Black Friday!

[Alienware]

Black Friday deals have already started in Canada! Today I got a Samsung soundbar with a subwoofer for 250$ instead of 400$ at BestBuy.
Then I went to EB Games to get Avengers (I know the reviews are bad but for 24,99$ instead of 60$ I said what the hell), 39,99$ for Sackboy's adventure instead of like 69,99$ and Grand Turismo sport for 10$ was a really good deal to keep me calm until the new one comes out in March.
Share your Black Friday deals!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

You think the scalpers will give us some Black Friday discounts on GPUs?

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Do you count online stores having raffles where you win the right to buy a graphics card at MSRP if you're willing to buy what it's bundled with?

 

[tippy2k2]

I turned into an old man at some point so I have a bunch of stuff I ordered but it's mostly stuff I need like a new comforter for my bed, new kitchen/bath towels, presents for nieces/nephews, cat stuff, a circular saw, etc

Usually I get at least one fun thing but unless I see something I've missed, I'm not sure that's happening this year...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I bought my mom a new google pixel phone for $50 off.

She really needed a new phone, I think she's been using a Samsung Galaxy s5 for like 6 years now (clearly she's not a power user).

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I got myself a brand-new 2GB SSD, and I've been busy transferring a number of games off of my aging 4GB HDD. (Fortunately, Steam makes moving games from one drive to another super-simple.) I'd thought it was amazing when hard drives went below ten cents a gigabyte; now SSDs are there. How long until M2s get that cheap?

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I got myself a brand-new 2GB SSD, and I've been busy transferring a number of games off of my aging 4GB HDD. (Fortunately, Steam makes moving games from one drive to another super-simple.) I'd thought it was amazing when hard drives went below ten cents a gigabyte; now SSDs are there. How long until M2s get that cheap?

... what

OT: I was supposed to get a couple of PS4 games, but the Black Friday deals this year weren't too impressive. Really should have snagged Fallen Order when it was only 15 bucks, now its like 30.

 

[Leg End]

Missed that Walmart blunder of fifteen bucks for Neo TWEWY but got Xenoblade DE and Kirby: Star Allies, along with Bravely Default II and assorted Christmas gifts. Family picked up a bunch of stuff including TVs and soundbars (with some of that appearing to be coming to me under the tree so that's ballin), with my Dad really having his world rocked by his Vizio bar in ways I can only imagine he hasn't been audibly rocked by shit in decades. Fuckin magical bonding moment right there.

I got myself a brand-new 2GB SSD, and I've been busy transferring a number of games off of my aging 4GB HDD.

Finally retiring that old Maxtor and graduating to a Sandisk thumb drive eh?

 

[BrawlMan]

Some T-shirts.

Dante and Vergil Devil May Cry by otakupapercraft

We are the sons of Sparda. Within each of us flows his blood. But more importantly, his soul! And now, my soul is saying it wants to stop you!

www.teepublic.com

Usagi 893 by pan-ren-wei

Old day

www.teepublic.com

Moe Ninja by coinboxtees

SLASH!

www.teepublic.com

 

[Alienware]

Some T-shirts.

Usagi 893 by pan-ren-wei

Old day

www.teepublic.com

Moe Ninja by coinboxtees

SLASH!

www.teepublic.com

The first one is sick.

 

[BrawlMan]

The first one is sick.

Thank you. The sale is still going on, if you are interested.

 

[Xprimentyl]

The psychological effect of "a sale" on people is pretty remarkable. I've worked in retail for +20 years, and every year, it never ceases to amaze me how people are suckered into "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday" deals. It's not always this blatant, but what most don't realize is that they spend the other 363 days a year paying exorbitant markups to cover the "losses" retailers take on these deals. Basically, you get fleeced in April to get a "great deal" in November.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

I didn't get a single thing! Didn't need anything else, so I am holding out and taking stock around the holiday season

 

[Bob_McMillan]

The psychological effect of "a sale" on people is pretty remarkable. I've worked in retail for +20 years, and every year, it never ceases to amaze me how people are suckered into "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday" deals. It's not always this blatant, but what most don't realize is that they spend the other 363 days a year paying exorbitant markups to cover the "losses" retailers take on these deals. Basically, you get fleeced in April to get a "great deal" in November.

That picture you posted reminded me of this one e-commerce platform that actually has great sales at random points throughout the year. Then when the "actual" sale events rolls around, the "deals" are worse, with more asterisks attached than a non-FDA approved medicine. My all time fave is "Get 60% off using the code SuckNuts69*!" *Minimum purchase $250, limited styles only, cashback is capped at 15%

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The psychological effect of "a sale" on people is pretty remarkable. I've worked in retail for +20 years, and every year, it never ceases to amaze me how people are suckered into "Black Friday" or "Cyber Monday" deals. It's not always this blatant, but what most don't realize is that they spend the other 363 days a year paying exorbitant markups to cover the "losses" retailers take on these deals. Basically, you get fleeced in April to get a "great deal" in November.

Remember the story of JCPenney: They decided to cut out all the bullshit and dispense with the frequent "sales", instead selling everything for a regular low price. And they damn near went out of business because of it, because people want to be fooled- they want to think they're "getting a bargain".

 

[Xprimentyl]

Remember the story of JCPenney: They decided to cut out all the bullshit and dispense with the frequent "sales", instead selling everything for a regular low price. And they damn near went out of business because of it, because people want to be fooled- they want to think they're "getting a bargain".

...Let's just say I know a lot more about that than you'd think.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Remember the story of JCPenney: They decided to cut out all the bullshit and dispense with the frequent "sales", instead selling everything for a regular low price. And they damn near went out of business because of it, because people want to be fooled- they want to think they're "getting a bargain".

I read about that whole snafu, hilarious how it was part of an attempt to model their stores after Apple.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I read about that whole snafu, hilarious how it was part of an attempt to model their stores after Apple.

It was actually a very sound idea, but it banked on the collective practicality of consumers of a brand that's been around for over 100 years, and there, it shit the bed. Making the stores more sleek and efficient was jarring to the pearl clutching old-to-middle-aged Americans for whom JCP had been a staple and expectations set. Dropping "sales" in lieu of stable and reasonable prices was jarring too as most Americans were used to getting flyers and catalogs in the mail (which they inexorably threw away anyway.)

It's not that the ideas were bad; they were really good and flew in the face of phony campaigns run by literally every other retailer. It's that it was too different from what loyal shoppers had come to expect. Ron Johnson (the then CEO who came in with these grand ideas) executed it completely wrong; rather than testing the waters by dipping a toe in, he went to the deep end, dove in head first wearing a pair of concrete boots holding a leash tethered around the neck of an American institution.

The real disappointment was the American consumer. The curtain was pulled away, the ruse exposed, and yet the consumer refused to accept the truth, preferring the lies they'd been told since forever. It was like watching a drug addict going through withdrawals, and the ultimate solution was "give them their dope back; nice and cozy now?"

 

[gorfias]

This is on the way...

Got the wife a 2nd monitor for her laptop and a hub to plug it all into. 24" Dell.

 

[terrysmivv56]

I didn't buy as many things this Black Friday as last year. My biggest purchase is a new big TV.