Black Friday. Do You Fall For It?

[Fudbeer 12]

I worked in (electrical) retail for a good many years and will give an outline of how it used to work, its changed a little but many of the principles are the same.

 

When an event is on be it Sales, bank holidays or black Fridays you basically have 3 types of offer.

 

Firstly you have the vast majority of products which will either have a very small price change or no change at all but often a new sale ticket.

 

Secondly you will have what appear to be the best deals these are products which will show massive sales savings maybe half price.These look good but are usually product bought in specially for the sale and sold at a ridiculously high price for a month or so before to get around the legal rules for pricing.

 

Then you have a very small amount of items which are real bargains maybe just a dozen or so out of thousands of lines, they make very little margin and sales staff will use every tactic to switch sell you as these products usually sell out very quickly particularly online.

 

The majority of sales come from the first group which sees a huge uplift in sales with the extra people in stores despite little if any extra saving. 

 

 

 

 

[Ontarian1981 10]

 What surprises me most is that the UK stores have a Black Friday at all when you don't even have a Thanksgiving. Lol . Commercialism running riot. 

 I thought it was bad enough doing it in Canada, but at least Canada does have a Thnksgiving albeit 6 weeks before the US one. But even we have the Black Friday sale at the same time as the US one. Mind you, Canada would have to have a Black Tuesday, as our Thanksgiving is always the 2nd Monday in October.

[jaffa1 10]

No, never fell for this or anything like it. I buy when I need something and shop around for the best price but it seems there are a lot of gullible s  out there.

[nikki-red 307]

I got £300 off an iPhone XR in the O2 black friday event.  A massive bargain. Theyve changed the deal now tho so I was lucky to get it when I did.

[Fudbeer 12]

2 hours ago, nikki-red said:

I got £300 off an iPhone XR in the O2 black friday event.  A massive bargain. Theyve changed the deal now tho so I was lucky to get it when I did.

Ohh you were lucky there I saw that and was tempted as its way cheaper than all the competition, they obviously sold far more than expected as they withdrew the deal after 1 day despite saying it was on till Dec 12.Lots of negative feedback about them removing it online too.

[nikki-red 307]

6 hours ago, Fudbeer said:

Ohh you were lucky there I saw that and was tempted as its way cheaper than all the competition, they obviously sold far more than expected as they withdrew the deal after 1 day despite saying it was on till Dec 12.Lots of negative feedback about them removing it online too.

I think the main mistake they made was selling it with a rolling airtime contract. Everyone just cancelled it as soon as they received the phone.

[GreenyGreen 10]

Look forward to it, but rarely buy anything.

[melthebell 862]

afraid so, bought a recent lp by an american prog rock band last night, tbf been after it for about a year, thought it had sold out twice, then checked mi emails and there was a 50% off code from em, and they had just 6 left lol

More thanksgiving than black friday tbh i think.

Instead of $19.99 it became $9.99 BUT with US shipping (which is now completely stupid) it became £22 (but that includes the shipping and is about what youd pay for an lp these days anyway so.......

Plus i also got the flac version as its off bandcamp

Edited November 29, 2019 by melthebell

[Pettytom 1]

Black Friday is old hat. 
 

Hydrogen Friday is where it’s at.

 

Take a look. I’m sure that some of our more “alternative thinking” members will be buying

 

https://qlifetoday.com/blackfriday/?fbclid=IwAR0mo8-bvOnjVJk2w1zPy-2ys4TVo6z4dMqXrw64dtsNwCj5fMGFCzkR8EM

[crookesjoe 10]

How is it a con? If you can save a few quid on a purchase you would be buying anyway, why not?

 

This place is crazy at times, people complaining about discounted goods??  I really hope I never end up being so bitter and negative.