I mean, no one runs many sales worth jack shit anyhow. They offer the "door busters" which like 20 people per store get and then everything else is either barely reduced or some cheaply made shit that won't last until the next black friday. I participated in that dog and pony show like twice and that was my experience. So yeah, this year it'll be even more laughable.
Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You ain't even getting cheap TVs. 100 people might get one (as a loss leader), the thousands others overpay or are getting shite they're trying to get rid of.
That's one of the things I felt Honey did well is show you how much something cost for the last 6 months when you're on the product page. You could see that they whacked the price up a week before black Friday to show you a "50% Off!" banner.
What exactly is wrong with Klarna (besides the fact it's a fintech company)? It started popping up as an option recently whenever I buy something online.
CEO is a huge union buster in Sweden and also laid off all his support staff for AI.
Plus, they're loan sharks. They make money off of desparate people.
Genuinely the worst "Swedish" tech company, even worse than Spotify. (Their stocks are listed on the NYSE, so they're actually American companies americanifying Sweden)
Where's it listed though? I've never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have 'price last changed dd.mm.yy' written on the price tags, but it's far from universal, and doesn't say how much it was before.
The way the law translates is that there can't have been a movement on prices in the last 30 days if the vendor is using a strike-through promotion or an amount/percentage off, so they can't just jack up the price the week before basically. So if you see "30% off! Was 100€, get it now for 70€!" then you know the item was sold for 100 for the last 30 days at least.
The good news is there are other places that do this still:
Is There Any Deal shows the price history for video games. This one I particularly like as it is good at showing you other stores that often have better prices.
Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You should have laws against that
Michael Hill advertised a “Member Event 25% off Sitewide” sale on its website, implying that all products sitewide were discounted by 25% for members, when some products were not discounted.
MyHouse promoted their sale with ads stating “Up to 60% OFF RRP EVERYTHING ON SALE“, followed by “+EXTRA 20% OFF”. The ACCC considered this misleading as the additional 20% off did not apply to all products.
Hairhouse Online’s “SAVE 20% to 50% SITEWIDE” promotion was misleading because more than a quarter of the products available on its website were excluded from the sale offer.
Ensure discount claims are genuine: Only advertise discounts where products have been genuinely offered at the higher price for a meaningful period. Avoid creating artificially inflated “was” prices solely to support discount claims. This also applies to displaying the RRP price next to a discounted price – if the product has not recently been sold at the RRP price, this could be misleading.
Document pricing decisions: Maintain records of previous pricing to support any discount claims and demonstrate compliance with ACL requirements.
Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.
In my experience it's more of a "everyone is too overworked and underpaid to have time to fact check all of the political lies being thrown around." And the people that aren't overworked are either the ones trying to lead protests and voting movements, or the ones upholding the status quo because it benefits them. Definitely not as simple as "Americans hate having basic protections"
and they still cheer their asses off at hockey games when they unironically put their hands on their hearts and sing it full-throated like absolute clowns
Just because someone is underpaid doesn't mean they have nothing to lose. That's exactly why we're in the situation we are right now. People that are buying the propaganda obviously won't do anything about it, and even among people that don't, many aren't in the position where they'll be alright if they get wrongly deported, detained, injured, or even just sent to court. Good lawyers aren't exactly cheap and neither are medical bills.
Yes, the government here sucks and I don't want to be caught dead defending them (especially considering they would never defend me), but creating a divide between regular people is also exactly what they want because it helps them promote their naive nationalism. Attacking regular people isn't exactly a great way to get others to agree with your ideas. All it does is convey a sense of elitism and hostility.
Now that I think about it, every single one of your replies is generalizing Americans as a whole. Do you really think everyone thinks like that? Or are your interactions just limited to internet trolls, politicians, and media outlets? I'm saying this because I spent 4 years in public (government funded) high school learning about all of the atrocities we committed both internally and across the world, and I'm sure that barely scratched the surface. Most of the people I know don't idolize any historical figures in the US.
Let me put it this way. You're on lemmy.ca so I'm going to assume you're Canadian. If I started judging all Canadians based on what Alberta does, how would that make you feel? And what about the Inuit people? Canada and its leaders aren't exactly perfect either. Do you want me to start judging all Canadians based on something Trudeau (or any other leader for that matter) did?
Either way, don't bother responding to this because I'm starting to think you're responding in bad faith and I don't feel like wasting energy on this anymore. Have a good day o/
My favourite part of the pandemic was when they promised $1400 in compensation and wow guess what there is a tv on sale for $1400 and people were like: wow, i need a new tv.
47 Comments
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 138 pts · 342d
Americans aren’t getting Black Friday deals this year.
All the increased prices of tariffs and uncertainty, nobody is going to run a sale worth jack.
Darkard@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 342d
Only on Trump Brands and the price tags will say:
REDUCED!
$45.47$55.45BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 342d
$48*
Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 342d
86
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 342d
666
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 342d
I mean, no one runs many sales worth jack shit anyhow. They offer the "door busters" which like 20 people per store get and then everything else is either barely reduced or some cheaply made shit that won't last until the next black friday. I participated in that dog and pony show like twice and that was my experience. So yeah, this year it'll be even more laughable.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 341d
Can we still wait in line at 4am and beat the shit out of people? I thought this was America?
TheBat@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 342d
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 341d
Americans are getting black eyes this holiday season from being punched in the face by our own government.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 341d
We don't have any deals for you, but you could have Black Friday if you wanted. To be honest, you WILL get Black Friday, even if not.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 342d
Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You ain't even getting cheap TVs. 100 people might get one (as a loss leader), the thousands others overpay or are getting shite they're trying to get rid of.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 342d
That's one of the things I felt Honey did well is show you how much something cost for the last 6 months when you're on the product page. You could see that they whacked the price up a week before black Friday to show you a "50% Off!" banner.
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 342d
There are other services that do that, Pricerunner for example
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 342d
pricerunner is owned by Klarna, use pricespy or camelcamelcamel
abfarid@startrek.website · 4 pts · 342d
What exactly is wrong with Klarna (besides the fact it's a fintech company)? It started popping up as an option recently whenever I buy something online.
three@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 342d
Conflict of interest.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 341d
CEO is a huge union buster in Sweden and also laid off all his support staff for AI.
Plus, they're loan sharks. They make money off of desparate people.
Genuinely the worst "Swedish" tech company, even worse than Spotify. (Their stocks are listed on the NYSE, so they're actually American companies americanifying Sweden)
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 340d
Read this as onion buster and I was wondering what the poor vegetables did to that person.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 342d
In the EU, the 30 day price history is required to be included by law
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 341d
Oh consumer protections, how I long for thee
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
Where's it listed though? I've never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have 'price last changed dd.mm.yy' written on the price tags, but it's far from universal, and doesn't say how much it was before.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 341d
It's required for digital goods I believe, but I'm not really sure.
https://www.price2spy.com/blog/omnibus-directive-pricing-transparency-in-the-ecommerce-industry/
https://www.techspot.com/news/98956-steam-show-eu-users-game-30-day-low.html
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 340d
The way the law translates is that there can't have been a movement on prices in the last 30 days if the vendor is using a strike-through promotion or an amount/percentage off, so they can't just jack up the price the week before basically. So if you see "30% off! Was 100€, get it now for 70€!" then you know the item was sold for 100 for the last 30 days at least.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
The good news is there are other places that do this still:
Is There Any Deal shows the price history for video games. This one I particularly like as it is good at showing you other stores that often have better prices.
And Camel Camel Camel does this for Amazon.
Pogbom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
And specifically for Steam games, there's steamdb.info.
Prox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 342d
Rtings disagrees with you.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 342d
Which has a different view of this in the UK:
https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/nine-in-10-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year-which-finds-a4Z2J3u5lTI2
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 342d
You should have laws against that
https://mdlaw.com.au/news-insights/misleadingretailpricing/
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 341d
Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
In my experience it's more of a "everyone is too overworked and underpaid to have time to fact check all of the political lies being thrown around." And the people that aren't overworked are either the ones trying to lead protests and voting movements, or the ones upholding the status quo because it benefits them. Definitely not as simple as "Americans hate having basic protections"
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 341d
You could just say “pants-pissing fear of possible discomfort to the point that they’ll tolerate outright abuse.”
That’s servile, cowardly bullshit. Those who are overworked and underpaid have greater incentive than anyone to take action.
disgrunty@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 341d
"Home of the brave" 😂
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 341d
and they still cheer their asses off at hockey games when they unironically put their hands on their hearts and sing it full-throated like absolute clowns
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
Just because someone is underpaid doesn't mean they have nothing to lose. That's exactly why we're in the situation we are right now. People that are buying the propaganda obviously won't do anything about it, and even among people that don't, many aren't in the position where they'll be alright if they get wrongly deported, detained, injured, or even just sent to court. Good lawyers aren't exactly cheap and neither are medical bills.
Yes, the government here sucks and I don't want to be caught dead defending them (especially considering they would never defend me), but creating a divide between regular people is also exactly what they want because it helps them promote their naive nationalism. Attacking regular people isn't exactly a great way to get others to agree with your ideas. All it does is convey a sense of elitism and hostility.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 341d
Everyone who ever did anything of note had plenty to lose.
Americans think their historical heroes were Disney characters without families, jobs, or hopes- just the “good guys” whose victory was guaranteed.
Zangoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d
Now that I think about it, every single one of your replies is generalizing Americans as a whole. Do you really think everyone thinks like that? Or are your interactions just limited to internet trolls, politicians, and media outlets? I'm saying this because I spent 4 years in public (government funded) high school learning about all of the atrocities we committed both internally and across the world, and I'm sure that barely scratched the surface. Most of the people I know don't idolize any historical figures in the US.
Let me put it this way. You're on lemmy.ca so I'm going to assume you're Canadian. If I started judging all Canadians based on what Alberta does, how would that make you feel? And what about the Inuit people? Canada and its leaders aren't exactly perfect either. Do you want me to start judging all Canadians based on something Trudeau (or any other leader for that matter) did?
Either way, don't bother responding to this because I'm starting to think you're responding in bad faith and I don't feel like wasting energy on this anymore. Have a good day o/
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 341d
But... How about....
A bigger TV..
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 341d
How about an "OS" that bombards you with ads for games and TV shows?
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 341d
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
Is this the same MidsizedSedan from Michael and Us?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 341d
Is it OLED? 8K? Are you still in the double-digit size range like a hobo?
There are still plenty of things you need to buy!
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 342d
Don't they just jack up the prices in the 60 days prior so they can show "discounts" which is just the regular price or even higher?
Edit: oops this meant to be a reply. Anyway yeah put groceries on sale.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 6 pts · 342d
https://youtube.com/shorts/N8dPhBBNprM
Nothing relevant is ever on sale
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 341d
My favourite part of the pandemic was when they promised $1400 in compensation and wow guess what there is a tv on sale for $1400 and people were like: wow, i need a new tv.
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d
Is that Eminem?
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 340d
No it's the guy that plays Stan in the clip.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 340d
This is Stan? Who is truly yours AND the biggest fan?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 340d
Black Friday, white Tuesday, Asian Saturday, Latino Monday, First Nations Sunday, the days are becoming so diverse. It warms my cockles.
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d
I like the Latino Monday, Lunes Latinos just sounds better though