let see
I got snow boots, keurig, air fryer, legos, SSD, HDD, prices lower than any time of the year.
No complaints here
I got snow boots, keurig, air fryer, legos, SSD, HDD, prices lower than any time of the year.
No complaints here
Black Friday & Cyber Monday Discussion Archive
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Am relatively new to Canada and still getting settled, and I also had a few things which I had to buy. But for someone already settled here, I can understand that the sale is lacklustre.Dreamrider wrote: ↑ let see
I got snow boots, keurig, air fryer, legos, SSD, HDD, prices lower than any time of the year.
No complaints here
Nov 26th, 2021 8:18 pm
Nov 26th, 2021 8:44 pm
Nov 26th, 2021 8:51 pm
Part of the issue is Algorithms. Algorithms and 'Marketplaces' have really f-ed up shopping for all of us. They're pricing algorithms, and Amazon uses them with abandon (though their 3rd-parties use them even more..), as now does Walmart 'Marketplace', Bestbuy 'marketplace', etc.. They just match each others prices when it suits them to get a sale (Synology NAS was a perfect example this BFriday), and then jack them up once the others do, or mysterious 'sell out' one day (yesterday), then mysteriously again find more 'stock' today.. It's all price/market manipulation BS.Homesimpson wrote: ↑ Honestly, I think this is the worst BF ever. And I think in many cases not only were there no sales, they actually hiked up the prices on products (I was goign to pay full price on one product, did a pricing history search and it was 30% cheaper just two days ago haha). I think the logic is they know people have put aside money and want to shop/spend on BF... but, so long as the competition isn't selling for less, you can get away with actually increasing your price and people will buy because they are tired of waiting for a sale.
My guess is we're going to see BF sales in a week or two after BF hehe.
All I know is I loaded my amazon wishlist up and unless you give me a f'ing sale you ain't getting my money
Nov 26th, 2021 8:58 pm
I secretly suspect that putting things in my wishlist only lowers the odds of them going on sale; or limits how deep a sale it will be.
Nov 26th, 2021 10:00 pm
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Nov 26th, 2021 10:55 pm
Black friday started over 10 years ago. And it's been pretty bad then too. I think the last good sales were probably around 2005, back when door crashers were actually door crashers, you lined up outside and you had people doing coffee/hot chocolate runs.
Nov 26th, 2021 10:56 pm
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Nov 27th, 2021 8:13 am
Yes, not that long ago.tmkf_patryk wrote: ↑ Black friday started over 10 years ago.
Nov 27th, 2021 10:24 am
Nov 27th, 2021 10:26 am
10-15 years is not a blip in time for humans, considering average live to 80?arisk wrote: ↑ Yes, not that long ago.
10-15 years is a blip in time.
I looked up historical exchange rates.
In Nov. 2005, Cdn dollar was .85USD
Two years earlier we were .76
In 2007 we were better than par.
Exchange rates continued to be good for about 10 years.
That was a great incentive to spend elsewhere.
There was an increased cross border shopping urge.
Part of the "invention" of BF sales here was to compete and reduce that.
In 2015 our dollar dropped considerably, but in those years BF became part of our culture.
Anyone too young to remember "the before time" has high expectations.
Prior to that circa 2005, here BF only meant we would see some fights on the news, and shake our heads in disgust.
The historical reasons for it in the US are different than here.
There is no correlation to anything here, except the influence of US.
We are fortunate to get a bit of spillover.
Nov 27th, 2021 10:54 am
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