Black Friday apparentley

Singles Day is so 2010s

And a dictionary...

In fairness, Black Friday deals often start at the beginning of November these days and it's not uncommon for the offers to be left on right through to Christmas.

Really disappointing today. 'Site wide discounts' except the stuff people actually want is excluded but we'll reduce this tat that isn't selling.

Sure when 'sales' are constant or 'Black Friday Month' in length, all of a sudden the 'sales' for Black Friday here don't seem to be good

Comparing it to the USA where it's a proper event is night-and-day. It's the same shite we always see here and in reality, no reason to splash the cash

Literally seeing this on every site I've looked at. In some cases it's more expensive than the regular price!

hahaha, legal, in the marketing world, everything goes in that world!

...and the marketing world doesnt care for such rules and laws....

57 items in my Amazon basket, about half of them are currently unavailable and the other half havent got a single discount between them, its a complete waste of time. Was wanting to buy a food processor but the model I want hasnt been discounted and it actually went up £5 over night.

I know Black Friday has been on the wane for several years now but I have never seen it as bad as this.

That's literally the original point of Black Friday. To get the company back in the black and to shift stuff that aint selling.

Ive found over the last year that you can no longer assume Amazon is likely the cheapest place to get an item. I needed to replace a Silentnight electric blanket that the dog chewed through the wire. I could have repaired it but wasnt risking it on an item that could burn the house down. Anyway the same model was on Amazon for £42 2 weeks ago, I said Id wait to see if it dropped on Black Friday. Then 5 days ago just by chance I saw the exact same one in Aldi for 29.99 with a 3 year warranty. Now Im looking on Amazon and it is still £42, there is no Black Friday discount on it at all. Would have been shafted buying it there.

there was always tat but there used to be really good stuff as well. Ive a Philips airfryer in the kitchen that was a Black Friday deal reduced from 150 to 90 euro 6 years ago this week. Others got great deals on DeLonghi bean to cup coffee machines a few years back and are still using them. Those sorts of offers on stuff people actually want seem to be gone

At least AliExpress doesn't have sellers pretending to be loca genuine companies. I always check who the seller is before I buy something on Amazon. If it's a Chinese seller (especially one with a fake English type name) I avoid like the plague. Either product will be knock off cheap or will take months to be delivered.

Black Friday hasn't really happened this year. Ads up but no bargains from what I can see.