RollingJ Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Exactly, @Fudbeer - which is just what I do if I need an 'expensive' item for which I don't know a source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron99 Posted November 26, 2019 Author Share Posted November 26, 2019 Something I've noticed over the years. If you want to buy any furniture, buy it aroud mid to late July. I'm guessing that things get a bit slack, cash wise for stores around the holiday season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fudbeer Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ontarian1981 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fudbeer Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted November 27, 2019 Share Posted November 27, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenyGreen Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 Look forward to it, but rarely buy anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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