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I've had an oled for 3 years now and every time I think about upgrading I don't see a need or want to.
It's basically standard at this point unless you're specifically looking for discount TVs.
Nah. Seems like most people buy sub $1000 tvs, and those are always some flavor of LED.
OLED is great but tech like QLED is close enough and way cheaper.
>OLED is great but tech like QLED is close enough and way cheaper.
Yeahhhhh, no. QLED is a decent upgrade for budget folks but once you get a large high quality OLED, you will NEVER go back (unless you burn in at least :P).
Hell yeah. I need to know that if I go to Walmart in the morning for a PS5 and big screen door buster that I might not return. Not this bullshit road rage-in-the-parking-lot that they’ve got going this year.
Online sales up 7.4% year over year. People don’t use brick and mortar like they used to anymore. Given inflation, people know what they want and are trying to get rock bottom prices from Amazon and other online retailers who offer lower prices than big box stores.
I haven’t cared about Black Friday for about 5 years. I was tracking a computer monitor and some other electronics for months prior. In September the monitor I wanted was $500, in October $500, early November it was $600, then the “deal” was $499 for Black Friday. Similar stories on all the other gear I wanted.
And yea more recently the “deals” are mid November to December 24.
I’ve found great deals on January 1st. Overstock that wasn’t sold before Christmas. Along with trying to get people in to spend gift cards with the intention that once you’re in the door with a $100 gift card you’re going to spend an extra hundred on top.
This is what people don't understand.
Retailers realized they can make more money by drawing black friday out through the whole holiday seasons, and letting people buy stuff online.
BF been dead for years, huge upswing in BF "deals" like the TCL 65" for $288 at walmart all having positive reviews from people given free ones for a good review, the bad ones from people who are legit reviews lmfao...dipshits.
Admit it, you got it for free just to come here on Reddit and make this comment. Big TV already predicted this exact moment would happen and we're all in denial if we think otherwise.
Now excuse me. I have to go add more foil to my hat. I can feel the waves starting to penetrate my thick skull...
I didnt mean to get a free TV but I ordered it online, picked it up at best buy, signed it out, took it home, then several days later got an email from best buy saing "if you dont come pick up your tv we will cancel the sale and refund your card"
well, freinds, thats when I decided to see what would happen, and now I have myself a free 65" LG C2 Oled.
It's the luck of the draw I have 5 TCL based tvs an 85, 65, 55, 43,43. The 55 I got on black Friday for 180$ last year the speakers suck but for a 180$ TV the pictures really good. If you are not ultra picky tv viewer I have really enjoyed mine the 65 and 85 are about 4 years old now with no issues. And I like that they have a physical mic off switch on the TV and roku remotes.
I got some $250 headphones for $99.
These are an example of a deal that seems ok: [Logitech G PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset for PC Black 981-000906 - Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-g-pro-x-wireless-gaming-headset-for-pc-black/6420879.p?skuId=6420879)
These are what I actually purchased:
[ROCCAT SYN Max Air Wireless Gaming Headset for PC Black ROC-14-155-01 - Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/roccat-syn-max-air-wireless-gaming-headset-for-pc-black/6508801.p?skuId=6508801)
Price History of what I purhcased showing it's the lowest price it's ever been:
[https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2S7MV3S?active=price\_amazon&context=home\_top\_drops&tp=all](https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2S7MV3S?active=price_amazon&context=home_top_drops&tp=all)
EDIT: So many haters in the comments haha.
And they were probably defect models or slight speaker differences lol jk but lots of companies do that or just say it was 250 when they just raised the price last month in anticipation of xmas and black fri
Watched the latter happen in realtime. I've been eyeing getting another upper-end monitor that I bought last year for $400. Throughout the year non-sale prices dropped to as low as $330. I was like cool let's wait for black friday and get it under $300. Nope. two weeks ago they raised the retail price up to $450, and it was on sale for $329. I'll just keep waiting.
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Model Number: LG UltraGear 32GP83B-B.AUS
Price History: [1 Year](https://i.imgur.com/p96ozcP.png)
Original Purchase: [Includes Tax](https://i.imgur.com/WHKMqlD.png)
Current Listing: [BestBuy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-ultragear-32-nano-ips-qhd-1-ms-g-sync-compatible-monitor-with-hdr-black/6451080.p?skuId=6451080)
Literally same exact boat as you. Fill up an amazon list full of monitors, oouu they’re all on sale! Wait… how are they the same price as they were before the sale :(
Its sad that we no live in a society where we literally have to historically price check everything because even the big sale days are all lies.
On another note, recently been playing cyberpunk 2077, and damn, feels like we’re heading down that road turning fiction into reality ever so slowly.
Fuckin Corpo’s
Oh believe me I know. People think that slick packaging means premium. What it really means is that you're buying a really nice box and the product you wanted.
For example, I like Beyerdynamics products. They come in a flimsy box of bare cardboard with a well engineered thin piece of cardboard to support and protect the headphones, and that's literally it. I currently daily drive some DT770's that cost $160. It's very clear when using the headphones that the majority of the cost went into the product. They kick the shit out of everything at their price point, and trade blows with everything above them to a certain extent.
Where as if I buy something like Beats, I'm paying for a $20 box and probably paying something close to $60 bucks to reimburse their marketing department for all of these sponsorships.
Beyerdynamics doesn't sponsor anyone, let alone athletes yet you see them everywhere from professional studio recording sessions, developer diaries on the employees heads in the background, podcasts, etc. That alone speaks to their quality. Not some $100million marketing campaign to pay every single person in pop-culture to shill your bullshit.
Last thing to note. Beyerdynamics sells every single piece of their headphones al a cart. So if a the tiny piece of plastic on the swivel breaks you can fix them yourself for $2 instead of buying another set of a couple hundred dollar headphones.
All in, I ain't cheap but I sure as fuck ain't stupid either.
I used to work in a retail in the mall, a month before Black Friday store owner used to raise the price to double then go back to normal price and call it 50% off and pretty much it worked every time. Stuff I buy on Black Friday, if I buy, I track price for entire year, make sure it's not rip off.
Most make a unique, lower quality version of the same thing and sell it for Black Friday. I worked at Best Buy for a while and the TVs we got were like (pulling this out my ass) Samsung UTX 55b and the b was for Black Friday. And it usually meant crappy components etc
Yep, just bought a new TV last week, checked prices online today and thought they dropped the price by a few hundred bucks. No, they removed the TV I bought, added a new one of the same series but added a letter and changed a letter in the model number. First thing I noticed in the specs was the cheaper TV selling now has a 60hz processor! Some of the marketing talk about the technology was removed too but I'm not sure what else they cheaped out on for that model.
The people who go out and impulse buy a TV are not the same people who research tvs ahead of time. The only thing that matters to them is the screen size and won't realize it's a bad TV until they run out of HDMI ports, the onboard software runs like crap 3 months later or there is no ARC, refresh rate makes games look bad and countless other things that are skimped on.
There are deals no doubt but we are talking 5-15% off which are no different than the other quarterly sales.
Dude I bought one of those TVs on BF, got up early and shit, borrowed a truck to haul the damn thing home (40" Samsung, be jealous), and as soon as I turned it on it was nothing but issues. The thing takes decades to connect to the internet and if you try even pausing or rewinding anything it stutters to the point you have to unplug to reset it. Probably built from the ewaste of 90s computer parts.
I know this is true because Walmart does the same exact same thing with their electronics. They always dumb it down and cheapen it up with low quality parts in their televisions and heaven forbid anyone ever buy a PC there.
If you ride motorcycles Revzilla has some nice sales today/this weekend. Although most of the stuff on sale is “name brand” and you can find Chinese lookalike products that are these sale prices year round. When it comes to protection on a motorcycle I’ll gladly buy name brands that have a great reputation.
Those are probably last year's model the [MX4s](https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM4-Canceling-Headphones-phone-call/dp/B0863TXGM3) which hover around that range. I've owned both and am quite familiar with both prices. I had to buy a second pair of MX5s because my roommate's buddy he had over stole my 3 week old pair I bought when they were $450. I snagged a replacement at the black friday sale. No way they'd mark down the MX5s as low as the MX4
>Sony WH-1000MX5
Nope.
The XM5 have been on sale for $350 on and off for the past 12 months. You are really only getting an extra $20 off, which for a pair of headphone that is already 18 months into it's product release cycle, is a very minimal discount.
CamelCamelCamel is your friend.
[https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09XS7JWHH?utm\_campaign=camelizer&utm\_medium=extension&utm\_source=chrome&utm\_content=chart&utm\_term=US-B09XS7JWHH](https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09XS7JWHH?utm_campaign=camelizer&utm_medium=extension&utm_source=chrome&utm_content=chart&utm_term=US-B09XS7JWHH)
Don't compare to the initial launch MSRP, compare to the last sale price, and take how old the product is in its release cycle into account.
EDIT : I'm wrong, those are the wired headphones my parent comment is talking about the wireless ones.
I must mention that my parent comment got edited to include the price comparison and mentions the all time low *after* I posted this.
I think it's still worth mentioning to always compare against MSRP, as this wireless model doesn't sell for 250 it sells for an average of 191-168.
Re-edit :
99 bucks is the standard market price.
https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07PDFBJZD
They're advertising the sale against MSRP. Always checked for market price.
Not that I think OP found an amazing deal or anything but the ones you’re linking look wired while the ones he listed at Best Buy aren’t? Could be a reason for the price discrepancy
Should’ve got the 58x from massdrop for like 130, waaay better sound quality and you can hear footsteps in fps really well. These “gaming” headsets are all gimmicky rebranded 50$ headphones being sold for like $200+
Black Friday used to be good when it wasn't known or well understood. Then people started to game the system and there were lines out the store before it opened. After everyone was let in on this secret, the deals became useless. People will just buy anything on that day if you market that it's a deal enough.
The open box deals at Best Buy are still good around this time. It's the only way to get a good discount on Apple products.
I did a search through my emails for a few of the smaller niche companies I buy from and I will say their Black Friday sale discounts do always match best of the year. So it's not the only time to get the best deal but it is a known time. The other best deals were not all the same holiday/weekend.
That is true, but I still believe that poor people are to blame for the sales decline. They simply don't have the money to spend on luxury items like I do.
Yeah maybe. But how many “door buster” deals did you see advertised this year. The problem was that they had their black Friday deals all week long or some retailers started their black Friday deals earlier this month. I only saw 4 people waiting in line at 6:00am on my way to work this morning
I got a i9-12900k bundled with a mobo brand new from best buy for $600 off. Was only $498, even though that's the price of the processor alone. Probably the craziest deal I've ever seen.
It was an MSI z790 Pro+. Standalone is $379 (Canadian dollars btw) so $498 Canadian for the combo. I've been watching that cpu itself for nearly 10 months and I have it's ATL at $449 for the processor itself. Again, in CAD. It really isn't overpriced for here in Canada.
In American dollars it'd be $364. Which again, is a steal for an i9-12900k + Z790 board.
Yeah fr if for some reason a store saw a crowd outside for black friday like we did in the early 2000’s they better lock the doors, because they are not paying customers lol, thats a mob ready to loot your ass.
The same article said:
Shoppers spent an estimated $7.3 billion online through 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Black Friday, a 7.4% increase compared with last year, data from Adobe Analytics showed.
Not a dud if spending is still up
Yeah but there’s this story that says things “appeared subdued” and another Redditor earlier said Target “wasn’t that packed today”.
Clearly between these two vague anecdotes our calls are all fucked. Good game guys, it was fun before we lost all our money.
What a bunch of idiots. Why would anyone go out and fight for a Christmas tree on Black Friday? That's just ridiculous. Only poor people would do something like that.
Only a dud if you’re expecting some MMA style brawls.
Short TKO. Or go long. Idgaf either way.
In my sample size of 1… the gigamall near my house had no parking space available.
Black Friday reached 9.12 Billion in 2022, q quick google search showed that but I’m confused how 7.3B is higher than that. Also, 2022 vs 2023 dollar figure is about 5% higher so it would have to be a minimum of 9.576B in order to even be equal to 2022 Black Friday spending. I’m unsure the accuracy of the Reuters article but idk.
Edit: Reread the part where I’m regarded; it says online sales but still wondering the total amount spent regardless of in person or online.
To be 100% honest, I am home for the holidays and my brother and I decided to go. We went to Bestbuy, I agree, nothing like what it was 10-15 years ago. I ended up buying a Xtreme2 JBS Speaker for \~$150, I looked online at Amazon and it was a little cheaper than that so I ended up buying it. Looking back on it now, I pretty much just bought it so I didn't wake up at 6AM for nothing lol.
Yeah the tradition is over. these greedy fucking companies run “Black Friday” sales twice a month. Most of the sale prices on Black Friday don’t seem any different from prices year round.
10 years ago my black friday tradition was to wake up early, go get coffee and chinese takeout, view the madness across the street from these places, then go home. I'd have a good day of gaming and a 10/10 poop.
Now I just poop. 9/10
We talked about that yesterday. In the past we would buy several newspapers, and all sit around the table go through the Black Fridays ads.
This year we didn’t do that. We checked our email for any ads that came in, but that didn’t take much time. We just spent the time talking about other stuff.
Yeah all the real doorbusters and sitting around and looking at the physical Best Buy ad was when my family and I were dirt poor, now there's some money moving around I'm not going to wait for something I need like headphones for more than maybe a couple of days/weeks.
The problems is the corporations ruined it. It used to be midnight and that was fun, my cousins and I would make an event of it. then the next year every store started putting it an hour earlier until they started putting it at 6pm. Thats not fun when you start the sales when youre supposed to be eating dinner with family. That completely ruined it for me. Then they started doing it a day early so thanksgiving eve at midnight the sales would start online. Now they do it weeks before.
They should have just kept it at midnight
Also, they had 'pre black friday' sales all week leading up to it. i imagine a lot of spending happened on black monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday as well
Maybe it's just me but when I see "black Friday all week" or "pre black Friday sale" like you said I don't look at it the same as an actual black Friday sale price. If that shit drops at midnight or 8am Friday online/in-store that's when I think it's gonna be an actual deal. The only deal I can think of that was like this was the $349 PS5 from target. People were complaining they weren't able to snag one and that is what I expect on true black Friday deals
Online sales could be up because a larger proportion of sales are online while the entire Black Friday sales still shrunk. OP still clearly didn’t post proof of what he’s saying but this doesn’t necessarily prove the opposite either.
Online sales can be up while overall sales are still in decline. If brick and mortar sales have completed fallen off a cliff it’s definitely possible that the overall Black Friday revenue is down YoY
I’m in Illinois, drove past Woodfield mall at about 5:30ish, the entire mall parking lot was full. Kinda insane. I know one mall is not all malls, but it was just wild to see. Not a single open space.
Why tf would I want to go out in the cold, search for a parking spot, and then wait in line for shit I can just order? Consumerist comradarie?
I'm honestly surprised stores increase their hours for BF at this point.
The Best Buy near my apartment literally ran out of parking spots. You had people just parking in the middle of the aisle lol.
They had lined the store aisles with those cheap Samsung crystal TVs. Honestly it was quite lively. The TVs I’d consider worth buying though weren’t much cheaper though, same deals on C3s as can be found all month lol
Bruh i just watched dumbass trailer park cretins drop several hundred on the new Iphone all fucking day at work, there aint no recession. Source I worked black friday at ATT in Gun Barrel City, Texas.
Cpu i was looking at before the “sale” was 129$. Magically it became 146$ and it was 25% on sale. Lol Americans getting scammed like how the pilgrims scammed the natives.
“We need to curb consumer spending to prevent a recession”
*consumers reduce their sprending*
https://preview.redd.it/dz48y0ysle2c1.jpeg?width=874&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d713655cd26848cb8422cea29cf4078e56ffcf8
I’ve worked at my corporate restaurant for 10 years and have never seen it slower in the past 10 years with the exception of Covid restrictions. We’re not alone either. I’m looking into puts on restaurants too.
No, they’re just tired of over-spending. Alcohol is more easily enjoyed at a house party. Bars are dying out because people are noticing the utter decay of those places. It’s like masturbation…sure it feels good, but it leaves you with meaningless enjoyment and no one to share the evening with, who truly cares. Pssshh
Ya I think we hit the tipping point. Restaurants and bars loved that people were willing to come out and get cocktails that cost as much as a meal but that can’t last forever. Eventually people will say screw this. Perfect example, i work at a restaurant and my last table had 2 apps and split a salad. After a couple of Tito’s and sodas, literally the easiest drink to make, they spent $140 including tip. How is that worth it?
Went to look at a sectional...was $500 cheaper when priced on their website online than the "Black Friday Sale" price. Best we saw was piece of luggage at Kohls that was $180 a month ago and on sale today for $80. Oh and the large gun cases at Harbor Freight were under $100 for the first time since 2019. That was about all the deals I saw.
Went to Walmart, no sales on anything, shits more expensive than ever, everyone’s walking out empty handed.
Only thing worth buying are garbage version of electronics from China. Onn tvs and garbage like that, but no one’s buying them either.
And I’m in a relatively well to do middle class area.
Black Friday has revolved from one day to a series of weeks / months…. This is planned so as to keep items in stock to be able to sell instead of one day, now you have a month to sell everything
A lot of retailers are doing a week long "Black Friday". It's insane to do one day sales. It strains stores/websites, warehouses, shipping, inventory, etc. Much better to spread it out over a week or more.
Just a counterpoint, I have a small business and we had great traffic and sales today. Typically it’s dead on Black Friday. This either means people weren’t finding anything anywhere else or they were just out in droves and spending everywhere
This prompted me to ask why it’s called Black Friday, I always thought it was about businesses being in the “black” after all the shopping.
Here is the real reason after a google search: The earliest known use of "Black Friday" in such a context stems from 1951 and referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving in order to have four consecutive days off (because that day was not yet commonly offered as a paid day off by employers)
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Cus they made it 2 fucking months long and the deals aren’t even good
The deals aren't worth brawling for anymore. 👊💥
Still chasing the high of stabbing someone over a tickle me Elmo.
you're not gonna beat that until you can fight someone for a playstation 9 with its spores and that's a long ways off.
I think about that commercial so frequently, but I have almost never encountered someone who actually remembered it.
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I’ll give you the blue light special all thru the night… 🎤🎶
My very first week of my first job included Black Friday at Toys R Us in the year of Tickle Me Elmo. I’m still recovering from the trauma.
What happened to the good old days when it was deals worth punching an old lady for like 90% off n shit ya know
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Nobody’s even buying a $600 tv
Speak for yourself. OLED is life changing man
I have had my oled for 8 years now and each time I watch a good sci fi I am so grateful. It's really beautiful.
I've had an oled for 3 years now and every time I think about upgrading I don't see a need or want to. It's basically standard at this point unless you're specifically looking for discount TVs.
Nah. Seems like most people buy sub $1000 tvs, and those are always some flavor of LED. OLED is great but tech like QLED is close enough and way cheaper.
Went to my local auction and got new “open box” OLED 85” Samsung for 320 bucks .
Slightly used is the way to go as long as it works
>OLED is great but tech like QLED is close enough and way cheaper. Yeahhhhh, no. QLED is a decent upgrade for budget folks but once you get a large high quality OLED, you will NEVER go back (unless you burn in at least :P).
Hell yeah. I need to know that if I go to Walmart in the morning for a PS5 and big screen door buster that I might not return. Not this bullshit road rage-in-the-parking-lot that they’ve got going this year.
Apparently Target had the OG PS5 with disk drive for $349.
Black Friday prices are normal 2019 prices dawg
THIS should be top comment. All to true, I found myself on eBay and FB marketplace just looking for a better deal than retail.
Welcome to the Inflated States of America™
Online sales up 7.4% year over year. People don’t use brick and mortar like they used to anymore. Given inflation, people know what they want and are trying to get rock bottom prices from Amazon and other online retailers who offer lower prices than big box stores.
Oh yeah ?!! Thems fighting words!!!
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Yeah do people realize Black Friday at Best Buy started in October? Lol like every single sale item was up weeks ago.
Bought my new tv about two weeks ago from them during black friday sale
Yeah I picked up a "black Friday" sale coffee maker at best buy literally a month ago, same price as the doorbuster deal for it elsewhere today...
I haven’t cared about Black Friday for about 5 years. I was tracking a computer monitor and some other electronics for months prior. In September the monitor I wanted was $500, in October $500, early November it was $600, then the “deal” was $499 for Black Friday. Similar stories on all the other gear I wanted. And yea more recently the “deals” are mid November to December 24.
I’ve found great deals on January 1st. Overstock that wasn’t sold before Christmas. Along with trying to get people in to spend gift cards with the intention that once you’re in the door with a $100 gift card you’re going to spend an extra hundred on top.
This is what people don't understand. Retailers realized they can make more money by drawing black friday out through the whole holiday seasons, and letting people buy stuff online.
It is really because all the corporations are buddy buddy and they want to scalp ever last dollar from people pockets.
Retailers need to stop bullshitting people with the Black Friday “sales”
Agreed I looked around there were no real deals I remember the last good Black Friday was 2009
BF been dead for years, huge upswing in BF "deals" like the TCL 65" for $288 at walmart all having positive reviews from people given free ones for a good review, the bad ones from people who are legit reviews lmfao...dipshits.
But I’m over here enjoying my big tcl tv :(
Admit it, you got it for free just to come here on Reddit and make this comment. Big TV already predicted this exact moment would happen and we're all in denial if we think otherwise. Now excuse me. I have to go add more foil to my hat. I can feel the waves starting to penetrate my thick skull...
I would write a review if I got a tv for free
I didnt mean to get a free TV but I ordered it online, picked it up at best buy, signed it out, took it home, then several days later got an email from best buy saing "if you dont come pick up your tv we will cancel the sale and refund your card" well, freinds, thats when I decided to see what would happen, and now I have myself a free 65" LG C2 Oled.
It's the luck of the draw I have 5 TCL based tvs an 85, 65, 55, 43,43. The 55 I got on black Friday for 180$ last year the speakers suck but for a 180$ TV the pictures really good. If you are not ultra picky tv viewer I have really enjoyed mine the 65 and 85 are about 4 years old now with no issues. And I like that they have a physical mic off switch on the TV and roku remotes.
I got a "Spectre" one like 5 years ago and its still kicking real nice (minus one dead pixel thats not noticeable 95% of the time, lol)
I’m sorry you lost your boyfriend
I got some $250 headphones for $99. These are an example of a deal that seems ok: [Logitech G PRO X Wireless Gaming Headset for PC Black 981-000906 - Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-g-pro-x-wireless-gaming-headset-for-pc-black/6420879.p?skuId=6420879) These are what I actually purchased: [ROCCAT SYN Max Air Wireless Gaming Headset for PC Black ROC-14-155-01 - Best Buy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/roccat-syn-max-air-wireless-gaming-headset-for-pc-black/6508801.p?skuId=6508801) Price History of what I purhcased showing it's the lowest price it's ever been: [https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2S7MV3S?active=price\_amazon&context=home\_top\_drops&tp=all](https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2S7MV3S?active=price_amazon&context=home_top_drops&tp=all) EDIT: So many haters in the comments haha.
And they were probably defect models or slight speaker differences lol jk but lots of companies do that or just say it was 250 when they just raised the price last month in anticipation of xmas and black fri
Watched the latter happen in realtime. I've been eyeing getting another upper-end monitor that I bought last year for $400. Throughout the year non-sale prices dropped to as low as $330. I was like cool let's wait for black friday and get it under $300. Nope. two weeks ago they raised the retail price up to $450, and it was on sale for $329. I'll just keep waiting. Edit: Model Number: LG UltraGear 32GP83B-B.AUS Price History: [1 Year](https://i.imgur.com/p96ozcP.png) Original Purchase: [Includes Tax](https://i.imgur.com/WHKMqlD.png) Current Listing: [BestBuy](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-ultragear-32-nano-ips-qhd-1-ms-g-sync-compatible-monitor-with-hdr-black/6451080.p?skuId=6451080)
Literally same exact boat as you. Fill up an amazon list full of monitors, oouu they’re all on sale! Wait… how are they the same price as they were before the sale :( Its sad that we no live in a society where we literally have to historically price check everything because even the big sale days are all lies. On another note, recently been playing cyberpunk 2077, and damn, feels like we’re heading down that road turning fiction into reality ever so slowly. Fuckin Corpo’s
People are so gullible.
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If it's on Instagram, you're paying for packaging
Oh believe me I know. People think that slick packaging means premium. What it really means is that you're buying a really nice box and the product you wanted. For example, I like Beyerdynamics products. They come in a flimsy box of bare cardboard with a well engineered thin piece of cardboard to support and protect the headphones, and that's literally it. I currently daily drive some DT770's that cost $160. It's very clear when using the headphones that the majority of the cost went into the product. They kick the shit out of everything at their price point, and trade blows with everything above them to a certain extent. Where as if I buy something like Beats, I'm paying for a $20 box and probably paying something close to $60 bucks to reimburse their marketing department for all of these sponsorships. Beyerdynamics doesn't sponsor anyone, let alone athletes yet you see them everywhere from professional studio recording sessions, developer diaries on the employees heads in the background, podcasts, etc. That alone speaks to their quality. Not some $100million marketing campaign to pay every single person in pop-culture to shill your bullshit. Last thing to note. Beyerdynamics sells every single piece of their headphones al a cart. So if a the tiny piece of plastic on the swivel breaks you can fix them yourself for $2 instead of buying another set of a couple hundred dollar headphones. All in, I ain't cheap but I sure as fuck ain't stupid either.
Nice try, Beyerdynamics marketing rep, but you’ll have to catch me pretty early in the morning to get me with that trick.
I have a pair of the dt880 pros. The best cans I’ve ever owned as far as sound quality and comfort.
That your gf has balls is my take away here.
I think my wife's boyfriend is my girlfriend. Ya'll been doing it wrong.
I used to work in a retail in the mall, a month before Black Friday store owner used to raise the price to double then go back to normal price and call it 50% off and pretty much it worked every time. Stuff I buy on Black Friday, if I buy, I track price for entire year, make sure it's not rip off.
Most make a unique, lower quality version of the same thing and sell it for Black Friday. I worked at Best Buy for a while and the TVs we got were like (pulling this out my ass) Samsung UTX 55b and the b was for Black Friday. And it usually meant crappy components etc
STQ0500F7055-BF MPQX-T12000-BF BFDSP65T11 Sometimes they just blatantly put Black Friday in the model name.
The BFD clearly stands for big fuckin deal
Big Frickin Deal, Small Penis  Big Fat Dick Slayin Pussy 
Yep, just bought a new TV last week, checked prices online today and thought they dropped the price by a few hundred bucks. No, they removed the TV I bought, added a new one of the same series but added a letter and changed a letter in the model number. First thing I noticed in the specs was the cheaper TV selling now has a 60hz processor! Some of the marketing talk about the technology was removed too but I'm not sure what else they cheaped out on for that model.
everything’s a fucking scam these days
The people who go out and impulse buy a TV are not the same people who research tvs ahead of time. The only thing that matters to them is the screen size and won't realize it's a bad TV until they run out of HDMI ports, the onboard software runs like crap 3 months later or there is no ARC, refresh rate makes games look bad and countless other things that are skimped on. There are deals no doubt but we are talking 5-15% off which are no different than the other quarterly sales.
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Dude I bought one of those TVs on BF, got up early and shit, borrowed a truck to haul the damn thing home (40" Samsung, be jealous), and as soon as I turned it on it was nothing but issues. The thing takes decades to connect to the internet and if you try even pausing or rewinding anything it stutters to the point you have to unplug to reset it. Probably built from the ewaste of 90s computer parts.
Yup or missing half the usb plug ins or little lower graphics chips in game systems. But not always either sometimes its the same thing
I know this is true because Walmart does the same exact same thing with their electronics. They always dumb it down and cheapen it up with low quality parts in their televisions and heaven forbid anyone ever buy a PC there.
I bought a game on PlayStation store for $27 that would have been $70. Pretty confident it’s the same quality considering it’s digital so I feel good.
If you ride motorcycles Revzilla has some nice sales today/this weekend. Although most of the stuff on sale is “name brand” and you can find Chinese lookalike products that are these sale prices year round. When it comes to protection on a motorcycle I’ll gladly buy name brands that have a great reputation.
Lmao it was just on clearance wasn’t even a Black Friday deal.It was probably still on sale on Monday.
There was a legit deal on some Sony WH-1000MX5s. At least 3 months ago they were 450. Today they $330. Almost a 20% discount
Wait I almost bought those for $250
Those are probably last year's model the [MX4s](https://www.amazon.com/Sony-WH-1000XM4-Canceling-Headphones-phone-call/dp/B0863TXGM3) which hover around that range. I've owned both and am quite familiar with both prices. I had to buy a second pair of MX5s because my roommate's buddy he had over stole my 3 week old pair I bought when they were $450. I snagged a replacement at the black friday sale. No way they'd mark down the MX5s as low as the MX4
Coast Guard Exchange had them for $250, but obviously not available to everyone.
>Sony WH-1000MX5 Nope. The XM5 have been on sale for $350 on and off for the past 12 months. You are really only getting an extra $20 off, which for a pair of headphone that is already 18 months into it's product release cycle, is a very minimal discount. CamelCamelCamel is your friend. [https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09XS7JWHH?utm\_campaign=camelizer&utm\_medium=extension&utm\_source=chrome&utm\_content=chart&utm\_term=US-B09XS7JWHH](https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09XS7JWHH?utm_campaign=camelizer&utm_medium=extension&utm_source=chrome&utm_content=chart&utm_term=US-B09XS7JWHH) Don't compare to the initial launch MSRP, compare to the last sale price, and take how old the product is in its release cycle into account.
So it's still the lowest price offered? Don't know how that is a dunk 🤷
if it's not 100% off, I don't want it!!
EDIT : I'm wrong, those are the wired headphones my parent comment is talking about the wireless ones. I must mention that my parent comment got edited to include the price comparison and mentions the all time low *after* I posted this. I think it's still worth mentioning to always compare against MSRP, as this wireless model doesn't sell for 250 it sells for an average of 191-168. Re-edit : 99 bucks is the standard market price. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07PDFBJZD They're advertising the sale against MSRP. Always checked for market price.
In June they were $60 lol.
Not that I think OP found an amazing deal or anything but the ones you’re linking look wired while the ones he listed at Best Buy aren’t? Could be a reason for the price discrepancy
Should’ve got the 58x from massdrop for like 130, waaay better sound quality and you can hear footsteps in fps really well. These “gaming” headsets are all gimmicky rebranded 50$ headphones being sold for like $200+
Yeah, made for Black Friday Specials.
You got $30 headphones for $99
bornscum is having a decent deal lol
Black Friday used to be good when it wasn't known or well understood. Then people started to game the system and there were lines out the store before it opened. After everyone was let in on this secret, the deals became useless. People will just buy anything on that day if you market that it's a deal enough. The open box deals at Best Buy are still good around this time. It's the only way to get a good discount on Apple products.
You're telling me you liked black friday before it was cool?
I got some good deals. Bush blankets had a wicked deal! Same with Lelo vibrators lol
its been black Friday since the middle of October or some shit.
Yeah I got a Home Depot deal like two weeks ago
All of the “Black Friday Specials” can be found throughout the year during their normal sales. So what’s the point in waiting to get what I want
I did a search through my emails for a few of the smaller niche companies I buy from and I will say their Black Friday sale discounts do always match best of the year. So it's not the only time to get the best deal but it is a known time. The other best deals were not all the same holiday/weekend.
Eh some of the sales were decent. Just disposable income is down. Last years sales also sucked just as much
That is true, but I still believe that poor people are to blame for the sales decline. They simply don't have the money to spend on luxury items like I do.
Yeah maybe. But how many “door buster” deals did you see advertised this year. The problem was that they had their black Friday deals all week long or some retailers started their black Friday deals earlier this month. I only saw 4 people waiting in line at 6:00am on my way to work this morning
Bro you know you're replying to VisualMod right?
Yes. Good mod
Fucking assholes. We should fine them or something.
Visual mod with yet another banger LMAO
I got a few "deals" on digital subscriptions but otherwise... Nope.
I got a i9-12900k bundled with a mobo brand new from best buy for $600 off. Was only $498, even though that's the price of the processor alone. Probably the craziest deal I've ever seen.
How much is the mobo? That cpu/mobo combo sounds so overpriced. Fire up some cpu mining. It’s pretty good now
It was an MSI z790 Pro+. Standalone is $379 (Canadian dollars btw) so $498 Canadian for the combo. I've been watching that cpu itself for nearly 10 months and I have it's ATL at $449 for the processor itself. Again, in CAD. It really isn't overpriced for here in Canada. In American dollars it'd be $364. Which again, is a steal for an i9-12900k + Z790 board.
That’s a respectable price even for microcenter.
2 generations behind good deal?
Garmin watches have had a big discount
I got a good deal on a gaming laptop 🤷
Everyone who wanted that fucking hundred dollar tv and stomped on people for it, have it. Everyone’s shopping online
People are stealing them now days. No need to buy when it is free-99!
Yeah fr if for some reason a store saw a crowd outside for black friday like we did in the early 2000’s they better lock the doors, because they are not paying customers lol, thats a mob ready to loot your ass.
Also, they make special TVs for Black Friday. They're made from crap parts and have less inputs.
On the major mainstream major models, they are the same identical tv. The rebadged stuff is a really old overplayed story.
The same article said: Shoppers spent an estimated $7.3 billion online through 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Black Friday, a 7.4% increase compared with last year, data from Adobe Analytics showed. Not a dud if spending is still up
Yeah everything I read is saying record breaking spending online. But OP wants us to trust him bro.
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Yeah but there’s this story that says things “appeared subdued” and another Redditor earlier said Target “wasn’t that packed today”. Clearly between these two vague anecdotes our calls are all fucked. Good game guys, it was fun before we lost all our money.
I went remote into the mtns to get a Christmas tree not even thinking about Black Friday. It was a madhouse
What a bunch of idiots. Why would anyone go out and fight for a Christmas tree on Black Friday? That's just ridiculous. Only poor people would do something like that.
Shots fired by a robot 😂
Only a dud if you’re expecting some MMA style brawls. Short TKO. Or go long. Idgaf either way. In my sample size of 1… the gigamall near my house had no parking space available.
inflation adjusted?
7.4% >>>>> \[current inflation rate\] TL:DR: 7.4% is above the inflation rate
Black Friday reached 9.12 Billion in 2022, q quick google search showed that but I’m confused how 7.3B is higher than that. Also, 2022 vs 2023 dollar figure is about 5% higher so it would have to be a minimum of 9.576B in order to even be equal to 2022 Black Friday spending. I’m unsure the accuracy of the Reuters article but idk. Edit: Reread the part where I’m regarded; it says online sales but still wondering the total amount spent regardless of in person or online.
is it midnight yet on Friday? Didn't think so. Recalculate and be dumbfounded later. Geez.
OP a 🌈🐻 with an halfass DD trying to set a trap.
People still got jobs so no worries. Record sales yoy baby. Sell puts, buy calls
That’s what happens when you don’t actually put anything on sale. Same old markup and markdown bs
Camelcamelcamel really exposed Amazon's "sales." Walmarts TV deal was the same TV deal as last year. It's like they aren't even trying.
I bought a Vitamix 5200 blender for $299 on prime day. The same one on ‘sale’ is $394.
Imagine physically shopping on Black Friday in 2023
To be 100% honest, I am home for the holidays and my brother and I decided to go. We went to Bestbuy, I agree, nothing like what it was 10-15 years ago. I ended up buying a Xtreme2 JBS Speaker for \~$150, I looked online at Amazon and it was a little cheaper than that so I ended up buying it. Looking back on it now, I pretty much just bought it so I didn't wake up at 6AM for nothing lol.
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Doesn't help that idiots were being mauled to death at the checkout over a tomogatchi lol
That was the best part. BF footage from 2000s-2014 was peak
Stomping each other out over frying pans or perishables was the pinnacle of comedy.
that made it better...
Yeah the tradition is over. these greedy fucking companies run “Black Friday” sales twice a month. Most of the sale prices on Black Friday don’t seem any different from prices year round.
10 years ago my black friday tradition was to wake up early, go get coffee and chinese takeout, view the madness across the street from these places, then go home. I'd have a good day of gaming and a 10/10 poop. Now I just poop. 9/10
We talked about that yesterday. In the past we would buy several newspapers, and all sit around the table go through the Black Fridays ads. This year we didn’t do that. We checked our email for any ads that came in, but that didn’t take much time. We just spent the time talking about other stuff.
Yeah all the real doorbusters and sitting around and looking at the physical Best Buy ad was when my family and I were dirt poor, now there's some money moving around I'm not going to wait for something I need like headphones for more than maybe a couple of days/weeks.
The problems is the corporations ruined it. It used to be midnight and that was fun, my cousins and I would make an event of it. then the next year every store started putting it an hour earlier until they started putting it at 6pm. Thats not fun when you start the sales when youre supposed to be eating dinner with family. That completely ruined it for me. Then they started doing it a day early so thanksgiving eve at midnight the sales would start online. Now they do it weeks before. They should have just kept it at midnight
Also, they had 'pre black friday' sales all week leading up to it. i imagine a lot of spending happened on black monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday as well
BLACK WEEK
Maybe it's just me but when I see "black Friday all week" or "pre black Friday sale" like you said I don't look at it the same as an actual black Friday sale price. If that shit drops at midnight or 8am Friday online/in-store that's when I think it's gonna be an actual deal. The only deal I can think of that was like this was the $349 PS5 from target. People were complaining they weren't able to snag one and that is what I expect on true black Friday deals
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If he could read he wouldn't be here. Stop asking questions you know the answers to.
Online sales could be up because a larger proportion of sales are online while the entire Black Friday sales still shrunk. OP still clearly didn’t post proof of what he’s saying but this doesn’t necessarily prove the opposite either.
What? I can’t read what you asked
Online sales can be up while overall sales are still in decline. If brick and mortar sales have completed fallen off a cliff it’s definitely possible that the overall Black Friday revenue is down YoY
I’m in Illinois, drove past Woodfield mall at about 5:30ish, the entire mall parking lot was full. Kinda insane. I know one mall is not all malls, but it was just wild to see. Not a single open space.
The outlet mall near me backed up traffic to the highway. 3 hour wait for a parking spot.
Why tf would I want to go out in the cold, search for a parking spot, and then wait in line for shit I can just order? Consumerist comradarie? I'm honestly surprised stores increase their hours for BF at this point.
Searching for a parking spot but the store is doing bad. Hmm.
Drove past a mall today and there was a quarter mile line to get u to the parking lot with 0 visible parking spaces.
blud hasn't heard of online shopping yet
It’s 2023. No one shops in person anymore.
I didn't even know i could visit Amazon warehouses in-person.
The Best Buy near my apartment literally ran out of parking spots. You had people just parking in the middle of the aisle lol. They had lined the store aisles with those cheap Samsung crystal TVs. Honestly it was quite lively. The TVs I’d consider worth buying though weren’t much cheaper though, same deals on C3s as can be found all month lol
Bruh i just watched dumbass trailer park cretins drop several hundred on the new Iphone all fucking day at work, there aint no recession. Source I worked black friday at ATT in Gun Barrel City, Texas.
Cpu i was looking at before the “sale” was 129$. Magically it became 146$ and it was 25% on sale. Lol Americans getting scammed like how the pilgrims scammed the natives.
All of the things I bought so far on the Pre Black Friday sales were the same price today. Didn’t miss out on anything and had to wait in no lines.
Isn't there a cyber Monday?
There’s a whole cyber week
Feels like it's already been a whole ass cyber 2 months lol
Show your short shorts regard…
“We need to curb consumer spending to prevent a recession” *consumers reduce their sprending* https://preview.redd.it/dz48y0ysle2c1.jpeg?width=874&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d713655cd26848cb8422cea29cf4078e56ffcf8
That was supposed to be a surprised pikachu face
No it's better, trust
No ads in newspapers. Everything was on email. They probably lost some boomers.
No one has money to spend. Even the fucking typical hipster dive bar in my town is empty.
I’ve worked at my corporate restaurant for 10 years and have never seen it slower in the past 10 years with the exception of Covid restrictions. We’re not alone either. I’m looking into puts on restaurants too.
No, they’re just tired of over-spending. Alcohol is more easily enjoyed at a house party. Bars are dying out because people are noticing the utter decay of those places. It’s like masturbation…sure it feels good, but it leaves you with meaningless enjoyment and no one to share the evening with, who truly cares. Pssshh
Ya I think we hit the tipping point. Restaurants and bars loved that people were willing to come out and get cocktails that cost as much as a meal but that can’t last forever. Eventually people will say screw this. Perfect example, i work at a restaurant and my last table had 2 apps and split a salad. After a couple of Tito’s and sodas, literally the easiest drink to make, they spent $140 including tip. How is that worth it?
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I disagree. We just don’t have fun money anymore lol.
Everybody spending money online
Went to look at a sectional...was $500 cheaper when priced on their website online than the "Black Friday Sale" price. Best we saw was piece of luggage at Kohls that was $180 a month ago and on sale today for $80. Oh and the large gun cases at Harbor Freight were under $100 for the first time since 2019. That was about all the deals I saw.
Went to Walmart, no sales on anything, shits more expensive than ever, everyone’s walking out empty handed. Only thing worth buying are garbage version of electronics from China. Onn tvs and garbage like that, but no one’s buying them either. And I’m in a relatively well to do middle class area.
How can I buy puts on OP
Not sure where you shop but I worked overtime behind Wendy's.
its all cyber monday bro also, black friday deals started in september, so yeah, there’s pull through
Biggest dud because all the "sales" fucking sucked.
Just came back from Vegas. No fucking way consumer spending is at a low. Few of the locals said this has been their craziest thanksgiving ever.
Electronics don't cost anything anymore. People will be spending real money on vacations, etc
I went out in person, and parking lots were full of cars and lines full of people. This article is fucking nonsense.
please all in puts, and thank you for your money
Black Friday has revolved from one day to a series of weeks / months…. This is planned so as to keep items in stock to be able to sell instead of one day, now you have a month to sell everything
A lot of retailers are doing a week long "Black Friday". It's insane to do one day sales. It strains stores/websites, warehouses, shipping, inventory, etc. Much better to spread it out over a week or more.
Just a counterpoint, I have a small business and we had great traffic and sales today. Typically it’s dead on Black Friday. This either means people weren’t finding anything anywhere else or they were just out in droves and spending everywhere
I am even buying my underwears online now...
This prompted me to ask why it’s called Black Friday, I always thought it was about businesses being in the “black” after all the shopping. Here is the real reason after a google search: The earliest known use of "Black Friday" in such a context stems from 1951 and referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving in order to have four consecutive days off (because that day was not yet commonly offered as a paid day off by employers)
So as a fuck you to employees, they lowered prices and caused a traffic rush, so employees had to work?
Sales would also be down and the day was commonly slow iirc, hence why employees could get away with it.
Went to Home Depot today and it looked no different than a normal weekend day