Black Friday

The day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday every year when you "supposedly" should be able to get the best deals on just about anything. I did a lot of surfing on the web while Josie had to struggle through another day at work. There were a couple items that I wanted to get - one for Josie for Christmas, and the other item was for our computer.

I had no problem with Josie's item which I found on Amazon at the best price I've seen anywhere. The item that I was looking for to be used on our computer system was a Western Digital high capacity hard drive (4TB) to keep our backups, documents and photos on in case of another internal hard drive failure. I found the best deal on that one at Best Buy where they beat the next best price by almost $30. You wouldn't believe what I went through to discover that Best Buy had none of those items in stock - anywhere. I could not even have one shipped, let alone pick up one at any store. I was on a chat with the Best Buy representative that informed me that there were none in stock, anywhere. They didn't even offer to provide a "rain check" to me so I could get the item sometime later. It was hard for me to understand why a company would advertise an item at such a great price without having any product to sell and provide such poor customer service on top of that - on Black Friday! I ended up getting that item from Amazon also, but at the next best price. At least I didn't have to discover that fact while driving all around to the local Best Buy stores in this area.

Josie is doing some hard thinking about her job change as this first week was very difficult for her. She is looking at options now, and will decide on a course to take by Monday.

We expect to drive around a couple neighborhoods today to look at homes that might satisfy our needs for either rental or purchase. Following that, we will stop at our storage unit and get our Christmas decorations and spend the rest of the weekend setting up for the Christmas Holiday...