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I feel like while this had been said for awhile, more and more people are becoming aware of the scam of the day... where they raise prices before putting it on sale or create lower quality items to sell for the day...
The lack of accountability on what a sale is in the us... is a joke... if you have ever walked around a mall more than once a week you realize that shit is always on "sale"
Black Friday might of been actually worth it 20 years ago, but with everything happening and inflation people are over it... Christmas is a time where credit card debt increases dramatically... and more and more people are at a point where they just can't
This is exactly it. Back before Black Friday was a household name that appeared in advertisements, there were some real good deals to be had, especially if you were willing to go before noon. That's where you got rushes of people banging down doors at 6:00 a.m. for the very best deals, but there were plenty throughout the day.
Then Cyber Monday became a thing. Then it became Black Friday week.
And in the process it lost all meaning. It's no longer anything special, it's the same deals you get on many other major holidays.
So I just don't bother anymore. Like I'll grab something if there's a good deal but I don't put much special attention into it anymore because there's no point.
Yeah, if you use camel camel camel or something similar for Amazon, you see generally the week before all the prices get an increase and then go on "sale" this is also not accounting for all the cheap shit being sold on Amazon from random brands like acuxvab and afxvvs because its easy for random Chinese companies to do it that way... and on top of that the random reseller trying to make a buck with cheap teemu crap and the likes...
Whole thing is a mess...
Amazon is a total mess.
If you want a quality item but don't know what brand you want, it's near unusable. All the results are random Chinese vendors with what look like random names, half of them are rebadging the same noname Temu-quality crap.
It's gotten to the point where I Google for product recommendations or look at YouTube (keeping in mind that 90% of them are sponsored 'unbiased reviews' of the product in question) rather than searching Amazon.
Of course then you get the brand name stuff sold by random grey market resellers for $5 below Amazon's price so they claim the buy box and you get a product where the mfr won't honor the warranty.