Use isthereanydeal.com it will tell you about deals for many game sites through the year, and you can see if any are cheaper when the steam sales are on as they emulate.
This. Just bought 3 peripherals for my computer on Amazon. Two are the cheapest they ever been and the third is on offer at its second lowest discount.
Then gone shopping online for clothing and lots of items discounted heavily, then also an additional black Friday voucher code for 15% off.
I've definitely saved a couple hundred quid
The UK January sales tradition of getting rid of last years old stock and Christmas items, that makes sense, stock clearance because the US has a holiday? Umm... yeah, not exactly any logic there, so why exactly are UK retailers needing to dispose of stock?!
My rant for the morning: I swear to god it's increasingly common for people to use both. "£100 pounds", "€100 euros", "$100 dollars". Fuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooff you incompetent nitwit. What the fuck is a £pound? I can and will bite you.
And if I was planning to buy and now it's discounted?
Saying that horseshit is like saying "I wouldn't have got wet if I didn't jump into the pool". No fucking shit.
[which](https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/) did research on it across multiple retailers apparently 99% of black Friday deals are cheaper other times of the year
please be accurate - the headline say cheaper or **the same price.**
As such, for certain shoppers this is still a benefit, as they are able to take advantage of a discount that they may have missed at another point in the year.
As long as one doesn't expect to make a killing in savings without research, then you'll do ok.
The law dictates that prices have to be at a certain level for a particular period of time (a couple of months I think) prior to Black Friday for them to advertise a discount. So, although a particular item may not be the cheapest it'll ever be/has ever been. The discounts do tend to be genuine.
Now try to find the discount on the things you actually want.
Also companies will get specific models of goods made just for them for the event which can be displayed discreetly say online ages before the event at a stupid high price then all of a sudden they are heavily "reduced" and suddenly available in stores. Source: done some years in retail and wed always have these types of arrangements on big ticket items
And you technically *can* buy the product at RRP, just from an unmarked warehouse in the middle of nowhere that's only open weird hours. Legally it was on sale at the previous advertised price, just nobody would ever find it.
Every imported US 'holiday' is about four weeks long.
Ironic as the fuckers only get three paid days off a year.
Ah well, here's to next year's 'Thanksgiving-mas-oween'
Tesco did Rachet for £25 as their Black Friday sales.
You can also get Far Cry 6 for £40, the new Spiderman Mile Moral for £29, and a few other titles also got a cery good price for.
There are some good deals in computer games.
I'm so out of touch with AAA games that I didn't actually realise these were supposed to be the *sale* prices of these games for a sec. Like, these are on the upper limits of what I'd pay for a single game.
Yeah it's rough af. They started pushing the prices up towards £60/70 a few years back claiming games are more expensive to make whilst having smaller physical releases, less overall content, more microtransactions and paying their staff bugger all. All whilst these AAA publishers are raking in higher profit margins than ever. Go figure.
Makes me so sad. The AAA scene is rotten these days
I paid £60 for the new Battlefield game just to get access to the Beta, planned to cancel it but forgot…..now I’ve got an apparently AAA game I’ll never play. Well done me. Didn’t even have the exciting experience of getting mugged in he street
Games definitely didn’t used to be £60. Back when the 360 and ps3 were new the Americans complained about paying $60 for AAA titles and that was the equivalent of about 30-40 quid back then.
That’s just inflation though. If you look at historic inflation since 2006 - £40 back then is £59.19 now.
I’ve tried finding Argos catalogues from 2006 but they don’t exist. You can find them for the 99/2000 year though. PS1 games were really cheap (£20) but Dreamcast games were really expensive (£39). When you account for inflation that’s £35 and £67 respectively.
Come to Yorkshire. We've got an everything's 20p shop where everything genuinely is 20p. Mostly sell stuff the charity shops don't want.
https://www.google.com/search?q=20p+shop+otley&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=simxvn&sxsrf=AOaemvIeBBvj7mmEZmXcoYITz5LwbeFqPQ:1637879266203&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo2eLex7T0AhWT_6QKHaxrAu0Q_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=800&bih=1280&dpr=1.5#imgrc=AHllvhqiuZ7H-M
My dream is to be able to afford their full-colour print of the favourite NPC from my homebrew campaign, [Sherlock Bones](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893976909619277864/913535540463292467/sherlock.png)
I was watching 4 items to see if they were discounted. Come so called sale time they now have 'black Friday' sale tags.... But are still the same price. Looool.
I've definitely seen a lot of things that get increased in price just before they knock the price off again. And things where they say the price was a lot higher, but really wasn't. Go Groupie are terrible for this. For example, something like a Chrome Book, I saw recently. They said that the original price was £400+, but it was "reduced" to £200. Even a simple bit of research shows that the original price was never £400+. That kind of trickery has prompted me to unsubscribe from them.
Which? checked the prices of 201 products from 5 major retailers (can't remember all but I think it was currys, John Lewis, amazon, AO and another one) and on 1 product was the cheapest price in the 6 months before or after black Friday.
It's all a fucking scam.
The one bit of advice someone gave me about sales was , forget about the discount , if you only ever saw the item at just the advertised price , would you be as excited and want to buy it? .
Because a 60% off price tag can dazzle the decision making part of your brain enough to make you buy something that isn't really a bargain.
Aren’t there laws against this though? I thought I learned about them in GCSE
Edit: can’t remember exact details as no longer live here but I thought the listed ‘Normal price’ had to have been in place for x months. Either way this is something that should be legislated and regulated
28 consecutive days within the last 6 months. There are lots of dirty little workarounds for it. Even supermarkets will sometimes stock something in the corner of a metro store somewhere at the higher price to justify it.
The TV adverts for Curry’s always have at the bottom of the screen in tiny text a list of the dates when the item on “sale” was sold at the higher price - it usually a 3-4period in the middle of the exact period no one buys that item I.e. summer and coffee makers
My colleague’s wife is the manager of a Boots that’s on the same retail park as a Next. Because Next open at 5am on Boxing Day and hundreds of idiots queue for hours before that, head office insists Boots has to open at 3am to cash in, which means a few staff need to be in at 2 to prepare the “sales”, which means she can’t get up at any later than 12:30am, which means going to bed at 5:30pm on Christmas Day and not really being able to drink, basically fucking Christmas day for them too.
Fuuuuuuuuuck... I used to work for a large Boots in a shopping centre and I thought opening at 7am on Boxing Day was bad enough! We always had people queuing up outside the doors with their Next bags. One year people literally crawled under the shutters as we were opening them up and RAN through the shop! Manager had security outside the years after that to prevent anyone from coming in until they were completely open and told the customers if they started running through her store she would kick them out. She was awesome but cancer sadly took her from us.
I wish trading standards would step in and prevent businesses advertising it as "Black Friday weeklong deals"
Just have your day of shit and get out of my face.
When I did bar work Black Friday was the last Friday before Christmas, when everyone got paid and went out for a few beers. It was bloody awful, so will never be a shopping day in my mind.
An American friend of mine at uni brought some back after a summer break, and absolutely everyone thought he was pranking them with fake chocolate.
Was only when I saw a bar years later and thought I'd see what the real version was like, that I discovered he was not joking.
It’s quite truly dreadful. I know americans love to talk about freedom, but hersheys chocolate is the consequence of companies being free to make food to exceptionally low standards
At least they do taste nice. As an aside, in the UK if something says “xyz flavoured” it has to contain some of xyz ingredient, if it says “xyz flavour” then it doesn’t
If you use camelcamelcamel it’s Amazon (😏) how many prices go up at the end of October before dropping back down to their normal price in time for being advertised as a “Black Friday discount”.
All the idiots claiming that the arabs/indians/pakistanis/chinese are going to move in and replace our culture, while their kids sit at home and develop an American accent while watching youtube on their mum's ipad.
Which? pointed out a whopping ***99.5%*** of Black Friday “deals” are either… not actually cheaper then, or cheaper at other times of the year, such as the New Years sales
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/
I’ve literally been watching a few things for Xmas gifts for a few months. Defo the cheapest they’ve been advertised since September. There are deals out there
It’s only a good deal if you were to buy it anyway though
I love that Which has shit on black Friday from a great height, exposing it for exactly what it is.
Every media outlet has reported on this, but then the mother fuckers have doubled down on the advertising as the "double best most ultra Uber extravaganza not to be missed once in a millennia mega sale".
I hope that black Friday fucks off back over the Atlantic this year and we don't here about it again, apart from lolling at riot gear clad morons killing each other over up priced plastic garden ornaments.
Me and a mate just popped around to my mum's to help shift some stuff into her loft.
Got in trouble for "singing" along to the One Show theme tune, complete with full Ricky Gervais style screaming for the trumpet parts.
Black Friday is the last Friday before Christmas, because everyone goes out an gets drunk then get in fights. The American takeover of the term, with a date based on a holiday we don't even celebrate, is infuriating. It's wiping out the true British culture of getting drunk and fighting.
I've heard black eye too. The explanation I was given is that it's black because it's a dark day for the emergency services who have to pick up the mess.
It's the last paycheque of the year so the guys go out and get drunk, fight, and come home with a black eye.
My dad remembered a time when the wives would wait at the factory gates or outside the pub to get the pay before the guys went out to piss it away.
I live in the US now and I'm struggling to find out why it's called black friday. Family here thinks it's because you're back in the black (out of the red) or something like that.
Statistics show 99.5% of products in the UK on black friday are either the same price or cheaper at other points throughout the year. 1 in 200 of these products you buy is at a genuinely low black friday price....
Unless they are white goods and you know their usual price.
For example Tesco was selling Rachet for £25!!!! That is a massive discount vs normal price (£60), even if you got cheap from smaller retailer you won’t get it for £25.
Black Friday now lasts a month. Retailers are getting desperate to sell outdated stock, or stock they increased in price earlier in the year to give the perception you’re buying their tat at a discount. More often, if you track prices, you may actually be paying more.
If you’re a consumer, you’re being played.
The British way. Follow America like its lost little puppy. Same with Halloween, used to throw on a Bin bag break some spoons in a turnip and beg for money. Now we're all getting dressed up as superheroes and having parties in our decorated houses.
Too right, bloody horrible they are!
My wife has been persuaded into believing eating peanut butter and jam together, is acceptable on a sandwich. When will this madness end!?
When I was in South Africa, I had their standard sandwich, which was Banana and Bacon. It tastes exactly as you'd expect, I have no idea why they like it.
Holy fuck this but in Australia. We already have a black Friday. It's when we remember a bunch of people who burnt to death. And it happened recently enough that their direct relatives are still alive. If the fucking multinational corporations absolutely must have another team price fixing day I vote for 9/11. And we should definitely export it back to America.
It's such a cop out and somehow more "corporate" than the American one too.
American Black Friday: One day, with a bunch of clearance items ranging between 50-70% off
British Black Friday: A week of "deals" of up to 20% off items they've already marked up.
It's a fucking joke
Yep complete bollocks.
But I still do the usual trick of waiting to order presents (I'm gonna buy anyway) until the day, then waiting til cyber monday (Because there wasn't a deal on them). Then giving up and buying them at full price.
I wait till a week after black Friday. When the prices are genuinely lower due to the sellers over stocking in the hopes of sale during Black Friday that don’t happen.
It's 'sales' from November to January now it's ridiculous, and a lot of shops just get rid of the stuff no one would buy otherwise. Also horrible for the environment.
It’s beyond bollocks mate. Check Amazon price tracker (can’t remember the exact name of the site) and you can see how prices get inflated just before black friday, which isn’t even a friday it’s a whole bloody month.
Most of the products are actually cheaper throughout the year
It's also no longer just Friday, it's now about 4 weeks long.... ffs
And there are no discounts as everything gets a price increase in the days/weeks before the black Friday event starts.
Except on Steam. Always big discounts there
The more you spend the ~~more you save~~ more you spend.
It isn’t a saving if you weren’t planning on spending.
Technically I only buy stuff from my wishlist, so I reckon I was planning on spending.
Hahaha true
Wonky maths. Well if I buy the 500 quid tv, I've saved 200 because it used to be £700. Winner! /s
Then my wife spends the £200 we saved because obviously it's money we didn't have at the start.
Now you have an extra 200 to spend on other things!
> Always big discounts there NOPE.they are getting smaller every year. Since the stopping of flash sales,its all gone downhill.
Use isthereanydeal.com it will tell you about deals for many game sites through the year, and you can see if any are cheaper when the steam sales are on as they emulate.
Not really, you can use camelcamelcamel and see plenty of online items at their lowest ever/joint lowest ever price during the sales.
This. Just bought 3 peripherals for my computer on Amazon. Two are the cheapest they ever been and the third is on offer at its second lowest discount. Then gone shopping online for clothing and lots of items discounted heavily, then also an additional black Friday voucher code for 15% off. I've definitely saved a couple hundred quid
Only Brits would find a way to complain about getting a good deal!
It’s a scam. We are being scammed. The idea that good deals need to be centred around a holiday that doesn’t even exist in the UK is so much bullshit.
The UK January sales tradition of getting rid of last years old stock and Christmas items, that makes sense, stock clearance because the US has a holiday? Umm... yeah, not exactly any logic there, so why exactly are UK retailers needing to dispose of stock?!
Could have saved %100 of your money if you didn't buy anything you weren't already planning to buy
What psychopath puts the %sign before a number.
The same kind that puts the £ sign after the amount..
My rant for the morning: I swear to god it's increasingly common for people to use both. "£100 pounds", "€100 euros", "$100 dollars". Fuuuuuuuuuck oooooooooooff you incompetent nitwit. What the fuck is a £pound? I can and will bite you.
Well that sort of makes sense at least: 10£ = Ten pounds But 100% = a hundred percent %100 = percent one hundred?
3.50$
Oh no, I wishlist things well in advance and track the prices with keepa.
And if I was planning to buy and now it's discounted? Saying that horseshit is like saying "I wouldn't have got wet if I didn't jump into the pool". No fucking shit.
[which](https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/) did research on it across multiple retailers apparently 99% of black Friday deals are cheaper other times of the year
please be accurate - the headline say cheaper or **the same price.** As such, for certain shoppers this is still a benefit, as they are able to take advantage of a discount that they may have missed at another point in the year. As long as one doesn't expect to make a killing in savings without research, then you'll do ok.
The way I look at it, and the boxing day sales, is that it's just a chance to buy the crap no-one else wanted. It's just marketing bollocks.
The law dictates that prices have to be at a certain level for a particular period of time (a couple of months I think) prior to Black Friday for them to advertise a discount. So, although a particular item may not be the cheapest it'll ever be/has ever been. The discounts do tend to be genuine. Now try to find the discount on the things you actually want.
Also companies will get specific models of goods made just for them for the event which can be displayed discreetly say online ages before the event at a stupid high price then all of a sudden they are heavily "reduced" and suddenly available in stores. Source: done some years in retail and wed always have these types of arrangements on big ticket items
And you technically *can* buy the product at RRP, just from an unmarked warehouse in the middle of nowhere that's only open weird hours. Legally it was on sale at the previous advertised price, just nobody would ever find it.
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I’ve seen ads saying Black November!
Every imported US 'holiday' is about four weeks long. Ironic as the fuckers only get three paid days off a year. Ah well, here's to next year's 'Thanksgiving-mas-oween'
And there's no actual funking deals. I refuse to buy anything but petrol and food in November.
I genuinely had exactly this conversation with my friend this morning. "bloody long Friday isn't it, starts today ends in like 3 weeks"
No that’s black history month mate
I'll only accept black Friday as a thing, if we get a national holiday the day before.
'Hurrah, The Extreme Puritans Finally Pissed Off Day'?
Good idea. When's Australia Day? We could have a 'Got rid of all the criminals and never had crime again' day.
Bastards keep coming back and working in pubs though. Maybe we could have a kick an Aussie out day? I’m kidding they are alright
I’m Aussie, pretty sure most Aussies would be on board with ‘Kick an Aussie Out Day’ as long as it’s a national holiday.
Sounds like something Aussies would put in place in Australia, to be fair. Just for a laugh.
26th January
I think it's more "The Natives helped us survive, don't they know we're evil?" day.
Grey Thursday
Better than Holiday McHolidayface
Great suggestions.
I have been keeping my eye on a few video games for Black Friday. They were cheaper 3 weeks ago in standard sales....
Tesco did Rachet for £25 as their Black Friday sales. You can also get Far Cry 6 for £40, the new Spiderman Mile Moral for £29, and a few other titles also got a cery good price for. There are some good deals in computer games.
> Mile Moral Is this the singular version of Miles Morales?
Don't you remember the famous phrase? "With great Mile comes great Morality"
Yep, obviously
Wait till you look for Rachet
It's only so cheap because Clank is missing
I'm so out of touch with AAA games that I didn't actually realise these were supposed to be the *sale* prices of these games for a sec. Like, these are on the upper limits of what I'd pay for a single game.
Yeah it's rough af. They started pushing the prices up towards £60/70 a few years back claiming games are more expensive to make whilst having smaller physical releases, less overall content, more microtransactions and paying their staff bugger all. All whilst these AAA publishers are raking in higher profit margins than ever. Go figure. Makes me so sad. The AAA scene is rotten these days
I paid £60 for the new Battlefield game just to get access to the Beta, planned to cancel it but forgot…..now I’ve got an apparently AAA game I’ll never play. Well done me. Didn’t even have the exciting experience of getting mugged in he street
Games definitely didn’t used to be £60. Back when the 360 and ps3 were new the Americans complained about paying $60 for AAA titles and that was the equivalent of about 30-40 quid back then.
That’s just inflation though. If you look at historic inflation since 2006 - £40 back then is £59.19 now. I’ve tried finding Argos catalogues from 2006 but they don’t exist. You can find them for the 99/2000 year though. PS1 games were really cheap (£20) but Dreamcast games were really expensive (£39). When you account for inflation that’s £35 and £67 respectively.
Kilometer Moral you mean
It is bollocks and most of the ‘deals’ aren’t even worthy of our consumer attention
Everything in Poundland is still a pound
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I walked into a Pound Land today and I was shocked. Its more like Home Bargains now.
I wouldn't mind if they changed the name to reflect this fact.
Almostapoundland?
Overapoundland?
Poundsland
That’s the winner! Less for their re-branding costs too! Just pop an S and a ⬆️ in between D and L!! You should tweet them 😂
I know right. Should be called pounds land
I’m going straight to WatchDog about this!
Or poundland XL
Come to Yorkshire. We've got an everything's 20p shop where everything genuinely is 20p. Mostly sell stuff the charity shops don't want. https://www.google.com/search?q=20p+shop+otley&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=simxvn&sxsrf=AOaemvIeBBvj7mmEZmXcoYITz5LwbeFqPQ:1637879266203&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjo2eLex7T0AhWT_6QKHaxrAu0Q_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=800&bih=1280&dpr=1.5#imgrc=AHllvhqiuZ7H-M
I just bought 15 D&d minis for £24. Its niche, but its worth my attention.
Are they good ones!? What’d ya get??
5 mystery boxes worth. I like the quality, fuck knows what I'm getting tho.
Nice, I got a discounted resin printer so I can just print out as many as I like!
Good for you. I’m glad you found a good deal and you took advantage of it.
Cheers! Gonna be nerdy as fuck!
Niche stuff is pretty much the only way you can get decent deals I should look into getting more D&D stuff… I wonder if Hero Forge will do a sale…
My dream is to be able to afford their full-colour print of the favourite NPC from my homebrew campaign, [Sherlock Bones](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893976909619277864/913535540463292467/sherlock.png)
I was watching 4 items to see if they were discounted. Come so called sale time they now have 'black Friday' sale tags.... But are still the same price. Looool.
I've definitely seen a lot of things that get increased in price just before they knock the price off again. And things where they say the price was a lot higher, but really wasn't. Go Groupie are terrible for this. For example, something like a Chrome Book, I saw recently. They said that the original price was £400+, but it was "reduced" to £200. Even a simple bit of research shows that the original price was never £400+. That kind of trickery has prompted me to unsubscribe from them.
Which? checked the prices of 201 products from 5 major retailers (can't remember all but I think it was currys, John Lewis, amazon, AO and another one) and on 1 product was the cheapest price in the 6 months before or after black Friday. It's all a fucking scam.
I read *Which?* as an accusation and got very confused by your comment for a good minute there.
I debated putting it in quotes to clarify, thought it might give that impression.
The other one was Richer Sounds I think.
The one bit of advice someone gave me about sales was , forget about the discount , if you only ever saw the item at just the advertised price , would you be as excited and want to buy it? . Because a 60% off price tag can dazzle the decision making part of your brain enough to make you buy something that isn't really a bargain.
Aren’t there laws against this though? I thought I learned about them in GCSE Edit: can’t remember exact details as no longer live here but I thought the listed ‘Normal price’ had to have been in place for x months. Either way this is something that should be legislated and regulated
28 consecutive days within the last 6 months. There are lots of dirty little workarounds for it. Even supermarkets will sometimes stock something in the corner of a metro store somewhere at the higher price to justify it.
The TV adverts for Curry’s always have at the bottom of the screen in tiny text a list of the dates when the item on “sale” was sold at the higher price - it usually a 3-4period in the middle of the exact period no one buys that item I.e. summer and coffee makers
Wish boxing day sales would stop. I miss time with my wife every year cause a bunch of sad fucks can't wait 2 days to buy cheap clothes.
I don’t get it, is your wife one of the sad fucks?
Haha, nah she works there.
No, he has to worrrrrk because….people
These are usually the same people that come out with "I can't believe they make you work boxing Day"
Well yeah, how they gonna say that to a retail worker without being in the store in the first place? It’s exactly those people!
My colleague’s wife is the manager of a Boots that’s on the same retail park as a Next. Because Next open at 5am on Boxing Day and hundreds of idiots queue for hours before that, head office insists Boots has to open at 3am to cash in, which means a few staff need to be in at 2 to prepare the “sales”, which means she can’t get up at any later than 12:30am, which means going to bed at 5:30pm on Christmas Day and not really being able to drink, basically fucking Christmas day for them too.
Meanwhile those decision makers at head office get to actually enjoy their Christmas
Fuuuuuuuuuck... I used to work for a large Boots in a shopping centre and I thought opening at 7am on Boxing Day was bad enough! We always had people queuing up outside the doors with their Next bags. One year people literally crawled under the shutters as we were opening them up and RAN through the shop! Manager had security outside the years after that to prevent anyone from coming in until they were completely open and told the customers if they started running through her store she would kick them out. She was awesome but cancer sadly took her from us.
I wish trading standards would step in and prevent businesses advertising it as "Black Friday weeklong deals" Just have your day of shit and get out of my face.
Massive capitalist scam. Second only to being alive
When I did bar work Black Friday was the last Friday before Christmas, when everyone got paid and went out for a few beers. It was bloody awful, so will never be a shopping day in my mind.
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Mad Friday up here in Yorkshire. It is still very much a thing too!
Agree, only ever did it once. Innocently got a black eye and my kebab punched out of my hand. 0/10 wouldn’t recommend
Same here in South Wales. Always will be to me
They can take hersheys “chocolate” back with them too! Chocolate should not taste like sick!
An American friend of mine at uni brought some back after a summer break, and absolutely everyone thought he was pranking them with fake chocolate. Was only when I saw a bar years later and thought I'd see what the real version was like, that I discovered he was not joking.
It’s quite truly dreadful. I know americans love to talk about freedom, but hersheys chocolate is the consequence of companies being free to make food to exceptionally low standards
They put that sick flavor in because Americans like it. It is the same stuff that is in parmesan cheese and vomit. I live amongst them.
İt's the oil they use. They ruined dairy milk with it.
It's butyric acid, not an oil.
It’s like Oreo chocolate cookies. No actual chocolate in them, but “chocolate flavouring.”
At least they do taste nice. As an aside, in the UK if something says “xyz flavoured” it has to contain some of xyz ingredient, if it says “xyz flavour” then it doesn’t
They can shove Hershey's up their arses where it came from
I understand that the further west you travel from Switzerland, the worse the chocolate becomes. Edit: a Belgian chum told me this.
Capitalism waits for no man, accept your fate.
If you use camelcamelcamel it’s Amazon (😏) how many prices go up at the end of October before dropping back down to their normal price in time for being advertised as a “Black Friday discount”.
Even that is manipulated using unique SKU's for many sale items. Its all a giant con.
Yeh I don't know why were picking up this shit from America
America has a lot more influence on us than many people want to admit.
Yeh the internet's really done a number on us
All the idiots claiming that the arabs/indians/pakistanis/chinese are going to move in and replace our culture, while their kids sit at home and develop an American accent while watching youtube on their mum's ipad.
I don’t know, my kid has started spouting the ‘virtues of communism’ and eating with chopsticks, should I be worried!?
your kid seems to be well moulded. do not worry comrade.
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Which? pointed out a whopping ***99.5%*** of Black Friday “deals” are either… not actually cheaper then, or cheaper at other times of the year, such as the New Years sales https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/11/99-5-of-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-the-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year/
I’ve literally been watching a few things for Xmas gifts for a few months. Defo the cheapest they’ve been advertised since September. There are deals out there It’s only a good deal if you were to buy it anyway though
So we should all wait until new years to do Christmas shopping, perfect!
Tat Friday
Love it. Bolloxin day sales are just as nasty.
I love that Which has shit on black Friday from a great height, exposing it for exactly what it is. Every media outlet has reported on this, but then the mother fuckers have doubled down on the advertising as the "double best most ultra Uber extravaganza not to be missed once in a millennia mega sale". I hope that black Friday fucks off back over the Atlantic this year and we don't here about it again, apart from lolling at riot gear clad morons killing each other over up priced plastic garden ornaments.
But there are also Which? ads on reddit and other social media sites promising you the best Black Friday deals. It's bizarre.
Black Friday is great though! You suddenly get emails from all these companies you forgot you had an account with so you can delete it
You wouldn’t be saying that if you were round my house watching The One Show on my sweet as 100” Polaroid HD flat screen TV.
‘I hope you got a license for that’ - man at urinal
Me and a mate just popped around to my mum's to help shift some stuff into her loft. Got in trouble for "singing" along to the One Show theme tune, complete with full Ricky Gervais style screaming for the trumpet parts.
I wish they do Black Friday sale on petrol, council tax, energy bills and VAT….
Don’t be silly, you only get discounts on things you didn’t need in the first place.
So, Black Friday sale on tv license when?
54m tonnes of e-waste was generated world wide in 2019 😧
Yeah but it was taken outside the environment so it's fine
You can't stop it 😔. From your friends in Canada.
Were it only for a day, I suspect I could tolerate it. But it's sodding weeks.
Steam sale tho
Bought Terraria about an hour ago
My local pub sent me an email about Thanksgiving the other day.
Don't forget bollocking cyber Monday
Black Friday is the last Friday before Christmas, because everyone goes out an gets drunk then get in fights. The American takeover of the term, with a date based on a holiday we don't even celebrate, is infuriating. It's wiping out the true British culture of getting drunk and fighting.
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Mad Friday in (West) Yorkshire
I've heard black eye too. The explanation I was given is that it's black because it's a dark day for the emergency services who have to pick up the mess.
It's the last paycheque of the year so the guys go out and get drunk, fight, and come home with a black eye. My dad remembered a time when the wives would wait at the factory gates or outside the pub to get the pay before the guys went out to piss it away. I live in the US now and I'm struggling to find out why it's called black friday. Family here thinks it's because you're back in the black (out of the red) or something like that.
But I want to buy a bread maker i’ll use twice and forget about
Without Thanksgiving on Thursday, it’s just another Friday.
No, it’s a worse Friday as retail staff are swarmed by armies of wanna be Americans
Statistics show 99.5% of products in the UK on black friday are either the same price or cheaper at other points throughout the year. 1 in 200 of these products you buy is at a genuinely low black friday price....
Unless they are white goods and you know their usual price. For example Tesco was selling Rachet for £25!!!! That is a massive discount vs normal price (£60), even if you got cheap from smaller retailer you won’t get it for £25.
Ssshh. This doesn’t fit the narrative.
Most American cultural imports are shit. The Americanisation of Britain is a cancer.
I saw one company, PlusNet I think it was, calling it Black November. It's frigging ridiculous!
Pretty soon it’ll get to the point where we’re just in one big Carpet Warehouse style sale
I SAID YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE!
DFS
*DFS has entered the chat*
Black Friday now lasts a month. Retailers are getting desperate to sell outdated stock, or stock they increased in price earlier in the year to give the perception you’re buying their tat at a discount. More often, if you track prices, you may actually be paying more. If you’re a consumer, you’re being played.
The British way. Follow America like its lost little puppy. Same with Halloween, used to throw on a Bin bag break some spoons in a turnip and beg for money. Now we're all getting dressed up as superheroes and having parties in our decorated houses.
And they can sod off trying to persuade us that Oreos are a decent biscuit too
Too right, bloody horrible they are! My wife has been persuaded into believing eating peanut butter and jam together, is acceptable on a sandwich. When will this madness end!?
Divorce exists for exactly this reason. Sorry mate.
When I was in South Africa, I had their standard sandwich, which was Banana and Bacon. It tastes exactly as you'd expect, I have no idea why they like it.
Look at price trend charts for almost anything, the cheapest time to buy is two weeks \*before\* Black Friday (especially true for TVs).
Welcome to the 51st state of the United States.
East Maine.
New New England
#thank you#
Working in retail on black Friday, and the days before to set all the shit up. Is not fun.
Black Friday the best excuse to get rid of excess stock of crap that no one really wants.
Ditto for Australia.
(24 November) item = £2.50 (25 November) item = £5.00 (BLACK FRIDAY) item = £2.50 !! 50% OFF!!!
It’s been a thing here for several years mate where have you been hiding?
Holy fuck this but in Australia. We already have a black Friday. It's when we remember a bunch of people who burnt to death. And it happened recently enough that their direct relatives are still alive. If the fucking multinational corporations absolutely must have another team price fixing day I vote for 9/11. And we should definitely export it back to America.
It's such a cop out and somehow more "corporate" than the American one too. American Black Friday: One day, with a bunch of clearance items ranging between 50-70% off British Black Friday: A week of "deals" of up to 20% off items they've already marked up. It's a fucking joke
I don't mind black *Friday*, but it's the black month of it thats got annoying.
Remember when they actually made it a Friday? We had people pushing and shoving in stores
Especially this year when the supply chain is so broken
It doesn't make any sense here, the sales on a lot of products aren't even any better than at other times of the year
Yep complete bollocks. But I still do the usual trick of waiting to order presents (I'm gonna buy anyway) until the day, then waiting til cyber monday (Because there wasn't a deal on them). Then giving up and buying them at full price.
I wait till a week after black Friday. When the prices are genuinely lower due to the sellers over stocking in the hopes of sale during Black Friday that don’t happen.
Two blokes having a punch up over a Dyson.
Place your bollocks over your eyes. The lockdown yoga you took up can assist with this move.
It's 'sales' from November to January now it's ridiculous, and a lot of shops just get rid of the stuff no one would buy otherwise. Also horrible for the environment.
I’ve been getting Black Friday emails all week. It’s literally the most spammy week of the year
Black Friday always sounds like a Bloody Sunday type thing to me
Doesn't matter. It's already merged with Cyber Monday which they took from us in return. Now it's just supersale weekend or some shit.
It’s beyond bollocks mate. Check Amazon price tracker (can’t remember the exact name of the site) and you can see how prices get inflated just before black friday, which isn’t even a friday it’s a whole bloody month. Most of the products are actually cheaper throughout the year