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u/Xylber Nov 05 '24
In my country would be:
wednesday: 399usd
thursday: 799usd
black friday: 499usd
saturday: 599usd (and never going back).
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u/Nasa_OK Fanatec Nov 05 '24
Yeah, my last purchase also went from 650 to 799 1 week before prime day and didn’t go down since. Welp you win some and loose some
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Nov 05 '24
In the civilised world this is actually very illegal, so I'm not too worried about it.
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u/josephjosephson Nov 05 '24
LOL. Define civilized world then because this is rampant in North America and Europe.
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Nov 05 '24
Down under in Mad Max land it's super fucking illegal and our ACCC goes pretty hard. You can thank us for steam refunds existing.
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u/josephjosephson Nov 05 '24
Nice. Yeah they don’t GAF here in the US. I know in Europe, you could probably report this, depending on the country, and have it investigated. In the US, you’ll get laughed at. The entire economy works this way now. Amazon and EBay is all fake sales. Back in the 80s and maybe early 90s it was understood that sales had time limits and requirements. Now people would look at you funny if you mentioned that.
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u/STUP1DJUIC3 Nov 05 '24
In the Uk it was found that retailers were slowly increasing prices over the year so that when it got to big sale days like christmas/january sales, the prices were actually what they were normally but they still were technically discounted since the price had gone up, but they’d do it slowly over the year so you wouldn’t notice. People eventually caught on and the did bring in a law about it but don’t think it really changed much
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u/NorsiiiiR Nov 05 '24
This, and the current case the ACCC is running against the big supermarket duopoly in Australia is a perfect example.
They spent several years logging all the prices on thousands of individual items they sell, and found that a few hundred at some point had gone up in price (that's fine), then a few weeks later were reduced again and had an 'everyday low prices' label put on them (not even an outright 'sale' label). The supermarkets are now being sued in the biggest consumer law case in the country's history over it and they will lose
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u/Invictuslemming1 Nov 05 '24
Can we subcontract them to do the same in Canada? We have the exact same issue.
Probably a good 20 or so “supermarket brands” that can be traced back to 2-3 actual corporations across the country.
Also telecom industry, also insurance industry.
“Competition” here is a farce
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u/El_Androi Nov 05 '24
Is it worth the entire fauna and flora trying to kill you at all times?
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u/ruffle_my_fluff Alpha Mini/Neo GT/Simsonn Pro Nov 05 '24
Not the entire. Koalas for example will only give you Chlamydia.
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u/Unlikely-Log Nov 05 '24
In EU you have to disclose other price changes of that product at minimum in the last 30 days, so customer could easily see any fuckery happening.
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u/-larma- Nov 06 '24
Here the first time they enforced it, a lot of the major suppliers stopped having "sales" and sold the Black Friday products at suggested retailer price for 30 days prior. Then they dropped them back to normal prices for Black Friday.This directive has a 30 day sized loophole built in.
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u/Proccito Nov 05 '24
The nordics, and I think a few other countries have the same site, we can see the lowest price of a few (lots of) products before making a purchase.
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u/JohnMc_UK RaceRoom Racing Expereince Nov 05 '24
it's illegal in the UK, the pre sale price has to be the same for a number of weeks before you can advertise it as the pre sale cost during an actual sale period.
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u/Falcon_891 Nov 05 '24
In the us, this is done with every holiday basically. With Black Friday being the worst. And people are still stupid enough to fall for it all the time.
Kohl's for example does this on a daily basis. You walk into their store and everything says special 80% off today only. The problem is, everyday it's like that. Or they might discount it a little bit and then say 60% off or some shit.
The craziest part though is how everybody falls for it.
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u/georgin_95 Nov 05 '24
Bless third-party price history widgets, separating fuckwits from legitimate discounts
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u/Special-Asparagus-84 Nov 05 '24
istg. I vomit in my mouth when people mention black friday. How are you so fucking stupid that you cant see that they inflate the price and drop it to msrp for a "SALE".. Especially in this economy when everything is so expensive. Most people are hyper vigilant on price changes but still get roped into the same old smoke and mirrors. Its crazy.
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u/RedShirtSniper Nov 05 '24
My favorite thing to do when someone goes nuts over a Kohls "sale" is slowly pull out my phone and Google the item, browse through other local stores prices, and go, "Crazy they listed that $100 item (everywhere else) at $200, then you got it half off! Nice!"
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u/Excludos Nov 05 '24
You should be worried, because they use every trick in the book to find loopholes even where this specifically is illegal. Here's some things Norwegian stores are doing (and we have some of the most strict rules on price gauging):
Have two separate model numbers for otherwise identical items with tiny differences. Very typical for TVs for instance.
Jack the price up exactly one month ahead. Nowadays you don't even have to sell any items at that price. Previously, when the rules stated you had to, stores would let employees buy products for the jacked prices, and then return them.
Just fucking lie because there's no consequences anyways.
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Nov 05 '24
Fair enough, but the only hardware I'm after this year is from Fanatec, who's BF discounts last year were completely legitimate and perhaps I'll grab some stuff on steam sales, so I think I'm safe.
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u/Excludos Nov 05 '24
Oh yeah, there's absolutely still good deals to be found. You can generally tell which stores are the scammers or not. Fanatec rarely changes their prices throughout the year, so you can easily tell it's legit.
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u/IronicINFJustices Nov 06 '24
In the uk, what they do is raise the price artificially for a month before discount days, then it can be a legitimate reduction in price.
An old large electronic retailer I used to work for used to buy chea stiff from china, price it exorbitantly for absolutely ages, then give it as a free item that was worth a "huge" amount before.
Its not hard to get around it, unless the government price fixes everything, which they already do for some, but not for everything.
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u/peasouplol Nov 05 '24
There are chrome extensions that allow you to see price history from sites. It seems like Black Friday is the biggest in my experience
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u/Reddit_slayer123 Nov 05 '24
I know what sub you got this from I'm pretty sure. But it definitely fits here lol
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u/Ecmdrw5 Nov 05 '24
That’s why I monitor prices for things I want to buy throughout the year. Turns out I got the monitor I wanted $60 cheaper than Black Friday on a random Wednesday in March.
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u/alidan Nov 05 '24
always track the price of what you want, know what it is normally, and if its cheaper then go for it.
I have a brother who is mindnumbing with this crap, "there is no such thing as sales" ok, its normally 250, I have seen it on sale for 230, and now its 180 "There is no such thing as sales, thats its actual price and your not paying less for it" and after this logic circles around a few times... have never wanted to hit someone more.
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u/PimpDaddyNash Nov 05 '24
This paired with the perfect visual made me laugh my ass off. I'm gonna share it.
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u/rice_is_nice_ Nov 05 '24
Microcentre: $5 take it or leave it