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three rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right.
In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”.
The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same.
In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with $1099.99 struck through with “$899.99” written underneath, and Wallace charges.
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in slovenia we just passed a law that requires shops to state the price change of an item in the last 30 days :)
One of the benefits of being part of the EU :)
I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october
I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october
It might actually work if the requirement was a year instead of 30 days.
Also mandate minimum font size for it and that it must be displayed along with the current price anywhere the current price appears.
I honestly think 1 year would be too far back to be actually relevant to the current price, but I can see a 3 month period being a good middle ground.
Big items I usually start watching a few months out. If I see a store or brand that pulls tthis garbage, I simply go elsewhere. If I can’t find it on offer, I buy it regular price at the smaller retail store.
All of EU is adopting this practice to comply with the EU Price Indication Directive.
I love to see the eu fucking over companies
Oh wow that’s cool! I’m from Slovenia too and I didn’t know that.
How did you figure out your citizenship then?
We have a comedian among us
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In America we keep the same price but decrease the amount of product. #profit
Also in Poland
Brazil’s consumers rights department listed itens prices so stores can’t fake advertise them. Countries with regulations: ok, we can do Black Friday, but…
I like how for all the problems Brazil has, the consumer protection laws are consistently some of the best around.
That’s a sample of all the good things it can have when corruption doesnt happen
As a past retail worker. Black Friday was miserable. I worked at Bestbuy. I saw a lot of people breakdown and quit thay day due to the stress. Don’t encourage it. If you do go out. Be respectful and remember it’s just things that don’t really matter. I have never gone out and don’t support it especially the trickling of businesses forcing employees to work on Thanksgiving.
I was on year 4 or 5 retail, working in a small strip mall that included a best buy. The people swamped the door so hard it came off when the poor kid unlocked them, literally doorbusters and he got trampled and died.
Every year there’s a few deaths to the craze and I made a habit of checking the count every year.
Work at Best buy currently in inventory, last year all week of black Friday we have over 300 online orders at once until we were getting closer to the end of the night. This week so far the most I’ve seen is 50. We’re staffed the same, less so in fact with all the call-outs, but still we have a full team in tomorrow from 1am until midnight.
1am geezus back when I worked at Bestbuy. 2008ish I came in at 3:30am to sell shitty netbooks to customers waiting in the lines outside.
In 1998 I used to have to be in at 6AM.This thread is like a nice little timeline of the enshittification of America.
Years ago, in October I wanted to buy a new TV, my wife said we should wait for black Friday but I just bought it anyway. I keep checking the price day after day and the price of it keep rising slowly every day, until black Friday when it had a 40% sale off and was still more expensive of what I paid two months before.
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Wrong, Black Friday not $899, but
$1099$999Speaking of sweet Black Friday deals, I came across this gem recently and chuckled a bit, the nerve.
The price decreased by $1.00
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Yeah they’re clearly mistaken
I take screengrabs through the year of products I’m interested in and keep records. So I tend to see when they raise their prices in early November, only to drop it to just above the original price for their Black Friday “deals”.
Really there needs to be changes in consumer law to tackle this. We either lost a bunch of legal protection after Brexit, here in the UK, or the retailers realise they can get away with it. Amazon is really bad at this. So are the really big tech retailers.
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I dont need it, tbh. I’m interested in so little, LOL!
You don’t need to use it as an add-on. You can go to the website and set up a price drop alert for whatever it is you’re interested in.
There’s about 20 things at most that I’ll monitor over the year, so its really not worth the effort.
There’s maybe 4 things I buy a year on Amazon. I set the price watch, when it hits the price I want I chick the link and buy it.
Not sure why you would need to buy more things to make it worthwhile.
Does the price watch email work for you?
I have 2 Gmail accounts and I don’t know if Camel is broken, or Gmail filters them as spam. I never get any emails.
It’s pretty quick and easy, but that’s more than I’ve ever monitored in a year, so it would be more work for you than it has been for me.
Like I said, its about 20 things max. Really not hard to keep track.
That’s why I have extensions that track prices so I have an accurate price history.
That’s why I live in the EU, and they have to include the lowest price in the last 30 days with the “discount” price.
That’s a strange reason to live in the EU.
There’s many, many good reasons to live in the EU, fam.
Yeah, I’d rather live there for the healthcare, education and public infrastructure.
I’m in the EU and have never heard of this
Yes, have worked in the field, can confirm.
The extensions are nice.
The annoying part is the 10 things on my save list haven’t budged in price for over 1.5 years. 😭😭😭
Oh… Im so sorry to hear that. Second thing I do is check the second hand stores near me. I have one that validates their products and offers a 1 year warranty on the second hand stuff I buy from them, and it’s kind of awesome. They even rate the quality.
But which extensions in particular…
Keepa which gives a chart on every Amazon page or camelcamelcamel
I’m from Romania so I don’t know how relevant they are for you but I use Pricy and Istoric Preturi. And the website Compari.ro
The only way to know if a Black Friday price is good is to know the usual “regular” price of the item. That takes planning to jot the price down a month or more in advance and then wait to see what the Black Friday price is. It’s all a game.
That exact model was $599 in October. I would know, because I bought one.
It’s actually a really great smoker, but the app is terrible.
Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.
the smoker has an app? Who gives a shit about a smoker for an app…
You’ve discovered the secret sauce of marketing.
Low price Sale does not exist. It’s a myth!
This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don’t even care anymore.
there’s a couple decent deals on basic laptops… that aren’t shit-tier specs, either. that’s about all i’ve seen–but then, i haven’t been “looking” either. rent keeps going up, can’t afford anything so i don’t even bother to look at ads and sales on things that aren’t absolutely essential to simply exist.
i do plan on going to wm on friday… but later in the afternoon–for a few groceries.
They care…for the money
It definitely does, I’ve already made out pretty good on a couple things but you have to know the actual price well in advance and shop outside of Amazon
Or you use a price comparison website that shows you the pricing history.
Haven’t seen this in the comments, shouldn’t this shit be illegal? Forgive me if i am being dumb
For companies “illegal” just means “make more money than the fine you’ll pay once you’re caught”.
They’ll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it’s technically a new product.
Also look out for weasel words like “Compare To”, “X value”, or “Special Buy” where they aren’t actually saying it’s on sale.
New items can’t be “on sale.” It is that simple. The price is the price.
I’m almost certain it is
Maybe in the EU, but it’s standard practice in the US.
Nope, it’s illegal in the US. File a complaint with the FTC and they’ll look into it.
If robbing a bank got you 10 million dollars, and the legal penalty for robbing a bank was a few thousand dollars, why would you choose to refrain from robbing the bank?
Why are people giving descriptions of their images
So text-to-speech can be used, meme made accessible to people with disability.
Helps accessibility and search indexing
Black Friday not $899, but
$1099$999Sometimes it will be
$1099$899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the “standard” model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you’re getting something better than you are when you look it up.
That’s why you don’t buy in a rush but rather track the price of something you’re interested in buying over a couple of months.
