I really enjoy the law in my country that requires companies to show alongside the current price the lowest price in the last 30 days.
In my country they have to be called out on it, but to verify a discount, they have to prove that they were actively selling it at the undiscounted price for a period of about 4 weeks or so. Unfortunately a lot of this is subverted by brands inflating the recommended retail price and then the stores just show a discount from RRP
Poland? We have that in Poland too.
For anybody who buys off of Amazon, don’t forget about www.camelcamelcamel.com to check pricing history.
Or Keepa, and you can 'share' the Amazon listing to the app to pull up the history.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keepa.mobile
They also support Firefox on Android
Never heard of it, thanks.
Actual Black Friday sales died about 20 years ago ... since then, it's just a marketing gimmick to drive up sales.
Gone are the days of clawing the face of the 130lb housewife who grabbed that 50" LCD after you got there first and is now biting your fingers.
Gone are the days of clawing the face of the 130lb housewife who grabbed that 50" LCD after you got there first and is now biting your fingers.
Nothing is stopping you. It's just not a naturally occurring experience anymore. Best Buy and LG want combat.
And god knows why they insist on doing Black Friday sales in Europe, where we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so stores are selling Christmas stuff all through November and there's nothing special about that Friday.
Thank God we still have Cyber Monday for real discounts /s
The industry convinced FDR to move thanksgiving forward one week to increase Christmas shopping so it’s been going on longer. Thankfully the holiday was moved back to original
And in Europe they try to pull this shit off for almost 2 months. They call it Black Weeks, almost every store does it. They seriously try to tell me, that they have a sale, for 2 whole fuking months.
Feel free to report this if you find it. This is actually illegal: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-233/section-233.1
Not going to matter in a few months. What is "illegal" now will be "burdensome regulation" prime to be culled
Progressive economics?
Progressively more expensive!
I'd sub to that
To the surprise of no one
I just bought a new washing machine. The price on the site said something of 40-50% discount. The store I bought it at has a policy that, if you see an item for cheaper on the Internet (like Amazon or ebay), they sell if for the same price or lower. When I checked a website for price comparisons that also shows a price history you see the the prices where nearly the same the past year. And since they're always among the cheapest seller, the discount is complete and utter BS.
I hate that the stores who do that will often get the same item with a different SKU so that there isn't anything online that they actually match. It could be the exact same product, but different SKU.
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