wow.. opening at midnight on thursday.. hmmm,. cool info! thanks. guess I could plan to go there first if they have anything inspiring.

cmcdan1524 said:Thats gonna make for a long night!!!!!!!!!
Hope I have room on the credit card?!?LOL. I might have to pay off my balance transfers

...waiting (im)patiently for what deals there will be

I have high hopes..and lately CompUSA has actually been pretty good with having a decent stock of sale items.

MikeS0 said:The the BF deals generally in-store only? Any possibilities of ordering online at midnight as opposed to camping out at the store?

Long story short...

It depends, some deals may be available on-line. Usually the best "door buster" deals are not though.

trippnwo said:scripta said:cmcdan1524 said:Thats gonna make for a long night!!!!!!!!!
Hope I have room on the credit card?!?LOL. I might have to pay off my balance transfers open a new BoA checking account and fund it with CC.

It is treated as a purchase and not a cash advance.

Free money (sort of)How does this raise his credit limit, Mr. Greenspan?

oklbos said:Here is the deal. At 11:59PM Thursday night...That's right, Thanksgiving night, CompUSA is opening up for a 24 hour sales. These deals are smoking hot. Take a look at the ad they ran last year, and then tell yourself they are going even lower. Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep...very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items. If that is true, this will be the hottest Black Friday ad in the history of Retail. If you look at their history, I believe it. Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95...the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am. Finally, somebody figured out how to do this thing right. Get your laptop, Ipod, Bose Speakers, DVD's, gift cards, and go back to bed.Any *specific* deals?

CompUSA should definitely be interesting. Only a few of their midnight madness sales were hot, so hopefully this will be one of those few hot ones.

I'm game for waiting in line if the deals are good . Gonna bring my laptop and tether over EDGE on my cell phone so I can have internet while I wait, and also borrow my friend's T-Mobile Sidekick II for when I'm in the store.

oklbos said:... Not only that, they will have a 6 hour head start on the competition. Plus the rumor from the community is they bought very deep ... very very deep. They do not plan to sell out until midnight the next day on these items ... Look back to the biggest midnight madness in history which was windows 95 ... the lines were 1500 people deep. Even if the lines are long this year, I can be in bed by 2am, instead of waking up at 3am ...Hate to burst the bubble. But this six-hour head start, coupled with the fact that most people are perfectly willing to stay up 'til 1:00 or 2:00 AM, means that the lines will be HUGE. There will be extraordinary competition.

And if these deals are as hot as you suggest, there is no way they will have enough stock -- it's not even physically possible. The example you use for comparison -- the milestone release of Windows 95 -- was for a small box of software, for which people were paying the full retail price ($90). In contrast, packaging for a single desktop, sans monitor, consumes the same space as multiple cases of software -- and ComputerUSAs aren't warehouses. Assuming these desktops will be offered for below-cost, demand will be off the chart.

In some ways, the only "hope" is that they employ their trademark staggered-sale approach -- with some sale items available from 1:00 - 2:00 AM, others from 2:00 - 3:00 AM, etc. This would force customers to cycle in and out of the store, allowing, to some extent, "the wealth to be shared".

Lastly, as far as lights-out by 2:00 AM goes, who are you kidding? Face it, you're a FatWalleter -- in all likelihood, it'll be a quick stop at Dunkin' Donuts, and then off to Best Buy.


Flashback: August 24, 1995 Windows 95 released at the stroke of midnight at CompUSA

S105dude said:profile said:Flashback: August 24, 1995 Windows 95 released at the stroke of midnight at CompUSA

Wow, what a blast from the past! What fun it must've been going from Win 3.1 to Win95.. Yeah, I'm a computer geek!



I didn't go to Win95 until 1997! I didn't go to Win 3.1 till 3 years after it was out
and I still mostly used DOS software.

Win98? Oh about 2002.. haha. And I'm really happy.

So what am I running now?

Win98SE. Happy as a very happy person. I ran XP and 2000 at the office. Bleth...

I'm happy here at home with Win98SE. (AND NEVER UPDATE VIA THE WEBSITE)

Avoid IE as your browser as well as Outlook Express
Don't click on email attachments from people you don't know or expect and then only if
they're text .. ps. Don't use MS Word (use AbiWord) ..

Get Opera Browser or Firefox. And if you do all that.. you can turn off or never load
a virus scanner.

Yep. really it's true.

Windows 98se rules. There're some pretty good third party service packs out there. I always keep it as a second OS on my PC for those old programs that dont run in XP.

Oh ya, before Win XP I had Windows 98se running for about a month at a time without any noticable slow downs at all.