Anyone else been underwhelmed with Black Friday/Cyber Mondey Sales?

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Honestly this looks like one of the worst years in memory to grab a nice sale.

Been looking around for perhaps a new case, some new decent fans as I need to give the back of the case a little wack now and again to shut it up. Really wanted a new keyboard. But while beggers can't be choosers the sales have been crap everywhere.

Hardware I bought years ago the same model (new version though) is more expensive on sale than when I got them new. Looking at the Corsair K70 there...

Almost pulled the trigger on the HTC Vive as i've been eying a VR headset for months, the £100 discount is nice, but I feel we are due a new iteration in the near future and would rather wait.

Just curious if anyone picked up some nice things this year, or if you've been underwhelmed as well.
 
It just seems to be the same formula as always.
Two weeks prior, price is 100%
Slowly raise the price until the Thursday beforehand to say 140%
Dramatic drop on Friday to 110%
Slowly return to 100% value when the hype is over.

I'm not sure I've ever made a Black Friday purchase and thought it was an amazing deal.
 
Cadder said:
It just seems to be the same formula as always.
Two weeks prior, price is 100%
Slowly raise the price until the Thursday beforehand to say 140%
Dramatic drop on Friday to 110%
Slowly return to 100% value when the hype is over.

I'm not sure I've ever made a Black Friday purchase and thought it was an amazing deal.
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I've made a couple in the past which have been great deals this year the only thing I bought was an Alexa for £60 and that was because it's the brand new 4th gen and had a good discount after only being released for 3 weeks.

My best BF purchase was back in 2014 when I bought my first SSD, a Samsung 840 Evo 1tb for £240 was one of those flash sales that only lasted a couple of hours and was a good 160 off, snapped it up, never gone back to HDD since lol.
 
Yes, quite disappointing. Over the past month I'd been putting things in my wish lists on Amazon and not one of them was on offer. Also big ticket recently released items weren't discounted either (not talking cpus or gpus here either).
 
considering that most folks on the planet have been on lockdown/furlough/working from home, then they'll have already purchased what they want/need online earlier in the year. So now I would like to buy...…. nothing!
 
I managed to grab a few bargains, but you have got to work really hard to find them in amoungst the large amounts of overpriced tat.
Some companies appear to think all they need to do is stick a Black Friday logo on a subset of their prouducts and keep the price the same.

Sadly I suspect that tactic works.
 
Same sentiment here, very little caught my eye. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, maybe this was the problem.
As I'm sure there were bargains to be had for those with the drive to look hard for them. I do think there is the usual tactic or raising prices
1-2 months before in anticipation for Black Friday, where they then drop to the original price they were previously selling for. I certainly witnessed
that on some gaming sites. I have had my eye on a few games, what I don't need but if the price was right would snap them up.

I'm convinced Black Friday really doesn't carry the same weight that it does in the US. Here in the UK it is just another day to draw people
in for goods they really don't need anyway. With Christmas around the corner I expect people want to try and bag a bargain gift to help
those pennies go a little further.
 
Shaolin Chicken said:
Rubbish black friday for me, didn't buy anything, was after 32gb ddr4 3600 with good timings, couldn't find any.

Was also after a good priced pcie 4 nvme ssd, couldn't find one of those either.
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Please let me know if you find either, I am after the exact RAM and two decent NVMe SSDs
 
Yes, it was very disappointing. Bought the bits for my partner's new computer at the same price they were a month before.

Except the AMD 3 CPU, which is now out of stock everywhere (or with a £20 premium)
 
pretty poor showing BF and CM are. i think some of the bits I was watching out for, they were cheaper about 4 weeks ago.

others the prices have been hiked over the past few weeks/months. they are at record high before being reduced this week. but not gone back to normalised price yet.
 
I wasn't in the market for much in the end but saw some good deals - managed to get a couple of NVME drives at around 40% off normal (long term) price. Saw lots of decent headphone deals amongst other.

Aside from storage didn't see much on the way of deals across the PC component range and lots of deals which involved raising the price 20% over the long term average in the run up to Black Friday then giving an "amazing" 25% off.
 
I use the Wishlist function on many websites so when it's deal time I can flick through to see if there's anything I still need or fancy. Nothing on my lists were on sale at all.
Wife found a Shark vacuum cleaner which was (apparently) discounted 47% to £180 and really wanted it - I think that's our only purchase; everything else for 'sale' was stuff we didn't need, or stuff that didn't even feel like a bargain so good you have to get it, even though you don't have an immediate requirement for it.

A rather disappointing year - but I've personally never been that big into the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale scene anyway.
 
Bought an acer x27p last week for 1800 and kept in mind the 7 day price match / money back. Managed to get 300 quid back from it. Only thing I really wanted so chuffed! Did browse other stuff but nothing struck me as a bargain when you run the prices through price history check....
 
I need to give it a week for everything to settle and some deals to pop up again. Strangely enough it looks like my final CPU and GPU are on their way, which is/was the biggest headache. Now to sort myself out two SSDs, a PSU and a CPU cooler...
 
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