Comment on Black Friday not the cheapest time to shop, says consumer group
Jackthelad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What a shocker that Black Friday is all a marketing scam.
Amazon are the worst for it. Instead of reducing the prices of their products, they will often just add the RRP next to the existing price and claim that it’s 35% off or whatever, even though they’ve actually only knocked about £5 off the price it was already.
It initially started with tech saavy who are in the know how of prices getting a good deal, but the more casual the practice became, so did the sale value as well, as it switched from techies getting a good deal to corpo creating black friday specific products to trick the layperson that theyre getting a good deal.
Sales are only good if the average person doing the shopping is also in the knowhow for pricing.
Had this exact same thing happen to me for the first time recently on a product I was watching. I was confused at first because I’d been watching it for a while and thought maybe the new price hadn’t refreshed or something, because it was 0% off.
Blowing up my phone every 2 hours with a “deal” is getting old real fast.
Hegar@kbin.social 11 months ago
Amazon also secretly ran an algorithm called project Nessie that just straight up creates inflation.
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The employee at Amazon who came up with this idea probably got a big fat bonus. To the detriment of everybody else.