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Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed.

> rOtring 800 is down to $20. Lost mine a couple weeks ago and was really bummed.

Where? I found it listed on the rOtring site (https://www.rotring.com/pens-pencils/pencils/rotring-800/SAP...), but they don't clearly give any option to buy that I can see.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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post #17

For those of us old enough to remember when holiday sales really did start on the day after Thanksgiving, in my area, most of the shops started their Black Friday sales on Monday. If you waited until today, you missed out on a lot.

Many things only dropped today. At least in Canada

There were a few good ones which started before today but surprising number of good ones only today.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#53

Bought myself a Razer Core X (Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure) for CAD$109.99 a few days ago. Was a discount of 71% off from an original price of CAD$389.99. Not sure if the US site reflects the same kinds of savings. https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-0...

What's the use case for a device like this? E: Thanks for all the replies. I have a XPS 15 that was, maybe 5 years ago occasionally reliable for playing Doom 2014 at 1080p for half an hour before the gpu would shut itself down, maybe I could have benefited from one of these + a desktop GPU...

If you want to do GPU-intensive work on a laptop that can’t fit a high powered GPU (some of the desktop ones are quite large), then you can put it in an enclosure like this and plug it in to your laptop.

The GPU equivalent of an external hard drive.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Someone compiled a big list of deals on apps, SaaS software, utilities, books, courses, etc and seems to be taking PRs: https://github.com/trungdq88/Awesome-Black-Friday-Cyber-Mond...

I mean, it's worth it because it's been so helpful, but I bought Recut (which takes the silences out of video editing and is on that list) a couple of weeks ago, and now it's 50% off.

I wonder if marketers ever think about how black friday sales annoy customers.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#55
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think that’s wild, wait until you hear about Dropbox and rsync.

Honestly I understand Dropbox more than a $80 screenshot app

But it takes not just screenshots. But "beautiful screeshots"

Whatever that means

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#58

AMD slashed the price of the Ryzen 9 series CPUs this week. A 7950X now goes for $550, down from $700. That said I'm not sure if this is a Black Friday deal or a permanent reduction to be price-competitive with Intel Raptor Lake.

It's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

#59
How Black Friday works:

Companies release products 6-12 months in advance. On the day of their release they are at their most valuable. Every day that goes by they slowly lose a little bit of desirability. For practicality, and human marketing reasons, companies do not adjust their prices every day to reflect the reduction in demand. Instead they gather all the erosion into one big clump and release it in a frenzy on Black Friday.

So are there "deals" on Black Friday? Not really, in the sense that you are buying a product that is of truly lower value. At the same time, many people don't care about the newness of various products, so are happy to trade that time for money in their pocket. In short, Black Friday is about segmentation than it is "deals". It's a way to charge the most eager top dollar at the beginning of the curve, while also cashing in later with the rest at the end of the product lifecycle.

Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

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Edit:

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