You're being RIPPED OFF!

[@krowbar2009]

Black Friday deals are the same as last Friday deals. Just blacker

[@superganjahleaf619]

hahahahahahahahahas lmao

[@bakakafka4428]

I had over 20 items I kept track of over the past few weeks. They're all in "black friday" discount now, but all are way more expensive than the lowest prices I noted over the year. BF is becoming a scam, not worth waiting for.

[@ebonhawken574]

I was doing the same, products I would track through the month and noticed they are either more expensive on BF or “reduced” to their actual price through the year. It’s ridiculous.

[@ZackSNetwork]

@@ebonhawken574Yeah the end of October to early November had the best prices for high end TV’s. Know things are slightly more expensive know. Glad I snagged the 55inch LG G4 when I could.

[@LaurenceBlunt]

Back in 2015 when this BS was imported to the UK I was looking at getting a new TV. I was doing a lot of research into models, features and prices and found that in mid October all the prices went up, like a £650 TV going up to £800+. I then noticed that retailers all had lots of old TV's with many that did not even support the Hi-Def Freeview that was 18 months old by then, and just had SD tuners with prices within £50 of the ones I was looking at in Setpember. I just waited and watched the uninformed buying old stock for high prices. On Boxing Day (26th Dec) I went online and all the prices had gone back to or were even lower than they were in September. That's when I ordered my new 49" LG TV, that is still running fine but is now in my bedroom. In July 2023 I purchased a 2022 model 65" LG TV with VRR (AMD Freesynch) from 48-120Hz for £999, the new 2023 model was £1500 more (ie: £2500) and it had lower spec's (specifically the Audio with half the speakers and amp power) of the 2022 model! The 120Hz refresh was the main reason for the upgrade as I use my TV as a very big PC Monitor. I would add that I went into Curry's (the largest retailer for white goods and other electricals in the UK) and asked one of their sales guy's if he would allow me to plug in a USB HDD to their TVs, as I refuse to pay a penny to the (sick lefty D.V.Ents) at the BBC and I have not watched any broadcast TV since 2018. I wanted to verify that the new TV's had not dropped any of the features I use everyday (specifically playing MP3's of my CD collection and playing videos created from my DVD/Blue-ray collection created using MakeMKV and Handbrake). The sales guy was happy to go find the remote control and we spent a good 45 minutes chatting and playing audio and (mostly Music) videos with different codecs and resolutions (some are very low res, like VHS quality). At the end he told me that Curry's had a massive clearence sale that was only available online with the previous years TV's (ie: 2022) at very high discounts, so I went home and ordered the TV with cheap delivery of just £20 that was delivered to my door just 3 days later.

[@guille92h]

+1

[@LaurenceBlunt]

PS: In the UK Black Friday has no meaning as only the US has a "Thanks Giving", the real sales here are always in Jamuary & February where retailers want to off load old stock before the TAX year ends on April 6th.

[@Erynash]

In my region, what they do is blatantly raise the price to say 120%, keep it for a week and on black friday drop it to the original price as a discount. EU requires storefronts to post the lowest price from the last 30 days, so it;s often clearly stated. Another thing they do is slap a huge Black Friday sticker and give like 3$ worth of discount on a 200$ product.

[@bruh_bruh_the_bruhest_bruh]

It's not in your region this happens globally

[@ebonhawken574]

Amazon does this all the time, not just on Black Friday.

[@oswaldjh]

It seems like Black Friday has been reduced to a meme. When you have to employ anti scam software like Camel it doesn't seem like a minefield I'd take a stroll on.

[@mytech6779]

Well yeah, it was about loss-leaders to get people into a physical store and make secondary sales(while depriving competitors of some sales). But that just isn't viable with online shopping patterns. Also a fair number of the super deals were not standard products they were cut down el cheapo look alike SKUs(maybe even same model number with a single letter addition/change) manufactured just for black Friday impulse purchases. Now web savvy customers know how to uncover that info in a moment.

[@Cloudz2021]

@@mytech6779 Yeah, Doorbusters being junk versions of the advertised/well-known model was an issue for *years*. You used to have to pay attention to the exact model name because they usually had some small change to show it wasn't the same, but the packaging would be nearly identical.

[@jackali5014]

Worst Black Friday ever

[@Daniele-PierreDuLac]

Yes. I bought headphones and iems on Amazon in the week leading up to Black Friday and god a really good discount on stuff. Now that it’s Black Friday prices have gone back up to regular prices and the only way to get a “deal” is to sign up for Prime. The prime price for Black Friday is the same as the sale price I paid as a non prime haver.

[@zerobalance4027]

We say this every year

[@ryanespinoza7297]

Next year will be worse. Black Friday deals died with Covid

[@A3r0XxLol]

*yet

[@Boofski]

For PC Parts, yes. There were however some great deals on peripherals, i got an X2H Mini, LGG Saturn Pro 500x500 and Xiaomi Mi Light Bar for only $65 combined

[@Dajova]

If this happened in the EU, you can actually sue said company, because it's illegal to do that kinda stuff here. You cannot bump up a product like this and then drop it again in such a short notice, just to make it seem like its a "good" deal.

[@Boofski]

Well, almost correct. We do have the Omnibus Directive which prevents companies from bumping up prices before discounts to make them seem like a better deal, but we can't just go out and sue a company that does this as a consumer. That would be the case in the United States but the only thing we can do in Europe is file a Police report and hope that the authorities punish the company.

[@bogdanbilcan8335]

Exactly. And almost all the retailers are using this method of pumping the price before a big sales period. Also they do that very clever trick setting the price to a “normal” value for a short period of time but at the same time they make the item available like for 1 or 2 pieces or even none at all so that they can say, look i have a real -20 euro deal but the normal price was never available for the buyers.

[@inkredebilchina9699]

but they do it refinely. EU requires "lowest price in 30 days" to be specified, so what they do here is jack up the price 31 days before "discount" and then show that jacked up price as "lowest".

[@SzX1X]

it is basically the same shit in europe. 5% off only on most things. Just clever marketing. Black Friday is a scam now.

[@torchbearer3784]

​@@inkredebilchina9699Yep seen that happens many times here in Sweden. Most consumers are clueless and who would sue them anyway.

[@ARBESProductions]

The sad part of living in Brazil is that a good "BLACK FRIDAY" deal means getting a product around MSRP in the USA. We usually pay 1.5x to 4x the price; yeah, it sucks.

[@ironiclee9751]

Black friday is really all about peripherals at this point. There's plenty of really deals for stuff like monitors, speakers, mice and keyboards. CPU and storage deals can be hit or miss, and GPUs, RAM, cases, mobos, coolers and PSUs barely get any deals worth waiting for so unless you're building an entire system from scratch it's not worth getting hyped up about it.

[@Neodeleux]

Exactly my experience, only good deals i found on newegg where the 7600x for above 24 usd the historic low (only reached once) and 8 USD above amazon price but with a Corsair 1TB 5000Mbps SSD as a "gift" plus some corsair 64GB dual ram kit with 6000mhz and CL30 with good timings for around 20 USD lower than amazon and this is with the "Combo UP" discounts on newegg, absolute joke.

[@hollywoodmeow]

7900xtx red devil and corsair hx1000i were the lowest theyve ever been...but frankly, these legitimate deals are so rare that they actually serve as exceptions that *prove* the rule

[@racergsxr1]

Picked up a Red Devil 7900XT and, checking on CamelCamelCamel, couldn't be happier with the price I got. Some really solid deals if you look hard.

[@MormonDude]

@@hollywoodmeow yeah there’s actually really great deals on a lot of the premium stuff, but at that point you’re already paying so much money it’s not really what I’d call a “deal” given that the premium stuff (especially GPUs and MOBOs) are overkill.

[@torvasdh]

I stg companies saw what people put up with during covid and were like "people will actually do this shit?" And have just been pushing the bar of bs farther and farther seeing what they can do

[@svenweyers3916]

Yes... the black friday deals I've seen for gpus in my country were all around the msrp and no original price stated... so clearly no actual deal...

[@lolmao500]

Yup ive been tracking prices of cpus and gpus that i might buy in the future and ive only seen like one better deal than anything in the last year or so. Everything else was more expensive or the same. 95% of the black friday deals arent real deals. Its so ridiculous that the new generation of GPUs are coming in like 1-2 months and theres zero real deals on last or current generation GPUs. I remember not even 5 years ago that when a new gpu generation was coming, we would see big discounts on last generation or current one. Discount prices even on last gen gpus are nowhere thats where. Thanks a lot AI and crypto assholes.

[@carlr2837]

AMD, nvidia, and Intel are all preparing to release new models. They have been trying to deplete the market of the older models, so the retailers have little stock at the moment, and thus no incentive to offer deals. Sadly, once the new models are out, they will be in demand, and there will again be no reason to offer deals. It will probably be April or May before you can get any deals again.

[@hatersbhating]

Ngl the deals now are on ebay. I copped a white 4080 super msi slim for $800😂

[@delayeedbms]

​@@hatersbhatingcute card for 1080p

[@hatersbhating]

@@delayeedbms you talking about my 4090 galax hof?💀

[@Timmy-mi2ef]

​@@hatersbhating Pure cringe

[@ashleythomas9671]

the DP cable I wanted was reduced from £9.59 to £9.59 after a 43% discount.

[@rodneyp9590]

Prime day was significantly better on the gpu sales. Maybe a monitor I don’t know

[@AzSureno]

Oh definitely and some other things , I got keys and switches that was actually discounted .

[@Kapono5150]

Can’t get ripped off if you don’t go shopping

[@getawaydance]

Same poor deals in Denmark, hardly anything for PC parts.

[@lyteness859]

that eBay 20percent is pure scam btw

[@tommyg3031]

Leave it to Daniel to spoil the Black Friday CONSOOMER fun

[@moldyshishkabob]

Just consoom product and get excited for next product

[@RV1AND]

I'm building my first desktop pc and it seems my impatience and impulsiveness turned out to be correct... I ordered all the parts this month on pre Black Friday sales. Went with a 4070 TI Super for $705 (not including tax but including a zip financing Newegg $75 off code).

[@JoeyJoJoJr0]

Finally, someone explaining the Black Friday scam! This isn't 2010 anymore, when they had insane BF sales to get rid of overstock and old models; it has become a social engineering experiment to keep people spending more money for longer, while thinking they're getting good deals.

[@Sigma993]

These gpus are so damn expensive in europe, despite being on sale. I actually wanted to wait for the new generation of AMD gpus but I was worried about the potential price increases early next year and ended up buying a rx 7800xt for 450€ on sale. If prices really go up, I think I'm gonna be ok for a while with that gpu.

[@abbe1255]

I did the exact same thing but for 485€

[@123Suffering456]

Yeah, EU prices are trash. Don't think this is going to change either.

[@torchbearer3784]

Whole EU is trash. Remember what they said in the beginning. Everything was supposed to get cheaper for countries who joined the EU. Well everything got more expensive.

[@Rotary787B]

I managed to get some decent deals on some 4TB M.2 drives for my 9800X3D PC build. A Samsung 990 Pro & Western Digital 850SNX 4TB for about $250 each. Though I've bought multiple drives around that price thru ought the year. Honestly high priced items like CPU's & GPU's rarely get any significant discounts around the holiday season. I did see plenty of cheap 1080 & 1440P monitors last few weeks though.

[@TheBlindWeasel]

Yep, EVERYTHING I was tracking for today had no discounts

[@Sentence00]

This is true, but also everything on my list started selling out, so people are buying just because it's the season I guess

[@Goglinek]

Same here , but I pressed the trigger and bought parts to build pc , cannot wait any longer , been waiting since summer time lol that's my purchase MSI MPG B650 Edge WIFI £191.66 MSI 27" G274QPX Monitor £249.16 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X £241.66 NITRO+ AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT £399.99 Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO (2X16GB) DDR5 C30 6000MHz £74.99

[@karenhovhannisyan9193]

same here...

[@cajonesalt0191]

11:27 minute long video and comments were here 2 minutes after upload saying "53 seconds ago". Anyway, yea I haven't seen any deals on the major PC components. Peripherals and monitors are doing alright, but the deals are sub 20% off and almost entirely on stuff that's already cheap. It's basically just the baseline things have been since the summer. When you consider new generations AND tariffs coming, it starts to make a lot of sense. Everyone is trying to get as much cash onhand as possible before sale numbers tank. There's not going to be any major sales as companies are trying to shore up cash. It's just that simple.

[@MormonDude]

This was more like Black November because there were PC parts going on sale all throughout the month. Like one day there would just randomly be a discount on some SSD’s, or a discount on Powercolor GPUs another day.

[@Zakerystrife]

Typically Black Friday sales tend to be mostly in physical stores IMO. Cyber Monday we should be seeing some better pricing... (hopefully)

[@sirjonsmithiii992]

My routine: I do my research and create wish lists. I keep an eye on the prices, but usually the ones I pick are higher quality and their prices stay about the same. If I see a sale on black Friday or whenever, I know it is a true sale.

[@cierrawegner5226]

RX 7900 GRE is on sale at the local store for 530 dollars. 550 MSRP. A whole twenty dollars off. 😂

[@bigcut695]

A whopping 3% off 😂

[@HanSolo__]

EVERY European Back Friday looks like this or worse.

[@Marsalis_CW]

Upgraded to a RX 6800 about a week ago because there was actually a descent deal on it... And I was seriously looking for a 6800xt.. But there are no brand new 6800xt on the market. All the XT models for sale are refurbished, and I am willing to consider used, but never refurbished. I didn't want the 7700xt because it performs the same as a 6800 just with 4gb less vram. Seeing the "deals" now, I made the right call.

[@bruh_bruh_the_bruhest_bruh]

The 6750?

[@MD.20.20]

last year black friday I got my 6800 nitro for 330$ after my 2080ti died for the 2nd time (memory and GPU core had bad solder connection). They don't have a lot of headroom for tweaking, but using More Power Tool lets you unlock the extra 5% power target and also raise the wattage limit to 250w. Beats a base 4070 in 3DMark Timespy

[@Tjinq]

Can't find good deals on cpus or mobos. Newegg had a "deal" with the x870 gigabyte mobos but those sold out within minutes or are backorders at jacked up prices.

[@ominousview]

thanks for the legwork as usual on finding deals and better prices and good advice for trying to see if you're getting a good deal on PC parts. They're worried about tariffs.

[@Games_and_Tech]

I got the sansui oled 55in tv for 599, best price ever. I got the ifix it kit usually at 75 at 59. And previous to black friday the samsung s90c qd-oled 144hz 65in for 999, great price... But the black Friday, the friday day sucks these days

[@WereCatf]

Black Friday and Christmas are great for those of us who are looking for great deals in second-hand stuff, since there's always a surge of great used stuff around from people who are upgrading their PCs and whatever.

[@ClaySano]

I can't waiting to pickup a used 4080 or 4090 when the new GPUs comeout.

[@noamsiebert5056]

I built a pc in september and kept up with prices out of curiosity, the amount of parts that didn't change price at all or even went up with an absolutely ridiculous msrp inflation signaling some supposed great deal is insane.

[@TheBlindWeasel]

Did i just pick the worst time to build my first gaming PC?

[@kcl5038]

Nope. The worst time will probably be once the tariffs start to take effect. GPU prices are what they are, but ram/ssd/mobo/psu are all considerably cheaper than they were when I built my previous system in 2017. If you're on a budget you can build a fire am4 system for dirt cheap with all the top am4 components and you can use that extra savings to buy like a 4070ti super or 7900 xtx, and a 5700x3d will feed it just fine, you just won't be able to upgrade it. That's the route I went because I don't like tinkering, rather just build new every few. If you got a little extra to spend you can buy an am5 and have a few years of possible upgrades to look forward to. It's a great time to build.

[@CRF250R1521]

From a gpu perspective,yes. From a cpu perspective, no. I think the 14600k or 14700k are good cpus regardless of all the hate thet get. In terms of gpu then yes all gpus are trash rn wait for 50 series.

[@jesusbarrera6916]

Don't listen to the other guy... Don't ever get i7 & i9 from the 13 & 14 gen Nobody in their righ mind should buy choosers that the company has expressed are faulty

[@CRF250R1521]

@jesusbarrera6916 my 13700k is faster than all my AMD cpus and i own many. You've been suckered into buying trash processors lmaooo.

[@CRF250R1521]

@@jesusbarrera6916 there's a reason why all ESPORTS players use Intel and not AMD. Those processors are garbage

[@BigDoggTheDon]

I`m glad I bought my Ryzen 7700 from Ali express 2 weeks ago for £145. Wisen up you're all consumers and have the power, do not buy their products with bad prices

[@gabrieli6008]

This happens every year

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

Black Friday, also known as "clear this old crap out of the warehouse so we can get in the new stuff for Christmas and sell at full price"

[@FantomMisfit]

I noticed on Amazon that the crossed out original price was usually some crazy price i know it for a fact it never was and the discounted price was the normal price. And the actual deals were like 5% or 10% off at most. They think they're slick Edit: Btw as someone that used to work at Walmart I can tell you Walmart does this "discount" scam year round. See what they do is artificially raise the price by 10%-15%-25% etc and then immediately discount it by that amount so they can say its *insert percentage off* but in reality its actually still the same price. Start looking at the crossed out numbers on these discounts and you'll see what i mean. It'll either not actually be a discount at all or itll be a few bucks at the most

[@gjonezin]

It was black friday week. The deals were better earlier in the week. Newegg was giving away a 1gb M.2 when you buy a 7600x for $180. They also had the 7900x for $300.

[@ElderGamerX]

Ended up getting new headphones yesterday lol. I had just built my PC over the last few months, and I ended up getting a decent enough GPU last week. So the fact that I didn't miss any great sales was a bit of a relief.

[@GameTechLead]

In UE there is a law that retailer has to show best price of the in last 30 days. That basically solved all related issues... It's so weird that best country in the world wasn't first do enforce something like this.

[@OptimizingNetwork]

Times have changed, I just visited my local retailer and not a single CPU was on sale. This sale did not even exist there.

[@EndiXIV]

No because why is the 7800x3d $200 more than it usually is rn

[@Nein99x]

It's the last remaining stock available. The 7800X3D price has been rising for months now. It doesn't look like that situation will change. You might as well just get the 9800X3D if you want a X3D chip.

[@EndiXIV]

@Nein99x I was expecting to see it at like 350-400 was I stupid for assuming that

[@FluxiouS7]

Is that also the same reason the Ryzen 9 7950x3d is $600?

[@Nein99x]

@@EndiXIV I wouldn't call you stupid. Not everyone pays attention to prices of pc components much less why prices jump by like $200 within a few weeks.

[@typhoon4994]

Microcenter replaced the 7800x3d bundle with the 7600x3d one and raised the price of the 7800x3d

[@thesilentobserver93]

I just started ignoring Black Friday for the most part. Sometimes I find good deals, but not very often anymore.

[@TheVanillaQueen]

Yeah the sales were pretty mild outside of stuff like Micro Center bundles and monitors but I was still able to shop smart and get some pretty modest discounts. Prepping for my first PC build and so those sales really add up and I think I saved somewhere around $500-700.

[@ramonosuke]

I stopped buying electronics in Black Friday for this reason. This year just bought some discounted miniature paints

[@Iceman-hb3uk]

You can still find some good deals, I got a 20'000 mAh 20W powerbank for 16€ while it usually sits around 22-23€ (and the day after another one got to 12€, guess my luck is blessing me). I get your point tho, most stuff get artificially higher prices before black friday and then drop to normal or over nnormal price, that's literally a scam and I can't stand how it's legal...

[@CBCuster]

Got an RX 7900 XT for $625 on Newegg just over a week ago (now sold out for that price) so I'm pretty happy I pulled the trigger early!

[@arkanghellsfallen5226]

In my country we have a store which always inflate price on "discounted" product so people believe it's a great opportunity to buy now while you can find the same product without discount at the same price in other stores. And despite the fact we all have internet on our phone people still get scammed...

[@freespeech3608]

in netherlands we TWEAKERS it shows the history of the price since launch.

[@pr0newbie]

I picked up a 13600KF to upgrade from a 12400F for $175, and a 1TB WD Blue SSD for $55. There are/were deals for incremental upgraders.

[@syncmonism]

I have seen two flash sales which I thought were really good, and both of them were multiple days before black friday. I saw one model of 7900 XT on sale, new, for 790 CAD (566 USD) in Canada only, and it required a Prime membership I saw one model of 7800 XT on sale, new, for 370 USD (US only) which also required a prime membership.

[@MagicSnapO]

I bought the LG32 OLED with Black Friday pricing, returned it and then bought it again open box. It was the exact unit I had returned. I think we as consumers need to waste there time right back. I saved almost an extra $200 by doing this.

[@Exploding_Barrels]

It was awful, all i ended up getting was a ps5 controller

[@sturmx96]

Bundled with a dock station from QVC?

[@bigcut695]

And that controller is like $75 smh I just gave up on sony

[@FantomMisfit]

How much? If you're gonna tell me you spent 75-80 on it I got some bad news... Edit: At least tell it was a cool design or something

[@sturmx96]

@@FantomMisfit You could get it for $35 with a dock station.

[@FantomMisfit]

@@sturmx96 Oh nice that actually is a good discount

[@dubtroll]

I feel like prices just drop around prime day and just come back up until early black Friday.

[@Moonbogg]

I got the aw3423dwf for $650 on a black friday deal 3 days ago. Still having a hard time wrapping my head around just how happy I am with this purchase.

[@stonevicta]

That Cooler Master monitor sells for something around 450 dollars in my country. Brutal....

[@ErraticPT]

Always been a rip-off on black Friday here in the UK. While US customers got 40-80% off items, here we'd be lucky to get 15% on the same item which surprise surprise already sold out. In store was the same with many stores getting very limited stock (ie 1 per store) of big ticket item which were often sold to staff before the store opened!

[@gremlon111]

I've noticed it on my steam sale wishlist. Some of the games had bigger discounts than this black Friday. I'm not a big spender anyway, so these rippy offy sale days don't affect me that much.

[@foraminutethere23]

Saved 100 on a 4070 ti super here

[@soggymarshmallow]

So... if one was in the market for a USD600 gpu, the best time to buy was 4 months ago? Are we under any illusions about prices _ever_ becoming reasonable, whether next gen or current?

[@superganjahleaf619]

He's absolutely right when it comes to gp and cpu's. No good deals worth bragging about this '24 black friday. On the other hand I did manage to score a microwave, a ring doorbell and an electric french fries cutter all for under 5 bux!!!

[@tidjane2001]

That's a lot for $5. Enjoy!

[@superganjahleaf619]

@tidjane2001 Lol, I didn't. I was trying to be sarcastic in spite of the lackluster black friday gpu and cpu deals. Meaning, there may not be any worthwhile deals for the gamers this black friday, however there are fantastic deals on a bunch of useless crap nobody wants, yay!!!

[@Neodeleux]

Only good cpu deal I could find in Newegg was the 7600x, it was 24 USD above the historic low that have only been reached once and 7 dollars above the amazon deal but with a "free" 1TB 5000Mbps read speed corsairs SSD. So at that point it was more of a "it's not getting better than this right?" than a "WOW what an amazing deal!"

[@moasto02]

All the best stuff dropped last weekend. There was a corsair oled monitor that was down 500 from 1000 and it was gone in hours last Sunday

[@iseeu-fp9po]

Black Friday is usually bullshit in my country in Scandinavia. It makes me trust vendors less in general. That should be bad for business for them when people don't trust them anymore.

[@theradiantchild]

I wish people would stop paying these overinflated prices.

[@emp1985]

In general, Black Friday deals have been a joke in the last couple of years. Maybe it's been right after we came out of the pandemic? I usually always waited for the 15-20% discount coupon on ebay that "always" showed up for these dates, but now, not only it has become valid for only a handful of articles, but sellers bump the price that 20% or sometimes even more, and when you apply the coupon, it's either basically the same as a few weeks before, or even more expensive. It seems that only peripherals see a considerable benefit. Some OLED monitors did see a nice discount, mice and keyboards as well. Got a Pulsar X2H mini for $40 for example. Heck of a mouse.

[@djnes2k7]

Black Friday on eBay has been great. Got the predator 16 with the mini led and 4080 for 1650…it actually was 2000 2 weeks ago

[@tunin6844]

I bought my current gpu a couple weeks before black friday in 2022. The price went up $50 for the black friday "sale".

[@L0rd_0f_War]

This BF, the best deals are on displays. Got myself LG G4 to replace my old LG G7 (I use my TV as my main gaming monitor at home). G4 is a lovely upgrade for a high end system (7800X3D + 4090 - built April 2023 - Imagine I paid USD1532 equivalent for the 4090 in Canada at the time).

[@ctCJ]

Since covid companies, in US specifically, have come to realize that people consume 24/7, 365 days a year and that companies do not need to offer any type of true "deal." Consumers talk a good game but many of us are impulsive shoppers. Buying a lot of stuff we really do not need but only want.

[@brentweaver9439]

I waited for a better price than $620 on the Rx 7900xt, and all that got me was sold out listings….and the listings now available are 635-659. Maybe cyber Monday will drop some good gpu deals!

[@heyguyslolGAMING]

I've been selling chow chow puppies painted up to look like pandas to ppl in my neighborhood to help save up for the new 5090 when it comes out.

[@cajampa]

If you have that stupid neighbors you should by some fake apple and Samsung phones from China to sell to them. Funny joke though

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I got a GREAT Black Friday deal at a local pc store. New Ryzen 5600x/cooler sealed in the box for $99 Cdn ($72 U.S). I bought 2 of them to replace the 3600's cpu's in 2 pc's I own.

[@Qwuiplash]

honestly the best thing about black friday this year has been monitors. i've seen numerous monitors £100 less than they have been all year, too bad i bought a new monitor in may.

[@Dionyzos]

There's always black friday on the used market. I almost exclusively buy second hand and have been saving thousands over the last 5 years or so since I've started. Just use your brain and you'll be safe from scams. It's really not hard at all. Buying new almost feels like throwing away money at this point.

[@Veritas0589]

Great advice, and carries over to other things beyond just tech.

[@jackali5014]

Second hand on what website??

[@Dionyzos]

@@jackali5014 I'm located in Germany so I don't know the best platforms in other countries unfortunately. But Ebay should also be an option in the US?

[@jackali5014]

@@Dionyzos I'm in Sweden, I use Facebook market

[@MolezHD]

Buying second hand pc parts is way too sketchy, rather just pay a bit more and have peace of mind that its new from factory

[@badatgames3687]

I gotten an rx 7900 xt for 680 on amazon. So i wasn't to disappointed but the monitor i was wanting went up over 200 from the original price. Even tho they say its over 45 percent off.

[@joeyr184]

Got the 7800xt off amazon for around 400.

[@johnbrown1993]

4070 Ti Super 642 about 10 days before black Friday. This is a scam, lol

[@Osprey850]

I've checked deals every Black Friday for probably 25 years and am not sure that I've ever actually bought anything. If I'm not willing to buy something the rest of the year because I don't need it or it's more than I'd like to spend, saving 15% isn't likely to change my mind. There have probably been a few times when the discount was more than that or I would've been tempted to buy, regardless, but the item was out of stock. One of these days, I'll get a good deal on Black Friday, but it's definitely been a more exciting event than a fruitful one for me as far as I can remember.

[@123Suffering456]

I purchased parts for my new AM5 build and the only thing I could get a good deal on was the RAM. I'd tracked it before and found it consistently at 124€ for months, then it dropped to 100€ during black week. The motherboard got no good deal, and of course no deal on the 9800X3D, which actually had its prices raised further in my country because of the still terrible availability. Well, it is what it is. The only things I got great deals on during black week were stuff not related to PC gaming, like supplements and so on.

[@nab-v1w]

Buying zen 5% or intel -10% at the black-2%friday ?

[@fgcgamer]

maybe next year cuz this stuff isnt really moving as it use to and they will eventually need to get rid of this stuff

[@jaredo6303]

I got a banging Ibuypower pre-built with a 14700 processor, 4070 super, and 2 TB NVME for 1200 bucks. (1 week before black Friday.)

[@PindleofKujata]

Yeah, my best black Friday deal was on a monitor - an MSI MAG 271QPX at its regular sale price of $700 CAD. Americans get it for $500 USD.

[@CosmicMatt92]

Sadly Black Friday is only good for peripherals and smaller components these days, such as Keyboards, Mice, Ram sticks, Coolers, etc. Big components are a joke for Black Friday pricing.

[@Roman00744]

It's not just this year and not just for PC parts, it started a few years ago with some sites and some sellers doing it but now it caught on almost everyone does it so I've pretty much stopped buying stuff on black Friday, I found better deals in other times of the year and other sales that are actually good because at those times the overall sales are meh so if they want to sell they need to slash prices.

[@mytech6779]

Computer prices will go lower, not by huge amounts but I can see 20% market reset. Vendors are desperately resisting the impending natural price drops due to increasing elasticity of demand. They got incredibly spoiled during the last few years of various shortages and booms keeping margins high; but buyers are burned out, general product improvements are minimal, and everyone is in a price pinch due to inflation.

[@djamiljo93]

I'm building a new PC after almost 15 years and I could not find a single gpu that's worth it to me for 1440p gaming. The only one was a 7800XT for 620$CAD that was gone by the time I've looked at specs and was deciding if I'd go for that or a 4070 ti super at around 1000$CAD. I was like it's not worth 380+$ and I go to refresh the page, no more in stock -_- So I have almost a whole new build but I'm stuck with my 1650 super. I'll be looking at the used market I guess if not wait for next gen gpu launches and maybe OC my 1650 super 😅

[@Overonator]

Pricing history is the most powerful weapon buyers can have. Knowledge like that is power. Can you give links to the price history trackers that you mention. I never heard of that 3rd you you mentioned.

[@ps31871]

An rtx 6800 was 330 one week ago then increased to 350 now they marked it down to 340 so no sale at all

[@stevenanderson3205]

Why do i need headphones to play a game

[@VeritronX]

End of financial year sales are the go to here, black friday not so much (Australia)

[@mytech6779]

This isn't new, back when department stores were a big thing JCpenny's mean selling price was about 60% of the normal sticker price. (Not sales event prices, but the mean of all items sold in a year.)

[@osinstalls]

There are some small sales but idk if I would call that many of them deals.

[@vicentemendez6932]

thanks for the video brother, I'm building my first PC and yes it was a disappointment this black friday

[@billwiley7216]

Electronic wise Black Friday time frame can be good for TV's as this is the beginning of the sales on many models to clear out the 2024 models as the 2025 models start arriving early spring time. Sure you can try to wait until the Superbowl timeframe or even later to possibly get a better deal but if you have an eye on a particular model then the longer you wait to buy the more of a possibility that certain models in certain sizes will be sold out and no longer available. On the pc side I seem to see more deals during Black Friday on the peripherals such as mice and keyboards or gaming headsets and monitors than much of the actual motherboard, CPU or Gpu's selections.

[@Loppy2u]

UK Seen ok deals on Monitors, Keyboards, PSU, PC cases, Ram Kits. Nothing a must buy, it is too good to miss.

[@HanSolo__]

Camel Camel Camel sounds like the name of the black-net main marketplace...

[@cebuanostud]

Last week I lucked out... I bought I 1440p monitor for only 129(200 retail). But today, it is being sold as one of the black Friday deals but jacked at 159.lol

[@ClaySano]

I was able to find some good deals on power supplies, but that is because they're so boring.

[@Ondress]

I got the $480 7900 GRE and was looking to see if it dropped again and nope most cards didnt even go on sale really but I got a good monitor deal $200 of a $600 monitor pretty cool stuff, but yeah very dissapointing.