Amazon " Black Friday "

[Tenkaykev]

I just received an alert that " Black Friday " commences at midnight and runs from Thursday 21st to Monday 2nd December. That's quite a long week, and it commences oof a Thursday! I've picked up one or two genuine good deals over the years, but a great deal is just overpriced in the first place tat that is " reduced " to a lower price. I use the Firefox browser extension " The Cameliser " which searches the " Camel Camel Camel " Amazon price tracker for the item that you are looking at, and displays its price history. For example, there's a " Lightning Deal " for a heated throw running at the moment, it's reduced to £38. Firing up the Cameliser shows that it was on sale for £29 earlier in the year.
As I said, if there's something that I have my eye on and I'm not in any particular hurry I will sometimes put off a purchase to see if a genuine deal comes along, but I always check first.

 

[Mo1959]

I find most of the “bargains” are cheap Chinese tat that they haven’t shifted.

 

[vickster]

I find most of the “bargains” are cheap Chinese tat that they haven’t shifted.

Or high margin Amazon products like Fire sticks, Alexa, Ring!

Better to keep an eye on Hotdeals UK for other retailer deals

 

[wafter]

I won't use Amazon on principal; while I generally try to avoid these increasingly desperate pleas to partake in the consumptive doom-loop as I find that usually it's just an enormous waste of time spent trawling an infinite precession of rubbish, while attempting to persuade yourself you need it because it's "cheaper".

 

[postman]

Friday is also Diarrhoea Awareness Week,it runs till Monday.

 

[raleighnut]

Not a fan of 'consumerism' here, Maz will often see things and ask if I want them, the answer is generally NO

 

[Dogtrousers]

I use the Firefox browser extension " The Cameliser " which searches the " Camel Camel Camel " Amazon price tracker for the item that you are looking at, and displays its price history. For example, there's a " Lightning Deal " for a heated throw running at the moment, it's reduced to £38. Firing up the Cameliser shows that it was on sale for £29 earlier in the year.

That has made me feel like the confused old man that I really am.

Mind you I do know what a "heated throw" is, and I'm sure it would go well with my tartan slippers.

 

[raleighnut]

That has made me feel like the confused old man that I really am.

Mind you I do know what a "heated throw" is, and I'm sure it would go well with my tartan slippers.

Maz has got one, it's what we used to call an 'overblanket' but technology has improved so power consumption is lower

 

[lazybloke]

The good lady has been looking at a new phone, as hers hasn't had any software upgrades or even a security update for nearly 2 years (Oops, call myself a cybersecurity consultant!) and it's also got mobile reception issues.

All of the sites have announced early black friday deals, which means the phone price went UP by £200.

 

[Accy cyclist]

All this means to me is that I'll be getting more Amazon crap delivered to my door (number 2 door number) intended for the number 2 door number house across the road from me. It'll be delivered either by someone annoyingly banging on my door which is quit worrying after dark. Someone posting it half way through my letterbox. Or someone leaving it behind one of my recycling bins which I tend to find a few days later. All of which those at the other number 2 door number expect me to take over to them.

 

[raleighnut]

All this means to me is that I'll be getting more Amazon crap delivered to my door (number 2 door number) intended for the number 2 door number house across the road from me. It'll be delivered either by someone annoyingly banging on my door which is quit worrying after dark. Someone posting it half way through my letterbox. Or someone leaving it behind one of my recycling bins which I tend to find a few days later. All of which those at the other number 2 door number expect me to take over to them.

Mate of mine gets that, he lives at number 5 and over the road there are six flats in a block. He once had someone wanting to cut his electric off for non-payment til he took the guy across the street and showed him flat 5.

 

[Drago]

Black Friday sounds a bit biased to me.

Where's Jewish Monday or Asian Thursday?

 

[raleighnut]

Black Friday sounds a bit biased to me.

Where's Jewish Monday or Asian Thursday?

Pagan Wednesday has always been good for me, bit nippy this time of year that Woad ain't good at keeping the chill off

 

[annedonnelly]

I won't use Amazon on principal; while I generally try to avoid these increasingly desperate pleas to partake in the consumptive doom-loop as I find that usually it's just an enormous waste of time spent trawling an infinite precession of rubbish while attempting to persuade yourself you need it because it's "cheaper".

Me either.

I also use "Black Friday" to cull e-mails that I'm subscribed to. Anyone that tries to sell me something via "Black Friday" gets unsubscribed regardless of whether they're a shop I use or a charity I support.

 

[Time Waster]

Does anyone else follow the principle of only buying what they need and not what they see at a bargain price and thus saved £35 on something they really did not need to buy in the first place? It seems to me that the biggest savings can be made by not buying things you do not really need.

I really did not get my then teenage sister's theory that going to a discount shop selling main high street brands that did not sell in the original shop at very low prices (thus saving 75% of the original price) only to try them on at home and take them back half the time as they are not wanted. I just chose to buy something once I either grew out of something or got it ruined by some means. One out means one in. It is very much my practise for clothes buying ever since and also apply to other items too.

I think that is why when I go looking at black friday deals I am always unimpressed and can not find anything to buy. If I needed it I would have already bought it after finding a good price online or in a real store locally. I think I do not fully fit inot the modern world somehow.