Black Friday/Cyber Monday

[john jako]

Hotukdeals is the best place to hang out you danger

First thing that popped up when I opened the site. Cheers mate

 

[ClausThomsen]

I could have dreamt this like, but I'm sure I watched something on the telly where they were talking about the sales, and they said something along the lines of, a shop will have been selling a TV for £500, then around 10 days or so before their sale they will put a price tag of £600 for the same TV, then drop it back down to £500 in their 'sale' so you think you're getting a £100 off when in all reality you're not.

I always thought they just overpriced a particular TV all year round and then knocked it down to it's realistic price during sales periods. Either way I'm pretty sure there's a minimum amount of time that something has to be on sale at a fixed price before it can be reduced and advertised as a sale item.

If there's a TV they're looking to get £300 for then keep a very low stock of it at the minimum number of stores and overprice it. Come Black Friday get loads in and advertise as reduced?

 

[Yarrgh]

My first time hearing of this and I couldn't hate it more

Do I want to ask what one is?

Edit: I googled it. I think it's designed to make us realise who the morons are in society and in need of a purging.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

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First thing that popped up when I opened the site. Cheers mate

I rest my case!

 

[-Rob-]

I always thought they just overpriced a particular TV all year round and then knocked it down to it's realistic price during sales periods.

What are the rules on claiming that products are in a sale or on special offer?
Broadly, any price comparisons of this kind must not be misleading. For example:

• to claim that products are on sale, you should show the previous price and should have been selling at that price for a meaningful period of time

So the likes of DFS that have a sale on all year round have to advertise their sofas in store at the higher price for about 2 months before they go in the sale.

 

[toffee82]

Some good whisky deals today on Amazon. £25.49 for Talisker 10yr and Oban 14yr for £39.

Think they will have different ones tomorrow.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Christmas eve boxes are the weirdest recent import.

Polish thing I believe.
Or polish mate at work does it.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Got an i5 8gb laptop for £360 so there are some sales to be had.

 

[blue4eva77]

Is it all a scam? Do things actually drop that much in price during this?

Im looking at getting a new TV but someone in work said he read somewhere that it’s cheaper if I wait a few weeks.

Anyone seen any bargains?

Some things do yes, however some companies up their prices on certain things before Black Friday and then the discount brings it back to where it was before, and people think they are getting a deal. There is a website (can't remember what it is) that lets you view what the prices of items were all year round, which would then let you see if the price of an item you were interested in had been hiked up leading up to Black Friday week.

 

[Archie Knox]

Yeah our place is going to have a free set of digital scales when every purchase of over $150. On the banner we're telling customers it's worth $109, but the selling price for the past 6 months has been maximum $69. Kidology I tell you!

That aside, there are genuinely good offers to be had. I can try and get hold of some Amazon UK deals and post them here 'anonymously'.

 

[blue4eva77]

Everyone just be careful. Its the cybercrime scumbags favourite time of year. Click on no links if you receive any black friday/cyber monday links in your email etc... Go directly to the store itself on your browser.

 

[WA Toffee]

Basic rule would be, if you are happy with the price buy it. If you're not happy don't buy it. Doesn't matter how much the shop is claiming it is reduced by, the only thing that matters is how much it costs now. And if you haven't been checking out prices previously, you don't need it.

 

[Philw]

Hotukdeals is the best place to hang out you danger

Will check it out B

Some things do yes, however some companies up their prices on certain things before Black Friday and then the discount brings it back to where it was before, and people think they are getting a deal. There is a website (can't remember what it is) that lets you view what the prices of items were all year round, which would then let you see if the price of an item you were interested in had been hiked up leading up to Black Friday week.

Camelcamelcamel price checks against the last 12 months, although I don't know if it works for all sites (pretty sure it used to be just for Amazon). I found last year that a lot of sale items I were looking at had been on sale previously, but in most cases the Black Friday price was equal or better than any previous sale price, and obviously there's a lot more on sale at one time, plus more competition.

I always thought they just overpriced a particular TV all year round and then knocked it down to it's realistic price during sales periods. Either way I'm pretty sure there's a minimum amount of time that something has to be on sale at a fixed price before it can be reduced and advertised as a sale item.

If there's a TV they're looking to get £300 for then keep a very low stock of it at the minimum number of stores and overprice it. Come Black Friday get loads in and advertise as reduced?

So still cheaper on Black Friday then?