Black Friday and Price Promises

kah22 · 10 November 2015 at 2:04AM

I'm thinking probably not.

My mate is thinking of buying a TV from Currys BUT suppose He buys the TV from them a day or two before Black Friday and that product is significantly reduced on BF would he be able to claim the difference. He's looking at a particular TV and He is going to buy anyway but I'm wondering what the actual condition would be in that case. I'm inclined to think his hard luck

[Deleted User] · 10 November 2015 at 8:29AM

Why doesn't he just wait till Friday?
If its a decent quality TV that's a current model it probably won't be reduced. It tends to be crap like Polaroids at the Asda.

Rainy-Days · 10 November 2015 at 10:35AM

Oddly enough I was think about BF last night and the thought of all those mad shoppers scrambling for goodness knows what.

I would be tempted to leave it until mid afternoon with Currys etc and see what offers you have on, generally speaking if you are armed with info on what you want and you are ready to purchase there and then you can get yourself something decent.

Don't forget now that allot of these big stores are doing price match as well, so fire up your printer and start doing research now and then on the day!

Mr_Singleton · 10 November 2015 at 11:38AM

lets be completely honest here.... in the UK "Black Friday" is used to get rid of all the S*** shops couldn't sell for the rest of the year to make way for Christmas stock.

There were people fighting over LCD TV's in I believe Asda last year where the Police had to be called BUT the actual TV's were made by BUSH. They were cheap and nasty to start off with and yet crowds of people were physically fighting over them. How much discount was there on the LG OLED TVs? or the Samsung Series 9.... diddly squat. Tells you all you need to know.

Rainy-Days · 10 November 2015 at 11:46AM

They were Polaroid and Blaupunkt TV's which are pretty dire at the best of times. I suspect that they were specially brought in to do this sale. The amount of shops that buy in stock just to put in sales is shocking and yet the consumer falls for it.

Only genuine stock was the Dyson on sale at Sainsbury's but TBH you could probably pick them up just as cheap on Amazon!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth · 10 November 2015 at 1:33PM

Another stupid commercialised frantic crush to extract monies from the gullible for things that the stores cannot sell at any other time.

kah22 · 10 November 2015 at 1:36PM

A few very good comments. I was talking to my mate and he, rather her-indoors, wants a particular set and they'll buy anyway.

Myself, well I'm after a new TV and I have it down to two or three sets.but I'm in no big hurry and probably won't bother until after Christmas