Black Friday Deals

HangTime said:
Can someone find me a good heat pump tumble dryer deal please? Was thinking large appliances might have some acceptable deals, I know tech deals are rubbish on BF these days but thought stuff like this might be OK.
Now winter is approaching it's hard to dry clothes outside and and it takes ages indoors unless we put the heating on which obviously is expensive these days. I'm going to pretend this is to save money and not because we were spoiled by having a tumble dryer when on holiday last month :)
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We recently bought a heatpump dryer. I've been looking for the past few months and keeping an eye on prices. I couldn't find any black Friday deals which represented a real saving over actual selling prices in the past few weeks/months. All sales I saw were artificial savings advertised over RRP or where prices were recently hiked, only to drop back to the previous price.

I saw offers on small capacity or less efficient models with genuine savings, but the savings were only small.

I ended up just ordering from Very and taking a new customer 12 month credit deal to get 20% off, then paying it off immediately.
 
With our self-build i5-6600k; 16GB DDR4; RX 580; ~2TB of storage space over three drives showing "red" for most partitions on our ~9 year old gaming pc that is only just beginning to show its age in newer games, I'm looking at what pre-built DDR5 RTX 4060 (or AMD equivalent) tower unit deals are out there... Scary how our old pc cost <£600 and my now dead X99 '14 Black Friday special cost ~£600 from OCuk, but a modern pre-built will be ~£900+! :eek:
Sadly, unlike in Dec '14, with long covid I'm in no fit shape to cope with putting one build together, nevermind the two I did back then.

Our Surface Pro 4 is showing its age too, kept mulling over getting an RTX 3060 gaming laptop as a replacement, but now thinking an Android tablet plus new gaming desktop might be the way forward.

I'm getting drawn towards gadgets/things that help keep people warm to give as family gifts, given electric/gas costs. Throws; hand warmers; feet warmers etc.

... Shocking how much mental energy this Black Friday bargain searching takes!
 
Where are people getting these invite deals? Just searched my email, been a Prime member for years, probably the beginning and the last invite stuff I’ve had are for associate stuff in 2018 and aws in 2019 :(
 
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UberTiger said:
Where are people getting these invite deals? Just searched my email, been a Prime member for years, probably the beginning and the last invite stuff I’ve had are for associate stuff in 2018 and aws in 2019 :(
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Was thinking the same here. Have been a Prime member for ages and have never even heard of these invite deals until today.
 
Still very wary of the Black Friday con though.

I bought a Sandisk Extreme Pro 2TB portable HDD for my photography back in October for £157 from Amazon.

It's currently on at 'half price' at £172! Hmmmmm
 
UberTiger said:
Where are people getting these invite deals? Just searched my email, been a Prime member for years, probably the beginning and the last invite stuff I’ve had are for associate stuff in 2018 and aws in 2019 :(
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You needed to click on the link on the selling page to request an invite. Then it is just a waiting game to see if you get a link.

I always browse hotukdeals now and again. 99% of the time it is absolute junk but you do get the odd gem now and again.
 
Got a CNC router (Genmitsu 4040pro) and adapter collet for my trimmer router. CNC was straight from the manufacturer for £469 inc del and import fees (usually £100+ more), and the collet was on amazon (not black friday deal unfortunately). Now just have to get a good extraction system set up.
 
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doodah said:
Any good deals with Lightroom or Microsofit's family plan?
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Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan 20GB: Photoshop + Lightroom | 1 Year | PC/Mac | Download | hotukdeals

www.hotukdeals.com www.hotukdeals.com

Cheapest in years.

Sadly i bought it for £81 on sunday thinking it wouldn't drop lower and redeemed the code already.

On the other hand, a cpu cooler i bought dropped £3 since Tuesday. I asked the retailer to refund me the difference. They said they couldn't do that, but instead refunded me the whole amount and told me to keep the cooler. It's gone down as not received.
 
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My contract with Sky's deals ends early December. They have a deal with Sky Glass. Having Sky Glass and other deals meaning my bill has gone down by £22 a month. That's with the cost of the SG at £14pcm for 3 years - got £150 knocked off the SG too. My current TV, which was my Nanan's before she moved into the care home, has a load of dead pixels in the bottom right corner which has spread. It's about 1.5cm x 3cm. She kept having falls the year before she was admitted to the care home. Guessing one of her falls damaged the pixels.

Watching some TV and the dead pixels are starting to annoy me.
 
DB_SamX said:

Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan 20GB: Photoshop + Lightroom | 1 Year | PC/Mac | Download | hotukdeals

www.hotukdeals.com www.hotukdeals.com

Cheapest in years.

Sadly i bought it for £81 on sunday thinking it wouldn't drop lower and redeemed the code already.

On the other hand, a cpu cooler i bought dropped £3 since Tuesday. I asked the retailer to refund me the difference. They said they couldn't do that, but instead refunded me the whole amount and told me to keep the cooler. It's gone down as not received.
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Thanks - assume any one can buy the voucher and redeem it to an account of their choosing? I'm currently abroad and can't sign into my Amazon - silly OTP text not coming through (I might turn it off - causes more trouble than it's worth).

Edit - never mind, eventually came through.
 
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