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Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Post by Moissanite »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #28

Aren’t the discounts during Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams/fake? They increase the original price weeks before these events. During the events they “lower” the price simulating discounts… but you’re buying the product at its original price. Been tracking some products I’m interested in it always happens.

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Re: Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Post by dragontamer »

brailsafe wrote: post #30

Like others have said, all the sales are fake in some way, or at the very least not compelling enough to spend money I wouldn't have otherwise. I am however waiting for GPU prices to come down significantly, but I'm not sure yet that I'd actually buy one. Right now, an RTX 3070 (2 years since launch) is still $760 CAD off the shelf (with supposed black friday discount), which is a shit ton of cash.

I'm actually intrigued with A770, not that I want to actually get one right now. But if I were to build a GPU-compute computer, it'd probably be based on the $350 16GB Intel Arc A770

A770 comes in at slightly slower than the 3070, but also with 16GB of VRAM, more space for a lot of compute problems. (Stable Diffusion, KataGo, etc. etc.) Not that I'm sure that Intel is a good GPU or that its drivers work or anything, but $350 is a good price point for experimentation...

No need to wait for Black Friday though. I don't expect GPU prices to drop. Might as well just buy it.

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My nieces want some video games. I'll probably buy the new Pokemon for them.

Re: Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Post by sourcecodeplz »

argella wrote: post #7

Kindle scribe pending initial reviews being positive. The new onyx boox tab is tempting but the company looks too shady (ignoring gpl, lol privacy policy).

Wow thanks for mentioning this. I hadn't even heard about the Scribe, it seems really cool.

Re: Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Post by Cyph0n »

walterbell wrote: post #35
Cyph0n wrote: post #32

A few 14-16 TB HDDs for my home server. The ZFS pool needs to expand :)

Available now, often gone in a few days: https://shucks.top

Thanks, but I don’t buy to shuck anymore. I have had two failures in the last few months, so I’m looking for drives with good warranty.

Re: Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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Post by Saris »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #28

Aren’t the discounts during Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams/fake? They increase the original price weeks before these events. During the events they “lower” the price simulating discounts… but you’re buying the product at its original price. Been tracking some products I’m interested in it always happens.

Some are, some are actual sales. 'Keepa' for amazon makes it very easy to see a nice price history chart and figure out which it is (even if buying from another retailer).
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