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The US Consumer Is So Exuberant, Best Buy's Website Just Died
Apple-esque marketing gimmick or spend-more-than-you-can-afford US consumer in full rampage...?
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No Buy
It's just to force all the retards drive to the stores
Just because no one's clicked on doesn't mean the site is down
Buy! Buy! Clog that NSA pipe
Perhaps using H1-B visa IT was not a best buy for their corporation.
My name is Betty from Cleveland, can I help you?
Minimalism, or, at the very least, very high quality over quantity is in at my household.
I've witnessed the decline of our Idiocracy go hand in hand with people buying cheap garbage, 95% of which ends up collecting dust within a week after purchase, never to be used again or very rarely moved again, and it's just sickening.
I'd rather spend a grand (or even more) on a gift for an immediate family member if the item is of excellent quality AND relates to one of their true passions (most people only have a handful of true passions) than ten $100 pieces of Wal-Mart shit.
Although I'm fortunate enough to buy just about any vehicle, I'm rockin' a meticulously maintained 9 year old manual transmission BMW (E46 3 series) that is far superior to the cheap, bloated, overpriced, disposable new ones.
Like I said, quality over quantity.
The Sheeple buy larger houses to fit the junk they buy but never use that they purchase with their labor, DEBT & stress, and even then, many go out and rent storage units to shove their overflowing crap into.
NoDebt's Christmas shopping plan:
I just bought a new Kindle Fire for one of kids as a Christmas gift. It comes with 30 days of Amazon Prime, gratis. I'm pointing and clicking for gifts, all with free shipping. Couple days before Christmas I'm going to cancel the Prime membership (so I don't get charged the yearly $99 fee), putting the tablet back in the box, wrapping it back up, sticking it under the tree and I'm done.
No WAY I'm going shopping at the mall this year. I've had enough of that routine to last a lifetime.
I did the same thing when I bought a bunch of books from amazon on wendsday. will cancel the trial at christmas.
Oh, nice one!!! ;) (And *SO* true!)
OH man, feel the suckage coming from this company. A dinosaur in its final death throes...
Of course the website is still up and running in Canada because we dont give a fuck.
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Just makesure Tim Horton's doesnt shut down.
We're sorry, that $199 125-inch TV was supposed to be $1,199, but don't worry, your midnight orders will be updated accordingly.
Do they sell chickenwire onlne or something?
ya'll Best Buy Elsewhere, methinx.
Y'all ... not ya'll ... or ... all y'all ... :)
YiAaall gonna be gramma po Lice man now?
Noop.
Younz guys are funny.
Yeah! Y'all need to get y'all's shit straight!
I need to drink more else I won't be losing my perspicacity fast enough!
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This chick isn't buying this hype. I sense desperation with buying into this holiday season. Anyhow I am too busy trying to finish processing 120 pounds of cranberries to even think of buying China crap.
That's a lot of cranberries. Somebody is going to have healthy kidneys.
Sure is. As most of my food that I process is from local farmers, I did find the one an only cranberry farmer in WI that does sell to the public and they do ship. Most bogs are now bought up by contract by Ocean Spray. For the last 4 years I hae opted to give food baskets for the holidays or handmade quilts personalized to the individuals. Either is usually well received.
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All you need, now, is a case of vodka. Ive a batch of rum fermenting...going to try making some sweet potato vodka, soon.
Short everything.
February will be hangover time.
More QE!! MORE inexplicably armed/funded/intel'ed "Isis"...
Did you see that Cruz, that inveterate cunt, suggested Joe Lieberman as defense sec?
Had enough yet?
No shit!
Joe will just ban ISIS and Russia having guns!
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/ted-cruz-joe-lieberman-defense-sec...
Pick me. I want to be the new Defense Sec.
I can't do a worse job. Those are my qualifications.
Joe Lieberman, wow.. what a sniveling little wuss. just the sight of him should put the fear of God in our enemies...and US
Sorry.. but the only qualification required for any of the top seats are
1) a jew is preferred..
2)Any black that happened to go to college with micheal/michelle obama
Joe "Dual Citizen I Love Israel Most" Lieberman for Defense Secretary to look out for the "best interests" of Americans.
The U.S. is fucked up beyond all recognition, and is essentially a province captured by Israel so that it can extract American Citizens' blood, money & liberties.
Unfucking believable.
Are you sure it was Joe and not Avigdor?
One or more people (fired from bestbuy) will be added to unemployment benefits queue..
You can reach best buy Mechico, it's responding very fast.
Well, perhaps the 5 million less customers who can now shop at bestbuy.us.
I'm sitting here scrolling on the idope, TV is not on just a radio, wife is in the kitchen preparing dinner for later, pellet stove is kicking out the warm heat, and I don't have a care in the world right now lol. The only consuming I may do is to buy a coffee And visit APMEX
Life is good
Glad you are well brother...peace and Aloha!
You to my friend :)
Looking out at my horses, easily nibbling the grass. Kids are home for the holidays, house is full of activity, the sounds of happy, healthy well adjusted children far from the maddening crowd!
Much to be thankful for...
Walmart is a world away and I'm damn glad of it!
DaddyO
it snowed and our website crashed, so our sales are shit, BBY up another 20%
ya ya, we get it yellen - you vulgar asshole
the past 2 black friday holiday weekends
friday (and thurs evening last year) sales have been good ... and the "experts" on tv friday evening / saturday morning were declaring "victory" ... but then saturday / sunday were duds ... and the "experts" were real quiet (monday morning hard to find out what happened for weekend as whole)
things come in "3s"
prolly got hacked
I did nothing on Turkey Day but eat, and Black Friday to me really means Blacksmithing Friday...all day at a friend's shop, hammering hot steel until our arms fall off.
Get a hobby America! MAKE SOMETHING instead of buying it. And then give what you make as gifts, a piece of yourself to brighten the life of another.
Lexington Steele?
Traffic seems very slow on the Hedge today, wonder if our Comrades are busy shopping on this Black Friday.
If I get any more email with offers mentioning Black Friday I will scream
I do not want to buy ANYTHING!
Obviously a cry for help. Shelter in place citizen, some ACA therapist/goons are on their way.
Food comas and partying too hard teh day before what is usually one of the lowest volume days of the year... yeah, everyone is still in bed.
Yup, my monthly silver purchase. I'm fine for now.
my adventures
went to Staples last night (got there a few minutes before 6pm) ... maybe 20 people in line ... no problem getting the $99 laptop
Target at other end of shopping center had a line along the whole face of store ... passed walmart about 1/2 mile down the road and parking lot full.
went into lowe's this morning for $.99 poinsettas ... moderate traffic (about what you would expect on a nice saturday morning in spring) ... did not see any big ticket items being purchased ... just small crap like mine.
Frys.com keeps crashing too; people don't want to have to mingle with the maggotry.
Ho, ho, ho....
Russian hackers might be having fun. Imagine Russian hackers getting into the black Friday websites and ordering everything from stolen credit cards.
You get your CC statment and your about maxed out or you go to the store thinking you had $10,000 credit left and you get denied.
The retailers get to book the sales for the fourth quarter!
"Best Buy's Website Just Died"
Just goes to show ya', not all Tylers work at ZH.
Going to a firearm sale and that's it today. I've otherwise never shopped a Black Friday in my life (and I've lived a long life, thus far).
CoolBeans gives me not so CoolRunnings and that toilet paper doesn't absorb like it used to. You end up smearing the shit right down your crack line. That's why i have time for the french as their use of the bidet is paramount to personal hygiene.
It's ironic that the merde has hit the fan in Hollande's Principality rendering him shit-faced.
That's enough of my shit!
If you have lived a long life thus far, you will probably always live a long life.
Ammo sales all over the place. Stock up ladies and germs. SHTF pretty soon now.
Max those cards sheeply so they can ad them in the GDP.
Cause the house you live in , the 50" TV you watch and the car you drive
aint really yours until you paid them off!
The things you own....end up owning you. -T Durden
In honor of dumbshits buying stuff they don't need with money they don't have, this morning I paid all my bills, utility, phone, cable (yeah, I get cable, but it's free. Dumb shits at Time Warner bill me for internet only and forgot to shut off the cable five months ago. Think I'm going to tell them? Hell NO.).
I also paid my friendly neighborhood hooker, twice, in advance. Awaiting my 50 Oz. of silver from Scottsdale. After that arrives, gonna be silver Monday! And that's just the start of it. Rent check comes in on Tuesday, Ka-ching!
Wednesday is GFs birthday. Thursday is mine. To celebrate, I'm selling all the shit I can at my own household sale.
Friday, I think I'll just get drunk as fuck.
Christmas will be wonderful this year. No presents for anybody. Greedy sister and her ungrateful, spoiled teen-age kids can kiss my ass. Gave them all presents since they were babies. Now, they're 17, 18, 19. Two in college. They're getting exactly what they deserve. Shitty education and even shittier jobs when they get out. Plus, debt!
Yeah, they didn't want to listen when I told them $35-50K per year for college was a total rip-off and that they should just learn trades.
Fuk 'em. Finally, at the age of 61, I'm starting to put myself first for a change. Happy Holidays.
Yee haw. Don't like my attitude? Fuck off.
No..I agree totally rational and legitimate response. I would do the same thing.
My man brought me a bale of alfalfa and a pail of corn this morning. Life is good.
BEST BYE....
Alibaba Massive Fraud
Unrelated, but I believe highly important none the less. We have some smart people on ZH and curious if anyone else has heard or read about this. I am hoping someone that has the time and resources can look in to this and do some homework.
I was listening to The John Batchelor Show one night about a week or so again. He is on the radio and can be found online. Incredibly well versed on many international topics and world history. I highly recommend you tune in to him when you have a chance.
In any event, he had three guests (from China) on and the discussion was surrounding a massive fraud at Alibaba. The story goes something like this. Alibaba is a marketplace and they collect a fee on each purchase from merchandisers that operate via their website. Alibaba understands net profits and margins are of little concern to Wall Street, but growth in revenues and now we are talking. Many multiples for "growth" in a global economy that is barely creeping along. So, Alibaba hires a network of thousands to simply buy and return products all day. If Alibaba held inventory this fraud would be somewhat more difficult to pull off, but with thousands of businesses connected to Alibaba it is very easy to hide the costs of labor and returns in underlying (most likely very closely held) companies. Afterall, billions of $'s in stock price appreciation will pay a lot of people to sit on a computer all day and buy and return stuff on their website.
This is massive securities fraud and according to the guests, the scheme is "well known" in China. Besides the financial statement fraud, one would have to wonder what type of due diligence was done by the investment bankers that brought Alibaba to market?
I don't know about you, but I think this could be a watershed Enron-like, Madoff-like story.
Interesting makes me wonder if e bay has paid trolls who bid up the price of everything or if amazon has a similar operation at play. Things that make one wonder
Same thing for me! When the economy went to hell, I worked in construction management, and there were no jobs, my wife decided to divorce the "deadbeat" dad. Well, I went on to travel the world, saved money to invest and paid my child support without any misgivings.
I went overseas for adventure work and I realized after a short time that my 2 daughters were forgetting who I was so I quit the job and moved back to Dallas to be close to my kids, who I love very much. It didn't take long to figure out that I was just the "money and entertainment" guy and if I didn't offer to spend money on them they were too busy to be my daughters........
Fast forward to adulthood.....and now I haven't heard from them in over a year and the last time was my late disbursement of "Birthday" money.
Well I've finally came to my senses after over a year of no effort on their part from any of them to care about me any anything that happens so they can all go fuck themselves.
I'm 63 on social suckurity and don't have any of the investments I was cheated out of by our "demopublic robbery machine" and don't have much to live on.
I never have been holiday oriented and this is the year where I will wander off into MY life! What's left of it!
I kind of have some empathy for Robin Williams, at this stage of my life. I sense that he decided that he had had the best part of his run and there was only going to be a mind numbing descent into senility and sickness and he dicided to get on with "what's next" even if it was nothingness for eternity. I'm guessing he was so sick of the shit, the women who took him for all of his wealth, using stinky hair pie at that! Poor guy! and the other cons who robbed and cheated him and decided it wasn't worth it anymore to stay in this shithole of a world, which is what it has become. I can see that point, although I'm not going to hang myself this morning, I am committed to living the rest of MY life as I see fit. Fuck it all, and by the way......Don't you dare bogart that joint, my friend! Happy Holidaze!
So why not going back overseas ? What's wrong with that ?
Live the rest of the life as you see fit. Enjoy. Be kind. Be thnakful. Some might add, mail a nail gun to a TBTF bank CEO on the way out.
Best Buy is a joke.
Second rate development team using 2nd rate open source software.
It looked like a run on TV's at Best Buy today. I didn't need a TV but got caught up in the moment "saving money" and bought 4 large screens, 3 sound bars, a vacuum cleaner and an XBox. Now to find a good spot for it in my one-bedroom apattment. (s)
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Wage asymmetric guerrilla capitalism and really make the banks pay:
Get as many credit cards as you can max them out in purchases that you can liquidate for cash and cash advances then file bankruptcy or just don't pay.
That's taking it directly to the banks Ass.