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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And specifically for Steam games, there’s steamdb.info.
There are other services that do that, Pricerunner for example
pricerunner is owned by Klarna, use pricespy or camelcamelcamel
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)
Read this as onion buster and I was wondering what the poor vegetables did to that person.
Conflict of interest.
In the EU, the 30 day price history is required to be included by law
Oh consumer protections, how I long for thee
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.
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
Rtings disagrees with you.
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