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

[kieran_read]

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.

 

[kieran_read]

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.

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.

 

[kieran_read]

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.

Not a bad deal, though i do find vacuums tend to be on sail all the time anyway!

I'm not too into the whole sale black Friday etc, but if it's close I like to hold off on the off chance something good comes up but, these sales have gone the same way as Steam sales for the last few years, all garbage.