Comments on: Happy Black Friday (and no new rumors) http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/ Join the Rumor Queen as she looks for the latest rumors and then analyzes them, trying to figure out what the CCAA will do next. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:22:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: RumorQueen http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67907 RumorQueen Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:17:17 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67907 Just a note than when I published this post on Friday I was not affiliated with Tiger Direct, but as of today (Monday) I am affiliated with them. I had noted in the post that I wasn't, so in the interest of full disclosure I've changed the post and I'm making this comment. Just a note than when I published this post on Friday I was not affiliated with Tiger Direct, but as of today (Monday) I am affiliated with them. I had noted in the post that I wasn’t, so in the interest of full disclosure I’ve changed the post and I’m making this comment.

]]> By: 2chinagals http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67891 2chinagals Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:07:14 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67891 We are SO close to going SN...With a LID of May 2006 we don't know what to do .... We are SO close to going SN…With a LID of May 2006 we don’t know what to do ….

]]> By: sophie3 http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67890 sophie3 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:06:02 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67890 In our neck of the woods, there has been a real speed up for SN! (3 to months max, between inquiring and leaving for China). Our agencies have their own file of babies, their own lists and families can find a child within these lists. These babies or toddlers have already all the paperwork done in China, that saves so much time. I do not at all think China has stopped. Our agency is very transparent, I have always been given the utmost respect and our agency director has been given us the ugly truth with a Lid: 10/26/2006 like other couples in our agency, some have gone the SN route and started paperwork in July and are now in China! So the SN is getting to be faster but never has our agency has been given any reason to believe that China or CCAA will or want to stop honoring their word with waiting parents for NSN children. Of course, we are in for a looooong wait, and that for many reasons. Marie-Claude In our neck of the woods, there has been a real speed up for SN! (3 to months max, between inquiring and leaving for China). Our agencies have their own file of babies, their own lists and families can find a child within these lists. These babies or toddlers have already all the paperwork done in China, that saves so much time. I do not at all think China has stopped. Our agency is very transparent, I have always been given the utmost respect and our agency director has been given us the ugly truth with a Lid: 10/26/2006 like other couples in our agency, some have gone the SN route and started paperwork in July and are now in China! So the SN is getting to be faster but never has our agency has been given any reason to believe that China or CCAA will or want to stop honoring their word with waiting parents for NSN children. Of course, we are in for a looooong wait, and that for many reasons.

Marie-Claude

]]> By: Tresordasie http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67874 Tresordasie Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:33:38 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67874 Thank you, Steph! Thank you, Steph!

]]> By: kms http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67873 kms Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:58:28 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67873 The day after Thanksgiving is the first major shopping day of the year. It's when most retailer's become profitable for the year. 11 months in the red. Nice huh? The weekend before Christmas (Eve) is similarly heavy. Day after Christmas huge. Gift card redemption happens in January. Say you don't know what to give your aunt, you give her a gift card and she spends it after new years which is when the stores can put the transaction on their books. Usually at midnight or some really early morning hour stores will open and have doorbuster sales that last a few hours that in reality you better be the 49th person in line if you want to get that $400 tv that's normally $900. Last year a store worker died protecting a pregnant woman from being trampled. Since Thanksgiving is over people are thinking on Christmas, are off the day after and shop that day. Some would never step in a store that day. Some love the energy of the crowds. When people return to work on Monday they shop online if they don't have a computer at home, or are tired of real person shopping after Friday. It's called cyberMonday. Online had sales today too. Gift exchanges aren't just Santa and kids. Extended's give to each other. Big families do grab bags. Some really evolved get together and donate to an organization instead. We have 3 sibling or (sibling groups), 3 grandparents or (grandparent groups), 2 great grandma's, 3 neices, the teacher gifts, one aunt's family to give a gift basket to, the mailman, each other, and to DS. The angel trees are up and people are shopping for children who wouldn't have a Christmas too as they are due in a couple weeks. If MIL does marry her fiance will we have to exchange with the new step siblings/cousins? The day after Thanksgiving is the first major shopping day of the year. It’s when most retailer’s become profitable for the year. 11 months in the red. Nice huh? The weekend before Christmas (Eve) is similarly heavy. Day after Christmas huge. Gift card redemption happens in January. Say you don’t know what to give your aunt, you give her a gift card and she spends it after new years which is when the stores can put the transaction on their books.

Usually at midnight or some really early morning hour stores will open and have doorbuster sales that last a few hours that in reality you better be the 49th person in line if you want to get that $400 tv that’s normally $900.

Last year a store worker died protecting a pregnant woman from being trampled.

Since Thanksgiving is over people are thinking on Christmas, are off the day after and shop that day. Some would never step in a store that day. Some love the energy of the crowds.

When people return to work on Monday they shop online if they don’t have a computer at home, or are tired of real person shopping after Friday. It’s called cyberMonday. Online had sales today too.

Gift exchanges aren’t just Santa and kids. Extended’s give to each other. Big families do grab bags. Some really evolved get together and donate to an organization instead. We have 3 sibling or (sibling groups), 3 grandparents or (grandparent groups), 2 great grandma’s, 3 neices, the teacher gifts, one aunt’s family to give a gift basket to, the mailman, each other, and to DS. The angel trees are up and people are shopping for children who wouldn’t have a Christmas too as they are due in a couple weeks.

If MIL does marry her fiance will we have to exchange with the new step siblings/cousins?

]]> By: southslopemama http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67871 southslopemama Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:27:36 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67871 "Black Friday" is the big holiday shopping day the day after Thanksgiving. So called because traditionally it was the day retailers hoped to move from the "red" into the "black" for the year! :-) Steph “Black Friday” is the big holiday shopping day the day after Thanksgiving. So called because traditionally it was the day retailers hoped to move from the “red” into the “black” for the year!
:-)
Steph

]]> By: 2chinagals http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67870 2chinagals Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:09:59 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67870 This is so ridiculous! Why would they keep reviewing ,keep accepting NSN referrals if they were going to do this ,what ? are they just going to wake up one day and say SURPRISE everyone,thanks for your intrest but you are SOL!! they obviously know what they are going to do so !@#& or get off the pot ! Yes we are lucky and honored and appreciate the fact we are chosen to adopt from China but we may all be NUTS by the time we get our children... If they want to speed up the SN adoptions then speed it up ! There are lots of SN beautiful children there and I don't see that picking up at the speed of light. If they want more prople to jump ship and get on board the SS SN ship then just say ..it will be another two years before we get to May 2006 LID.I can guarentee they wouldn't have any problem ..or just speed up the SN wait time! UGH!!!! There ,I don't usually vent but I did ,now I feel better .Thankyou ! This is so ridiculous! Why would they keep reviewing ,keep accepting NSN referrals if they were going to do this ,what ? are they just going to wake up one day and say SURPRISE everyone,thanks for your intrest but you are SOL!! they obviously know what they are going to do so !@#& or get off the pot ! Yes we are lucky and honored and appreciate the fact we are chosen to adopt from China but we may all be NUTS by the time we get our children… If they want to speed up the SN adoptions then speed it up ! There are lots of SN beautiful children there and I don’t see that picking up at the speed of light. If they want more prople to jump ship and get on board the SS SN ship then just say ..it will be another two years before we get to May 2006 LID.I can guarentee they wouldn’t have any problem ..or just speed up the SN wait time! UGH!!!! There ,I don’t usually vent but I did ,now I feel better .Thankyou !

]]> By: Tresordasie http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67869 Tresordasie Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:48:58 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67869 Can anyone take 2 seconds to explain to this Canadian what "Black Friday" is? It sounds ominous, but there's shopping associated with it from what I can see, so it can't be that bad! Can anyone take 2 seconds to explain to this Canadian what “Black Friday” is? It sounds ominous, but there’s shopping associated with it from what I can see, so it can’t be that bad!

]]> By: southslopemama http://chinaadopttalk.com/2009/11/27/happy-black-friday-and-no-new-rumors/comment-page-1/#comment-67868 southslopemama Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:53:17 +0000 http://chinaadopttalk.com/?p=4982#comment-67868 Thanks so much for the Children's Place tip RQ! I just got a lot of really cute, useful things for my kids! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! :-) Steph Thanks so much for the Children’s Place tip RQ! I just got a lot of really cute, useful things for my kids!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

:-)
Steph

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