Just don’t buy stuff you don’t need. 100% savings every time.
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We’ve known this for a decade.
Companies make product lines specifically for Black Friday so they can save on the sales.
I’m sure you know, but I want to add to this in case others do not.
These product lines are usually really poor quality. They might look like the original and have a similar model number, but a TV, for example, will have less ports, lower resolution screen, or a lower quality screen.
So, if it is an electronic, look up the model number and if you can’t see a lot of reviews for it, then this is why.
I mean, there’s still a ton of deals at a time when you’re shopping for gifts. The article is saying that of the black friday deals, these aren’t the lowest prices of the entire year for most items, but they’re still lower than normal.
As a vinyl collector, I see labels and stores offering flat 20% off deals off everything which you don’t see that often. Also seeing other types of deals on other direct to consumer brands.
If you know what you’re looking for, and not looking at black friday deals to look for what to look for, I think it’s a pretty good time to do shopping.
A gaming laptop that I purchased on sale in February this year on Amazon is listed as a Black Friday deal at the same price point: $599
I’ve never been one to shop for deals.
I’ve always thought you get 100% off the things you don’t buy.
I save quite a bit of money only buying things I really need, or are truly important to me.
A friend of mine once had this big ass box in his living room. I asked what the deal with that is. He said he bought a tv because it was “too cheap to not buy” the tv was worse than the one he had, so he moved that tv like twice and after 3 or so years he gave it away because he moved in with his girlfriend who also already had a tv. He still somehow thinks that was a good investment because how cheap it was.
Black Friday is also not the most violent shopping day in the US. I wrote a blog post about it and a truly awesome movie idea, about seven years ago.
Edit: Fixed link!
Most items, especially large ticket items, have an annual schedule where new models are releasee and previous models are discounted to clear the way for the new ones. Just google the type of product you want to buy to see when they are discounted most.
I used to work at Microcenter for awhile. The best time to buy was always back to school. Holiday deals start at the beginning of November and are the exact same as Black Friday minus a few small door buster deals and maybe a special on a few models of pc. During back to school, pretty much everything is heavily discounted.
Would make sense because laptop companies always push out new products for back to school, and usually cpu releases happen months before back to school to allow production to ramp up to account for the sales.
Honestly the biggest reason was that college kids are more likely to buy the accidental damage warranty or have parents that will.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Just one in 50 Black Friday deals are at their cheapest price on the day of the sales extravaganza, according to analysis of last year’s event by a leading consumer group.
analysed 208 deals last year at eight major home and tech retailers including Amazon, Argos, and Currys.
Retail said that customers should not feel “pressured to splash out on Black Friday as it’s rarely the cheapest time to shop”.
also looked at an extended sales period covering 18 November until 2 December, in order to catch Cyber Monday which follows the Thanksgiving weekend, and still found that 86% of products were the same price or cheaper at other times of the year.
Argos told the Guardian that only one product in its analysis was a Black Friday deal, while the others were part of other promotional offers.
Amazon had the second-highest percentage (69%) of products that were cheaper than their Black Friday price at other times of the year.
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Slickdeals is my go to. It is a deal forum, that, as far as I know, hasn’t been compromised by fake reviews.
The whole article referring to Which? with their question mark wassss a pain
no shit Sherlock.
