Crazy mob swarms wall-mart video game pallet at 11:50 pm.

[AnAngryMoose]

This is just geeks, imagine women at a clothes sale ... the horror!

It's just assumed that 'cos everywhere else is cheaper than usual they will be as well, in fact they probably inflated the price a month or two ago, then dropped it back to normal to make it look like a sale. Just look at what happened, it obviously worked.

I bet the management were thinking "the morons" as they rubbed there greedy little hands together like Kotick on the 10th of November.

Women at clothes sales would just mean stilettos to the face.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

They call it Black Friday for a reason.

And that reason the enormous profits inherent in the busiest shopping day of the year. The metaphor is that black is the color of profits in a ledger (versus red, the color of a loss) rather than black as a metaphor for human indecency.

 

[NoseDigger]

Never seen anything close to even a minor rush. Never heard of anything like this where I live, although I constantly heard about it in the US.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

I intially thought you were being deadly serious about someone being trampled to death considering it happened last year. It's pretty sickening stuff really, stick something on sale and people degrade to the interlectual level of animals.

 

[Ernie1042]

got Left 4 Dead 2 for about $30. Not bad.

Considering steam sells it for 20$ and that it has, on multiple occasions been cheaper, I'd say that -is- pretty bad.

Yeah, but the PC version is always about $10 cheaper; I had to get the X-Bawks version because my computer is crap. And the normal price was about $30, so I didn't save much. Christmas gift is just a gift.

 

[clockout]

I find it hilarious the similarities we share with other animals.We are highly evoled yet we still do the same things as them but on a grander scale.

 

[wulfy42]

Someone above made a point about it not being worth the lines. I didn't even think of that but those people that did get games (random ones at that) for slightly less then the normal price probably ended up waiting in line to pay for them for hours.

I didn't even wait in line to get out of the store I just hopped over the "do not cross line" and walked to the front of the store past everyone to leave. I wasn't buying anything so I sure wasn't going to wait an hour to leave!!

Amazing how the masses will follow the rules of a yellow "do not cross line" but will just about kill each other to pick up items.

Perhaps my Wall-mart was so bad because there is not another wall-mart fairly near this one (I think the closest one is 30+ miles away).

Btw today I ended up shopping online for video games and ended up spending way more then I planned (almost $250) because I found so many extremely good deals.

I ended up getting:

Finaly Fantasy the 4 heros of light
Murumusa: The demon blade
Sin and Punishment 2
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinals
Puzzle Quest 2
Red Steel 2
MAdworld
Tales of Vesperia
GTA 4
Prototype
Infamous
GoW collection
Ratchet and Clank: A crack in time
Glory of Hercules
Monster Lab
Resident Evil 4 (wii)
3d dot heroes
Brutal Legand

All online from newegg, walmart, amazon etc. Averaged about 12$ per game including shipping (everything from amazon was free shipping). I only stopped there because I was spending to much even at such low prices. There are tons of deals out there right now!

 

[Gindil]

Dear gods, do I hate Black Friday. I used to work retail where I started at 4 in the morning and stopped at 9:30 at night!

I had a grandma get punched by a guy for getting a large HD TV that was $1000 (it was a 42")

Had a kid get his head slammed into a display rack in Toys R Us.

I could go on, but with the online shopping being a viable option, I NEVER want to see that many people acting like a mob again.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I read about a decent number of games going on sale at Wall-mart last night so I decided to head down figuring I would pick up a couple of games I didn't have in my collection. I got there about a half an hour early and was shocked to see the entire (huge) parking lot full. Since Wall-mart isn't that close tome I decided to head in anyway figuring not that many people would be there for the video games at midnight......


I was wrong.


I got inside about 15 minutes before midnight and found the area with a huge pallet of games on sale. The sales were decent but not incredible. Most of the games were about 5-10$ off what you can get through normal sales or buying a used copy. I didn't really think it was going to be a big deal.

There must have been 200 people standing around (surrounding) the game pallet when I got there. Only a few minutes later either the Wall-mart employee signaled it was ok to start taking games or he or she (never did spot them) got trampled to death.

It was a mob attack. It was so insane people all over were filming it (mostly the adults stayed back and used cell phones etc to film the insanity). I had swung by the electronics section first and picked up a rythm nations game and another couple that were on a shelf there and I actually gave my copies away because it was not worth it to me to save a few dollars. People were thrown to the ground, shoved, pushed, stepped on and the entire pallet (probably over 1000 games) was empty in less then a minute.

What was really disturbing to me was that I was the only person there that I saw who didn't either concentrate only on grabbing games or filming. I helped a few people up off the ground, held other back from stepping on a kid and just generally tried to help contain the chaos.

I was so shocked I rushed home to see if anyone had put it on youtube so I could show my wife. It is impossible to describe something like that in words, you really have to see it to believe it. Not only is there nothing on youtube at all about it but there was nothing about ANY crazed shoppers which leads me to believe this is normal.

I'm 38 years old and this was my first black friday experience. I wish I had never seen human greed in such a massive pure form. My faith in humanity suffered a blow last night

To make it worse after I got home and talked with my wife about it, searched for videos etc I went to the wall-mart website and found almost all the games I wanted on sale online for the same price. People hit, pushed, trampled and fought over things they could have just gotten online. I was planning on going to gamestop today to take advantage of their buy 2 used games get one free deal but after last night I'm just going to stay home. Saving a few dollars just is not worth hurting people over.

It's called Black Friday because it blackens your soul and destroys your faith in huanity. Trust me, stay in for 2 or 3 days after thanksgiving.

PS: Good on you for helping those people. I work in retail and the one thing thats always in short supply is curteous customers concerned about something other then their own selfish, fatty needs.

Americans are generally very stupid people.

This sort of thing doesn't happen in Canada.

PPS: I garuntee you it does, and people are stupid selfish cows wherever you go.

 

[badgersprite]

But...but...MATERIAL THINGS! And SALES! They're so much more important than anything else, including my own personal safety and the sanctity of human life! I must have them! Fuck out the way, assholes! Mama wants a new pair of shoes!

If I trample over someone else to get the shit I want, then fine. Fuck that *****; it means I won!

[small]Seriously, though, these people scare me. It makes me suspect that sociopathic tendencies are the norm rather than the frightening exception.[/small]

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

This is what happens when consumerism goes bad.
Funny that black friday is a purely american disease.
I wonder why....

Makes me wonder if some of these "holidays" are really worth it.
I mean yes, there is the meeting the family (some of whom you hate), the camaraderie, but then you get this...

 

[AvsJoe]

I live in Canada. There is no Black Friday here. And yet the mall was PACKED!

Why? We celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago. Why must we endure the horrors of Black Friday as well, without even the benefit of awesome sales?

For the record, I was at the mall to watch Harry Potter, Stage 7-1.

 

[wulfy42]

I found out today that the incident was on the news (just not on the channel we tape). I was talking to someone at gamestop (I was heading there today) and mentioned the crazyness as Wall-mart the other day and he said it was on Action News the other night. I have not been able to find the newscast so far though.

The real scary thing is that so many people know this goes on. I was having breakfast with friends this morning and we were discussing incidents like this and they all had seen similar things before. Someone said they probably cordoned off the food areas so people would not get shoved into the glass windows in front of the refrigerated/frozen food and cut themselves.

I agree that security guards should be used at least. Gamestop at least was crowded but not crazy at all and nobody was hitting each other or anything. Parking though was still a bit crazy.

I think i'll stick with online shopping mainly though, it's easy, cheap and you don't have your faith in humanity damaged heh.

 

[likalaruku]

I'm a complete tightwad who refuses to wear any article of clothing that costs more than $10, so last December I went to Ross with my mother to pick out my obligatory clothing presents, a tea kettle, & a bacon press.

The store was in complete chaos. There were clothes & wicker baskets everythere, the nonclothing isle shevles were dishevaled & unorderly, people were stealing shit right out of eachothers carts, the check-out lines wrapped from one end of the store to the other, & the teenaged employee at the fitting room had an anxiety attack & quit on the spot.

 

[wulfy42]

They call it Black Friday for a reason.

For here that was when a tornado hit....

OT: People are insane and somewhat retarded. They act like animals and think that if they don't get it something might happen. The whole black Friday thing is the reason why i believe the saying Greed has burnt a hole in their hearts. I bet some people just went in and grabbed what they could without seeing the title only to get home and realize they have several copies of the same thing or Games they would never play.

That was part of what was so crazy. I saw myself people with multiple copies of really bad games in their arms that they had just grabbed. The hoard converged so fast nobody got to tell what they were grabbing or even what system the game was for. It was crazy. You'd think people would calmly trade the games for ones they wanted afterwards but nope it looked like everyone was taking whatever they grabbed and heading to the lines to pay for stuff. Maybe they were going to use the multiple copies as gifts or something?

The way the pallet was set up it looked like most people did get multiple copies of the same game though as that is all they could reach.

They saved maybe $5 off normal retail price for most games, hurt others or risked being hurt and then probably stood in line for an hour or two. I think Wall-mart might have done it on purpose though because it looks like they sold ALL of the games...even the really bad ones that are normally only $10 anyway. They created such a frenzy for the games that people paid for anything pretty much.

Just crazy.