Screw Black Friday
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Screw Black Friday
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#2Black Friday is used to dump loss leaders, over runs and special order low function items that look like more expensive products. I have yet to ever buy anything offered on these sales.
Edit: There's plenty of info available regarding my statement. Here's a few links.
1. https://marketrealist.com/consumer/are-black-friday-tvs-lowe...
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/11/21/why...
3. https://www.businessinsider.com/black-friday-insider-secrets...
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#3Why not treat it as another kind of sale? Namely, you know you are going to need X soon, you are not in a hurry to buy it, so you can wait until a sale/black Friday/January sale comes in.
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#4Black Friday is used to dump loss leaders, over runs and special order low function items that look like more expensive products. I have yet to ever buy anything offered on these sales. Edit: There's plenty of info available regarding my statement. Here's a few links. 1. https://marketrealist.com/consumer/are-black-friday-tvs-lowe... 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/11/21/why... 3. https://www.bu…
I'm guessing you're under 25. Before you were old enough to have money, Black Friday was goooooooood.
I used to pick up 100-packs of CD-R and DVD-Rs from Circuit City for like $10 on Black Friday. That was like a 60-90% discount.
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#5Black Friday is used to dump loss leaders, over runs and special order low function items that look like more expensive products. I have yet to ever buy anything offered on these sales. Edit: There's plenty of info available regarding my statement. Here's a few links. 1. https://marketrealist.com/consumer/are-black-friday-tvs-lowe... 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2012/11/21/why... 3. https://www.bu…
I'm guessing you're under 25. Before you were old enough to have money, Black Friday was goooooooood. I used to pick up 100-packs of CD-R and DVD-Rs from Circuit City for like $10 on Black Friday. That was like a 60-90% discount.
Yeah before the internet killed it Black Friday had some insane doorbusters that would literally get people killed.
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#6The author might be interested to know about Buy Nothing Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day
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#7I done an Ask HN[0] yesterday about this entitled `Have we reached peak Black Friday?`. Some of the comments are insightful. This is my question:
> In the start it was novel. New smart TV marked down considerably that sold out in minutes. What a great idea! But then it caught on and became just another grift. Amazon is full of 'tat' that although it's marked down substantially, it's never something I actually need. It's more a good deal for the seller, not the buyer, and has also devolved into scam territory too. If you do enough price watching, you suddenly see new items on the market marked down, but nobody knows the original price, since it's a new item just launched for Black Friday! The whole thing just seems like a grift.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing you're under 25. Before you were old enough to have money, Black Friday was goooooooood. I used to pick up 100-packs of CD-R and DVD-Rs from Circuit City for like $10 on Black Friday. That was like a 60-90% discount.
Yeah before the internet killed it Black Friday had some insane doorbusters that would literally get people killed.
Besides the doorbusters, they had limited stocks of rare items too. It'd be like if Best Buy had a sale two years ago on Nvidia GPUs at 40% off retail. So you had the scalpers in the early days of eBay fighting with the parents who needed Christmas presents, on items you couldn't get anywhere else, from Playstations to Tickle Me Elmos.
On second thought, it's probably best that the internet killed it. People are wild.
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#9> If they can offer great prices all year round, why not do it? And if they can’t, then who’s paying for the great deal I’m getting today?
Working at a huge online retailer, I can tell you that the prevalent customer expectation is precisely „greatly reduced prices on black friday“. Even if we offered these reduced prices year round, the expectation would be to offer it even cheaper on Black Friday.
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#10> If they can offer great prices all year round, why not do it? And if they can’t, then who’s paying for the great deal I’m getting today? Working at a huge online retailer, I can tell you that the prevalent customer expectation is precisely „greatly reduced prices on black friday“. Even if we offered these reduced prices year round, the expectation would be to offer it even cheaper on Black Friday.
True but… that’s mainly because retailers took an accounting factoid and made it into a promotional holiday and thus set expectations.