Just don’t buy stuff you don’t need. 100% savings every time.
I agree with you, but the word “need” means different things to different people…
I need a m1 flamerthrower, a davey crocket, and a one way ticket to saudi Arabia. Doesnt mean ill get any of them.
Best part of the Davy Crockett is that the accurate range is less than the minimum safe distance of the warhead.
Id be the first person in Valhalla who nuked themselves.
Put me in coach
A lot of the deals on Black Friday are actually cheaper quality products. A TV specially made to be cheaper than the regular model. Less HDMI ports, lower quality parts. And the item/model number is slightly different.
That’s why I love deal communities like Slickdeals, if the deal sucks someone will be calling it out
I also like tools like Honey or CamelCamelCamel, which show you the actual price changes over time, and you can decide when the right time to buy is. Obviously, you never know when something will go on sale in the future, but it at least helps you see how good the current price is compared to the past month or year.
Keepa makes Camel x 3 obsolete, it shows far more information
This is very noticeable on Amazon especially. So many “deals” from budget brands or one-off Chinese brands that nobody has never heard of. This is especially noticeable on Prime Day too.
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I have worked with buyers at Best Buy that negotiate these “deals”. The manufacturers will create a near identical version of a higher quality product, but the model number will be a sub-model (like -a). When uninformed consumers are bargain shopping for a deal they will see that the “same” model is more expensive elsewhere and think they are getting a deal. This sub-model product will have cheaper components and fewer features and a higher product margin.
Some of these products would have very high failure rates but the companies still keep doing this because it helps to push their extended warranties. Then people buy them even when they buy higher quality products because they remember the failure on the other one.
Long story short, don’t shop on Black Friday for deals in electronics.
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Micro Center is just epic every way. I love those guys.
That’s undoubtedly true in general, but there are exceptions. For example:
It’s a little hard to tell just looking at specifications without directly comparing in person, but I think the Costco Black Friday-specific version of the Roland FP-10 digital piano actually manages to be better than the normal version (even before you consider that it’s cheaper and comes with a bunch of accessories). Specifically, it has 128 voice polyphony instead of the regular 96, and the only other difference I can find is that it advertises “a custom selection of tones curated by Roland and Costco exclusively for the FRP-2-ACR,” which I hope doesn’t mean they’re worse.
What a shocker that Black Friday is all a marketing scam.
Amazon are the worst for it. Instead of reducing the prices of their products, they will often just add the RRP next to the existing price and claim that it’s 35% off or whatever, even though they’ve actually only knocked about £5 off the price it was already.
Blowing up my phone every 2 hours with a “deal” is getting old real fast.
Had this exact same thing happen to me for the first time recently on a product I was watching. I was confused at first because I’d been watching it for a while and thought maybe the new price hadn’t refreshed or something, because it was 0% off.
I was looking at a robo sweeper on Amazon and noticed it was suddenly a Black Friday special - same price.
Camelcamelcamel.com forever
Keepa browser extension has saved me thousands over the years
And maybe sneakily lower specs. They absolutely do that with televisions.
I found this out like 20 some odd years ago when I had my first job.
Black Friday is when most name brands sell their shittier models, often with less features.
I used to work at Microcenter for awhile. The best time to buy was always back to school. Holiday deals start at the beginning of November and are the exact same as Black Friday minus a few small door buster deals and maybe a special on a few models of pc. During back to school, pretty much everything is heavily discounted.
We’ve known this for a decade.
Most items, especially large ticket items, have an annual schedule where new models are releasee and previous models are discounted to clear the way for the new ones. Just google the type of product you want to buy to see when they are discounted most.
Camel Camel Camel is pretty good price tracker too.
I had no concept of black Friday until the late 90s when I was told about it and looked at my sister like she was crazy for fighting over deals on socks and underwear. It wasn’t until a few years later when a girlfriend wanted to get her sibling a laptop and we stood in line at 3am at circuit shitty that I realized it really was all fucking stupid and not worth it.
If Americans are complaining about the discounts on black Friday, what shall we (Europeans) say about it? Our discounts are at best lukewarm.
Y’all are also smart enough to know and prohibit retailers from boosting prices just before discounting them to trick consumers into thinking they’re getting a huge deal when they’re actually paying average, or above average cost for the product.
Sure, but is it the cheapest time to shop that you can plan for? Waiting for a good sale will always be the best plan, but you can always bet on black Friday having relatively good deals
Plus it’s a convenient time of year when you’re buying Christmas gifts
I mean, there’s still a ton of deals at a time when you’re shopping for gifts. The article is saying that of the black friday deals, these aren’t the lowest prices of the entire year for most items, but they’re still lower than normal.
As a vinyl collector, I see labels and stores offering flat 20% off deals off everything which you don’t see that often. Also seeing other types of deals on other direct to consumer brands.
If you know what you’re looking for, and not looking at black friday deals to look for what to look for, I think it’s a pretty good time to do shopping.
A gaming laptop that I purchased on sale in February this year on Amazon is listed as a Black Friday deal at the same price point: $599
The whole article referring to Which? with their question mark wassss a pain
agree that the name is silly, it apparently also broke the tl;dr bot below
Black Friday is also not the most violent shopping day in the US. I wrote a blog post about it and a truly awesome movie idea, about seven years ago.
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no shit Sherlock.
