There are a lot of fake and misleading deals out there, so what are some of the legitimate deals that are worth getting?
For example:
- Things for which the advice through the year was ‘wait for Black Friday’.
- Good brands that you recommend (ethical, good quality, or some other reason)
Almost the whole of black Friday is a nonsense. The only things worth buying are things you would have bought anyway but know are on discount.
Many items prices go up for a period before black Friday so they can then be discounted, and manufacturers even have cheaper versions of models of their products that they supply to discount chains and companies like Amazon for black Friday.
The only things I’d buy on sale are items I’m watching via camelcamelcamel which have hit discount, or software on discount. There are a few specific items I need to buy that I might buy if they’re genuinely on discount but most of the stuff thrust in your face during the sales is cheap tat or lies.
Yep, I heard that some items on Amazon now play with the coupon to do the same thing without it showing up on price trackers
I was hoping for this post to help surface the few legitimate deals that might come up
Keepa can detect coupons. I had price alerts triggered due to a coupon
I don’t now about camel, I switched to keepa a whole ago
To add to the point of cheaper versions. Best buy does this and those items will have a different SKU. They also don’t bother to take the regular version off their website, so you can check it against that. From what I remember when my ex worked there, it was a combination of removing features/ports, and lower quality control.