Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid
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I don't know about anyone else, but I've gotten WAY more Cyber Monday emails than I got Black Friday emails. My Inbox has been overflowing today-- with MULTIPLE emails from the same vendors in some cases (SEVEN sent two emails each, in one case twenty minutes apart; one sent THREE). Why the fuck? They're all to one address. Seriously, can anyone explain what they're thinking? I don't mind one-- if something catches my eye in the subject line, I might even open it. But what will more than one accomplish other than pissing me off?
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@heterodox said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
I don't know about anyone else, but I've gotten WAY more Cyber Monday emails than I got Black Friday emails. My Inbox has been overflowing today-- with MULTIPLE emails from the same vendors in some cases (SEVEN sent two emails each, in one case twenty minutes apart; one sent THREE). Why the fuck? They're all to one address. Seriously, can anyone explain what they're thinking? I don't mind one-- if something catches my eye in the subject line, I might even open it. But what will more than one accomplish other than pissing me off?
Their email sending SPAM-O-MATIC blew up in the middle of the job and they simply restarted the job. Multiple times. Sucks being at the start of the list. I must be at the end.
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@dcon said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Their email sending SPAM-O-MATIC blew up in the middle of the job and they simply restarted the job. Multiple times. Sucks being at the start of the list. I must be at the end.
They're not the same emails, though. They essentially describe the same sales, of course, but they're not identical.
Also, a mass mailer that doesn't keep track of where it was in the batch is an unholy WTF.
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@heterodox I know a few of those... I even know people that maintain one of them.
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Actually could be right in some cases, though; got a third email from FTD Flowers just now and noticed first two have same preview text even though they have different subject lines whereas the third has different preview text.
Pieces of shit.
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@heterodox said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Also, a mass mailer
that doesn't keep track of where it was in the batchis an unholy WTF.FTFY
to all mass mailers.
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@heterodox said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Seriously, can anyone explain what they're thinking?
HYPE!!!
OMFG YOU NEED TO ACT ON THIS NOW!
Why aren't you EXCITED, Citizen, for these AMAZING DEALS!
JOIN THE CONVERSATION AND BE PART OF THE EXPERIENCE!
Have you heard the great news {first_name}?!?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
OMFG YOU NEED TO ACT ON THIS NOW!
TIME'S RUNNING OUT!
(That was the tack taken by some of the afternoon and evening e-mails. I'm seriously considering tossing my last personal e-mail address and living my life as a hermit.)
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@heterodox "We see you've chosen for our new experimental direct-to-brain marketing option. We're so EXCITED to beam you our GREAT offers!"
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there are a lot of adverts talking about "black Friday week" on British TV. Is this our retailers fundamentally missing the point or does it happen in America too?
I suppose it makes sense, the Friday wasn't a national holiday here so expanding the same at least to the weekend makes sure people can come to the shops. Still sounds really weird though.
I intentionally didn't buy anything on Friday or the weekend
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@Jaloopa said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
there are a lot of adverts talking about "black Friday week" on British TV. Is this our retailers fundamentally missing the point or does it happen in America too?
I think it's more to spread out the mindless hysteria over the whole weekend, to minimise the number of people almost killing each other for 20% off a crap TV.
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@RaceProUK said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
to minimise the number of people almost killing each other for 20% off a crap TV.
We should do it the other way around, lock the people in a big arena with weapons and call it "The Discount Games".
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@anonymous234 said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
@RaceProUK said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
to minimise the number of people almost killing each other for 20% off a crap TV.
We should do it the other way around, lock the people in a big arena with weapons and call it "The Discount Games".
Only problem - it'll be on Pay-per-view. I already give our corporate overlords way too much money, I'm not wasting
spendingany more!
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@heterodox Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I've had multiple gmail pages of what amounts to useless noise.
Filed under: In addition to all the normal useless noise
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I was mostly just disappointed this year. "15% OFF! BEST DEAL OF THE YEAR!" Your product has to cost me at least $200 for 15% to amount to any significant amount of money. I might as well wait until after Christmas and pay full price on my own terms.
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@Yamikuronue said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
I was mostly just disappointed this year. "15% OFF! BEST DEAL OF THE YEAR!" Your product has to cost me at least $200 for 15% to amount to any significant amount of money. I might as well wait until after Christmas and pay full price on my own terms.
Even if 15% off is the best deal of the year, it's because they raised the price 10% before offering that "discount"
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@Lorne-Kates On a $30 item they might not have even bothered.
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I got a full years subscription to NordVPN for almost nothing. It gotta be better than hide my ass.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Even if 15% off is the best deal of the year, it's because they raised the price 10% before offering that "discount"
More likely, they raised the price at least 15% before offering that "discount".
I have encountered this a few times where I was looking at an item but decided not to buy it. Then a couple weeks later I'm in the store and they are advertising a big "sale". But I notice that the price, before applying the "discount", has been raised so that after applying the "discount" I would end up paying the same price as I would have paid previously.
When I was a kid, my father would always say "Nobody can afford to lower the price 20% unless the price is 20% too high to start."
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@El_Heffe said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
@Lorne-Kates said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Even if 15% off is the best deal of the year, it's because they raised the price 10% before offering that "discount"
More likely, they raised the price at least 15% before offering that "discount".
I have encountered this a few times where I was looking at an item but decided not to buy it. Then a couple weeks later I'm in the store and they are advertising a big "sale". But I notice that the price, before applying the "discount", has been raised so that after applying the "discount" I would end up paying the same price as I would have paid previously.
When I was a kid, my father would always say "Nobody can afford to lower the price 20% unless the price is 20% too high to start."
Marketing 101: Bend over...
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@lucas1 said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
I got a full years subscription to NordVPN for almost nothing. It gotta be better than hide my ass.
Great, now he's behind EIGHT proxies. =(
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@El_Heffe said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
I have encountered this a few times where I was looking at an item but decided not to buy it. Then a couple weeks later I'm in the store and they are advertising a big "sale". But I notice that the price, before applying the "discount", has been raised so that after applying the "discount" I would end up paying the same price as I would have paid previously.
In the UK, an item has to have been on sale at the old price for a certain amount of time, but it's something silly like one week in the past 6 months.
Furniture shops are masters at this approach. A permanent "sale" achieved by rotating things out of the "sale" for a few weeks at a time, and giving them a ridiculous price that nobody will pay, especially since it's going to be back on "sale" again within a couple of weeks.
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@Jaloopa said in Stupid Black Stupid Friday Stupid:
Furniture shops are masters at this approach. A permanent "sale" achieved by rotating things out of the "sale" for a few weeks at a time, and giving them a ridiculous price that nobody will pay, especially since it's going to be back on "sale" again within a couple of weeks.
Which is why you'll never hear the phrase
DFS is not having a sale
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Yearly Update
Yep, still happening.
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@keith welcome back
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@anonymous234 Can you put an NSFW warning on that? I wasn't prepared for that level of violence.
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@blek horrifying
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@Keith also in ...
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Also in Revolut!
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In my emails today:
Hurry. Black Friday ends in 3 days!
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@Keith Holy shit it's you again!
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On the other hand, classical painters like Pieter Brueghel knew Black Friday already:
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Long before widespread online shopping, I thought about shopping on Black Friday for the deals. Then I remember I like sleep too much and hate crowds.
OTOH, when I online shop I also struggle to get the best value product, so I go back and forth.
I started shopping for a new winter coat and a lined wind-breaker some time last weekend. I hadn't made up my mind but left a few things in my cart. Did some occasional comparison during the week.
Then when I came home on Thanksgiving, I went to do more comparisons. I come home early while my husband and the rest of the kids stay at my in-laws. They know I can only people so much.
To my surprise each of the items in my cart were lower by $10 - $20. Since I am
cheapfrugal I wasn't looking at any top of the line or name brand products. So at that price point, $10 - $20 makes a difference.Maybe the price I was willing to pay last weekend was inflated but it seemed fair to me and I am pretty
cheapfrugal. So the lower price got to me to finally order the items.