Good Lord, not only did I make it to the morning sale! I bought a hefty lot.I was part of one of them, who made the companies bottomline move from red to black. I was part of those who made it for them by being there at 5 am in the approaching zero temp.The companies,none to name specifically had patrons from all grp.

Interesting people abound earth, how could the 'morning spot' be different. People willing to sell - coupons, collected at 3:30 am for 50$; a real old man on the wheel-chair - conspicuous, at number one in queue.

Contrasting warmth of enthusiasm and the chill of wind sparsely inhabited the pictureseque early morning,afterall most of them were veterans at the Queue Company.

The long wait at the Queue served as the beacon to the thought:
Was all this ---- a consumer's paradise or a plummeting economy's veil ..

My exposure to the actual markets of India and US restricts me to compare only the two.
The fall of Sears n DEC, spring act of IBM and dilemma at Xerox (more on this sometime later) are these some way related to the mega SALE.
Indian economic history doesn't have so much of interesting stories to tell. It doesn't have the MEGA sale like this too.

I as a buyer in the line was doing nothing other than letting the white collars at these firms save their payroll. Save the payroll on something which market had seemingly declared as obsolete.

The buying capacity of market had seized for the things on sale, why wasn't an IPOD on sale -- not even a 10% discount. A discount wouldn't harm if it was celebrating season. Indian markets do give discounts on new(might be old as per global market) items.

The pressure of performing ASAP has led to the concept of mega -sale , an easy way to get as much as possible on the non recoverable debts.

After a 6$(40$MIR) wireless card, 31$(45$MIR) SD Card,...et all.
how could I be an Unhappy Customer....
All the thought of an implicit cause zipped past as I drove back to office to work with empty cubicles around.

Others were still out in the pursuit of calling it a real "BLACK FRIDAY"...pumping money to pay people alike them -- employees