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Black Friday Hunt, share your best finds (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by binpax@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Title says it all, in the last couple years Black Friday hasn't been as exciting in terms of deals, that's why this post, if you stumble upon anything interesting and you think it's worth it, you can share it with the community here.

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[–] SignificantTrack@alien.top 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems like black friday is more of an excuse to raise price in September to slightly lower it in Oct/Nov.

[–] OCPik4chu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

100% this. Had some hard drive upgrades I was going to get and at the end of the day their price was only like 10-15$ different than they were when I was looking a month ago despite being "over 40% off for Black Friday!"

[–] eve-collins@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought thats just me, but I noticed that Black Friday is not as it used to be anymore. Thanks to various services like camel camel and honey I can see that those “discounts” are the actual prices, and that the price bumped few weeks ago to just get back down now for Black Friday.

[–] HoustonBOFH@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With these tools and others, that game is just about over. So many consumers are just done with all the BS, and I think a larger shift is coming.

[–] eve-collins@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That is very true. My personal Black Friday is whenever I get notified by one of those extensions about the discounts on the products I’m following.

[–] binpax@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly the case in recent years, but I think there can be some exceptions, hopefully someone will share something interesting