Infuriating to think that all these places can sell products with a 50% discount and still make money. The rest of the time how much are they raking in? But we are all scraping by and gotta do what we gotta do. Thanks for letting me vent.

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They’re offering discounts on stuff they could unload. They have to get them out of the back room to make room for new stock.

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Untrue. Most electronics are special made for black Friday and are worse products marketed as just the same.

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Probably most high end products. My TV has like an extra q at the end of the product number to denote that its a blackfriday model. No idea what else is different, but it’s a half inch smaller than the regular model, even though they are both advertised as 60"

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I think you are a minority

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You don’t have to buy anything in the sales.

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You don’t have to participate in voting either, but that doesn’t stop about a million power-hungry jackasses from clogging up my snail mail box come each November.

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Fyi most stores mark up about 500% from what it cost to land.

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It depends, sometimes sales are at a loss for the company to simply clear out stock that they were not selling quickly enough.

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So technically a direct loss, but definitely not a direct loss after tax breaks, and accounting for warehouse space freeing up in many cases. The warehouse space is worth more than the product past a certain age in most businesses.

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Yup, stagnant inventory is a huge drain on resources.

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