> Which? said popular items it found to be the same price or less before Black Friday last year included washing machines, soundbars and TVs.
90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
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#222Seeing this with Apple too, bought mbp two weeks ago for 2550 today it’s 2750 but they offer $140 cash back through a gift card. No deal here just blatant manipulation.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
It literally meant the day stores would go into the "black" because many stores would be in the red for the year overall until they sold so much on that one day they'd turn a profit for the year or go into the "black" on their accounting.
You are repeating a fairy tale some marketers invented to explain the black friday name. Black friday is a term for a day when something horrible ocurs, the term was applied to the day after thanksgiving by police in an american city because of the difficulty in maintaining crowd control and it caught on.
Well guess what? Language and terminology change over time
While black Friday is a reference to a single day in history. It is also a reference to the annual shopping for Christmas. Which has also changed. It really was the start of the shopping season but alas, you cant stop change
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC, new TV models usually come out in late spring / early summer. So best time to buy should be around then.
Post CES?
Yes. New products get announced at CES and start being available in a couple months. Retailers need to make room for inventory and sell off last years models.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure. But have you not noticed how the same, now oldish, games go on sale for the exact same amount for years and years? I can tell without looking that Cities: Skylines is sold for 6.99 euro. Or the latest Civilization game at 15 euro. Or bioshock infinite at 7.99 euro or so.
What's the problem with that? Terraria has been on sales for 2$ for ages now, that doesn't mean it isn't a bargain to buy at that price instead of 10 or 12 that it is regularly.
No problem at all. It's just not special anymore. Do you not remember the first few steam sales? Everyone's mind was blown because there was nothing like it until that point
Re: 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
#226Blessed Friday deals are more cheaper.
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#227For those who use Amazon and want cost perspective on particular items, Camelcamelcamel is a superpower ( https://camelcamelcamel.com/ ) I’m sure one day I’ll find out they make money in all sorts of sketchy ways, but in the mean time it’s a great free website, and I’m continually astounded to see how often retailers play around with the prices they post.
It speaks to the truth of the original post that I set up a ton of price alerts six months ago and exactly zero of them have gone off.
I had one go off this morning. Second battery for my vacuum cleaner. Hooray.
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#228In 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.
> dissidence I think you mean dissonance
and you sir would be correct.. bad spelling on my part and even worse spell check on my browsers.
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#229I'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…
hotline.ua is the same thing for Ukraine.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It seemed like fraud and it made me feel icky doing it. In many places, it _is_ fraud (well, illegal but still). In the UK, the higher price must have been offered for 28 days out of the last 6 months.
This is actually the old law and now you need to prove that the RRP is "realistic" which usually means it has been sold at that price for more than half the time it has been on sale. Source: https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/advertising-regulatio...
Thanks, that's good to know!