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Black Friday needs to go back to being just a one day thing. Now it's Black Friday month with "early black Friday sales" and it's harder and harder to determine if a) the sales are actually sales, and b) I should wait until actual black Friday in hope of a steeper discount
None of them are sales. They just market cheaper versions of shit and call it a sale.
It would make you unhappy to learn it's still our busiest shipping day at work by far. Even though it's nearly common knowledge how much of a scam it is
There are legitimately sales, but you really gotta watch it.
If every day is a sale then no day is a sale!
Luckily we have tools like CamelCamelCamel to track pricing of products overtime and know if something is on sale or just marked up to mark down (i.e. the Kohl's protocol)
It's also mostly performative now. Used to be Black Friday was one day with really good deals, most people didn't pay much attention except the few looking for a great bargain. Now it's Black Friday Weekend, Cyber Monday, Black Friday Week, etc etc; all marketed as such with the name 'black friday', and most of the deals aren't really that good.
I've gotten a few good deal TVs on Black Friday. Last few years--- I don't even really bother. A lot of the stores only had really good deals on lower end stuff and only in store at like 6am. Sorry but I don't want to be part of a human stampede at 6am to buy a cheap TV. I'd rather pay a few bucks extra and keep my dignity.
Not only are they not sales, but sometimes they're even specifically extra-shitty versions of a product they can still make a profit off of when selling at BF prices.
The sales were never sales. That was their trick.
Hot tip: you can wail on someone at BestBuy 365 days a year.
And practically everything seems to be cheap crap designed to last just past the return window.
It used to be you could find some good deals but now everything's a scam.