On 29/11/2014 1:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2014-11-29 2:51 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Black Friday as been adopted by the UK and the horror stories are
>>> widespread Not for me
>>
>> Welcome to the party! :-)
>>
>
> I can appreciate the frustration. It was not a holiday here this week
> but a number of stores and malls have been having Black Friday sales to
> combat the lost sales to cross border shoppers. My son called me up
> Thursday night about a sale at the store at our gun club. The had a
> handgun he was interested in on sale for 50% while supplies lasted. This
> place is in the boonies, about 10 miles away. I was there 5 minutes
> after opening. There were two guys ahead of me..... the guns were sold
> out. Apparently they sold 20 of them the day before. They offered some
> deals on other makes and models. A similar one was 20% off and that
> might have been a good deal if I had set out to get that one at 20% off,
> but as it turned out, it was $250 more than they one I rushed over to get.
>
> My bitching and whining did not get me the deal I wanted or a promise to
> order me one at that 50% discount, but I had to go out there today and
> pick up the prize I won. I don't know what the prize was for. I had not
> bought any tickets, entered any draws or bought anything there that day.
>
Probably some Anusol suppositories for your whining:-) But be careful,
they look like bullets!
Graham