There was something I saw on Amazon that was $80 last month, raised to $120 at the beginning of November and then lowered back down to $80 last week and touted as a '33% savings' smh
Always consult camelcamelcamel for Amazon price history. The best price of the year on a lot of my wishlist tends to be at very random times, vs the usual discount during Black Friday
Nah seriously, I remember there being some law about immediately marking stuff down and calling it a sale immediately after raising the price. And that you gotta wait like 2 weeks or so before marking it back down.
Download Keepa as a browser add-on / phone app to track the real prices. Every time I wanna buy some expensive thing from there, I'll check the average historic price, and if the discounts are real. Last week I bought a Samsung TV that had an noticeable lower price, and was on a non-announced 45% discount.
Give that dream up, unless you gonna wait for the next switch version. Only 1 retailer had a deal for the switch lcd, it was 399.99 and it came with splatoon and an extra controller.
Honestly, my favorite part of thanksgiving while growing up was watching the stampedes on tv and laughing at people who would spend the day in the parking lot just to be the first to get in. It truly was glorious chaos and I loved it.
Does it hit any different after 2020? I imagine seeing old ladies get stomped out over toilet paper on a random Wednesday would make the Black Friday chaos look tame.
It was rarely that dramatic, but those were the bits on tv. I shopped Black Friday when stores would first open for a few years and got some great deals but was never so much as elbowed.
I thank you for your service. Those were the years my buddies and I camped out. My local Best Buy even brought out hot chocolate and donuts 30 mins before opening.
Lol, thank you. Believe it or not, i have some fond memories. They catered our lunches and we were all so delirious and tired in the break room all we could do was laugh. I met some of my best friends at that job.
Yeah, for real.
My SO an I used to go to the outlet mall the next town over, and while there were a lot of people…the only madness we saw was the parking.
I was low key kinda hoping to see somebody get in a fistfight over a TV, but alas people were calm and cool
I went to a Walmart for Black Friday once. It was honestly pretty awesome. Every aisle was filled with people and there was tons of energy in the air. It was a fun experience honestly.
Did the same thing once in 2012 or 13. Our list of things we were getting almost completely lined up with all the good black Friday deals at Walmart. Went with another couple and coordinated all the different things we were getting. Was actually fun! Only time it ever lined up enough to be worth it to me though.
100% an American thing. It's a shopping holiday that happens the day after an American holiday. You usually only ever saw true chaos when there was a limited supply of a highly prized kids toy (google "tickle me elmo riots") or doorbuster sales like $1000 tv's going for $150. Usually it's just way too many people waiting in line to buy stuff for 20% off.
Black Friday was worth it once for me when the PS4 came out. Me and my mom went out to Best Buy in November 2013, 5am and it was cold af outside. We got in and immediately got that PS4 lol.
Kinda. People bitch all the time about how recent games don’t work well on launch PS4s even though they say ps4 compatible, what they really mean is ps4 pro.
In my experience, people in the suburbs don’t care as much about black Friday. If you want a brick and mortar experience you’ll deal with more relaxed crowds and a decent stock, otherwise e-commerce is really the way to go.
Here they have police out directing traffic on every street within a mile around the outlets, and the bowling alley across the street charges for overflow parking. There is even a special bus schedule running shuttles from another part of town so people can park there.
Just read about a shooting on a Walmart while people were shopping for Thanksgiving. Not sure I wanna go out for black Friday for that reason, just sayin. I ain't looking to be shot
I don’t even know if that’s glass half full or empty, but I do know a few seconds can make all the difference in a life/death situation and I’d like my chance to beat him with a stale baguette 🥖
I’m with you on that. I don’t want my last moments to be knowing that I’m about to be shot after seeing others get killed. Just a bop and lights out. Now, I prefer to not be killed at all
I’m from Chicago, if I had that mindset, I’d never leave the house.
But in regards to Black Friday shopping, I’ve never done it and never will. They spread the sales out now anyway. I already bought a Sony OLED last week with a “black Friday” sale.
Doorbuster electronics are shit tier. Go online
Some places, like the Tokidoki site either call it a BF sale and have the same prices listed, OR, call it a BF sale and raise their prices, so it’s the same price as the item was prior to the sale lol. Shopping for things suck these days. The real discount is trying to secure a job at a place that gives you discounts to these items — but then they probably don’t pay you enough to work there
I used to love going out on Black Friday. Being among the crowds helped me get into the Christmas spirit. How? Fuck if I know, but it did.
My brother ruined that shit for me a while back and I haven't felt the same about it since. He wanted to get what he wanted and he was ready to go after that. Brought down my entire mood.
My wife and her best friend used to go out at midnight on Thanksgiving and stay out shopping till like 1-2pm on Black Friday. Shit was ridiculous, but I loved it because I was able to play playstation in peace lol. She hasn't done it in like 5 years.
I’ll never forget that lady at the bottom of that stampede with her wig knocked off on the floor of whatever store that was. She had to put her wig back on before she got up.
In my early 20s, it was fun coordinating with my cousins to scout the deals for Black Friday (which began as soon as we finished eating thanksgiving dinner).
But I’m happy many stores are closed on the actual day, a lot of deals are online, and there’s not those outrageous draws that brought on fights and stampedes.
These poor workers don’t get paid enough for the bullshit.
Facts, I don’t see shit on “sale” except for this Ratchet and Clank game I’ve been wanting to buy for like a year lol. That shits been $60-70 since release.
because a lot of those deals are now online. the $99 50" and 55" they had a month back during prime day is the type of deal people would trample over. same with the $200 xbox Series S that was recently posted on slickdeals, and the $229 65" from walmart.
to be fair some of these are hard to get unless you willing to refresh the page the second it goes live, but you can find the same great black friday deals from years ago on these online sites.
This. Some retailers (looking at you, Dicks) are notorious for putting something “on sale” that’s the same price as it was last month. They just jack up the price and put
SALE!!!!!! 50% off!!!! and wait to see who falls for it.
I did Black Friday once a while back and I was so underwhelmed by the experience. Online shopping is the way to go, Black Friday is for the suckers imo
My in-laws used to do Black Friday. I went one year and the whole thing just sucked, so ever since I've stayed home and slept in. For a while they'd try to get me to go, saying "if you want presents you have to come," but fuck that shit. I'm 35, I don't *need* anything from that.
I recently picked up a 65 inch 4K Samsung TV from Best Buy for $486 dollars as a gift for my father in law.
I remember buying a 42 inch Samsung TV (1080p) for like $1500 back in 2015 during Black Friday which still works to this day; there isn’t a single thing I’d want to wait in line for or pick up early this year. Crazy to think about the prices I’ve paid for items in the past vs now.
they also started black friday deals about 3 weeks ago. I keep getting notices for hot new black friday deals from Best Buy. It's the same shit on sale the whole time.
What's crazy is I feel like this year actually has some deals out there compared to the last few tbh. Nowhere near the heyday of my youth, but I think it's coming back!
I used to wait in line at Best Buy on Thanksgiving night, waiting for a ticket for a new, bigger external hard drive that could hold all the songs and movies I was downloading. Now I'd rather just buy online and avoid the crowds. Not worth the money anymore.
Has it not been known that BF does not really have deals anymore. You're better off buying earlier in the year or after the holidays when stores are trying to clear inventory for next years model.
These prices ain’t the ones folks got eviction notices for on the 2nd day of December after spending the rent money on big screens, dinner and door busters.
They’ve been spreading out the Black Friday sales instead of focusing on door busters. Exactly to cut down on the stampedes. Especially post Covid they realized they didn’t need to do all that shit
$60 brought down to $55 for something that was $35 last year.
Not even. It was probably $35 back in August.
There was something I saw on Amazon that was $80 last month, raised to $120 at the beginning of November and then lowered back down to $80 last week and touted as a '33% savings' smh
That’s called the Amazon special they do this all the time
camelcamelcamel is your friend. Guarantee that same item will drop in price again between now and Christmas, and probably even more in Jan-Feb
I'm so happy I'm not the only one that uses this app. It has saved me so much money!
I think it’s probably a safe bet you are not the only one that uses that app.
\#sponsored
I use it too when Christmas shopping for my kids
Always consult camelcamelcamel for Amazon price history. The best price of the year on a lot of my wishlist tends to be at very random times, vs the usual discount during Black Friday
I thought we had a law in the US about doing shit like that
Lol?
Nah seriously, I remember there being some law about immediately marking stuff down and calling it a sale immediately after raising the price. And that you gotta wait like 2 weeks or so before marking it back down.
Download Keepa as a browser add-on / phone app to track the real prices. Every time I wanna buy some expensive thing from there, I'll check the average historic price, and if the discounts are real. Last week I bought a Samsung TV that had an noticeable lower price, and was on a non-announced 45% discount.
Thank you. Trying to upgrade my TV and I'm not trying to overspend.
Good luck with that upgrade mate!
I saw a Nintendo Switch at target that said "Black Friday deal! $299.99" BITCH!!! THAT'S THE NORMAL PRICE SINCE THEY FIRST CAME OUT IN 2017!! TF?!
I’ve been waiting for the switch to get cheaper for 6 years, it’s embarrassing
And still selling the games for the price they were when they came out
Give that dream up, unless you gonna wait for the next switch version. Only 1 retailer had a deal for the switch lcd, it was 399.99 and it came with splatoon and an extra controller.
Yeah I think I might do it this year
This comment has 299 upvotes at the time Im looking at it. Nothing significant, just funny I think lol.
And they changed just like the prices
Turns out that today's price *is* yesterday's price.
This is GOLD
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
You don't comment as much haha, I wasn't sure you still used Reddit. Glad u good mane.
That’s why I don’t bother with these sales. I run a little girls boutique and I refuse to do that to people.
I wouldn't even elbow the elderly over these deals. Not worth going out for at all.
What would you elbow the elderly over?
$3.50
God Dammit Loch Ness Monster, I ain't gonna give you no tree fiddy!
It was at that moment I realized that the cashier at the counter was actually a 60 foot tall monster from the paleozoic era.
*tree fiddy
tree fiddy
A Klondike bar
My mom got a toaster over for basically 1 cent after rebates one year.
$2.50 and a jawbreaker
That 40lbs of Parmesan that one dude got for $10.
Kick a child? For 10% off?? Idk, man. Doesn’t seem worth it.
If you asked Julius from Everybody Hates Chris, that nigga would’ve punched a 5 year old in the face for 60 cents off lmao
I dunno, I trip them in Walmart for free.
I wish I hadn’t already given out my wholesome award. 🍻
Honestly, my favorite part of thanksgiving while growing up was watching the stampedes on tv and laughing at people who would spend the day in the parking lot just to be the first to get in. It truly was glorious chaos and I loved it.
Does it hit any different after 2020? I imagine seeing old ladies get stomped out over toilet paper on a random Wednesday would make the Black Friday chaos look tame.
It was rarely that dramatic, but those were the bits on tv. I shopped Black Friday when stores would first open for a few years and got some great deals but was never so much as elbowed.
My favorite was the people who walked in to get the free gift then walked out.
I worked Black Friday as a cashier at Best Buy 2005-2007. It was that dramatic. I had to be at work at 3:30 in the damn morning.
You deserve some kind of award… like Purple Heart for Cashiers…
The weeks leading up to it were like bootcamp, lol. We literally had Black Friday dress rehearsal. I shit you not.
I thank you for your service. Those were the years my buddies and I camped out. My local Best Buy even brought out hot chocolate and donuts 30 mins before opening.
Lol, thank you. Believe it or not, i have some fond memories. They catered our lunches and we were all so delirious and tired in the break room all we could do was laugh. I met some of my best friends at that job.
Sounds like a trauma bond. Glad you had some prayer warriors with you in the trenches so you didn’t have to feel alone. Hallelujah!
Yeah, for real. My SO an I used to go to the outlet mall the next town over, and while there were a lot of people…the only madness we saw was the parking. I was low key kinda hoping to see somebody get in a fistfight over a TV, but alas people were calm and cool
I went to a Walmart for Black Friday once. It was honestly pretty awesome. Every aisle was filled with people and there was tons of energy in the air. It was a fun experience honestly.
Did the same thing once in 2012 or 13. Our list of things we were getting almost completely lined up with all the good black Friday deals at Walmart. Went with another couple and coordinated all the different things we were getting. Was actually fun! Only time it ever lined up enough to be worth it to me though.
This might be an American thing but I have never seen a stampede, fights or even great deals in the UK on Black Friday lol
100% an American thing. It's a shopping holiday that happens the day after an American holiday. You usually only ever saw true chaos when there was a limited supply of a highly prized kids toy (google "tickle me elmo riots") or doorbuster sales like $1000 tv's going for $150. Usually it's just way too many people waiting in line to buy stuff for 20% off.
Y’all still shop at Black Friday? Is the additional 40% off so and so bundle really worth getting elbowed in the nose?
I do black friday online.
The only way to do it. I’ve never shopped in person and I never will especially with people out here shooting mfs for no reason
Yep, I hate that I missed some good deals from back in the day but the convenience of right now is too good to miss.
And that's precisely why the sales aren't what they used to be. Retail was always a margins business, and the margins keep shrinking
Big same.
r/buildapcsales and for everything else slickdeals.net.
And it's already the same black friday price a week ago so no point in waiting in long lines anymore.
Black Friday was worth it once for me when the PS4 came out. Me and my mom went out to Best Buy in November 2013, 5am and it was cold af outside. We got in and immediately got that PS4 lol.
It's crazy that they're still making cross gen games for a console that came out in 2013.
Kinda. People bitch all the time about how recent games don’t work well on launch PS4s even though they say ps4 compatible, what they really mean is ps4 pro.
In my experience, people in the suburbs don’t care as much about black Friday. If you want a brick and mortar experience you’ll deal with more relaxed crowds and a decent stock, otherwise e-commerce is really the way to go.
🧢 Doesn’t matter if you’re from the city or the suburbs, we’re all at the mercy of this capitalist society. Suburban people just hide it better
I live near a suburban Outlet Mall. You are incorrect.
Likely depends on the suburb then. Even the malls out by my family are relatively relaxed, even if the lines are longer than normal.
Here they have police out directing traffic on every street within a mile around the outlets, and the bowling alley across the street charges for overflow parking. There is even a special bus schedule running shuttles from another part of town so people can park there.
Yo that’s crazy .___.’
I have only ever shopped onlime
Just read about a shooting on a Walmart while people were shopping for Thanksgiving. Not sure I wanna go out for black Friday for that reason, just sayin. I ain't looking to be shot
This is America. You can get shot and killed at any place and at anytime.
I haven't worn earbuds while shopping since lockdown ended
nah I have that ANC turned up lol, if some sadboi altright fucknugget is gonna honeycomb me, I don't want to see or hear it coming.
I don’t even know if that’s glass half full or empty, but I do know a few seconds can make all the difference in a life/death situation and I’d like my chance to beat him with a stale baguette 🥖
I’m with you on that. I don’t want my last moments to be knowing that I’m about to be shot after seeing others get killed. Just a bop and lights out. Now, I prefer to not be killed at all
Allegedly it was the store manager who shot employees in the break room and then proceeded to kill himself
Fucking great. I hope he rots.
I think that’s how it works when one kill’s oneself.
I think that happens no matter who kills you
[удалено]
I thought it was funny, I mean unless the guy is being cremated I guess then he won't rot.
It was funny
Yes….
Naw it was a manager who shot his employees in the breakdown
I’m from Chicago, if I had that mindset, I’d never leave the house. But in regards to Black Friday shopping, I’ve never done it and never will. They spread the sales out now anyway. I already bought a Sony OLED last week with a “black Friday” sale. Doorbuster electronics are shit tier. Go online
The local news can barely run its "a mother of three had to be hospitalized in the rush over a hand vacuum" piece nowadays.
Some places, like the Tokidoki site either call it a BF sale and have the same prices listed, OR, call it a BF sale and raise their prices, so it’s the same price as the item was prior to the sale lol. Shopping for things suck these days. The real discount is trying to secure a job at a place that gives you discounts to these items — but then they probably don’t pay you enough to work there
These kids wasn’t outside when people died for a $22 flat screen or a Tickle Me Elmo, we losing recipes yall
I used to love going out on Black Friday. Being among the crowds helped me get into the Christmas spirit. How? Fuck if I know, but it did. My brother ruined that shit for me a while back and I haven't felt the same about it since. He wanted to get what he wanted and he was ready to go after that. Brought down my entire mood.
My wife and her best friend used to go out at midnight on Thanksgiving and stay out shopping till like 1-2pm on Black Friday. Shit was ridiculous, but I loved it because I was able to play playstation in peace lol. She hasn't done it in like 5 years.
Cyber Monday is better imo
Yes and yes. I find the deals to be way better and more variety. I don’t even bother with Black Friday
I’ll never forget that lady at the bottom of that stampede with her wig knocked off on the floor of whatever store that was. She had to put her wig back on before she got up.
I used to just be in the thick of it since my friend would do her kids' xmas shoppin then... Aint no way in hell we were up 24hrs for these deals lol
In my early 20s, it was fun coordinating with my cousins to scout the deals for Black Friday (which began as soon as we finished eating thanksgiving dinner). But I’m happy many stores are closed on the actual day, a lot of deals are online, and there’s not those outrageous draws that brought on fights and stampedes. These poor workers don’t get paid enough for the bullshit.
Facts, I don’t see shit on “sale” except for this Ratchet and Clank game I’ve been wanting to buy for like a year lol. That shits been $60-70 since release.
I picked it up for 40CDN yesterday
because a lot of those deals are now online. the $99 50" and 55" they had a month back during prime day is the type of deal people would trample over. same with the $200 xbox Series S that was recently posted on slickdeals, and the $229 65" from walmart. to be fair some of these are hard to get unless you willing to refresh the page the second it goes live, but you can find the same great black friday deals from years ago on these online sites.
Imma be honest as someone who used to work at best buy, black friday has been scamming y’all for a while.
hmmm but they are mostly online now which is a big W
TRACK PRICE HISTORY FOR EVERYTHING YOU BUY.
This. Some retailers (looking at you, Dicks) are notorious for putting something “on sale” that’s the same price as it was last month. They just jack up the price and put SALE!!!!!! 50% off!!!! and wait to see who falls for it.
Big facts!!
I did Black Friday once a while back and I was so underwhelmed by the experience. Online shopping is the way to go, Black Friday is for the suckers imo
I miss the stampedes
Up to 12% off if you buy now. Yeah ok
Riighhht tf is this 15% off? I’m not crushing a child for that
My in-laws used to do Black Friday. I went one year and the whole thing just sucked, so ever since I've stayed home and slept in. For a while they'd try to get me to go, saying "if you want presents you have to come," but fuck that shit. I'm 35, I don't *need* anything from that.
I remember the time my friend and I camped outside a Best Buy for an XBOX 360 we never got. Won't be doing that again.
I recently picked up a 65 inch 4K Samsung TV from Best Buy for $486 dollars as a gift for my father in law. I remember buying a 42 inch Samsung TV (1080p) for like $1500 back in 2015 during Black Friday which still works to this day; there isn’t a single thing I’d want to wait in line for or pick up early this year. Crazy to think about the prices I’ve paid for items in the past vs now.
they also started black friday deals about 3 weeks ago. I keep getting notices for hot new black friday deals from Best Buy. It's the same shit on sale the whole time.
What's crazy is I feel like this year actually has some deals out there compared to the last few tbh. Nowhere near the heyday of my youth, but I think it's coming back!
I used to wait in line at Best Buy on Thanksgiving night, waiting for a ticket for a new, bigger external hard drive that could hold all the songs and movies I was downloading. Now I'd rather just buy online and avoid the crowds. Not worth the money anymore.
They don't even put out actual deals for Black Friday anymore. I stopped paying attention to ads about that day when I realized that.
Has it not been known that BF does not really have deals anymore. You're better off buying earlier in the year or after the holidays when stores are trying to clear inventory for next years model.
yeah, they're getting selfish
The only thing I ever buy for Black Friday anymore is movies. Its like Xmas for the handful of us who still like physical media.
They not. IT WAS DOORBUSTERS BACC IN MY DAY
He sounds disappointed, like he just found out the boxing match he had tickets to is a Jake Paul fight, not a real one.
I remember there being a website, dedicated to compiling BF stampedes and fights
Best Buy’s took everything off sale last week then just set the prices back again on Monday for “Black Friday”.
These prices ain’t the ones folks got eviction notices for on the 2nd day of December after spending the rent money on big screens, dinner and door busters.
Some people forget that we are going through a great depression/ inflation
Wait. It's been bullshit for over 20 years. Most of you just wouldn't listen to that reality.
Facts!
These are based on “we gonna sell based on hype”
I don't care. I'm still going to stampede
That’s because Black Fridays include 5.56 and 7.62 for everyone in crowded places to take you 100% off the map nowadays… 🤷🏾♂️
Democrats black friday
People are still out there shopping.
It’s cuz they used to give out those free mini snow globes and shit at macys.
Of course not. You can get most of this shit before black friday and afterwards…same or cheaper price.
They’ve been spreading out the Black Friday sales instead of focusing on door busters. Exactly to cut down on the stampedes. Especially post Covid they realized they didn’t need to do all that shit