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The Official 2024 This Black Friday is Suck thread

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To continue the tradition, I might as well start the thread now.

Black Friday is a great time of the year... for the retailers to get rid of old overpriced stuff that no one wanted to buy during the year. Don't let them fool ya. Oh no!

So post here if you're disappointed with what you see and think that the deals suck this year. Just like they did last year, the year before that, the year before the year before ...

Man, I miss the Staples deals. I still have a framed receipt of some RAM I got delivered for $0.03.
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foxfai
11-08-2024 at 07:12 AM.
11-08-2024 at 07:12 AM.
I don't think there is any "deals" since like 15 years ago. Ever since I found slickdeals, lots of deals are shared when they happens, and are better than BF deals. I haven't gone to a store for BF deals since early 2010s
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WoWa
11-09-2024 at 12:04 AM.
11-09-2024 at 12:04 AM.
Quote from foxfai :
I don't think there is any "deals" since like 15 years ago. Ever since I found slickdeals, lots of deals are shared when they happens, and are better than BF deals. I haven't gone to a store for BF deals since early 2010s
Exactly. Best time to buy anything is late September to late October. When school shopping has stopped and Christmas shopping is about to start. Companies will try to get a jump on each other and try to win the early bird with good prices.

Comes November they stop caring because they know that people will buy everything at any price.
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abstractj
11-09-2024 at 10:12 AM.

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11-09-2024 at 10:12 AM.
Black Friday doesn't suck because it doesn't exist anymore.
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SpinControl
11-12-2024 at 12:47 PM.
11-12-2024 at 12:47 PM.
Quote from abstractj :
Black Friday doesn't suck because it doesn't exist anymore.
Last great BF was 2020...before the inflation.
Game tables at Academy were awesome.

BF this year sucks.
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thetommark
11-14-2024 at 03:07 PM.
11-14-2024 at 03:07 PM.
Looking at some of the ads, it seems there is some nostalgia for the "doors open at 5am" and "free gift for the first 100 people" days of old.

Back when it wasn't a week or month long event, but one day!
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jetydosa
11-15-2024 at 06:31 PM.
11-15-2024 at 06:31 PM.
"Worst Black Friday eVAR!!!" - this forum every year since ~2006
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rockstar1009
11-16-2024 at 10:22 AM.
11-16-2024 at 10:22 AM.
The next one is sure to suck even more on account of tariffs but that's assuming that we go along with the charade that Black Friday still exists in the first place.
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tqlla3k
11-16-2024 at 08:59 PM.
11-16-2024 at 08:59 PM.
Quote from jetydosa :
"Worst Black Friday eVAR!!!" - this forum every year since ~2006
Well, it has been true every year.

I thought it was bad last year. But this year.... is anything even on sale? There is hardly anything in this sub forum.

Its so bad that people have given up complaining about how bad it is.
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J3ff
11-17-2024 at 03:19 AM.
11-17-2024 at 03:19 AM.
Quote from WoWa :
To continue the tradition, I might as well start the thread now.

Black Friday is a great time of the year... for the retailers to get rid of old overpriced stuff that no one wanted to buy during the year. Don't let them fool ya. Oh no!

So post here if you're disappointed with what you see and think that the deals suck this year. Just like they did last year, the year before that, the year before the year before ...

Man, I miss the Staples deals. I still have a framed receipt of some RAM I got delivered for $0.03.
Man... taking over the torch from me.. I guess that's okay. I'm getting old.

https://slickdeals.net/f/15410164-the-official-2021-this-black-friday-sucks-thread?v=1&src=SiteSearch
https://slickdeals.net/f/16224805-the-official-2022-black-friday-still-sucks-thread?v=1&src=SiteSearch
https://slickdeals.net/f/17100232-the-official-man-black-friday-sucks-this-year-thread?v=1&src=SiteSearch

I just did my first black friday scan, not seeing anything great yet!!
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jimkiler
11-18-2024 at 09:31 AM.
11-18-2024 at 09:31 AM.
Anyone else annoyed with the threads, asking for any deals on X product or category when most of the ads are not out? Not sure why but it drives me nuts. Instead they should they are looking for a deal on X or make it a thread to discuss potential deals when they come out.
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dealsaregood
11-18-2024 at 09:58 AM.
11-18-2024 at 09:58 AM.
black friday has gotten worse every year , year after year, which is why every year people say black friday sucks, last year was really bad, but it still. somewhat existed, due to actual ads and a handful of decent deals.

however, this year. there are no ads, and no deals. so no reason to say black friday sucks anymore, because black friday is no more.
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n0deal
11-18-2024 at 08:41 PM.
11-18-2024 at 08:41 PM.
Black Friday hasn't been any good since Selma stopped posting!
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WoWa
11-22-2024 at 09:03 PM.
11-22-2024 at 09:03 PM.
Sorry Jeff, didn't mean to break the streak. I was just bored, depressed and didn't watch anything on TV. It was a low hanging fruit to come looking for a Black Friday sucks thread. Maybe you're even worse off than me and that's why it took you so long :-)

But if age is an excuse to pass the torch on, you picked the wrong fella. I might be the oldest guy in this forum. Heck, I was already one of the oldest ones 20 years ago and I expect that some of the older ones back them can't type anymore due to arthritis or senility. Either that or they found a deal too good to resist in heaven Wink
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GreenPenguin420
11-22-2024 at 09:36 PM.
11-22-2024 at 09:36 PM.
I keep wondering how most of this stuff is even selling normally. Like yeah, Bogo on crap is just two craps. I don't need two craps - who do you give a crap?
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