debt friday..

twiggy86

Thanks lee111s - I'll have a look on there now.


Well after waiting for what seems like forever, the one I wanted (i.e. the one recommended by my mum!) wasn't in the sale! However I looked and I left!

[Deleted User]

Just read the news and had a thought If Tesco's or other stores can reduce stuff by up to 70% then perhaps the stuff they are selling is overpriced by up to 70% in the first place To me if you can buy something at XXX amount of pounds then that's all its worth ??? what do you think.Prices of stuff seem to be all out of proportion to their acutual value don't you think.
But then I am just a daft old Grandma who has spent most of her life getting value for money :):)

lovinituk

JackieO wrote: »

Just read the news and had a thought If Tesco's or other stores can reduce stuff by up to 70% then perhaps the stuff they are selling is overpriced by up to 70% in the first place To me if you can buy something at XXX amount of pounds then that's all its worth ??? what do you think.Prices of stuff seem to be all out of proportion to their acutual value don't you think.
But then I am just a daft old Grandma who has spent most of her life getting value for money :):)

Sometimes it about clearing old stock. Or they are hoping that while people are splashing out, they will buy other things that are not on sale. Or even just increasing the cash flow.

Ilona

I want to go to town to buy a few of my regular things that I actually need, like pet food which I am running pretty low on. Don't know whether to go now. All those daft people getting into punch ups, best wear some protective clothing I think.
Ilona

twiggy86

Can't believe what I'm reading...


Frustrated with not being able to buy a Blaupunkt 40” TV reduced from £299.99 to £149.99, Haggerty rushed to pick up a Dyson Animal Vac, down from £319.99 to £159.99. “I don’t even know how much it costs, I don’t know even know if I’m going to buy it. I just wanted something,” she said. “There are lads in there three, four, five tellies. It’s not fair.”
One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”

FireWyrm

twiggy86 wrote: »

Can't believe what I'm reading...


Frustrated with not being able to buy a Blaupunkt 40” TV reduced from £299.99 to £149.99, Haggerty rushed to pick up a Dyson Animal Vac, down from £319.99 to £159.99. “I don’t even know how much it costs, I don’t know even know if I’m going to buy it. I just wanted something,” she said. “There are lads in there three, four, five tellies. It’s not fair.”
One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”

It is pure insanity but also a wonderful demonstration of the avericial nature of humans. We are hard-wired to gather anything that we perceive as being 'essential' to our survival - it is what makes us so successful as a species. What is happening is that 40 years of 'training' by commercial advertisers have corrupted the instinct to apply to things that are not actually 'essential' to our survival.

As a society, we have all we really need to survive (food, fuel and shelter) and so the instinct is being bent by advertising to apply to commercial products. The advertising agents (the men who make us buy) know exactly what they are doing and it is entirely cynical. The Black Friday frenzy is an inevitable outcome of people having been trained to believe that they 'need' these things to survive when in fact, if they stopped for 2 seconds to think about it, they would realise that two coffee machines are totally unnecessary but we need to feed the instinct somehow. It gives us a buzz when we do fulfill the instinctual imperative to 'gather' things necessary for survival. Coffee machines are not necessary for survival, but these people could be said to have no choice...they are simply compelled by a toxic combination of deep instinct and advertising that reinforces the behaviour.

Monkeyballs

Just saw this on the BBC news site;



And I could help but be reminded of this...



I understand that not everybody has debts, and getting a good deal is great but does it really need to be done in-stores? If it does, why are the shops able to take so little precautions to avoid this happening?

Also, it's not very English... Never heard of queuing and first come first served? The top one obviously...

MB

ShirePiskie

I've just seen pictures on the Beeb's website - people clamouring to be passed TVs out of (I think) a warehouse.

I actually feel a bit sick.

It looks like pictures from disaster regions where people fight like that because they need water, food and medicine from an aid truck.

I don't want to be all judgy, as have been scouring the BF offers for a very particular Christmas present, but it is absolutely crazy.

Want and need are not the same thing.

Not the best glimpse of humanity!

ShirePiskie

Monkeyballs wrote: »

Just saw this on the BBC news site;



And I could help but be reminded of this...



I understand that not everybody has debts, and getting a good deal is great but does it really need to be done in-stores? If it does, why are the shops able to take so little precautions to avoid this happening?

Also, it's not very English... Never heard of queuing and first come first served? The top one obviously...

MB

Exactly this! Cross posting!

FireWyrm

Monkeyballs wrote: »

Just saw this on the BBC news site;



And I could help but be reminded of this...



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MB

My point exactly. In the bottom page, the fear on the faces of the children is palpable. They are struggling to get something essential for their survival. In the top page...the same.

See?