Posted 26 November 2023

Black Friday damp squib

Extract from article in the Guardian (not my news paper of choice by the way, too woke for me):

The average discount on items on sale this week was just 1.5% compared with 21 August, according to research by credit firm Klarna.

I know this is an average overall, but it makes for grim reading. The british public getting conned as usual. It really winds me up.

I'm looking for a laptop at the moment and I've found by far better laptop deals in July. The spec I'm looking at has been £200-300 cheaper back then.
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  1. bozo007's avatar
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  2. Onlydongles's avatar
    Been going on like this past 4-5 years.
    You should have been aware of such cons by now !

    Maybe time to bring in regulation to ban such hideous promotions .
    netmonkey's avatar
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    True, but it seems to be worse than ever now. I've always managed to find some true bargains, but not this year.

    I agree that there needs to be some kind of regulation to get a control it. But people should be savvy enough not to fall for it.
  3. leejay's avatar
    I agree, this year has been particularly poor….i have also noticed that instead of inflating prices a couple of weeks before and then reducing them on black Friday and claiming a fantastic reduction ,they have put prices up hoping people will just think “it’s Black Friday it must be cheaper “
  4. Muig1972's avatar
    TopCashBack did 20% cashback for anything bought on eBay on Friday, which stacked with any existing 20% off eBay offers. Can't quibble with that one.

    The strange thing is, HotUKDeals wouldn't allow it as a deal, it went into discussions. If it had been a deal it would have gone superhot, and a lot more people would have benefitted from it.
  5. dkj255's avatar
    The things that do tend to go on sale are what the retailer wants rid of: for tech purchases, it's often becase a new model is just around the corner and they want to shift the old stock, since less people will want to buy them once the replacement is available, and warehouse space is at a premium. In other cases, it may be because they thought an item would be a bigger seller than it turned out to be, so now they're stuck with too much inventory (see warehousing above).


    In any case, sales are primarily for the benefit of the seller, even if it's just increased footfall or site visits. That's not to say you as a buyer can't benefit from them, but it's not guaranteed.
  7. spaceinvader's avatar
    It has been rubbish for years, in fact I can only remember the first one being half decent, since then it's basically just been people fist fighting over 50 inch Polaroid Tvs.
    Only decent deals are usually Amazons own products/services - eg the Ring doorbell/chime I got half price
  9. Mark_Hickman's avatar
    Same every year mostly very average deals, however i always manage to get one really good price each year, this years was the 65 inch samsung oled for £916
    LiamN's avatar
    Where was that from? Haven't seen that, and was hoping for a 65" OLED for under a grand! (edited)
  10. Gollywood's avatar
    I'm surprised we've had so few of these threads this year. Maybe the penny has finally dropped?
    Redninja24367's avatar
    Maybe because HotUKDeals are kinda keeping us at bay by merging our threads so no one sees the new threads?
  11. Redninja24367's avatar
    Has anyone noticed the deals that companies are offering this year is not a saving at all mostly? Black Friday has been the worst this year I think! What are your thoughts?
  12. Pandamansays's avatar
    According to Which! Magazine, they checked the prices of 208 items and on last year's Black Friday, only 2% were cheaper than at other times of the year.
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