Now why would greedy cooperations do something silly like that?
Also, even the TVs aren't on sale. Those specific TVs were jacked up in price for at least a month before put on "sale" to artificially inflate the price. You're not getting a good deal.
This is commonly parroted and while it does happen it isn't the case for literally every single deal.
My roommates and I bought a TV in September and paid the extra $50 or whatever to be able to get a refund if a better price came up. For Black Friday, that TV is ~$250 less than we paid for, and we're getting our money back.
Black Friday/ Cyber Monday can be great times to pick up on deals and many items reach yearly lows for these sales, you just need to not blindly purchase things or fall into the hype. The way I look at it is, if I already know I want/ need it, I'll look around on Black Friday for a good deal. But I won't let deals on these days be the thing that tells me I want or need something.
There's also the deals that are in super short supply. I waited in line at a best buy for one of 20 TVs that were actually a very good deal. You pay with your time though in those situations
The other one is they actually make a slightly different model where it's using cheaper hardware like a slower cpu and nobody really notices or cares because it is cheap but they probably won't last that long. You can verify by looking at the long model string and see if you can find any info online. If it matches the regular one great, but sometimes it's not.
"I read this online and so now I repeat it online to others to seem smart and give myself a smug sense of satisfaction."
Where's the lie?
I could actually really use a new TV but I'm barely affording groceries. I want black Friday sales on cans of soup and frozen chicken, AND TVs.
Have you checked second hand shops for a TV? Sometimes there are good deals. Mostly crap of course.
What do you mean? Get a plasma or an early high end incandescent lit LCD. You can get 1080p ones for FREE, and they will do anything better, than a 165 inch 17k edgelit hypersmart disaster for six easy payments of only 169.99
Well in my neck of the woods the second hand TV's are usually busted because no one checks them before putting them on the shelf. There are good finds to be sure. Though I personally wouldn't want a plasma TV again (power draw) I think they can be a good deal.
A family friend of mine recently donated their old entertainment ~~system~~ cabinet to me, and it can't even fit my 50 dollar Vizio dumb TV. I just put it on top. It's also, INSANE how heavy entertainment systems use to be, to hold up old fat backs. It's weird to think a good chunk of Gen z remember fat backs (myself included). A lot of us remember the flat screen trend that turned into a given.
INSANE how heavy entertainment systems use to be, to hold up old fat backs
I know it sees a lot of action, but I wouldn't go so far as calling your mom's bed an entertainment system..
My dad gave me his old Panasonic TV that he bought back in '08 with the Bush stimulus money. That big fucker is a bitch to move and puts out an ungodly amount of heat, but it's still going strong and I refuse to get rid of it.
Lol "fat backs"? You mean CRT's?
I like calling them fatback
In my country we literally can them fat TVs (Tjock-TV).
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