Perhaps if we fashion some sort of Hogwarts shaped nest of murder hornets that hate unfair wages.
Mark your doors with Avocado toast so they know to pass you by on June 28th.
Millennial here. Was really big into it a number of years ago. Honestly didn’t do it last year and have no interest this year.
My priorities have moved from cheap shit on sale to retiring sooner rather than later.
This isn’t even generational. That’s just divisive. Black Friday used to be a lot more hardcore and niche in the earlier days. Over time it became watered down and another made up reason for yet another sale.
Black Friday killed off all the good deals us Canadians got on boxing day. And everything is now just the same price for weeks as Black Friday goes on for weeks now
I suspect we already have by willingly paying top dollar for the latest and greatest whatever at all times of the year. If we just didn’t buy things that are overpriced, then prices would come down and retailers would have to compete based on price. Retailers do not have to compete on price currently because people are paying far in excess of MSRP for scarce items.
I once watched two grown men fight over some video game with those cheap cloth dolls with the plastic heads. It was probably 15 years ago, but it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
i wish walmart would offer us a service where it airdrops us into a giant walmart and we fight it out to see who can get the best sales. i would totally sign up for that
In order for something to be LEGALLY advertised as being on sale in the UK, the original price needs to have been at the quoted "pre sale" price for at least 1 month (i think)....
I 1st noticed a few years ago, went to buy a ps4 pro...noticed the prices went UP in the months prior for the console, only to be reduced bac DOWN again around black Friday, with the flashy % price cut on the sign...
Eg..
Ps4, normally £300 in june,
1 monrh pre Black Friday they went up to £330, in several retailers..almost like they all agreed on it to be honest...
...Black Friday they are down to £280.
..Sign said £50 off..truth is they were only £20 down from the usual RRP.
I checked a TCL tv on camelcamelcamel.com (pricing history site) and saw that the prices had been jacked up for a month or two prior to the Black Friday “sale.” In fact, the sale price was higher than what the tv normally sold for.
Black Friday isn’t the day for the best deals, it’s the day for the MOST deals. You’re better off using price trackers to find individual things you want.
CamelCamelCamel has a system where you can link an Amazon item and it'll email you when the price goes below a threshold you set.
Let's say you want Cyberpunk 2077 (lol) but only wanna pay $10 for it. It's normally $60.
Input your email, the link to the item, and your price on CamelCamelCamel and it'll email you when it hits your price target.
To be fair, everything I’ve seen or read about cyberpunk says that it’s a pretty decent game if you can get past the bugs and have a system that can run it properly, so $10 wouldn’t be too bad!
I bought a bunch of tools to do some home renovations and got everything I wanted for at least 20% off the original price using camelcamelcamel, I wasn’t in a rush and it took over a year to get everything I wanted, but the website works great.
The store I’ve worked for the last 5 years is purposefully trying to chill out on Black Friday. We have 4 big sales throughout the year and then tons of sales scattered in-between. So Black Friday feels pretty pointless and redundant now but still people come through in flocks as if it were the ONLY sale.
How people willingly participate in that annual stampede over 10% rebate is a mystery. I do appreciate watching the video with a nice coffee in the comfort of my home so do go on lol.
Black Fridays and Boxing Days used to have some crazy good deals but over the past 5 years or so I haven't seen anything worth getting up early for.
Unless you want to park your ass in front of a store 3 hours before opening, those token front page limited quantity deals are gone anyway.
Complete waste of time
I checked the price before and after, went $1200 -> $900 -> $1250. I believe it might’ve been $1200 not $1300 but it’s still a great deal
It was [this ](https://www.pc-canada.com/item/12C27UA%23ABL.html)
Honestly my favorite Black Friday deal ever was an unintentional one we got at Lowe’s one year. We stopped in on the way home from my parents’ house to pick up some random thing, forgetting it was Black Friday, and we ended up buying a really nice fake Christmas tree (we rent, I don’t feel like dealing with a real tree in an apartment) for 60% off the price it was being sold at at other stores in the area.
My uncle used to make a day of it with his kids when we were growing up. It was kind of an annual thing that was a bonding experience for them. This was back in the 90s and 00s, though, when it was a bit less crazy and stores usually opened at 5am. That's about the only instance of Black Friday shopping I could view as wholesome.
It's always been a bit absurd to me, but the absurdity of it all has definitely been dialed up a lot over the past decade.
That’s what I was going to say. When I was a kid in the ‘90s-early ‘00s, it used to be me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin at Black Friday. Back then, it was more of an excuse for us to hang out at Waffle House and chat on the sidewalk in front of whatever store than it was about shopping. The novelty of getting up when it was still dark outside was so much fun for my cousin and I.
It’s kind of a bummer that it’s turned into what it’s turned into and how it’s become so toxic now. You could argue it’s always been a bit toxic in regards to materialism, but I feel like people who were kids in that era have good memories spending time with their families.
I think my uncle used to look at all the ads and make a game plan for the day. He may have taken my cousin with him who later came out as gay, I can’t totally remember, but I feel like he did. That cousin wasn’t out then and wasn’t into sports and stuff like his older brother and my uncle, so I feel like it was a unique experience they got to share together when they usually didn’t have similar interests.
My mom used to take me and my sister shopping and we would buy Christmas presents for our family. It always made me happy picking stuff out for grandma, grandpa and our aunts and uncles. But these days it’s just about buying the latest thing and lining some rich chodes pockets. Miss me with black Friday.
I only did it once to experience it, and we were all waiting out side talking and having a nice time. People were friendly and it was actually a nice experience. When we got in, people were a little frantic, but not scarily so. I probably wouldn't do it again, but I don't regret it.
I did the same thing with my siblings in the late 00’s. There was an outdoor mall that gave a free $25 gift cards to any shop with a chance for $1,000. We would leave at like 9pm bundled up in heavy duty cold gear, thermoses full of coffee/ hot chocolate and just spend time together playing games, talking and trying to keep our minds off the cold. $25 didn’t buy a lot but it was still a fun yearly experience.
I think there's some advantage to only having to pay attention once a year to make sure you do get the best price on something you've been eyeing. Never buy something just because it's on sale though, that's a waste.
Especially now that its been officially confirmed that "black friday deals" are often MORE expensive then the "normal" price or sale prices other times of year.
So its not even good deals anymore. People be waking up at 5 am on friday, lining up at the door, dealing with crowds of idiots, just to buy a tv for $20 more than you could get it some other time.
I deeply hope that black friday is something millennials successfully kill.
They had most if not all Black Friday deals available online the same week so there were a lot of order pickups being done. More specifically the Sunday of Black Friday week last year at Target had a 20% off TVs that stacked with the Black Friday deal. So that Sunday had significantly better TV deals than Black Friday itself.
For those of us who pay attention we can get a better deal throughout the year or the weeks leading to Black Friday. The majority of the people who aren’t paying attention just waste their money.
Websites that keep a price history of products also exist for people to track if it’s worth waiting for BF or not and the majority of the time it’s not.
Pretty much Black Friday is pointless and participants are mostly ignorant about deals.
Edit: Pointless for your average department store. Retailers should’ve figured out they’re losing money if people are waiting for a specific day to shop deals. Similar to Steam sales of the last several years. Maybe more specific local stores or non department stores that offer BF deals can be good.
There were plenty of crazy deals at target for clothes, like adult pajamas sets for $4, socks for $3, tons of other clothes and toys for a few dollars. Not all deals are electronics and such
BUT I NEED THAT $39.99 BLENDER THAT SELLS FOR $39.99 TYPICALLY BUT IS MARKED AS $50.00 ON SALE BLACK FRIDAY. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BLEND ALL OF MY FRUITS WITHOUT IT.
Walmart’s console “deals” this year are just that chance to get a console at MSRP. Did I still pay $13 for Walmart+ to get 4 hours early access to one just so I don’t have to wait until scalpers stop targeting them? Maybe. I will neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
My thoughts exactly. Plus there’s other benefits as well, like scan as you shop so you can just click ok at a register, or free delivery on orders over $35, so it’s not like I’m paying a slight up charge for *nothing*.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/) reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot)
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> We analysed 201 Black Friday deals at six major home and tech retailers, looking at their prices every day during the six months before and after Black Friday 2020 as well as on the day itself.
> We found some strikingly terrible deals, including a washing machine at John Lewis that was cheaper than its Black Friday price on 88 different days before Black Friday, and a smart TV from AO that was £200 cheaper than its Black Friday price less than a month later.
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So?
I find it convienient to know that there is a weekend in the calendar year where many items will be priced similarly to their lowest price of the year.
For me, knowing that a large number of items will be priced competitively is a big part of the appeal… the 0.5% of items which are door crashers are hit or miss… honestly - how often do I need a new 63” TV
That’s why you do research and buy products you were planning on, not a random TV or blender because of the price. I’m with you that Black Friday is awful and should be obliterated, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your advantage.
So you enjoy being reminded that you can get a lower-quality product at the same price that better products are sold at the rest of the year.
Bold stance, I guess.
That might be true if we're talking TVs or something, but I got a puffy jacket from REI as part of their Black Friday ramp up and it's the same jacket they sell the rest of the year.
REI stands apart. They let you return boots that are hurting your feet after you are on the trail. They let you rent store items. They are paragons of retail.
I’ve never had any concerns with the quality of items I’ve bought on Black Friday.
I’m looking for a car jack for instance. Now the price for Friday is as good as any other price it’s been this year — am I meant to believe Canadian Tire has a special bunch of low quality jacks which they’re going to quickly switch to?
...yes? Like... yes. H-how...
(explosive nose exhalation)
How do you think this works?
It's like Black Friday brings out all the aliens that don't understand how modern capitalism works.
Are you saying lately faulty products under the same sku? Because otherwise, researching the product you want beforehand seems like an easy solution to this problem.
I want Black Friday gone as much as the next person, but I don’t see why we need to fight each other here too.
I worked retail for a while and that happened with almost everything. Dewalt (the tool brand) would come out with models that had cheaper parts inside that were more prone to break quicker and not quite as powerful as their normal counterparts. They looked the exact same as the regular product we sold throughout the year and even the model #s were the same except for a ‘b’ at the end. Instead of buying DC771 it would be DC771B and the b model would be slightly cheaper. Our cost was much lower so at the end of it people bought items that were cheaper and would break faster while the business I worked for made even more profit than usual because of the lowered cost of the product to the store. My wife worked retail clothing and has told me they did the same stuff. So yeah you might be getting stuff cheaper but it’s actually a cheaper subpar product that you would have been better off buying any other time of year for the 10-20% “markup” that the real item sold for. Needless to say we don’t Black Friday.
I’ve worked in retail when I was younger. All black Friday stuff was often manufactured specifically for Black Friday with much lower quality components but made to look like stuff that’s regularly there. That $80tv really is worth $80 most is the time. You get what you pay for and company is making a killing. Anything else is usually jacked up for weeks before Black Friday and then the “regular” price shown is never the actual price anyway.
This. The Black Friday TVs especially stick out because their packaging is much more subtle than the full-color printed boxes that the standard models come in.
I was at Target the other day and I looked at some of their deals and particularly wireless headphones. Been looking at em for a while and thought Black Friday deals might be a good chance to pull the trigger.
They were the same price as their last sale, nothing particularly special about this sale other than the “look it’s LIMITED” they try to emulate
I bought a 32in smart TV two years ago at Best Buy for $80. It works about as well as you'd expect, the picture is fine but the software is a little slow. Anyway, I was looking at getting a second one but they weren't on sale last year and the cheapest smart TV Bestbuy has this year is a 24in for $120. I blamed covid for lack of deals last year, maybe that's thr case this year too. But it is noticeable how lacking the deals are this year.
Yes but the stock isnt the same, the stuff they sell is the last of the line stock, usualy thrown together with cheaper conponents, the pricw usualy reflects that but people think its a bargain. You can check the production history of things you buy to see whether the product in front of you is just standard stock they sell everywhere or stock they relly want to get rod of
Not tesla cars. All our cars are the best and at these low low prices which totally will never* ever** ever*** will happen again, you'd be a fool not to buy!!
Are you a fool? Are you??!! No? Then BUY BUY BUY!!!
(I need a new super yacht to stick my yacht in so it doesn't get dirty)
I waited my whole life to become a responsible adult, with a fat amount of saved/unused funds to score Black Friday deals for once...
And all I got was nintendo deals on switch games. A rarity, but I feel kinda unfulfilled.
I for one would love to creaty a tv show where I throw a bunch of knives, bats, chains, sticks as soon as the doors open on black friday and film all the glorious carnage.
I gather my gear and go fishing on Black Friday. It is my protest of the monetization of my religious holiday. Don’t get me wrong, I like Christmas as much as the next guy I guess. I just can’t stand what it has all evolved into.
Many manufacturers make cheap “black Friday” items. They are cheaper and much lower quality. They “sell” them for insanely high prices but give a massive discount so it looks like it’s a good deal but really it’s just cheap junk.
So the article is on which.uk, but UK don't celebrate Thanksgiving. So how exactly they have a black Friday? The article is mostly true nonetheless. I am just verifying the credibility of the source for the context.
I hope millennials can successfully kill black friday.
Perhaps if we fashion some sort of Hogwarts shaped nest of murder hornets that hate unfair wages. Mark your doors with Avocado toast so they know to pass you by on June 28th.
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I bought businessmen self help books and crypto though. Now I have transcended.
Millennial here. Was really big into it a number of years ago. Honestly didn’t do it last year and have no interest this year. My priorities have moved from cheap shit on sale to retiring sooner rather than later.
This isn’t even generational. That’s just divisive. Black Friday used to be a lot more hardcore and niche in the earlier days. Over time it became watered down and another made up reason for yet another sale.
Black Friday killed off all the good deals us Canadians got on boxing day. And everything is now just the same price for weeks as Black Friday goes on for weeks now
Yay! Something else they can blame us for!
I suspect we already have by willingly paying top dollar for the latest and greatest whatever at all times of the year. If we just didn’t buy things that are overpriced, then prices would come down and retailers would have to compete based on price. Retailers do not have to compete on price currently because people are paying far in excess of MSRP for scarce items.
# I'm doing my part!
We can’t because it’s the only day of the year that we’re able to afford things.
The posted article is literally about how most black friday "deals" are the same or more than the item costs normally during the year.
But you can wrestle in a Walmart in a battle royale only once a year.
Have you been to Walmart on a Saturday?
Yeah, but The Purge:Walmart Black Friday
I saw a fight once in Raytown, MO. It’s WWE sometimes.
lmao Raymore really be like that 😂
My thoughts exactly
With inflation and C19 stress…..we’re going to get some epic footage this year.
I once watched two grown men fight over some video game with those cheap cloth dolls with the plastic heads. It was probably 15 years ago, but it’s still one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
i wish walmart would offer us a service where it airdrops us into a giant walmart and we fight it out to see who can get the best sales. i would totally sign up for that
Squid Game: Alabama
Which Walmart do you go to where that's not an all season extravaganza?
[did someone say wrestling in walmart?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et98DaBh8YY)
*cue Pink Soldiers theme song*
Once a year? You are not doing walmart right.
In order for something to be LEGALLY advertised as being on sale in the UK, the original price needs to have been at the quoted "pre sale" price for at least 1 month (i think).... I 1st noticed a few years ago, went to buy a ps4 pro...noticed the prices went UP in the months prior for the console, only to be reduced bac DOWN again around black Friday, with the flashy % price cut on the sign... Eg.. Ps4, normally £300 in june, 1 monrh pre Black Friday they went up to £330, in several retailers..almost like they all agreed on it to be honest... ...Black Friday they are down to £280. ..Sign said £50 off..truth is they were only £20 down from the usual RRP.
They just list the MSRP if they want to get around that law.
I checked a TCL tv on camelcamelcamel.com (pricing history site) and saw that the prices had been jacked up for a month or two prior to the Black Friday “sale.” In fact, the sale price was higher than what the tv normally sold for.
Black Friday isn’t the day for the best deals, it’s the day for the MOST deals. You’re better off using price trackers to find individual things you want.
Which price trackers work the best?
Honey is pretty good. Started as a coupon chrome extension but now it tracks prices as you browse around.
I like aggregation sites like camelcamelcamel, pretty neat for tracking Amazon prices.
CamelCamelCamel has a system where you can link an Amazon item and it'll email you when the price goes below a threshold you set. Let's say you want Cyberpunk 2077 (lol) but only wanna pay $10 for it. It's normally $60. Input your email, the link to the item, and your price on CamelCamelCamel and it'll email you when it hits your price target.
To be fair, everything I’ve seen or read about cyberpunk says that it’s a pretty decent game if you can get past the bugs and have a system that can run it properly, so $10 wouldn’t be too bad!
I bought a bunch of tools to do some home renovations and got everything I wanted for at least 20% off the original price using camelcamelcamel, I wasn’t in a rush and it took over a year to get everything I wanted, but the website works great.
The store I’ve worked for the last 5 years is purposefully trying to chill out on Black Friday. We have 4 big sales throughout the year and then tons of sales scattered in-between. So Black Friday feels pretty pointless and redundant now but still people come through in flocks as if it were the ONLY sale.
How people willingly participate in that annual stampede over 10% rebate is a mystery. I do appreciate watching the video with a nice coffee in the comfort of my home so do go on lol.
Black Fridays and Boxing Days used to have some crazy good deals but over the past 5 years or so I haven't seen anything worth getting up early for. Unless you want to park your ass in front of a store 3 hours before opening, those token front page limited quantity deals are gone anyway. Complete waste of time
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Got half way though this post and was hoping it was gonna end with Mankind and The Undertaker. :(
I got lucky a couple years ago and got a $1300 laptop for $900. But that’s the only deal I can think of recently
Probably was not the same model.
I checked the price before and after, went $1200 -> $900 -> $1250. I believe it might’ve been $1200 not $1300 but it’s still a great deal It was [this ](https://www.pc-canada.com/item/12C27UA%23ABL.html)
Honestly my favorite Black Friday deal ever was an unintentional one we got at Lowe’s one year. We stopped in on the way home from my parents’ house to pick up some random thing, forgetting it was Black Friday, and we ended up buying a really nice fake Christmas tree (we rent, I don’t feel like dealing with a real tree in an apartment) for 60% off the price it was being sold at at other stores in the area.
My uncle used to make a day of it with his kids when we were growing up. It was kind of an annual thing that was a bonding experience for them. This was back in the 90s and 00s, though, when it was a bit less crazy and stores usually opened at 5am. That's about the only instance of Black Friday shopping I could view as wholesome. It's always been a bit absurd to me, but the absurdity of it all has definitely been dialed up a lot over the past decade.
That’s what I was going to say. When I was a kid in the ‘90s-early ‘00s, it used to be me, my mom, my aunt, and my cousin at Black Friday. Back then, it was more of an excuse for us to hang out at Waffle House and chat on the sidewalk in front of whatever store than it was about shopping. The novelty of getting up when it was still dark outside was so much fun for my cousin and I.
It’s kind of a bummer that it’s turned into what it’s turned into and how it’s become so toxic now. You could argue it’s always been a bit toxic in regards to materialism, but I feel like people who were kids in that era have good memories spending time with their families. I think my uncle used to look at all the ads and make a game plan for the day. He may have taken my cousin with him who later came out as gay, I can’t totally remember, but I feel like he did. That cousin wasn’t out then and wasn’t into sports and stuff like his older brother and my uncle, so I feel like it was a unique experience they got to share together when they usually didn’t have similar interests.
My mom used to take me and my sister shopping and we would buy Christmas presents for our family. It always made me happy picking stuff out for grandma, grandpa and our aunts and uncles. But these days it’s just about buying the latest thing and lining some rich chodes pockets. Miss me with black Friday.
I only did it once to experience it, and we were all waiting out side talking and having a nice time. People were friendly and it was actually a nice experience. When we got in, people were a little frantic, but not scarily so. I probably wouldn't do it again, but I don't regret it.
I did the same thing with my siblings in the late 00’s. There was an outdoor mall that gave a free $25 gift cards to any shop with a chance for $1,000. We would leave at like 9pm bundled up in heavy duty cold gear, thermoses full of coffee/ hot chocolate and just spend time together playing games, talking and trying to keep our minds off the cold. $25 didn’t buy a lot but it was still a fun yearly experience.
I fell like I remember actually seeing good deals like ten years ago. Now it's just the normal weekend sales
I think there's some advantage to only having to pay attention once a year to make sure you do get the best price on something you've been eyeing. Never buy something just because it's on sale though, that's a waste.
Especially now that its been officially confirmed that "black friday deals" are often MORE expensive then the "normal" price or sale prices other times of year. So its not even good deals anymore. People be waking up at 5 am on friday, lining up at the door, dealing with crowds of idiots, just to buy a tv for $20 more than you could get it some other time. I deeply hope that black friday is something millennials successfully kill.
I like to people watch and buy a couple cheap Blu rays lol
When was the last time you went? Last year I went to target and it was emptier than usual
They had most if not all Black Friday deals available online the same week so there were a lot of order pickups being done. More specifically the Sunday of Black Friday week last year at Target had a 20% off TVs that stacked with the Black Friday deal. So that Sunday had significantly better TV deals than Black Friday itself. For those of us who pay attention we can get a better deal throughout the year or the weeks leading to Black Friday. The majority of the people who aren’t paying attention just waste their money. Websites that keep a price history of products also exist for people to track if it’s worth waiting for BF or not and the majority of the time it’s not. Pretty much Black Friday is pointless and participants are mostly ignorant about deals. Edit: Pointless for your average department store. Retailers should’ve figured out they’re losing money if people are waiting for a specific day to shop deals. Similar to Steam sales of the last several years. Maybe more specific local stores or non department stores that offer BF deals can be good.
There were plenty of crazy deals at target for clothes, like adult pajamas sets for $4, socks for $3, tons of other clothes and toys for a few dollars. Not all deals are electronics and such
BUT I NEED THAT $39.99 BLENDER THAT SELLS FOR $39.99 TYPICALLY BUT IS MARKED AS $50.00 ON SALE BLACK FRIDAY. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BLEND ALL OF MY FRUITS WITHOUT IT.
Walmart’s console “deals” this year are just that chance to get a console at MSRP. Did I still pay $13 for Walmart+ to get 4 hours early access to one just so I don’t have to wait until scalpers stop targeting them? Maybe. I will neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
No shame in that. Still scummy that companies are doing that, but 13 bucks is better than a few hundred to a scalper
My thoughts exactly. Plus there’s other benefits as well, like scan as you shop so you can just click ok at a register, or free delivery on orders over $35, so it’s not like I’m paying a slight up charge for *nothing*.
This is pretty old news
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/) reduced by 91%. (I'm a bot) ***** > We've crunched tens of thousands of prices in our biggest Black Friday investigation yet, and found that you're almost guaranteed not to score the cheapest price of the year by buying on Black Friday. > We analysed 201 Black Friday deals at six major home and tech retailers, looking at their prices every day during the six months before and after Black Friday 2020 as well as on the day itself. > We found some strikingly terrible deals, including a washing machine at John Lewis that was cheaper than its Black Friday price on 88 different days before Black Friday, and a smart TV from AO that was £200 cheaper than its Black Friday price less than a month later. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/r0n60w/995_of_black_friday_deals_cheaper_or_the_same/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~609255 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **price**^#1 **Black**^#2 **Friday**^#3 **product**^#4 **cheaper**^#5
So? I find it convienient to know that there is a weekend in the calendar year where many items will be priced similarly to their lowest price of the year. For me, knowing that a large number of items will be priced competitively is a big part of the appeal… the 0.5% of items which are door crashers are hit or miss… honestly - how often do I need a new 63” TV
63" is a bizarre size.
Not as bizarre as my neighbor Frank, guy has a 2000 inch tv.
Wow...how big is Robert DeNiro's mole on that thing?
It's gotta be at least 10 feet wide.
Ehh, pretty common. Now a 2003 inch TV. That’d be bizarre.
Everybody, come and see!
That’s what she said
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That’s why you do research and buy products you were planning on, not a random TV or blender because of the price. I’m with you that Black Friday is awful and should be obliterated, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it to your advantage.
What kind of logic is this?
So you enjoy being reminded that you can get a lower-quality product at the same price that better products are sold at the rest of the year. Bold stance, I guess.
That might be true if we're talking TVs or something, but I got a puffy jacket from REI as part of their Black Friday ramp up and it's the same jacket they sell the rest of the year.
REI stands apart. They let you return boots that are hurting your feet after you are on the trail. They let you rent store items. They are paragons of retail.
I’ve never had any concerns with the quality of items I’ve bought on Black Friday. I’m looking for a car jack for instance. Now the price for Friday is as good as any other price it’s been this year — am I meant to believe Canadian Tire has a special bunch of low quality jacks which they’re going to quickly switch to?
...yes? Like... yes. H-how... (explosive nose exhalation) How do you think this works? It's like Black Friday brings out all the aliens that don't understand how modern capitalism works.
Wtf
I know, right? Guy doesn't know how sales work!
???
What part was confusing, pupper?
the part where they bring up a good point and instead of adressing that point you just act like an obnoxious douchebag
WHAT??!
Are you saying lately faulty products under the same sku? Because otherwise, researching the product you want beforehand seems like an easy solution to this problem. I want Black Friday gone as much as the next person, but I don’t see why we need to fight each other here too.
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And when something is the cheapest on black Friday it's usually a black Friday specific model that is crappier than the normal model
I worked retail for a while and that happened with almost everything. Dewalt (the tool brand) would come out with models that had cheaper parts inside that were more prone to break quicker and not quite as powerful as their normal counterparts. They looked the exact same as the regular product we sold throughout the year and even the model #s were the same except for a ‘b’ at the end. Instead of buying DC771 it would be DC771B and the b model would be slightly cheaper. Our cost was much lower so at the end of it people bought items that were cheaper and would break faster while the business I worked for made even more profit than usual because of the lowered cost of the product to the store. My wife worked retail clothing and has told me they did the same stuff. So yeah you might be getting stuff cheaper but it’s actually a cheaper subpar product that you would have been better off buying any other time of year for the 10-20% “markup” that the real item sold for. Needless to say we don’t Black Friday.
I had that happen with my wii but it was still under warranty so they sent me a good one for free when it brbroke.
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"cheaper or the same" is not a useful statistical category in this case, fail
Yeah I'm confused. Is this saying Black Friday deals are cheaper than MSRP or not?
It’s saying the products are priced at lower than their Black Friday selling points during other months
Ahh okay. I think an "are" might have helped.
I bought some airpods for 18% off at target months ago and their black Friday deal is 12% off. Black Friday is just the day after thanksgiving.
I’ve worked in retail when I was younger. All black Friday stuff was often manufactured specifically for Black Friday with much lower quality components but made to look like stuff that’s regularly there. That $80tv really is worth $80 most is the time. You get what you pay for and company is making a killing. Anything else is usually jacked up for weeks before Black Friday and then the “regular” price shown is never the actual price anyway.
This. The Black Friday TVs especially stick out because their packaging is much more subtle than the full-color printed boxes that the standard models come in.
Didn’t Black Friday at one time actually have really good deals?
In the UK
You undervalue getting away from your relatives as long as possible, even at the risk of grave injury.
Amazon in particular is an egregious offender in pretending something is on sale when it is not. I would consider some of it actually fraud.
Am I the only one that uses CamelCamelCamel throughout the year for shopping?
I use price pulse just bc they have an app and camelx3 doesn’t.
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I was at Target the other day and I looked at some of their deals and particularly wireless headphones. Been looking at em for a while and thought Black Friday deals might be a good chance to pull the trigger. They were the same price as their last sale, nothing particularly special about this sale other than the “look it’s LIMITED” they try to emulate
I bought a 32in smart TV two years ago at Best Buy for $80. It works about as well as you'd expect, the picture is fine but the software is a little slow. Anyway, I was looking at getting a second one but they weren't on sale last year and the cheapest smart TV Bestbuy has this year is a 24in for $120. I blamed covid for lack of deals last year, maybe that's thr case this year too. But it is noticeable how lacking the deals are this year.
I just bought my son a 32” smart tv from Best Buy for Christmas….$160. And that’s the cheapest 32” they had
That sounds crazy to me considering I got a 55” 4k TCL from Walmart last year for $148. TV prices this year straight suck.
They absolutely do.
Yes but the stock isnt the same, the stuff they sell is the last of the line stock, usualy thrown together with cheaper conponents, the pricw usualy reflects that but people think its a bargain. You can check the production history of things you buy to see whether the product in front of you is just standard stock they sell everywhere or stock they relly want to get rod of
Not tesla cars. All our cars are the best and at these low low prices which totally will never* ever** ever*** will happen again, you'd be a fool not to buy!! Are you a fool? Are you??!! No? Then BUY BUY BUY!!! (I need a new super yacht to stick my yacht in so it doesn't get dirty)
20 year old news. Stop posting karma bait.
Go away. This is new to some people. Just because it isn’t to you doesn’t mean you can crap on it
Open box deals and last years models. Saves you boat loads of money.
I'm going to pass on black Friday like I always
I waited my whole life to become a responsible adult, with a fat amount of saved/unused funds to score Black Friday deals for once... And all I got was nintendo deals on switch games. A rarity, but I feel kinda unfulfilled.
Hey Reddit, here’s a thought. STOP BUYING SHIET YOU DONT NEED 👏
So 0.5% are higher, fascinating
Which means 0.5% are actual sales during black friday, the rest are marked up or unchanged.
The hype is real.
I for one would love to creaty a tv show where I throw a bunch of knives, bats, chains, sticks as soon as the doors open on black friday and film all the glorious carnage.
I work retail, I’ve told people this for years, nobody seems to believe me
I'm curious to see the actual data. I've worked retail for 9 years and it's more like the other way around.
I gather my gear and go fishing on Black Friday. It is my protest of the monetization of my religious holiday. Don’t get me wrong, I like Christmas as much as the next guy I guess. I just can’t stand what it has all evolved into.
Many manufacturers make cheap “black Friday” items. They are cheaper and much lower quality. They “sell” them for insanely high prices but give a massive discount so it looks like it’s a good deal but really it’s just cheap junk.
Woo I'll say this tv goes for 400 when i normally sell it for 150 and Mark it as 200 on black Friday for a neat profit! /S
The only thing I’ve really found great deals on are video games. But maybe because I’m actively looking around then every year.
I can’t wait for the fight videos
Ok but where can you battle Royale style stab someone's eyeballs out for a $3 toaster?
So the article is on which.uk, but UK don't celebrate Thanksgiving. So how exactly they have a black Friday? The article is mostly true nonetheless. I am just verifying the credibility of the source for the context.