Black Friday

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with $1099.99 struck through with “$899.99” written underneath, and Wallace charges.

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    Vengefu1Tuna,

    Have you reported the comment?

    Masimatutu,
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    Yes, and the user. I’ll report them on their home instance as well.

    HawlSera,

    What happened here?

    Masimatutu,
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    There was a spam account that posted innocent seeming links to gore content.

    tilcica,

    in slovenia we just passed a law that requires shops to state the price change of an item in the last 30 days :)

    Localhorst86,

    One of the benefits of being part of the EU :)

    GregorTacTac,

    Oh wow that’s cool! I’m from Slovenia too and I didn’t know that.

    JokeDeity,

    I know nothing about your country, is it common to speak English and what’s the native language?

    GregorTacTac,

    It’s quite common for people to speak English. The native language is Slovene. It’s a really small country in central Europe (much larger than Liechtenstein tho).

    JokeDeity,

    Nice, very cool, thanks for informing me!

    TheBat,
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    How did you figure out your citizenship then?

    GregorTacTac,

    We have a comedian among us

    TheBat,
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    BelieveRevolt,

    All of EU is adopting this practice to comply with the EU Price Indication Directive.

    SaltyIceteaMaker,

    I love to see the eu fucking over companies

    ximtor,

    I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october

    Mnemnosyne,

    It might actually work if the requirement was a year instead of 30 days.

    Also mandate minimum font size for it and that it must be displayed along with the current price anywhere the current price appears.

    Localhorst86,

    I honestly think 1 year would be too far back to be actually relevant to the current price, but I can see a 3 month period being a good middle ground.

    ohlaph,

    Big items I usually start watching a few months out. If I see a store or brand that pulls tthis garbage, I simply go elsewhere. If I can’t find it on offer, I buy it regular price at the smaller retail store.

    ximtor,

    I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october

    VicentAdultman,

    Brazil’s consumers rights department listed itens prices so stores can’t fake advertise them. Countries with regulations: ok, we can do Black Friday, but…

    Jamie,
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    I like how for all the problems Brazil has, the consumer protection laws are consistently some of the best around.

    trolololol,

    That’s a sample of all the good things it can have when corruption doesnt happen

    orl0pl,

    Also in Poland

    JazzGRaffe,

    In America we keep the same price but decrease the amount of product.

    driving_crooner,
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    Years ago, in October I wanted to buy a new TV, my wife said we should wait for black Friday but I just bought it anyway. I keep checking the price day after day and the price of it keep rising slowly every day, until black Friday when it had a 40% sale off and was still more expensive of what I paid two months before.

    madcaesar,

    Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

    RotatingParts,

    The only way to know if a Black Friday price is good is to know the usual “regular” price of the item. That takes planning to jot the price down a month or more in advance and then wait to see what the Black Friday price is. It’s all a game.

    Jaamulberry,

    Also using plugins like camelcamelcamel can help with this. Shows you a graph of history for prices

    keylogthis,

    I use Keepa, same type of thing, and I’ll just set it to notify me when it reaches the desired low price again. I rarely buy anything unless it’s on sale prices now.

    Sagar,

    Low price Sale does not exist. It’s a myth!

    GigglyBobble,

    This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don't even care anymore.

    ares35,
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    there's a couple decent deals on basic laptops.. that aren't shit-tier specs, either. that's about all i've seen--but then, i haven't been "looking" either. rent keeps going up, can't afford anything so i don't even bother to look at ads and sales on things that aren't absolutely essential to simply exist.

    i do plan on going to wm on friday.. but later in the afternoon--for a few groceries.

    this_is_router,
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    They care…for the money

    MeatsOfRage,

    It definitely does, I’ve already made out pretty good on a couple things but you have to know the actual price well in advance and shop outside of Amazon

    CyberEgg,

    Or you use a price comparison website that shows you the pricing history.

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