Only thing I’ll do to celebrate Black Friday is playing Megadeth’s Good Mourning/Black Friday nonstop.
That’s basically how ‘sales’ work worldwide.
This is so common abroad, and sadly Finland is getting up-to-date with many global trends
Name and shame.
Isn’t this, like, illegal?Â
In Portugal they have to show the sale price in comparison to the lowest price in the previous 30 days.
Give us the name of shops to avoid
Hinta.fi has your back
This is one of those things that is just a hard issue to legislate. Shops will *always* be profit-driven so any attempt to combat tricks like these will have to implement a solution that makes the preferred solution the most profitable one, which is easier said than done. The seller is incentivized to figure out a way to game any system as much as possible, so at best we’ll always be plugging up holes that sellers have discovered.
And unfortunately because sellers are in competition with each other it means that if a seller doesn’t exploit the system there is nothing stopping someone less scrupulous from taking advantage so not trying to play the system is indirectly punished too.
So is this daily (bad news) Yle bot?
More like Älä osta päivä to me
Corporations are evil..
Cheap Black Friday items are commonly just cheaper-made also. Really check the small print on model numbers if you’re buying like a TV or something electrical. Some companies have been making Black Friday versions of their popular goods for years now.
Capitalism breeds efficiency.
Hm, yeah, in Germany they just make up prices that are way too high, say 70% off and surprise its the normal price. Now in Finland, too, it seems.
Well that basically defeats the purpose and nobody will have an incentive to buy.
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Only thing I’ll do to celebrate Black Friday is playing Megadeth’s Good Mourning/Black Friday nonstop.
That’s basically how ‘sales’ work worldwide.
This is so common abroad, and sadly Finland is getting up-to-date with many global trends
Name and shame.
Isn’t this, like, illegal?Â
In Portugal they have to show the sale price in comparison to the lowest price in the previous 30 days.
Give us the name of shops to avoid
Hinta.fi has your back
This is one of those things that is just a hard issue to legislate. Shops will *always* be profit-driven so any attempt to combat tricks like these will have to implement a solution that makes the preferred solution the most profitable one, which is easier said than done. The seller is incentivized to figure out a way to game any system as much as possible, so at best we’ll always be plugging up holes that sellers have discovered.
And unfortunately because sellers are in competition with each other it means that if a seller doesn’t exploit the system there is nothing stopping someone less scrupulous from taking advantage so not trying to play the system is indirectly punished too.
So is this daily (bad news) Yle bot?
More like Älä osta päivä to me
Corporations are evil..
Cheap Black Friday items are commonly just cheaper-made also. Really check the small print on model numbers if you’re buying like a TV or something electrical. Some companies have been making Black Friday versions of their popular goods for years now.
Capitalism breeds efficiency.
Hm, yeah, in Germany they just make up prices that are way too high, say 70% off and surprise its the normal price. Now in Finland, too, it seems.
Well that basically defeats the purpose and nobody will have an incentive to buy.
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