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Old 11-15-2006, 08:50 PM
TheGrifter TheGrifter is offline
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Serious question. What's to keep someone from being an a-hole and showing up 5 minutes prior to opening and going to the front of the line? It would suck to wait in line for 40 hours and have some 6'8 behomoth cut in front of you at the last minute.
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Old 11-15-2006, 08:55 PM
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Serious question. What's to keep someone from being an a-hole and showing up 5 minutes prior to opening and going to the front of the line? It would suck to wait in line for 40 hours and have some 6'8 behomoth cut in front of you at the last minute.

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If they're not giving out tickets, nothing. Also, if you plan on purchasing more than one on your credit card (i.e. at different stores) you may run into difficulty because it will look suspicious and they could suspend your card. I'm not sure if you could phone up ahead of time though and tell them you'll be making a lot of purchases in a short time.
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Old 11-15-2006, 08:56 PM
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They'd have to show up 1 hour and 5 min before at Best Buy since employees will give out numbers 1 hour prior to store openings.


But it was suggested in other threads that someone take some post-it notes and a marker to give out numbers to everyone in line. When D-Bag tries to claim he's first and the other 20 people have their own numbers hopefully the manager is smart enough to know what's up.
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Old 11-15-2006, 09:01 PM
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Personally, if I was first in line, I'd just cut him. But I figured stores had someone to avoid bloodshed in these situations.

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They'd have to show up 1 hour and 5 min before at Best Buy since employees will give out numbers 1 hour prior to store openings.


But it was suggested in other threads that someone take some post-it notes and a marker to give out numbers to everyone in line. When D-Bag tries to claim he's first and the other 20 people have their own numbers hopefully the manager is smart enough to know what's up.

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Old 11-15-2006, 10:49 PM
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I just called the BestBuy and Target in my area and each said they can't disclose how many they'll be receiving. Any Ideas?
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Old 11-15-2006, 11:44 PM
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I just called the BestBuy and Target in my area and each said they can't disclose how many they'll be receiving. Any Ideas?

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They might not know yet. And they probably won't tell.

It depends on a lot of things. Roundabout Best buy like 20-25 total. Target less... Alot less if its not a super target.
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Old 11-16-2006, 12:18 AM
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Also, does anyone have any plans for stores that said they won't accept lines before time x?
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Old 11-16-2006, 12:40 AM
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You wont be able to get them with that plan.
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Old 11-16-2006, 12:51 AM
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You wont be able to get them with that plan.

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O RLY?
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Old 11-16-2006, 02:20 PM
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Grandmother is best idea ever.

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I read a news story about a guy going to the homeless shelter to get people to wait.
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