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Tuffty
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For several months I was watching around 10 items on Amazon and noted prices etc. Planning on buying them on Black Friday 25th November and save a few bob.

To my shock and horror not 1 single item was bought. :@

Heres why.

1 item was just under £300 and Black Friday went up to £350 lol.

The other items all went up too. Some by £10-£20-£30. Which for me is a deal breaker. Now I've checked several of them today and low and behold the prices have gone down. Back to what they were before Black Friday.

So has anyone else noticed prices going up for Black Friday?

I have a funny feeling it needs a rename. Black Friday rip off deals.

Very disappointed and no deals for me this time.

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27-Nov-2022 13:32:03

Vead
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As someone whom used to work in retail, I can certainly attest that some businesses will in-fact raise their prices by lets say 30% to produce a sale that's 40% off :P . Shopping malls are notorious for this practice even outside Black Friday.

As far as video-games and accessories go, the stores that I had visited this year did not even have any of the sales that they had-had last year. I suppose I cannot be surprised that Amazon is now stingy, too. - (Owner) Ornery Onions -
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27-Nov-2022 16:24:51

Thunder Jinx
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Wait for cyber monday if it's computer related stuff you want to buy.
But yeah, don't trust a sale, trust only your own keeping track of prices.

Personally I just buy stuff when I figure out I want something.
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27-Nov-2022 16:53:28

Megycal
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I saw on a TV programme recently that Which investigated the sales tactics and found that just 1 in 7 "sales" prices were genuine reductions. The tactic of putting prices up before the "sale" has been used for a long time.

27-Nov-2022 18:22:08

Rooh
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I noticed a genuine (and big) reduction on LG TVs by one retailer, but apart from that most savings have been small.

There wasn't really anything I wanted/needed this year... I'd been toying with the idea of a new computer build but that can wait a while.
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28-Nov-2022 10:55:00

SlR
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The old bait and switch Bob says:
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28-Nov-2022 12:46:54

Tuffty
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Just checked the items I had marked to buy and some have gone down yet again.

Not happy but not sad as I never bought anything lol.

Still have the items marked to buy when I think the price is lower enough to make me happy.

I hate being robbed. So much for Black Friday deals. :P Comprehensive Account Security
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28-Nov-2022 13:20:46

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