May I suggest a new holiday?
How about, "Buyers' Remorse Day"?
This would follow Black Friday, where people would look back at a day wasted chasing bargains at stores, having spent more than they ever intended to (or having not found anything they wanted), and realize they could have just bought everything online instead.
To wit, the Playstation 3 Bundle.
Wal-Mart (plus Target, Sears and possibly others) is offering up a PS3 bundle. This includes a PS3, Ratchet and Clank All 4 One, and Little Big Planet 2, all for $199. Even without those games (which I wouldn't have bought anyway, but there's always eBay), that's $50 off, and enough incentive to finally buy a PS3.
However, I loathe the very thought of going shopping on Black Friday. Even more, I loathe the thought of setting foot into a Wal-Mart. So the thought of doing both is simply out-of-the-question. Stores will sell out of it within minutes of opening, people will trample each other in a stampede of greed and man's inhumanity to man, and the whole thing would just be an exercise in futility and frustration, leaving me a broken, angered, shell of a human being lying in heap of exhaustion.
But oh, hey... Wal-Mart will have the very same deal available online.
So can anyone explain to me... why on Earth would I ever get up at the crack of dawn on Friday (or worse still, waste part of my Thanksgiving going the night before), to fight the crowds on the off-chance I might happen to be in time to get some bait-and-switch deal to save me a few bucks, when I can do just as well, and without the headaches, online? Are people insane?
Hence, the need for "Buyers' Remorse Day".
Oops - looks like somebody beat me to it. There's already a day for that. But the name I came up with is catchier.
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