My sisters bf got a great deal on gigantic hd tv. He was 4th in line (started on Wednesday). He made many “friends”, met family that have been doing this for quite sometime.
He paid $210 for a $1200 tv. He also went home, took a 5 hour nap (the others in line held his spot). He told my sister he couldn’t go back, it was too much, but she encouraged him to do so.
She came over, we had our Thanksgiving meal, then she made him his holiday plate and took it to him.
He told the story at our Christmas gathering. He said he met so many nice people. I asked him how BB did such great crowd control.
They came out to the people in line and asked “who is here for _____? They then handed out 20, or however many of those items they had in stock, bracelets.
“Who is here for tv’s?” Same thing. After those who had bracelets were allowed in and all done, they then allowed the rest of the public in, 20 at a time.
He said there were people yelling at him and the others in the front saying “no way you’ve been here for 2 days”, etc.
Well, they were and they got what they wanted at a “give away” price.
It WAS NOT the mad rush as we have all witnessed on many a video. BB had great crowd control.
Last year my goofy kids went to Best Buy at 4 am and waited in line for the store to open. They didn’t even buy anything. They just wanted to be where the action was.