Have you seen any genuine Black Friday bargains? Apart from a Pixel 6a for €349 and the Pixel 6 for €420, nothing has really caught my eye

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  2. I got a few things I’ve had in my basket on Amazon for a while. A Karcher window vacuum that had €40 off and a Bissell hoover steamer thing that had €55 off. Neither were “must buys” but I kept an eye on them just in case they went down in a lightening sale on Amazon or eventually Black Friday

  8. To be fair, had this happen to me with an actual genuine sale which suprised me. Bought a TV for €899 and it was €839 on Black Friday. A bit gutted as its a bit of a difference.

  12. Nike has been running 25% of sitewide , including for on sale items, such a bargin.

    Bought a gilete thats usually 109 euros for 54 euros, they had an initial discount on, then i applied the 25% off code

  13. I’ve had Carcassonne on my Amazon wishlist for about a year. I could easily afford it at £42 but after something is on my wishlist for a while I tend it forget about it.

    Got an email to say it was £18 on Black Friday so I bought it. Not a massive saving but I was happy out.

  14. I bought a dash cam on amazon for £35 6 months ago now during black friday its on sale for £46 down from £76.

  17. Funny that about the pixel 6a. I bought one in August for €350 off Vodafone. So even that rare bargain in the OP isn’t a new bargain.

    I was shopping for a gaming laptop and watching for three weeks. No actual sale happened, just some re-arranging of things and smoke and mirrors with coupon codes and slightly reduced odd stock in colours/specs that nobody wants.

    Conor Pope made a good point (even though I’m sick of looking and hearing him in every radio and TV station) that there’s absolutely no incentive for places to give you a bargain during their busiest time.

  18. I always check the price of things I want before Black Friday then if they’re actually on sale I’ll buy it.

    I buy beauty products from Space NK and they had 35% off for the past few days, so got what I wanted for €50 instead of €75.

  19. Nest hubs were half price. Got a few of those for the new house.

    In reality BF sales aren’t sales except for a handful of places with large margins.

    A lot of places list and mark up items well above MSRP for a few weeks before they get stock in. This means that by the time they get stock, they can mark down the price and list it as a sale throughout the year. Same sale price happens at BF and everyone thinks its a bargain.

    In the US, a lot of items are manufactured solely for BF. They are made to the lowest possible standard so they can be sold at rock bottom prices. These aren’t bargains people are getting, they just pay less for shitty quality.

    The best things to buy are digital assets. I used to wait for BF to renew my VMWare Workstation licence, or wait for Steam sales to pick up games.

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