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Ask HN: Have we reached peak Black Friday?

4 pointsWallyFunk8 comments

In the start it was novel. New smart TV marked down considerably that sold out in minutes. What a great idea! But then it caught on and became just another grift. Amazon is full of 'tat' that although it's marked down substantially, it's never something I actually need. It's more a good deal for the seller, not the buyer, and has also devolved into scam territory too. If you do enough price watching, you suddenly see new items on the market marked down, but nobody knows the original price, since it's a new item just launched for Black Friday! The whole thing just seems like a grift.

Have we reached peak Black Friday?

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I think we’ve passed peak Black Friday. I remember a few years ago stores were opening Thanksgiving evening, fortunately that’s passed but yeah, I mean, all year long companies call out “Black Friday” like sales. I wish it really was just Black Friday 6-midnight or whatever, now it just feels like there is no signal in the noise.

Crank up the price 100 percent offer it as retail price then offer a 50 percent discount for black friday.

I know a lot of retailers in the uk (especially online) are pinning their hopes on selling well on Black Friday to make up for the last six months poor trading.

If you stay away from Amazon and scam my sites, actual proper retailers should have some decent discounts.

This is a weird year. Supply chains are partly freed up, but prices are up so people are buying less stuff. That means retailers have a lot of inventory left around to move. They're doing more sales this year and spreading them out over more time to try to make room for new stuff.

I don't know how to explain what's going on with Amazon sellers, but I'm not sure it's that different from normal, non-Black Friday behavior.

> In the start it was novel

Also remember that Black Friday isn’t the only thing that changed. You changed, too. You’ve probably got a decent TV now or can afford to go out and buy one whenever you want.

Anyone running the Keepa extension or one of the alternatives can see that Amazon aren't discounting beyond what they've done in the last six months on most items.

I can only hope! Makes no sense around here since there is no holiday on the preceding Thursday but every retailer seems to advertise a Friday sale.

World is not only US. BF is strong and in EU you have now MSRP laws not to scam on promotions.

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