black Friday deals:

[beancounter]

I used to have a tongue-in-cheek rant from a friend, posing as a Soviet era Commissar complaining of the "imperialist capitalist oppressors and their Friday black sales"

 

wish I could find it

[NOMBEDES]

Black Friday.  I call scam.  You can get better discounts after Christmas.

[Ralf11]

Black Friday and other end of year sales can also be driven by the fact that some businesses are taxed on their inventory after Dec. 31

[Allan F]

On 11/21/2017 at 12:03 AM, mordante said:

I know one company that actually raised it's prices during this time of the year. IMHO that is applaudable.

 

A true marketing genius!

 

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Personally I try never to buy presents, just because it's winter solstice. Personally I try to avoid spending money on, All Hallows Eve, Valentine's Day, Winter Solstice etc.

 

Do you really think any cares about your niggardly buying habits? (rhetorical question, no reply required)

[The Computer Audiophile]

If anyone is wondering about Allan’s use of the term niggardly, as those of you who reported the post are, here is an explanation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_"niggardly"

 

“In the United States, there have been several controversies concerning the word "niggardly", an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to the racial slur "nigger". Etymologically the two words are unrelated.”

[ricodale]

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating out there. Second, I wish the best of luck to all Black Friday shoppers. 

[bunno77]

https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/collections/black-friday-deals

Old link I think but small green computer/sonore are running them again. 

 

And for my fellow Aussie above Lifestylestore in Sydney are running a Black Friday sale for the whole weekend. 

I don't agree with it here either but I guess times they are a changin'

 

[Robert van Diggele]

On ‎21‎-‎11‎-‎2017 at 10:13 AM, mordante said:

 

What does any of this has to do with freedom or birthright?  Why is this such a sensitive subject for you?

 

Black Friday and all those other atrocious holiday crap is just a result of the over commercializing of this fucked up world. The world doesn't need a black Friday. A good old biblical world wide pandemic.

We see the same thing happening in The Netherlands. A lot of Black Friday. Consume and be a debt slave the rest of the year. Das feedom and demockacy.

[4est]

35 minutes ago, Robert van Diggele said:

We see the same thing happening in The Netherlands. A lot of Black Friday. Consume and be a debt slave the rest of the year. Das feedom and demockacy.

You do realize that you can opt out and simply not buy anything today.

[Robert van Diggele]

I know, and I won't be buyig anything besides the normal grocery shopping. What bothers me more is that a hostile consumerist culture is rapidly changing the Dutch and European culture.

[bunno77]

Looks like not all yanks are happy about it

[Mordikai]

Hi all- early in this thread I made some statements that sounded pretty abusive. They were meant to be satirical and humorous but I think they may have bothered some people. I apologize and will make my attempts at humor more obvious in the future.

I really appreciate this place, thank you.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Thanks @Mordikai

[Robert van Diggele]

1 hour ago, bunno77 said:

Looks like not all yanks are happy about it

Nice one. Mark Dice also has good videos on the subject.

[beerandmusic]

On 11/21/2017 at 12:52 AM, sandyk said:

 

 You can bet your crown jewels that they don't lose money on these Black Friday specials where they settle for quantity sales at a smaller profit for each. That suggests that they probably have too  large a  mark up normally, and there is buyer resistance at their normal prices. It's bit like after Xmas sales where retailers make a large chunk of their yearly profits.

 

Their margins are less, but in fact they actually do lose money on many items, but it's part of the overall business year.  Some merchandise they close out below cost for many reasons (excess inventory, tax reasons (getting close to tax time, which is why they choose this time)....bottom line is many items sell below break-even cot point.

[rando]

What madness this commercial holiday has become dawned on me 10 minutes ago.  Black Friday is celebrated nearly world wide now.  The expectation of a Wal-Mart related kerfuffle or a 3 AM slapfight between two soft individual unprepared for the rigors of camping a single night outdoors quickly redirected into a social media storm on four continents.  

[Mordikai]

I for one am glad we Americans could spread this joyous time of year to other nations through out the globe. I think we should drop the dated "holidays" and just call it "shopping season".

 

I assume we (Americans) started it, right? Or is shopping a global addiction? Are the Khardasians contagious?

[Ralf11]

maybe we can all buy some real estate on Black Friday and donate it back to the Native Americans

[Ralf11]

4 minutes ago, Mordikai said:

Are the Khardasians contagious?

 

 

I'm sure they are - and not just in terms of shopping

[mansr]

30 minutes ago, rando said:

The expectation of a Wal-Mart related kerfuffle

http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/24/shocking-scenes-at-tesco-as-black-friday-sales-see-people-queuing-in-an-orderly-fashion-7104485/

[rando]

[ I was typing this when mansr replied. ]

 

By far the hardest to comprehend reality in this is the effect the few glimpses a camera phone or news station offered displayed a high level of the better elements of humankind in the 2nd world.  No doubt these places are very aware of the limited spotlight their countries receive through media.  Even accounting for selected footage, it depicted scenes of rich landowners rewarding those who rent their lands. 

 

We are accustomed to orderly get in and get out as fast as possible scenes.  This was chaotic mobs all screaming hard pressed in towards pallets of tv's.  Celebrating, out of their minds happy to have been there with a chance to bring home a prize.  Pallets with a lone employee standing atop them removing banding unmolested.  With no attempts to disturb him as he quickly moved along the line and signaled when the crowd could begin stripping the perch he just left.  Even handing them backwards to help create a line of retreat with their own.

[mansr]

On a more serious note, Primephonic has 30% off many albums.

[Mordikai]

20 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

 

I'm sure they are - and not just in terms of shopping

haha!

[Mordikai]

Pentatone records 30% off through Monday.

[Ralf11]

upscales has free shipping on discounted Sonus Fabers and some other stuff - no relation except having bought an ARC LS-25 from them