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This is the first year I’ve ever spent any real money on Black Friday. I bought HexOS lifetime, a couple games, and a monitor that was actually price dropped. Though the monitor was a impulse buy due to a friend raving about it
The constant battle to remind my partner that savings are only savings if you would buy the item regardless
“I bought all this shit. Look how much I saved!”
Is a joke my partner and I share anytime we make purchases that are more want than necessity. Keeps us grounded. We know we would have been fine without the thing most likely and buying it had a real price other than just the $ amount.
I came here to post almost exactly this same sentence.
If you shop blackfriday for Xmas and such;
Check out the extension camelcamelcamel https://camelcamelcamel.com/
It tracks prices on Amazon (or if you don’t want extension, you can paste the link on their site). The extensions makes easy to check as your shopping.
This let’s you check if 50% off is really a sale or “we tripled the price last month and are fucking you over”
You can also setup price watches, and get email when something’s price drops below whatever you set.
(Someone else mentioned Keepa that does the same thing, I’ve never heard of it, but a quick look shows it has a subscription for some stuff, no thanks)
Keepa’s price tracker is free and actually shows a lot of useful info embedded into Amazon product pages, like the price history for used, warehouse deals, lightning deals, refurbished, etc.
Remember Friday is Buy Nothing Day!
But what if I run out of weed?
Your friend shall share his
I remember the good ol days when black friday was actually a single day event, and cyber monday actually had real deals and not faked 30% off 60% markup.
I have to remind myself to buy things I need before November because then they bump the prices and they don’t go back down until February.
1 TB 970 Evo SSD selling for $140+ on major retailers right now, even though I bought one a while back for $40 (and even that was lucky because they inflated to $80 anyway).
Also rip Newegg
I’ll be damned, a PC part that’s cheaper in Europe than the us? first for everything I suppose. it’s 95 euro here, including VAT
Use keepa.com and learn how they take us for absolute fools. Their new trick to circumvent the recent law in Europe that forces them to show the average price from the previous 30days, is to have a “tickbox coupon” on many items (only visible from the item page) that takes out a discount, and obviously is not counted in the average “list” price. Magically all those tickbox discounts disappear on black friday.
I love to put all the things I want in my cart and leave them there. Then remove them.
I’m not buying anything already, right now. 😎
no way. does this actually work?
Yeah, you can net insane savings if you just don’t buy things.
whoa….
You won’t believe this one weird trick that makes gen-z buy latte’s again.
I prefer to buy it, use it for a few days, and then return it as defective. Not my problem that they accept any and all returns for completely bs reasons. Who needs “sales” if you’re just getting your money back anyway.
And yes I know that this fucks over the seller more than Amazon itself, but ultimately there’s fuck all that I can do to hurt Amazon. I might as well get something out of it if they’re going to own the world.
