At 2 pm yesterday, with a steady rain falling, Andrés Sánchez was huddled in a tent outside Best Buy Co. 's Union Square store in New York.
The student, 23 years old, had ignored his friends when he said he was "crazy" to line up early.
After having declined in the past two years, Sanchez wanted to buy a laptop when Richfield, Minnesota-based Best Buy doors opened at 5 am today. Among his specialties doorbuster, the world's leading retailer of electronics offers a Sony Vaio laptop with a built-in Blu-ray disc Karate Kid and bag $ 500, a 32 percent savings.
"I have the best Christmas," said Sanchez, who plans to spend $ 2,000 this season at himself and his family, or about four times as much as last year.
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