Capitalism is cancer, no it really is. It's a system demanding infinite growth in a finite system. What the fuck else would you call that?
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Here in Europe they're forced to show the lowest price of the last 30 days and I was looking at some games in GoG and for several interesting games their Black Friday "discounted" price is €15 whilst the lowest price in the last 30 days is €10.
So the Black Friday "discount" is in fact 50% more expensive than the previous time that game had a "discount" which happenned not even that long ago.
Oh look, another reason why Europe is superior
That's regionally specific then, because they sure as hell don't do that where i live (EU member). They have to compare with non-sale price within a month or something, so it's complete bullshit here because they artificially inflate prices prior to black Friday "sales".
I'm in Canada and I see it.
Canada is my favorite member of the EU
I wish we were part of the EU
Most companies have adapted to that by now. The raise the orice for (at least) rhirty days so that it still looks legit.
The one in your example seems like a failure at that.
This is why camelcamelcamel.com is great
Yeah, always gotta check price history. Especially on Aliexpress.
Was looking at buying a particular retro game emulator handheld. Black friday pricing was the same as non-black-friday pricing, but it was "discounted" from $300, which it has never actually been sold at. Still bit the bullet and bought it because it did end up decently cheaper using one of their "spend $x and get $y off" coupons.
Keppa is a bit better imo. A lot of price history goes back pre covid (not like it matters I just find it interesting to see), camelcamelcamel doesn't. IIRC had something to do with Amazon making them
While you do need to be careful about this bullshit, things do actually often hit lows for black Friday sales. Particularly electronics.
But definitely double check SKUs. A lot of Black Friday products are more cheaply made than their usual counterparts, even if they outwardly seem like the same product.
I used to work at Best Buy in the Video department. We got all new products shipped in just for Black Friday. One year we got these $40 VCRs (I realize I'm dating myself here) that we must have sold a billion of. Within the week, we had so many returns that we didn't have any place to put them.
Similarly Best Buy's brand, Insignia, is a mix mashed TV full of components from other TV brands (unless that has changed in the last 4 years). They're usually the ones to go on deep discount but, due to the nature of the internals not being from one company, they're nearly impossible to repair.
So, although your Insignia may last a year and a half or two, the Sharp panel may fail, the Phillips backlight could fail, or the PCB from Samsung could fail, adding to more e-waste.
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You gotta track stuff you want to buy ahead of the pre-sale price hikes. Depending on where you live, what you want to buy and how much money you make that might be too much time and energy so checking price history sites (like camelcamelcamel for amazon) when they're available also works in a pinch.
I went clothes shopping in the US today and saved 496 dollars with all the coupons and sales, and got mountains of stuff. I always do it that way, but I shop the day after Black Friday and the deals are still the same. US department stores on holiday long weekends are the best deal ever, I save money all year and go for a great big shop.
For like the first ten of them and you have to get to the store 6 hours before it opens and then fight gladiator matches with all the other crazy people to be at the cash register first. No thanks, man!
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Yep, most smart home stuff I would not recommend buying for the regular prices.
I've gotten a lot of cheap electronics in early January too.
I’ve learned my lesson. I bought a graphics card and a monitor a few weeks ago. They were the kinds of desirable purchases that were never going to get discounted on Black Friday.
If you happen to be in the US, better to make those sorts of purchases now before prices go up under tariffs.
Idk, I bought a 4k 240 hz oled monitor for $300 off for black Friday, the lowest price it's ever been. I think deals are still out there.
Deals are there, many are not worth the wait and the real (good) deals are often less desireable items.
At least from what i've seen myself.
But i always hope the more expensive stuff gets a discount so i can get something better than what i would've bought otherwise.
Right now there are a couple 4080 super's discounted but it's only like €80 difference for a model i would only buy if the difference was larger, so i almost ended up buying a non discounted 4080 super model.
4k 240 hz OLED
300$ off
So it was a 10% discount ? /s
Been watching a new GPU for the last week, waiting for my paycheck to come in
35% discount, steepest in it's history according to CCC, holds right until this morning, payday, now it's a 5% discount
Its not the usual scummy price shit but I'm def pissed off
May as well wait just a little longer..
If you have to wait until payday to buy a discounted graphics card...yeah, I'd say so.
I bought two hard drives when Trump got elected.
They're still the same price.
Most price changes I have seen goes like this:
September: 300
Start of november: 500
Black friday: 250 - 50% off!
What I've seen many times (and what often still is a pretty good deal)
- JAN: product X, 1100 bucks
- FEB: product X EOL. last items BUY NOW - 20%!
- MAR
- APR
- MAY
- JUN
- JUL
- AUG
- SEP
- OCT: some warehouse: Fuck. Is that a a stash of product X?
- NOV: BLACK FRIDAY WEEK! Product X -45%! LIMITED STOCK!
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But srsly there are best times of the year to buy a lot of things. For example, Christmas decorations are marked way down right after Christmas, and TVs are discounted right before the Super Bowl. Month-by-month guide
"Damn Valve, pick a price..."
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