What a shocker that Black Friday is all a marketing scam.
Amazon are the worst for it. Instead of reducing the prices of their products, they will often just add the RRP next to the existing price and claim that it’s 35% off or whatever, even though they’ve actually only knocked about £5 off the price it was already.
Amazon also secretly ran an algorithm called project Nessie that just straight up creates inflation.
The employee at Amazon who came up with this idea probably got a big fat bonus. To the detriment of everybody else.
It initially started with tech saavy who are in the know how of prices getting a good deal, but the more casual the practice became, so did the sale value as well, as it switched from techies getting a good deal to corpo creating black friday specific products to trick the layperson that theyre getting a good deal.
Sales are only good if the average person doing the shopping is also in the knowhow for pricing.
