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Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?

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What is an item you're waiting to go on sale before you buy it?

Aren’t the discounts during Black Friday/Cyber Monday scams/fake? They increase the original price weeks before these events. During the events they “lower” the price simulating discounts… but you’re buying the product at its original price. Been tracking some products I’m interested in it always happens.

For anyone worried about this when making an Amazon purchase, check out camelcamelcamel.com

Some are, some are actual sales. 'Keepa' for amazon makes it very easy to see a nice price history chart and figure out which it is (even if buying from another retailer).

There does appear to be some evidence to that effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344709

I'll wait for after Black Friday and after layoffs and catch some good stuff on craigslist. Plus this time it is different, 1st most deals went online, long before and after into December and January so no rush, 2nd due to inflation deals are worse so better deals might come months after, 3rd post-covid even Halloween is almost no-more so everything is changing

Nothing. I don’t believe in discounts. Most of the time they aren’t real, more an illusion.

Indeed. Also, the ultimate discount is 100% off things you don't need to buy.

Related: I've been using CamelCamelCamel* to track Amazon price drops.

I just used to to grab a new Kindle Fire HD Plus for practically nothing.

*https://camelcamelcamel.com Not affiliated, just happy with the service.

CamelCamelCamel is great, you can set notifications for items so you can re-stock things at low price points.

Probably nothing, because I have come to dislike waste or pointless consumption. However, if, following these sales, I can pick up a cheap second hand Pixel 6 or a very good coffee grinder, I could be tempted.

I'd really like to get an ultra widescreen monitor. I'm looking at the 38" LG 38WP85C. It is not cheap, but I don't know that it will go on sale. I may have to bite the bullet and just buy it at the regular price. Given the nature of my work, I think it will prove to be a huge quality of life booster. If anyone knows of similar monitors or any deals on widescreen monitors, please do let me know!

I've already got my holiday shopping done since summer so I'm looking forward to a low stress holiday season this year. Also I just never do black friday and I dont think I need to justify it.

Pretty soon the seasonal popup roasted almond stand will appear at the dead mall near the office and I'll be raiding it liberally!

Like others have said, all the sales are fake in some way, or at the very least not compelling enough to spend money I wouldn't have otherwise.

I am however waiting for GPU prices to come down significantly, but I'm not sure yet that I'd actually buy one.

Right now, an RTX 3070 (2 years since launch) is still $760 CAD off the shelf (with supposed black friday discount), which is a shit ton of cash.

I'm actually intrigued with A770, not that I want to actually get one right now. But if I were to build a GPU-compute computer, it'd probably be based on the $350 16GB Intel Arc A770

A770 comes in at slightly slower than the 3070, but also with 16GB of VRAM, more space for a lot of compute problems. (Stable Diffusion, KataGo, etc. etc.) Not that I'm sure that Intel is a good GPU or that its drivers work or anything, but $350 is a good price point for experimentation...

No need to wait for Black Friday though. I don't expect GPU prices to drop. Might as well just buy it.

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My nieces want some video games. I'll probably buy the new Pokemon for them.

Just a heads up Pokémon Violet/Scarlet is one of the worst Gamefreak offerings ever.

Just do a search for Pokémon Violet issues for a huge list.

Some off the top of my head- performance (stuttering, pop-ins, etc), crashes, graphics are gamecube-like; the list is so long I've yet to see or hear anything positive about it.

I'd thought sword/shield were bad but this one is really bad.

Gamefreak chose to blame the Switch...for a game that is obviously unfinished.

Botw, metroid, xenoverse- there are some great games that run damn near flawlessly on the Switch that look lightyears ahead of Violet.

My kids didn't want it. Gave my copy to my girlfriend's 10 year old son, he gave it back and went back to playing Lego Batman I bought him the other day on sale for $5.

Anyways forewarned is fore-armed

Withings is having some decent sales, so I was thinking about one of their low-end scales and their BP monitor, and maybe their thermometer because I need a reliable one and I’d spend about the same on one at the local pharmacy anyway.

That’s about it for me I think. Still waiting for the new Mikrotik hap ax3 to be available somewhere, but don’t expect there to be any sales in that regard.

I have the BP monitor and the scale, and both are really useful / have good UX!

Been looking for an affordable Android tablet to hack around on, possibly look into learning Kotlin for mobile application development. I've got a great deal of exposure to Java already, so figured that would be an easier transition than jumping into the Apple/Swift ecosystem.

If you want a really hackable tablet, I would recommend to try Pinetab, which runs GNU/Linux natively.

Clothes, hopefully higher quality ones if they are on discount. I was looking to buy a bunch of merino wool socks/boxers/shirts. I buy electronics year round, on the other hand, I never buy any clothes since they always seem so expensive (100$ jeans, or new SSD?)

Where are you planning on buying the merino goodies?

Costco has great clothes if there's one near you

A few 14-16 TB HDDs for my home server. The ZFS pool needs to expand :)

Available now, often gone in a few days: https://shucks.top

Thanks, but I don’t buy to shuck anymore. I have had two failures in the last few months, so I’m looking for drives with good warranty.

LG Oled C2 42 inch. I’m hoping to use it as my main monitor.

The Christmas gifts for the family!

Toys for one, a Nintendo Switch for another, Comic Books for me, and something for the partner (I don't know yet what it will be...).

Kindle scribe pending initial reviews being positive.

The new onyx boox tab is tempting but the company looks too shady (ignoring gpl, lol privacy policy).

Wow thanks for mentioning this. I hadn't even heard about the Scribe, it seems really cool.

A Nespresso OL machine and some Audeze headphones (LCD-X). The latter never seems to be on sale however so my wait might be futile.

Not a thing.

2 TB SSD and maybe I can fulfill my dream of a 30'+, 4K, 144hz, 1000 nits screen.

Likely TurboTax 2022, it's the only thing I'll really need.

Audio stuff: virtual instruments and effect plug-ins

A ridge wallet and Nexgen ceramic spray!

Whatever my kids are getting for Xmas

I’ve come to the realization that the things I want to buy, usually don’t get discounts during holiday sales. Maybe like 3% off sometimes, but never mouthwatering deals.

Everybody around me has some deals to be excited about. Not me. I looked through my wish list, no red marks, no discounts, one of them is actually more expensive now. I’m on a forgotten island in the world of capitalistic celebration.

Anova Precision Oven

dirtcheap $200 PCs, lots and lots of dirtcheap PCs.

What for?

Cluster performance and training at system hardware level.

In short, collection of debug, trace, and power and performance analysis tools with eBBF.

Graphics cards. I’m hoping the 30XX series sees a sharp price drop with the new cards coming out.

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