“Happy Black Friday”

Sod right off. If that now a thing, people wishing each other that?!

A shop trying to sell you something? Stupid and annoying, but believable.

A random person? NO. Shout at them and run away.

Next thing there will be “Happy Black Friday” cards but in a cruel twist of fate they will always be sold at full RRP

To reuse an old phrase anyone saying that can get in the sea!!

Giffgaff informed they were cracking open the bubbly in celebration. Is that supposed to make spend motte than £7 a month with them?

It gets worse each year. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, what next? Just more ways to promote endless consumption and spending mobney on tat you don’t actually need in a sale that isn’t actually a sale.

Remember ‘back in the day’ when people were fighting over crap Polaroid TV’s reduced to still more than they were actually worth…… Good times

Now stuff is normally more expensive in the BF sales ?

Your reminder, if shopping amazon to check the price history…

Saw an article reccomending an ‘amazing’ deal on an electric toothbrush at Argos, £35 reduced from £100 – bargain right?

Well, no, it’s the same price at a lot of places inc. Amazon, and if you check the price history, it averaged at £40… so technically an OK deal, if you actually need one… but the headline reduction from £100 might sway you into an implulse purchase.

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Why can’t we just go back to how traditional Black Friday used to be? You know, back to how it’s name came about, with the stampedes, the crushing and the deaths?

Remember ‘back in the day’ when people were fighting over crap Polaroid TV’s reduced to still more than they were actually worth…… Good times

I used to work near a large Asda that had to call the police out the first time it did a BF. There was an actual riot going on in store, I think it even made the news.

This was in the very early days as it became A Thing and I don’t think the staff knew what they were in for; there was a stampede as the doors opened, people started fighting over TVs…

I reckon that’s part of the reason it’s become a 2-3 week thing, to spread the madness out a bit and prevent it all being one day.

I had emails to “beat the BF rush, order now!”

The delete button has been used a lot in my emails recently….

It gets worse each year. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, what next?

Landfill Tuesday or Overdrawn Thursday…?

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I tried that and it came out at £500+VAT.