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90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

xwolfi wrote: post #97
smnrchrds wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iranian companies are now advertising Black Friday sales. Even though in Iran we do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we do not celebrate Christmas (except for Christians of course), and even our new year starts at spring equinox in late March. Black Friday is literally a random day in fall which has no significance. Yet there are Black Friday sales now.

It s like Halloween in France, it's so weird how tv shows made people with a strong identity adopt a foreign culture.

Same in Germany. Though I like that I can have

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachener_Printen &

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas

long before Christmas.

It's so weird seeing the sortiment in supermarkets change to all sorts of foreign events. Not that I'd care much for the native ones, either.

Basically it's all just BUY! BUY! BUY! like in They Live from 1988.

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by stjohnswarts »

shahbaby wrote: post #73

Some of my worst purchases were those where I cared a lot about how good of a deal I was getting. The more you focus on the deal, the less you focus on whether or not you really want what you're buying.

that's why you decide what you want and set up alerts for when those items are on sale.

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by kisamoto »

I'm sure this surprises no-one who has ever waited for a Black Friday (deal) only to suspect/know that the price is no different than before. It feels especially this way in Europe where retailers have adopted "Black Friday week" or similar purely to encourage additional spending.

There is a tool (in Switzerland) I use a lot. TopPreise (http://toppreise.ch) scrapes, aggregates and compares prices from retailers but also keeps a graph of the price evolution over time. You can see the highest and lowest prices over the recent period and it's very useful to know if what you're actually buying is a "deal" or not.

One of the largest retailers in Switzerland - Galaxus https://www.galaxus.ch/en/ - has also adopted a similar strategy for their own products. Showing 3 months of how the price has changed.

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

speeder wrote: post #22
magicalhippo wrote: post #18

Here in Norway we didn't have Black Friday until like a decade ago or so, when shops started introducing it. They even had to explain what it was all about in the ads. Now it's no longer Black Friday, no... now we have Black Week and even Black November, filled with 10% off prices or deep discounts on old junk nobody wanted... There's still a few really good deals, and there's a positive to concentrating the deals to…

Here in Brazil this year I saw a bunch of Black November. Yes, in english, in a country where people normally don't know english. Even weirder, is today a cosmetics company said that "Black Friday" (in english like that!) is a racist name and they are comitted to changing it. Most people here don't even know what "Black" means. (or "Friday", for that matter). The amount of USA culture "invading" our culture is really…

That's globalism for you. Multinational big corps pushing their shit globally, all the times ;->

Saúde!

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by alexwebb2 »

kisamoto wrote: post #104

I'm sure this surprises no-one who has ever waited for a Black Friday (deal) only to suspect/know that the price is no different than before. It feels especially this way in Europe where retailers have adopted "Black Friday week" or similar purely to encourage additional spending. There is a tool (in Switzerland) I use a lot. TopPreise ( http://toppreise.ch ) scrapes, aggregates and compares prices from retailers but…

CamelCamelCamel is a similar tool for tracking Amazon prices: https://camelcamelcamel.com/

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

ericmay wrote: post #38
speeder wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here in Brazil this year I saw a bunch of Black November. Yes, in english, in a country where people normally don't know english. Even weirder, is today a cosmetics company said that "Black Friday" (in english like that!) is a racist name and they are comitted to changing it. Most people here don't even know what "Black" means. (or "Friday", for that matter). The amount of USA culture "invading" our culture is really…

It’s alright. After Black Friday loses influence you can do singles day and buy stuff from Alibaba instead shrug

I've seen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi here in Germany.

Don't know what to make of it. Wouldn't want to have colored powders having thrown at me.

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by d3nj4l »

smnrchrds wrote: post #15
gaius_baltar wrote: post #11

This have been a joke for a few years here in Brazil, we call the day "Black Fraud" (sounds a little better in Portuguese) The relevant point is that Black Friday is an "artificial" event here: we do not celebrate Thanksgiving Day so there is no need for a the stores to get rid of unsold inventory. It started just ~10 years ago when marketers began advertising it as a sales day.

Iranian companies are now advertising Black Friday sales. Even though in Iran we do not celebrate Thanksgiving, we do not celebrate Christmas (except for Christians of course), and even our new year starts at spring equinox in late March. Black Friday is literally a random day in fall which has no significance. Yet there are Black Friday sales now.

India is thankfully untouched because Black Friday falls after the biggest Hindu festival of the year - Diwali. Most people are already shopped out by that point. Also the reason why our big sales are in October.

Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before

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Post by kube-system »

dragonsky67 wrote: post #68

In Australia it's just confusing. Black Friday was named after devastating bush fires in 1938-39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires . Any Friday that has bad bushfires on it tends to pick up the name. Over the last 5 years or so Black Friday sales have become a thing and I always suffer some degree of dissidence at the naming, as for me at least Black Friday has always had a negative connotation.

What’s stranger is that the US also has several days named similarly with negative connotations, like Black Tuesday and Black Thursday.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

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