Cleveland, Akron, and, Youngstown are real shitholes and this speaks to the mentality of the people. There is a high probability that there is an Obamaphone in every tent and their benefits are electronically loaded every first of the month.
Yeah, not much different than where I grew up Doc. Upstate NY used to have a shit ton of stuff going on. Hell, IBM started where I lived. Now it is sinking fast and depresses me everytime I return.
There just is no reason to start anything there unless you cannot leave. Taxes are insane, even upstate. Freedom? I joked to my uncle about coming up for deer season, and I asked if I can bring up three slugs or is it 5.
Painful to see it happen, and nobody sees it that is there. But everyone is absolutely broken. They even walk like they are always in pain. Hunched over. The only commerce is one guy mowing the lawn of another and the other guy painting the first guys house. Same dollars just moving back and forth, along with SS, medicaid, snap, etc.
pods
But thank God you can smell the Gennesee beer cooking. Smells bettter cooking than it tastes drinking.
edit: my apologies, I thought IBM was from Rochester, NY, my bad, don't know where I got that from.
Sounds like the Binghamton area. I live up along Lake Ontario, but when I drive down I-81 through that area, it makes me sad.
Those southern tier folks are looking for fracking to save them, but so long as little andy and crooked shelly are running the show, there will be no fracking in NY.
The Finger Lakes wine region rocks. Seneca Lake is the tits for drunk bitches in the summertime. :)
Haha, yep.
We are actually going to fish Cayuga next Wednesday, as we always go up for Thanksgiving and get some hunting and fishing in. Might bag the hunting as of next year as it is now like $200 something for an out of state. Not worth it anymore. Unless I see a monster I usually just let them walk by. Shot, gutted, dragged and cut up too many to mess around with anything less than huge.
Upstate has fantastic outdoor life, but I couldn't make a living up there.
Fracking won't happen anytime soon. I told my family as they own land (our hunting lands). We cannot have too much energy production or inflation will be noticed. We are printing up gobs of money and if that stays here, bad shit happens.
pods
Not letting fracking in upstate NY may be the best thing for the people up there, even if Andy & Shelly are stopping it for all the wrong reasons. Just ask the people of PA how well fracking is working out for them. Almost all the "economic benefits" are going the usual rentier uber-connected class, and the little people are left with flammable tap water and ruined aquifers.
Christ I was reading an article just yesterday on MSNBC that said Akron was one of the top 10 affordable places to retire.
It is, if you're willing to spend your retirement years living in a tent in front of the Best Buy.
Youngstown will always remind me of the great James Trafficant, the only dem I ever had respect for, and look at him, got ran out of town on a rail.
East Liverpool, the hometown of the great Lou Holts.
Dean Martin from Steubenville.
The Deer Hunter filmed at least in part in Mingo Junction.
Ohio birthed many, many, great college and pro football players, too.
Lots of good memories of that state.
I used to work in Youngstown early in life. It was rough back then. Now it looks like a wasteland since everything has shut down.
Wasn't 'Jimmy the Greek' from Steubenville too?
What ever happened to him after the network fired him?
How could I forget, must be I gettin old. I sadly do not know what happened to him. The bettin in Steubenville was wide open until one day they moved one shop to a hole of a house that had dozens of cats in it, and here we are all these folks, black and white, placing our bets in a place soaked in cat piss.
To quote the Greek:
The black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way, because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back, and they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs and he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War when during the slave trade … the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have a big black kid …
NE Ohio is a poophole.
"At least we're not Detroit".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
that's a 1000 a month, and no boss, no payroll deductions. your family members take turns, and you put that sucker on ebay, and never open the box. this is the real economy.
Instead of mocking these folks maybe this could be an opportunity to toss pamphlets out of the car and give them something to read while they're waiting for their cold electronic salvation.
Any ideas?
save yourselves, buy stocks!
Sounds like an excellent way to get shot.
"Squatters Await Store Closure in Akron"
The nations homeless have taken up a new tact to alleviate their condition. Squatters are lining up outside those retailers most likely to shudder their doors in the coming months. "JC Penny has lines over a mile long, so we've decided to wait the extra month for Best Buy", said an out-of-work financial analyst. While the TV Showroom is one of the first places claimed by squatters, others prefer the multicar garages that come with shipping rooms or auto departments.
I here by demand that all future history book writers exclude me by name from the madness that is now when they write about it.
Something along the lines of: "The American people willfully remained oblivious to their plight, even going so far as to camp out for days in front of stores to get discounted electronics that they didn't need and couldn't afford."*
*Except: K. Chris C. and his family.
Their time must be very valuable.
it's in akron ... they got nothing but time on their hand ...
Best Buy did warn of an Earnings Impact from Slashing Prices to Keep Up With Rivals. My friend works at Besy Buy corp he thinks everything is fine ? I said so your not worried that Target,Wal-Mart and many of Retailers are having a hard time ? He said nope, I then said even campbell soup earnings crumbled ? That shouldn't worry you at all he said nope ? Their cost cutting bought them a few years but that's about it. They to will go the way of Block Buster.
If you like your FEMA CAMP, you can keep your FEMA CAMP!!
Jesus I bet these people even mortgage their tents to buy those frigging TVs
Turn them into flea markets. The US is moving to a barter system economy.
Semi-Sidenote: Do BestBuy employees still suck?
I haven't bought anything much from them after two employees assaulted me for not acknowledging their persistent efforts to "help" me in one of their stores. Neither have many of my extended and 'marriage' family.
Amazon and Newegg and even Target got our business afterwards.
Over 4-years Best Buy free.
I was just there after a multiyear absense. They have multiple vendors in there now who really hound you. The BB employees aren't too bad. It's like an indoor flea market.
I bought a case for my phone there in 2010. That was my first and last purchase.
Newegg FTW.
The sad part is that people actually watch TV.
we call it the advertising channel at my house, all 100 regular channels.
Got to have propaganda and agitprop on the biggest screen possible.
Saw Obama lying, or reading his lies, on one of the big screens at target recently. Got to say, it was more dramatic than on the smaller screens.
With the privacy of the tent we can now start our next EBT recipent while we're waiting.
In Switzerland you have to pay an CHF460 annual tax to own a TV. Unfortunately, most people are willing to pay a tax for a worthless device that rots their mind and atrophies their bodies.
As much as I hate taxes- a $1000/year tax on TVs might get some of the people who most need to think and move more to actually do so.
If you like your tent, you can keep your tent.
Hello and Welcome to your local Homeless shelter\best buy...
scene inside the tent: people sitting around watching a b&w portable with rabbit ears. caption: man says, honey I don't know why we want one of those things, we can't afford cable.
Can you please mail the EBT card to the tent @ Best Buy ?
I love this Onion video about electronics. Now that's comedy gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0oRxCttQSg
Warning: NSFW Strong Language
Is this great or what! Last time they only gave us homeless folks money to stand in line.
Best Buy has installed "homeless tents" in front of each store so customers have a place to go before and after they make their purchases. A Best Buy spkokesman stated "homeless need electronic shit too".
After the Thanksgiving sales are over, the tents will be converted into "fornication tents". This will allow customers to get fucked or be fucked before or after they make their purchases. A Best Buy spokesman said "what a better way to treat our customers than to let them fornicate before or after we take their money. Webcams will be installed in each tent and be broadcast on all of the largest screens in the store." He added "this should draw one hell of a crowd! They do this kind of thing on the interenet so we thought we should provide the same thing"
Best Buy finds a new source of revenue as it rents out tent condos outside of its stores for $50 a month. They are working with Goldman Sachs to roll them into AAA rated Tent Backed Securities.
where is the NSA ? Has the occupy crowd found safe spot.. Tyler AUDIT THE FED...... WE ALL KNOW THE FDR QUASI PUBLIC BLUES (blue cross ) medical madness was set up by FDR.....
The Senate has been getting bombed by K Street.. The ISSUE IS AUDIT THE FED..... Has and allways has been the main issue.... on usury wold banking sinecurist.
With this terrible econony, I was just hoping to get a piece of coal in my stocking this Christmas. But I think the EPA has made that illegal. Bah humbug!
Need a nice slow drive by with a lighter and a can of AquaNet.
Fuck that.
A brick of Black Cats in each tent will do the trick.
That flimsy nylon shell won't repel any hooched up thugs, Trayvon teens playing the knock out game, or a bona fide homeless guy looking to upgrade his miserable situation.
They're fat dumplings waiting to be devoured.
How stupid can you get?
Well, Einstein did say something about limitless stupidity...
You people are reading WAY too much into this. If Best Buy is following the same trend as other retailers, their Black Friday sale probably starts tomorrow.
"I can't afford a Big Mac, but I'll take a $98 TV."
Our Tent is Your Tent
And I already thought those tents were the best buy they had.
That looks like the prototype unit at an Obamaville condo complex.
black friday and best buy are so prole.
iMcMansions....
This probably has more to do with XBOX one than Black Friday.
Man, America is one fffiiiiiinnnnnneeee place. I'm gonna score a 98 dollar
32" HD...and use my EBT card to ring it up. Saweet!
Two tents are more effective then wind flags or a street team handing out flyers. Plus free press. Does anyone realise, nobody is inside those tents? This best buy manager pulling 11 an hour pulls the wool over zero hedge eyes?