Black Friday in October -- Really?
mcorr
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Let's keep it real. Black Friday normally has outrageously slashed prices. The offerings today are not substantially different -- or not different at all -- from what has been running for weeks now. Have I missed something??
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Dont think so, they're probs just gearing up to go from the theme they've been doing from this month on to the next
Maybe it's "Black Plauge Friday" and someone misread the memo...
Sure the plague was full of death and diseased flea ridden rats, but people forget there were some terrific bargains to be had back then...
Turnips were dirt cheap and a warm bowl of horse dandruff and hay was even cheaper...
The point is, not only were things nobody wanted cheaper back then than in the present day, but there was lots of death and funny smells... and October, particularly Halloween, is full of people wearing costumes themed towards dead things and (being that during the pandemic so many people forgot what the hell a shower is for) there are lots of funny smells.
Just like during the Black Plauge... Which I'm sure was what they meant to write...
And remember, right after Halloween all the Halloween stuff goes on sale (so oddly placed like this sale)... unfortunately, it's mostly things like glow-in-the-dark plastic vampire teeth, industrial sized sacks of candy corn that's not even portioned into "Fun Sized" mini-bags*, styrofoam gravestones** and fake bat skeletons, which by the way don't get me started on why the hell all the fake animal skeletons have ears... are people really that stupid that they don't know there are no ear bones?
Is it one guy messed up and everyone else just figured they were wrong about ears and copied his stupid mistake....?
But anyway, a good old fashioned Black Plauge Friday sale usually didn't involve much in the way of bargains because it was mostly just the possessions of the people that died of the plauge and it was usually boring stuff like their burlap underwear or their wooden peg leg...
So historically Black Plauge Friday sales were never very interesting or spectacular, so don't be disappointed by the lack of "pants-wettingly great savings"... just be greatful that you probably don't have the plague and that hopefully your pants are urine free at the moment.
These are the little things you should appreciate, not that you aren't saving loads of money, just that at the moment you aren't covered in diseased fleas from a plague rat... Probably... honestly I'm not judging you if you are, what goes on between consenting adults and their plauge rats is none of my business... mostly... I suppose if one wanted to share, I'd listen, but I have a very short attention span.
Anyway, that's my take on this, and I'm not making excuses, it's just that I haven't had any coffee yet and nothing makes any sense at the moment, so I figured that's probably the best time to write a lengthy hypothesis on the nature of this sale.
Thank you and have a plauge-free day!
*Seriously, why is Candy Corn still a thing?... and why don't they even bother to put them in "Fun Sized" bags*** ?... The only reason anyone buys them is because they are too cheap to buy real candy for trick or treaters and they are just going to dump it in a bowl which they'll leave outside their door to scare off/disappoint little kids... seriously the stuff is cheaper than landscaping gravel and about as popular a treat too... if it weren't made mostly out of yellow and orange crayons, it would actually make a colorful alternative to driveway gravel.
**Styrofoam Gravestones... Also on my list of Halloween atrocities... too light and flimsy to put on your lawn and ridiculous looking taped to your apartment door along with a fake bat skeleton... which of course has fricken bone ears...
*** Fun Sized?... there is nothing fun about a tiny packet of disappointment containing three fricken M&Ms, okay?... Maybe it's fun for the candy companies because they can sell a sack of "candy" the size of a pillow case for $20, which actually only contains 32 random chunks of chocolate, which technically isn't actually "chocolate", but "an amazingly lifelike simulation of chocolate featuring sugar, brown crayon shavings and 10% "chocolate liquor", whatever the hell that is"... Perhaps it's more fun than sticking your hands into a bowl moist candy corn that's been sitting on the creepy stranger's porch in the cool damp October night air... which is actually moist and warm, and you suspect it has something to do with the ratty looking cat you just saw getting off of the bowl, but you figure, "what hell, it probably actually has some flavor now, and besides I can trade it for real candy from my weird cousin who actually likes candy corn"... maybe that's where the fun is?... Well, when you were a kid... unless you still go trick or treating with your weird cousin... But generally there is no "fun" in "fun-sized"... especially since they are putting less and less candy in the packets each year... at this rate, pretty soon it's just going to be a picture of candy inside.
Really? Usually it means idiots beating each other senseless of some silly promo items, discounts that aren't worth it and stores shifting old and outdated stock that nobody would buy otherwise.
I am one of those idiots because every year I find something worth owning. I already reserved some cash exclusively for BF (the real Black Friday of this year).
tomorrow it will be Welcome to the Metaverse
If I recall the deals last year during the real Black Friday were around the same as this, ie 50-60% off, nothing particularly mind blowing. On that basis the claim that today is "Black Friday in October" is not that far off.
The main advantage of sales like Black Friday is not the size of the discount, but that almost everything in the store is on sale, so it gives people a chance to grab stuff from less prolific PA's whose stores are rarely on sale.
Because DAZ has Black Friday deals basically year round, well...what do you expect, they need some other take on a promo theme and that one's pretty good. Plus Halloween & Thanksgiving do sort of almost line of to make Friday an unofficial holiday in those months.
so you are saying that this is just another label to basically sell the same thing ..... what will they use when Black Friday roles around, Ii wonder.
Sounds like you watch a lot of youtube? Leaving all the sickness of BF aside, I have gotten some excellent deals in the past ... on the Internet where putting things into my cart didn't unleash any brawls!
Yes, that's what I mean. They will use Black Friday after Thanksgiving or similar maybe. Turkey Talk? Turkey Trade? Thanksgiving Trade. Trade is sort of antiquated as a word for sale nowadays though. Maybe Cyber Monday after Thanksgiving. And maybe this Monday, All Saint's Day, they'll use All Saint's Sale or Cyber Monday after Halloween.
Hopefully they have purposefully made todays sales look so pathetic in order to finish on a real high tomorrow... i nervously wait in anticipation!
Hahahahahahahah!!! This one really got me,....well done McGyver,.... I needed that!
" warm bowl of horse dandruff" LMAO
to be honest a lot of stores are going to really need black friday sales, after a very difficult year/years in sales (not that people are going to have that much extra, we certainly aren't). But the sale prices will be helpful, if you have them. I know when I was just married, just moving into a new home, I camped out in a black friday line and mapped a plan to get the stuff i needed, like blankets, a basic set of pots/pans/dinnerware, winter coats for hubby and i, our first christmas tree, pillows for the bed, cleaning supplies (that's a great area to hit up in black friday sales...everyone's over fighting in electronics, so less 'fancy' stuff is more empty) I literally strolled thru the blankets and cleaning supplies and lightbulbs and mops and stuff, checking off my list. had a small bit of a line in car stuff (winter chains for tires, oil change kit, etc). But it made that first year easier.
Now it depends on a lot of things, and where I am there's A: a bit of shortage, B: black friday isn't as much celebrated in Asia, but C: hubby's job abruptly ended this year and benefits diminished, so I'll be thinking carefully. Black Friday can be really helpful for folks who need it, both in getting and selling. Of course it'd be great if smaller stores would get sales too but that's part of the awesomeness of online black friday sales- because now you can find them and its not just the Amazon/Target/whatever sales.
And now it's even...
Black Friday on a Saturday!
It's literraly just another sale.
Don't care about the name, only the final price I pay (i don't look for specific percentage discount).
... All that matters is the discount I can get on items I want - not interested in 99% discount when I don't want it. If the discount brings the price down enough, then it gets added to cart.
Yeah .... bonus, huh?