• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Here in Europe they’re forced to show the lowest price of the last 30 days and I was looking at some games in GoG and for several interesting games their Black Friday “discounted” price is €15 whilst the lowest price in the last 30 days is €10.

    So the Black Friday “discount” is in fact 50% more expensive than the previous time that game had a “discount” which happenned not even that long ago.

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      27 days ago

      That’s regionally specific then, because they sure as hell don’t do that where i live (EU member). They have to compare with non-sale price within a month or something, so it’s complete bullshit here because they artificially inflate prices prior to black Friday “sales”.

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      26 days ago

      Most companies have adapted to that by now. The raise the orice for (at least) rhirty days so that it still looks legit.

      The one in your example seems like a failure at that.