Is this a Friday lie?

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Just over a week ago my wife and I visited a well known electrical store to look at sone freezers. We saw one for £99. We decided to purchase the freezer on 'black' Friday or Saturday. We were not really interested in any sales or discounts, as £99 is pretty cheap anyway.
When we went to the store yesterday we envisaged the price to be the same. However, we were startled to find that a sign on the freezer in question stated Black Friday price save £20. The price was still £99.
Is this black Friday event a con or a hoax?
 
Bit of both, things are marked as "reduced" that have already been reduced with an added "black friday" tag..

And some stock that they cannot ship or are end-of life have massive discounts.
 
bit of both. there are a few good offers out there but for the most part its smoke and mirrors setup to fool the guillable into thinking they have got an "bargain"
 
It's the same as every other sale ever, some good bargains hidden amongst a sea of crap with discounts referring to pre sale pricing months ago.
 
There's an exaggerated was price for ram on here. I mentioned it in the black Friday deals section.

I'm guessing you just have to keep your eyes open.
 
Kenai said:
It's the same as every other sale ever, some good bargains hidden amongst a sea of crap with discounts referring to pre sale pricing months ago.
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exactly, I don't know why people struggle with this concept and expect insane price cuts across the board. Upto you as a buyer to do research, just like any purchase sale or not.
 
Most ‘Black Friday’ deals are a con it even stated so in the paper when they looked into most well known retailers deals 70% of the so called Black Friday deals had already been offered in January and the summer July sales.
The few things i was interested in were either only reduced to the same price they always are in the sales or the original price was inflated. I’ve been looking at a new laptop from Dell that has been £499 for the last 2 months and I seen that they had 15% off so I thought great I’ll buy one only to click on the item and now see the original price was now £529 :mad: to offset the 15%.
Same with My protein. Big advertisement with “up to 70% off” so I log in and fill my basket only to find anything decent is 20% off which is available nearly all year round anyway.
The gullible UK public love it though and que for hours to then fight each other over Polaroid Tv’s in Asda or other crap they don’t need. We will be celebrating Thanksgiving aswell to go with it before long.
 
Glaucus said:
:confused: why would you expect more discount compared to other sales.
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The whole “Black Friday” myth is supposed to be the sale of all sales were you get the most incredible one off deals that’s how it’s always been thought of in the US.
It’s now the busiest shopping day of the year in the Uk and people get far more excited over it even though they could have just bought the item for the same price in the summer sales minus the crowds of people queuing and fighting each other.
 
Dav4 said:
The whole “Black Friday” myth is supposed to be the sale of all sales were you get the most incredible one off deals that’s how it’s always been thought of in the US.
It’s now the busiest shopping day of the year in the Uk and people get far more excited over it even though they could have just bought the item for the same price in the summer sales minus the crowds of people queuing and fighting each other.
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yes one offs, not every item. there are a fair bit of 4 items for sale at a massive discount.
 
I actually did quite well this year though half the money I spent I hadn't intended to - several smaller items at about 20% discount and got a higher end powerbank with AC output at a genuine 40% off its previous lowest price and a 3D printer at almost half its previous lowest price though annoyingly they took another £10 off for 12 hours about 30 minutes after I ordered.
 
could well be a con, IIRC they only need to have had it advertised at the higher price once to be able to claim that discount

some places almost perpetually have "discounts"

it is a bit irritating to see them selling it as some special Black Friday discount when it isn't
 
lunar said:
Just over a week ago my wife and I visited a well known electrical store to look at sone freezers. We saw one for £99. We decided to purchase the freezer on 'black' Friday or Saturday. We were not really interested in any sales or discounts, as £99 is pretty cheap anyway.
When we went to the store yesterday we envisaged the price to be the same. However, we were startled to find that a sign on the freezer in question stated Black Friday price save £20. The price was still £99.
Is this black Friday event a con or a hoax?
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Sometime yes, sometimes no.

I have been watching the prices of graphics cards recently. On a well known site, the Black Friday "deal" on dozens of graphics cards was to keep the price the same, add a crossed-out price 25% higher and call continuing to charge the same price a 25% discount. Absolutely stone cold lying.

Black Friday is at least as famous for deceit about discounts as it is for discounts.
 
Majority of sales are a con, very rarely do you get an amazing deal that differs from sales prior or after.

Currys are terrible for inflating the original sales price and will constantly change the amount "saved" by comparing to different periods of the products price history (if you look at the ticket it will say between 2 dates). Amazon are also very sneaky with the percentage saved as they base it on the RRP not the previous item price, that's why extensions like keepa price checker and the camelizer are very handy to check the actual price history.

I'd say most of the big savings I've had have come from retailers messing up but still honoring the price mistake or discount codes stacking which probably shouldn't have. Always feels nice when you seem to get one up on the big retailers. :D
 
Rroff said:
I actually did quite well this year though half the money I spent I hadn't intended to - several smaller items at about 20% discount and got a higher end powerbank with AC output at a genuine 40% off its previous lowest price and a 3D printer at almost half its previous lowest price though annoyingly they took another £10 off for 12 hours about 30 minutes after I ordered.
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And that line there is why Black Friday exists.
 
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