The whole black Friday sales are a relatively new phenomenon here in Ireland.
I have been watching the stores various offers for a couple of weeks and have my eye on a couple of electronic goods.
I believe the black Friday sales concept started in the states.
I am interested if other country's have started to adopt it and do you really think your getting a bargain
What I have noticed is the big stores raise there prices on selected goods a few weeks before the sale then drop them on the day
Or simply reduce the price of stock they are having trouble clearing, have yet to see what IMO I would consider a genuine bargain
last year some of the members from the state's showed some items they purchased on the day they seemed like they were genuine bargains. so if you picked up a bargain lets play show and tell. LoL

Just for the hell of it did you ever buy anything you considered a genuine bargain
About twenty years ago I purchased a PC for my family in a half price sale had to queue all night
The following day when the store opened it was like being in the middle of a riot.
seriously people were pushing each other over the store did not provide enough security
I did manage to get one and at the time saved nearly a thousand punts/pounds but I swore I would never do it again.
the whole process showed what people are really like if it were a bunch of people fighting for food I would have understood that but a bloody computer.

They wanted to start "black friday" in France this year. But they didn't stick with the original name.

I have to go to work in about 22 1/1 hours (2:30 am on Friday) and work for about 21 hours until midnight.

Then on Saturday morning, after going home and sleep for about 5 1/2 hours, back to work at 7 am and work until 10 pm.

I've been doing it every year on Black Friday and the Saturday immediately following it for past 8 years - this will be the 9th year.

I am a professional now, folks - don't try this at home!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nothing would possess me to get involved in any of this.I don't even like going into town unless it is absolutely necessary.If I can't buy it on-line I don't really want it.

I'll just wait for the YT video's to appear of crazy shoppers getting tazed by the police

took advantage of Amazon's black Friday sales to get a new LNB for my sat dish

and that is all.

We have it here, too.

The shops are also trying to introduce Thanksgiving here, with commercials for turkey dinners and whatnot.

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Do you have Halloween yet?

What do you mean 'yet'? It's been around for years!

Black Friday here in the US, is more hype then value. Items they have up for sale
are mostly older warehouse items that did not sell this past year or last year.
Wife and now Son work both Thanksgiving day and Black Friday at Walmart, almost
need to supply them with tactical gear to survive the on-slot of frenzied Black
Friday shoppers, and now Thanksgiving.

Way back in the day worked part time at Simpson-Sears. They would have a BIG sale. Days before this BIG sale, semi after semi after semi would be backing up the the dock for unloading. Boxes would have Chinese text on them.

The sale would be for over stocked.

They only started "Black Friday" here in Canada about 3 or 4 years ago. Mostly as a measure against cross-border shopping at a time when the CAD was stronger/at par to the USD.
Our Thanksgiving is in October so it doesn't make sense to start a shopping frenzy so far from Christmas (doesn't stop some from trying, mind you...)

I've been waiting to purchased an I5-6600K CPU that was ~$230 earlier in the week. Then it went to $300 yesterday. Now I have it on order from Amazon for $255 as soon as they have it back in stock. So much for Black Friday "savings".

There's a black Friday here but is mostly in online stores and not that big of a deal. You'll not see people waiting in line until 12:00 like you do in the States. Also, usually it's not a single day but an entire week... I guess they didn't get the concept of "Friday" yet.

Same with Cyber Monday, it lasts one or two weeks!



Yeah, same here.



I did buy something I considered a bargain at the time. Three Arduino Nano for the price of one! I then knew why... the USB chips on them were counterfeit and the legal manufacturer had released a new Windows driver that fried them.

I would rather have a root canal done by a hung over dentist then do go any where new a mall or store on Black Friday. I don't care if there were giving away free beer and pretzels. This weekend is for stuffing your face with great food, having a few drinks with family and friends, resting up a little, and maybe putting up the Christmas tree and lights. I have had to work plenty of holidays, and I salute all that have to. But the retail people, I feel for you. Good luck.

Deals don't seem to be as good these days. Most of the good prices tend to be for more than a day. Take the Steam sale or holiday console price reduction. There are good deals to be had online, but I wouldn't do the in store thing anymore. Too crowded and inventory is often intentionally low. Or lower end junk is filling the shelves. Much better to do any shopping online and avoid stores.

Many years back I did go to a Frys on Black Friday. Got some PS2 accessories for free and others for dirt cheap. 3rd party stuff, but it worked. Lots of it required mail in rebates though and it was so crowded. With online shopping these days it just isn't worth it.

This is the first year in about 10 years that I am going out. I found a gun I want for about 100 dollars cheaper than you can get it used at a pawn shop plus I get a 50 dollar gift card I will use on a box of 350rd of ammo. Going to get up at 4am and hopefully be back in bed by 5am.

#blackfridaysmatter

Well, the online stores I'm looking at don't have the stuff that I want on sale.

Hmmm...what's this? "Black Friday" creeping into the stores of other countries as well as Thanksgiving and Halloween? So much for the supposed "waning of US influence" idea.