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Not many good deals today? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by joetaxpayer@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Is it me, or does it not seem like there are many decent black Friday deals on any kind of internal storage whether it be a spinning hard drive or a solid-state device? My last drive purchase was a 16 TB Toshiba enterprise and they paid $225. Black Friday deals. Don’t even come close to this. Except, perhaps, if people are willing to shuck.

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[–] jihiggs123@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

black friday deals havent been that great in 20 years. it used to be a major deal.

[–] AshleyUncia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

black friday deals havent been that great in 20 years. it used to be a major deal.

This is bullshit.

Black Friday was insane for a handful of years following the Great Recession of 2008. Lasted till the very early 2010s. Retailers were desperate, desperate, to get you in the door or buying things on the website.

[–] jihiggs123@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

k, you obviously dont remember the 90s

[–] OldHeadReader@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah back then it was legit 80% off old inventory as they dumped everything to make room. Online having sales 1+ weeks early and seemingly infinite storage for merchandise really changed this.

Like, wtf is going to wait in line for hours to get -15% on kohls brand tshirts?

[–] roflcopter44444@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

When it comes to computing i would disgree, with the rapid leaps that were going on, it didnt make sense to buy the old super marked down stuff because the newer stuff already gave more performance/capacity per dollar spent. it might be great to see some old seagate 500 GBs marked down heavily from their original MSRP until you realize the 2TB one with the 20% discount is a lot cheaper per TB.

[–] mikeputerbaugh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

We have better price tracking tools now than we did 20+ years ago. There's plenty of websites that will tell me how good a sale price is without me having to skim through a bunch of old issues of Computer Shopper by hand.