Just got in the door and started my usual browsing habits when I came across this ridiculous article on Gizmodo about black Friday. Basically you can get the $6k Sony Vaio TT for around $1k during a Webcast lasting from noon to midnight on black Friday. This got me thinking about how I was going to accomplish my shopping this year. Several of my female friends basically ran amok the last two weeks trying to cash in on the pre-black Friday sales all over the place and are now done with their shopping. Unfortunately for me I’m not even sure what anyone in my family wants, I’m leaning heavily towards gift cards but that feels slightly like a cop out. Most likely on December 20th you’re going to see me in stores stepping over piles of discarded merchandise and screaming children to grab a hold of what feeble gift ideas I can come up with. There needs to be a service where you can pick a total budget or budget per person and just let the website figure out what to buy the people based on some simple survey style questions. To take it a step further you should be able to order these items from said site and have them shipped. Hopefully in 2009 we’ll have Christmas shopping truly at the click of a button.
