I’m a survivor… I’m not gonna give up.
If you’ve been reading my past blogs, you’d know that I was prepared. I was ready more than ever to brave mother nature, the crowds and the overnight stay in search of the ultimate plasma deal.
My Black Friday plans went as follows: I awoke early Thanksgiving morning to volunteer out in Haleiwa, which btw, was extremely fun and rewarding. (Mahalo’s to Mr. Li for arranging and coordinating) Next, a quick stop at my parent’s place in Mililani to eat with mi familia, then off to the Park’s for a few beers. Having convinced Tom to get a similar TV, we figured 8 PM would be early enough to jump in line. Yet, lo and behold, apparently 80+ people thought it wiser to wait earlier. We came to find out that the earliest of the bunch were in line from 8 that morning!
With my plasma dreams quickly fading, I went home crushed. The next morning, Tom awoke and took it upon himself to wheel and deal at smaller electronic boutiques, while I stupidly waited in the Circuit City line (which moved all of ten feet in an hour). In any case, after wheeling and dealing, Tom got us a deal for my dream plasma for $100 less than Circuit City offered! And I got to take it home that day! Whee!
I learned two important life lessons this Thanksgiving.
- Anyone who thinks Hawai`i people aren’t as crazy (or crazier) about sales when compared to the mainland – obviously never saw the line outside of the Iwilei Best Buy at 8 AM Thanksgiving morning.
- With a little persistence and some business-minded folk, anything is possible.
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November 28th, 2006 at 1:33 am
Did you get the Panasonic TH-42PX60U. Sounds like a winner and was looking at one of these too, especially after reading about the “waste” of 1080p.
November 28th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Yep, got the Panasonic TH-42PX60U and turned in my Oceanic box the same day. Wheee…. HDTV. Yeah, you know, the selling point is of course ‘1080p’, but a lot of people don’t realize it doesn’t really start to kick into effect until you get screen sizes > 50-60″. Anything less, 720 is perfect.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
So you getting HDTV channels over the air? DishTV?
November 28th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
No, via Oceanic. I wanna look into Dish though… it’s hard to justify paying 8 bucks for like 5 channels. Hehehe.
December 8th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
So when are you gonna help me mount the sucka?
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