Why Nobody Cares about Cyber Monday
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In civilized countries such as Poland, such stuff is downward illegal.
How bout a video on how much prices get jacked up before cybermonday and blackfriday so that they can cut the now inflated price by 50% or whatever and still make more money?
Does it happen? How much does it happen?
Come with receipts, in this case literally, get the price histories for several items like home appliances or furniture. Stuff that people wait to go on sale for.
Reminder: If you didn't want it before a sale, it's not a deal.
Best comment!
I’m going to remind myself this when tempted to shop.
The Steam version: If it wasn't on your wishlist before the sale, it's not a deal.
@@Roxor128which is why I've written a python script to wishlist every single game on steam
@@Roxor128explain
It's Cyber Monday and I genuinely can't find any good deals. Every deal is for things that are already too expensive and for things I don't even want.
I've seen so many "cyber monday" deals that are actually the same price they were weeks ago, just with a fancy label slapped on the price tag and the "old price" increased to match the "big discount", shit is a joke.
I think that’s an adaptation a lot of us made in response to the recent inflation, we just aren’t comfortable buying new things and stop thinking about them to eventually being completely uninterested in buying them when we finally feel comfortable with our money.
I cannot agree more with you. I've seen nothing of use to me, even as gifts.
It's almost as if they did it on purpose...
There aren't really any good deals but I do find much higher cash back on Rakuten. So I shop places that will give you a free gift with purchase and I usually go to their direct site rather than say Sephora if I want skin care I'll just go right to Glow recipe and they will have better sales and more cash back
regular price 499
black friday deal -599- 499
cybermonday deal -699- 499
At least Black Friday in the past had:
regular price - 499
Chinese made product nearly identical- 399
That's virtually every Amazon deal for the past few years.
Yup
Well, at least in the UE, they have to display the lowest price from previous 30 days.
I had pc parts in my cart for today if it's on sale. Everything was actually more expensive lol, no thanks.
keep in mind: stuff is never "on sale". it's just "on marketing".
In the end it doesn’t matter either way since it isn’t a lie that less money is leaving your wallet for an item you wanted.
@@Windows98R Not necessarily . Something could be on sale for $50 from $70, but in reality it was $50 for the last 6 months.
@@Windows98R lmao, nooooooo. marketing strategies have worked on you.
Eh i got a laptop for 1500 that’s a 14th gen i7, 4070, dci p3 color gamut @ 500nits. Idc what you call it but it matched the specs i require for photo editing so im happy to not spend 2000 on it
Marketing:-
the activity or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.
On sale:-
offered for purchase at a reduced price.
Guess you get to rewrite the dictionary?
A reduction in price does show how much a retailer has in mark up, no argument there.
But by definition, the company uses marketing to let you, the customer, know there are reduced prices, aka on sale.
The SD card I needed was approx 10USD a month ago. I didn't need it asap so held out. It's now 4USD.
Did I get marketed? Or did I get it on sale?
Its because the sales arent real. Ive had a $175 car part in my amazon cart for a few weeks. 25% off specials, $44 coupons and black friday/cyber monday deals have all come and gone, and yet the final price i would pay has stayed the same the entire time. The "original price" just mysteriously shoots up everytime.
This is one of those things that you feel is true but to actually see it for yourself is wild.
@@FutureProofTV not really wild you can track it on camel camel camel
The last time I got a good deal was on a 3d printer mainly because they were discontinuing them.
Yep I didn’t even see anything in my cart change prices since last week. I stocked up on stuff from Chewy because they had 50% and 30% off stuff I buy anyway. And I bought a $50 gift card from Bass Pro for $45. Otherwise I didn’t see anything worth spending money on. I’ll probably buy another gift card for another Christmas gift and that’s it.
So basically you just told us you’re poor and can’t afford a $175 car part? Or??
When he said "Cyber Monday is only 20 years old" I thought 1970s.
Help me.
As a 25yo, reading this comment made me feel really old, thanks...
Oh same. “20 years ago” will always be the 80s to me
@Antenox I am 40 and might have thought the same. How old are you?
@camelopardalis84 oof I do that all the time.
I thought the 1980s.
Ever since Covid Black Friday has morphed from a single day to a whole month or two of deals, both in person and online. So nobody cares about cyber Monday when online shopping is the norm now anyway.
I for one am glad there’s no more crowds and violence, plus now most retail employees get thanksgiving off to spend time with their families
The children at amazon still have to work on thanksgiving though.
@@Warp2090 Yeah, they should be thankful that they have a job! - Jeff Bezos probably
@@Warp2090yeah that sucks, I’m glad Walmart and target wisened up but I wish Amazon followed suit as well
it's surreal to me how stores would rather throw away unpopular items rather than offer them to an actual discount...
yeah it's so frustrating and in some real life stores i went to even if there is a discount it was only by 10% of the original offer. god why is everything so expensive nowadays!
And brands and food companies, too! Merchandise that is slightly printed wrong is either thrown away or ‘donated’ to some country in Africa or Asia that doesn’t need more rubbish clothes anyway. Or if there was some kind of minor aesthetic error in a food product, rather than sell it off or give it away, companies will ‘preserve their image’ by throwing it out. I would personally be so down to have a misprinted t-shirt in a colour or fabric I like if it was at a discounted price.
Makes perfect sense when you remove climate and helping other humans from the equation
It’s all about the brand image… if Gucci or Versace did sales, then the exclusive nature of their product goes down. I work with a brand that has the same mentality.
@@caskadestudioyou basically described bootleg versions lol. Like a shirt with ADDIDAS or NIKKE. They’re also cheaper lol
Error Correction (minor): Cyber Monday came about because the few existing online retail stores of the late 1990s ran special deals for Black Friday Weekend. The reason it's on Monday is most shoppers had only low bandwidth internet access at home, sometimes as low as 2400bps or maybe as high as 14.4kbps or an unbelievably dreamy 52kbps, so shoppers waited to online shop at the office on Monday with high-speed access (even so, likely no better than 1.5Mbps). Hence, Cyber Monday.
The idea of Black Friday exists because in the far past, say pre-2010, brick and mortar retail stores in the U.S. made 50% of their ANNUAL SALES AND PFOITS during the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now we can shop anytime, anywhere.
You beat me to the history lesson😊. Cyber Monday existed long before it got a name. Having a T1 line at the office was incredible!
I agree. Cyber monday in the UK existed before black Friday in the UK and was people shopping at the office after payday and not linked to the date of Thanksgiving.
Damn I remember growing up with 1.5 mbps and how big an upgrade it was to get 5 mbps
Love this clarification! Thanks for leaving a comment!
"Far past...pre 2010 "
Boy do i feel old right now
Wire Cutter, part of the NY Times, did a great piece on this. They looked at 130,000ish 'deals' and found only 1,300 that were worth it. That's 1%.
I lost my job 3 weeks ago so I'm not buying anything for Cyber Monday. I've done some "window shopping" and the deals are not great. I'm seeing mostly 10 - 20% off, and if you're lucky, 30% off.
I hear ya, hope you get a new gig soon! Yeah and 30% is nuffin compared to the good ol days haha
You doing ok? Can the internet make your situation less crap?
It’s also exhausting it seems like black Friday is 2 weeks or longer.
This! ruins it & makes you confused when to go for the deals
Lmao it doesn't seem like that, it truly is
There's ALWAYS an event going on. Holidays are "Holiday month". The excitement is just gone
Dude, in Brazil Black Friday sales can start as early as October and go on as long as until December, on any days of the week, for however long deals and with whatever color marketing label. "Orange October black Friday deals, every week Thursday through Monday!"
But at least we have several price tracking services to spot what we nickname "Black Fraud deals"
Yeah I’ve been thinking about buying a 3D printer, but I’m saving up some money and reading more into it as I don’t need it. The one I have my eyes on was discounted for a few weeks for Black Friday, and now it’s on sale with a slightly worse deal because of an end of year sale. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a New Year’s sale in January, followed by a Valentine’s Day sale for half of February, followed by a spring sale in March.
I kinda miss when sales were something special, but it also makes me care less about buying stuff, so that’s a positive.
The problem with recent Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals is that discounts are getting lower, this year its around 20% or they usually have *UP TO* and *Selected Styles* in their discounts/promo
Or it's a "black Friday sale" BUY ONE GET ONE 50% OFF. pisses me off.
Also if you really take a closer look at the old prices. They will raise the price of the item and then apply the discount to create an illusion that you're getting a deal.
Some subscription I use the free version of only did 5% off for Black Friday. I'll just tolerate the ads.
I've seen some pretty good ones like 40% off everything in stock, but it's not as common. Then again, I'm in Canada where we didn't have Black Friday sales until maybe 10-15 years ago, and our biggest sales were Boxing Day sales after Christmas. Now we have two big sale weeks within the time of November to early January, and with all the other holiday festivities and family gatherings, it's exhausting to do the research to compare sales. I haven't gotten a Black Friday or Cyber Monday impulse buy in a very long time because it's not worth it. I'd rather research something I like and buy it on an average end-of-season sale, or even at full price before it sells out.
I actually do get a bit nostalgic for Black Friday or even early Cyber Monday deals. Planning out your shopping destinations days ahead of time, waking up before the crack of dawn, and getting out there early to get what you want before what you wanted was sold out. It really felt like a win. Now...I forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday are even coming around.
How can you forget with all the ads?! 🤣
I only go after what i need if i "need anything really... but watch out 4 channel real deals to avoid fakes.
I miss the news reports that came out of Black Friday. I know people were hurt, but you can't help but watch the circus that was 2008 Black Friday. Those were wild!
Maybe black weeks ande black mondays are not as catchy as a black friday. It was already a marketing gimmick, now it feels even cheaper.
@@jeremykrall1694 Ummmm....I've an ad blocker, don't watch TV or listen to the radio(because it's all garbage ).
Even when something is on sale, marked down even by half, its still making profit, sales are a complete lie, its just ripping us off slightly less.
Only in America do we be thankful for what we have on Thursday and kill each other to save a buck on Friday.
Tbf that’s pretty much how the first thanksgiving wound up
Loved the example of the "sale" price being the same as it was a year ago. That's why I use The Camelizer and Vetted extensions to see price histories, and even set watches. On Black Friday there was a bunch of stuff that I was looking at that had lower prices less than a month ago. Not only companies marking things down so they show up higher in the ratings, but marking them up ahead of time so it looks like you are getting a deal.
in some european countries it's required by law to disclose the lowest price in the last 30 days next to the current one
@@mar93cieunfortunately (at least in the Netherlands) the authority that's supposed to enforce this is hugely underfunded and so many webshops get away with it anyway
@@mar93cie all that does is force retailers to place all sales 31 days apart
For the life of me, I thought Edge has that natively in the browser.
Here in brazil we call it black fraud lmao. Everything for half the double price.
So I've been watching a few items on Amazon for a few years now and had to laugh at the bs of many of them being a certain price for months on end (say 24.99) and claiming we were getting a deal because it was normally another price (say 35), only for it to suddenly jump up to that higher price for about a week to two weeks before black Friday so they could drop it back to it's usual 24 price during the "sales". Then it jumps back to the 35 for most of December and discounts again right after the holidays to snag people's gift card money. Then it will go up again for about 2 weeks and return to the 24 price for the rest of the year. I've seen this behavior for 2-3 years now. Unbelievable!
I don't remember the exact numbers, but there are laws in several US states mandating that an item must be offered at 'full price' for some period of time in order for a lower price to be advertised as a discount. Retailers I've worked for would usually just meet this minimum amount of time for most items. So basically it's less of a "buy at a discount during a sale" and more "Buy at special higher price for thirty days out of the year."
Haha it's a reverse special! 😅
I don’t have kids yet but if I eventually do, Black Friday is on the list of “things I’ll tell my kids about ‘back in the day’ that they’ll never get to experience and think is crazy that people used to do that.”
It was called Cyber Monday because most people still use dial-up internet at home but could use high-speed access at work to shop when they go back to work on Monday after Thanksgiving.
More stuff we don't need at discounts that indicates how we're being overcharged for virtually everything. I buy used.
Black Friday & Cyber Monday, are just not part of my world. The local, small business I work for had a lovely community event for small business Saturday, and it was so nice to see people choosing to show up and support the local schools we were collecting for.
I stopped shopping on line because it became harder and harder to avoid knock-offs. At least in a physical store you can hold and examine the item you are buying. In a lot of cases, maybe because I shop for unusual things, it is actually cheaper to shop in the physical store.
If my time in e-commerce has taught me anything, it's never underestimate the wallets of white collar workers at 8 AM on a Monday.
Nobody cares about black friday either. I swear I haven't seen a legit good deal in 10+ years
My approach to Black Friday/Cyber Monday: I only buy things I've been actually been wanting to buy for a while, often weeks or months in advance. If they're not urgent, I put them off until Black Friday to see if I can get them cheaper. It can either be something specific (like a set of drinking glasses that I really like but most of them already broke) or something more vague (I needed a new powerbank, for example). This means I don't just go around hunting for "great deals" and thus spend more money than I otherwise would, because I would've bought those things anyway, so I actually DO save money. I also have a pretty clear idea of what those items cost normally, so I'm not as easily scammed by fake discounts.
It's also a good time to buy christmas presents - the gift I bought for my brother is something I've been eyeing for quite a while but was a lil bit outside of my budget, but now I managed to get it with almost 50% off.
I’m poor so I used to use the sales to stock up on stuff like pet supplies and bougie hair products. There were good sales on everything I buy at the pet store so I stocked up there, but to get a good deal at Ulta I would have to spend a lot more money than I want to spend.
Same!
Future Proof is one of the few channel that I add new uploads straight to the top of my que to watch 1st, passing all the others I have lined up. I'm in my 60's, not only have I never participated in a single 'Black Friday' sale (& NEVER will), & never made an online purchase on 'Cyber Monday' ... but whatever holiday gifts & supplies, (including stockpiling groceries), are purchased BEFORE Thanksgiving, .. AND wrapped/shipped/tracked to their destinations.
This is been my preferred system to avoid the gross, commercial chaos for 40 years, including the era of raising kids and the big, extended family events .. but also as my own, little protest against the BS. I spend from Thanksgiving until New Year enjoying home projects and any decorating, etc in the peace & quiet of my solitude.
I don't care for THAT much marketing BS and stores full of crappy, red & white, toxic Chinese plastic around me.
SO glad to hear you love what we do so much, honestly think we should all take a page from your book when it comes to enjoying being cozy and festive without the consumerism of it all. Thanks for being here!!
@@FutureProofTV I truly do love ALL of your videos & topics. I think it is more poignant and imperative today than EVER.
As for the Winter holidays, everyone knows about it ALL year long, then participates in these 'consumer games' for weeks on end and complain about being stressed out, overwhelmed and exhausted. It's insane.
@@SandySezI know many people who max out their credit cards at this time of year, spend the next 11 months paying it all back, then do it again year after year. For what? To buy the latest and greatest trend for a so-called bargain. Consumerism at its best.
@@roysoutdoorlife Ah yes, the good ole Debt Factory .... like hamsters on a wheel! What a 'fun' way to live. 😕
I stopped doing gifts for adults entirely a few years ago. I buy stuff for my friends and family when I feel like it and see something they could use but won't buy themselves or just for a surprise. I never do it on set dates anymore. Christmas is just time to see people and enjoy company, I don't like consumerism bs creeping into things like that. For birthdays I take people out to dinner or something like that rather than buy stuff they might not want or need. Spending time with people means something, spending money on shit doesn't.
All those 10-40% sales only exist to give people FOMO and manipulate them in buying stuff they dont actually need. I feel a lot of people understand those tactics more and more, tho. But with inflation and life, sometime people dont really have the time to think about what they want to buy for a day or two before buying them (which is a good way to avoid buying stuff you will regret tbh)
I'm in the UK and I don't care about either cyber monday or black friday both of which seem to go on for weeks, I just naturally assume its all a scam. we used to just have the boxing day sales, those where genuine and I miss those days
In turn those boxing day sales used to be January sales
Cyber Monday feels like everything they couldn't dump during the rest the year gets flashed in front of you trying to convince you that you or a loved one needs it. So much unheard of brands, odd products and stuff that can be found for less by another major brand.
These "deals" are just normal everyday pricing.
Normal everyday pricing keeps going up though
The conclusion is spot on. We have an admittedly first world, problem where if we need/want something we just buy it. So when a birthday, holiday, father's day, random consumer buy crap day, comes around we don't need anything.
I don’t know, I like to give gift cards to my loved ones who have kids. Once people have kids they don’t buy stuff for themselves unless they have lots of extra money, and once people have kids they usually don’t have extra money.
The realisation of Black Friday and Cyber Monday literally being two weeks long is a great thing for people whose lives doesn't revolve around a computer, or who doesn't care to bother with scheduling their life around a day. Sale days becoming sale _weeks_ enable everybody to take advantage of a sale item… even if the sale price is arguably pathetic.
I was a child of the heady days when people on _one_ day of the week turned Black Friday into the literal Hunger Games ffs. I saw the brawls. I witnessed on TV stampedes of people. I do not long for those days. I am glad the Internet had made those days a thing of the past. People shouldn't have to worry about _death_ in the pursuit of a good deal.
It’s also really good for people who don’t have money they can spend every day of the month. And yeah, if they’re paycheck to paycheck like that people will say they shouldn’t be shopping, but if they have kids they have to do some holiday stuff or their kids will feel like freaks.
Well I waited, I got an $879 item for $549 and all I had to do was wait 6 weeks.
It boosted the retail sector in Australia a bit as people used black friday/cyber monday for xmas shopping.
I don't care about the experience, I got what I wanted and waited for and I am happy with that.
Discounts aren't low enough or worth it to fight over.
Love he mentions useless coupon sales about a minute after dropping his own ad/coupon code lol love this channel! No shade! Just hilarious lol
In the late eighties/early nineties things were on sale to the point it was worth waiting in line for. It was an experience, if you planned well you could get a lot of stuff for your family that was within a constrained budget. It’s just a big nothing burger now.
Monday left me broken
Too many toastas
Tuesday I was through with hoping
Wednesday, my empty arms were open
Waiting for love
Thank the stars it's Friday
Black Friday is nostalgic for me, because the church that I was attending at the time had a ministry where we would make hot cocoa and pass it out to people waiting in line.
That’s so cool!
I’m a guy and I loved Black Friday shopping. All the local businesses would have great deals and door prizes for the first 100 people. I worked nights so showing up early was no problem for me. But I just don’t care anymore. Sure there’s a jacket or some kitchen supplies that I may want now but beyond that I don’t care. I just buy food and coffee and gas. That’s really it lol.
I also used to do my Christmas shopping on Black Friday. Now I don’t do any Christmas shopping because family moved away.
I remember being a kid being so excited for the shopping spree and then later waiting for cyber Mondays because it was cheaper than Black Friday. Now there’s no excitement in the shopping holiday so what’s the point of the deals aren’t even good anymore?
So much if it now is so scammy. Most things on Amazon that I go back to check now have the red flag, but are the same price they've been all along! And don't even get me started on the incredible lying by the cruise industry!!!
Plus a lot of that stuff on Amazon comes from Temu anyway.
Yes! I was looking for PC components and theyre still the same damn price it was on Prime Day
There is a consumer protection law in Ireland where a sale can only be called as such if the item was on sale for the "non sale" price for 3 months before the discounted sale. It's rarely applied in practice. We need more stuff like that but enforceable.
Edit: this information is from very old information and likely out of date, also fog of memory means potentially inaccurate
I think we have something similar in the US. If I remember right that came from mattress stores advertising "sales" but it's the same sale all the time and then that similar law came about. It's also not really enforced much here. Waiting for some brave and rich soul to maybe try and class action sue amazon and other retailers but who knows if that will actually ever happen. Im highly doubtful for this age we're living in
@@raydientSkeleton yes I think we have something here in the US and the only reason I know about it is because some of the outlet stores got sued years ago for advertising a “regular” price on clothes that’s specifically made for the outlet so they never sell for the same retail price as the brand’s actual line. I know that’s not the same thing that you were talking about, but I think it’s the same law that contends with both of those situations.
@@raydientSkeleton Sadly there are lots of loopholes companies in the US can use to get away with saying things are on sale, when its their regular price. 1 examples, if it is a chain, the company only has to have the higher price listed at 1 store in their chain, they can then claim the "regular" price at all the other stores in their chain is the "sale." Still there have been class lawsuits won against this thing, so more need to be done.
I checked a Swedish tech site and ran their prices in a price-over-time-site, and (not shockingly at all) they raised their prices 2-3 months before Cyber Monday/Week and lowered them again for it.
What’s that price over time site?
Thanksgiving used to be a fun plan out of how to hit the stores on Friday. Having 3 growing boys, we needed to take advantage of those sales to get them some of the items they wanted. It was a fun set of days. Then it because a nightmare that every year, I waited to see if this would be the year that someone was killed. People started getting mean, vicious and grabbing things out of others carts. After the boys were grown, I still looked over the sales just to see if there was anything that I'd be interested in, even in the past. NOPE! Nothing has been worth the 4 am wake ups to stand in the cold. Even if I still had young ones to buy for, it would not be the fun that it was back then.
I never participated in it, but I’m Gen X and I do remember people enjoying it and then suddenly it got dangerous.
I suppose I could Google and see when that happened but I wonder if it was around the time of the housing market crash, or if it was even before that.
I work in e-commerce consultancy and some sellers have been increasing prices of their products few cents every few days. If you use any price tracker you'll find their prices are 5-10% up from their regular price and 15-25% from last year. Yet they sell more evey season. It's crazy how much stuff is being sold.
Some time I wonder WTF am I doing helping sell so much unnecessary stuff.
14:01 *they're
wait until people find one of those historical price sites and realise for 90% of the BF/CM sales prices are not even at a year low.
What sucks about Black Friday and Cyber Monday is we have them now. We never had then here in South Africa.
Worst part about Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) though? The items you'd think to find "only in person" are just the same crappy imported products that WILL be cheaper online because the store has overhead. Same trash products, same unexciting deals, same mindless gift giving.
I hated getting socks as a kid but now I look forward to it, I hate buying socks and I need some every year they don't last longer than that anymore.
Not to advertise for them or anything, but try Duluth Trading Company. I still have their socks from 5+ years ago.
What happens to your socks? I am a construction superintendent walking 20,000-50,000 steps a day in work boots but 10 pair of socks lasts me all year.
I would really rather shop in stores, but they rarely have anything in stock worth me spending money on.
Were waiting for few items....and none were on sale
This is why the only sales worth buying during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales are games. You have all of the data at your fingertips. No one is trying to pull one over you with sudden price surges, creating new listings for the same products, etc
The greatness of the evolution of "black week" and all the inflated "sales" periods is that its going to be their own downfall.
Consumers wait for black friday, well why wait when they have "pre-black friday deals", meaning why not "pre-pre black friday deals"?
And suddenly its just "christmas present shopping".
It's like mattress stores, car dealerships, and Macy's. You have a harder time finding something not on sale!
15-year-old ThinkPads are always on a discount
They are usually radioactive and will give you super aids. Always buy new /s
Enshitification of cyber Monday is real. Sometimes Memorial Day and Labor Day sales have better deals. Other times the best deals are hidden.
The basic truth is that if someone has a good, sellable product, there is no reason to sell it for less money.
That’s not actually true from an accounting perspective for a business that holds inventory that needs to pay bills as time goes on.
@@Meow4B If the business is holding inventory, then it stands to reason that the item isn't very sellable
@@Andrew-ps6xe braindead take
My family has moved to edible treats for Christmas, or handmade things, or better yet handmade treats. We get to share things, we get to enjoy things that have more meaning, and we aren’t left with more crap at the end of it all.
I wish my family would stop buying me things, most of which I don't want but then I feel bad throwing it out. Also gift cards to chains that I never go to or don't exist where I live!
@randomvideosn0where Same! I love giving presents but I hate receiving them because it's never something I actually want. So I just keep storing crap I'll never use. At least with gift cards you can buy something that you like.
I get emails about sales regularly for certain retailers and watch what prices and sales are through out the year. The Black Friday sales have been the same as the sales they have on a regular basis throughout the year, or many times less than regular deals that are run week to week. You’re better off keeping tabs on what prices of items are regularly and then if you need them, grabbing them when you see a price drop from what it’s been.
Of course online shopping is dominated by corporate slop like Amazon and Temu, but friendly reminder that you can still use it for its original purpose of buying stuff that is simply not sold where you live, often from small businesses. A small business selling items too niche to justify a brick-and-mortar storefront can survive by selling to people all over the country.
It could be the combination of getting older, being more financially educated, and the cornucopia of sales that make Black Friday and Cyber Monday meaningless to me. I am at a point in my life where I am tired of marketing trying to sell me things I don't need in my life, adding to lost dollars that could be used to invest or enjoy experiences in life.
The essence of even the black friday isn't really there anymore, since retailers now essentially create their own BF/CM throughout the year, there's BF in July, BF in August, etc, etc.
The concept of a sale is meaningless now. Every week is a new sales “event.” If something is always on sale, then it’s never on sale.
Some of the corpos where i live extended the black friday to a "black month" sale, with fake sales all month long...
I still got some deals. Apparently smaller companies that are typically not able to offer a huge sale, have picked up on it and are giving out deals.
But like to the videos point - its 20-30%
i can't afford to go to a cheap restaurant 1 time a months i certainly can't afford to shop to unneeded stuff.
this! The cost of living is so high that I don’t have time to buy extra stuff
Just out of curiosity, I went to amazon to check the CM price of my monitor. I saw that they doubled the price, just to then slap a "-50%" tag on it. So that's kind of a scam if I've ever seen one
This is like the german hardware store which had to shutdown because they did their 20% off of everything (besides pet food) so often and frequently, that no one was coming without the 20% 😂
Screw ur November and December for shopping for discounts they're not high enough, shop for items in January and February when prices have time to fall lower.
With time items get cheaper.
Some shoes I had been tracking literally doubled their price, then to 50% off for Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Come on now. I blocked them.
I never bought anything online, believe it or not.
I’m 22 yo.
You are a unicorn. Bravo!
I used to genuinely enjoy shopping on Black Friday in the past for the excitement of the huge crowds at places like Best Buy and the local mall. The deals were a nice bonus, too! This past Friday, I went shopping alone because nobody else was interested and I definitely don't blame them. The deals aren't good enough to attract those customers who shop solely for them. The size of the crowds isn't even what it used to be! It's clear why.
If you get any kind of email from an online product or service you will know it’s Black Friday/cyber Monday because the amount of email you get quadruples! I looked at my incoming mail and thought something had happened at work!
Shoppers need to track pricing throughout the year to know if Cyber Monday deals are actually good or not.
I feel like such an outlier when I tell people that I rarely order things online. When I do, it's usually something niche or something that I've not been able to find in-person. I find the online shopping experience to be absolutely terrible, especially for clothing.
It's funny to think about how NZ adopted Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales at around 2013 but because we don't celebrate thanksgiving, it's just another weekend for us, but we mark it as the weekend to do pre-Christmas shopping. The hype around the 2 days have been dying down these past few years (likely because of rising unemployment), but these 2 days have never been more popular than Boxing Day (26 Dec), where generally the sales are better.
Idk if I've just been doing Black Friday wrong, but I've always felt that Black Friday deals are kind of lame (20-30% discount), highest discounts are 50-60% and even then it's clickbait because only a few items are discounted that high. Maybe it is because sales go on so often now that there hasn't been a need for stores to slash their prices 70%+ in order to get rid of stock.
Although I'm not sure if even Boxing Day has good sales these days, haven't been participating these last few years.
I have a few indie brands that I wish I had the budget to buy their ACTUALLY GOOD Cyber Monday deals. The trick is following small brands you genuinely like.
Deals start early in recent years, I'm done shopping even before Thanksgiving, if prices go down later I call the retailer for price adjustments.
Yep and if they don’t do price adjustments you could always buy the new cheaper version and return the older expensive one. I think that’s why most stores do price adjustments lol
Cheap ≠ Inexpensive
Today trash is priced at what goods used to be.
Im outside of the usa. There were no sales worth buying this black friday week/cyber monday in pc parts anyway, there used to be huge sales up to 50% off, but with limited supplies and uncertainty about new generation of graphic cards and cpu's prices actually went up during black friday
It's not even a sale, at least back in the day they upped the prices before, not during 😂
This is really good and explains what I've observed as a seller. I have an etsy shop, and this is the first year I didn't bother to participate in their "black friday" sale. The first thing is, they're running the sale for two weeks, and not just the holiday weekend, and the other is they're encouraging amazon-like deals of 40% or more. They suggest raising prices to accommodate for the discount, but it just feels so deceptive. This was supposed to be a handmade or vintage marketplace, but the only people who can follow the advice of etsy are the dropshippers, so the discount continues to devalue the brand. For every newbie it attracts, it leaves the regular etsy buyers exhausted by the games, and distrustful of shops they aren't familiar with. What should be effortless shopping becomes researching every item to see if the seller is legit.
I really haven't noticed a difference by not offering the discount, so I think I'm gonna stick to doing no discounts in the future, unless it's on my terms (like clearing out stock)
So I’m watching a video about cyber Monday. To find out I can go online to buy an online service to delete my online history. How ironic.
So I post this when you had the sponsor spot. Go back to the video and get an ad for cryptocurrency.
Last Black Friday I shopped was when the X-Box 360 came out and it was hard to get ahold of. Walmart had it for like $199 or something like that. Super good deal. I almost got beat down getting one of those for my sons. That was the end of it for me. It used to be so fun back in the 90’s.
Your story made me giggle I hope you’ve told him the story and I hope he appreciates what you went through! 😂
"Every day's a sale
Every sale's a win!
Buy stuff now or kick yourself later"
Funny enough i did my shopping all on cyber Monday, I feel I made out alright but it's probably because I purchased ' useful ' things like clothing instead of ' fun ' things like tvs or Playstation, or any other toys.
I have never once gone to the store on Black Friday and I honestly don't think my life is any worse as a result.
In NZ, none of this was really a thing until less than a decade ago. Then all of a sudden, we go nuts for black friday and it's all you hear over the radio, like literally every ad is yet another black friday sale, for whatever you want - TVs, beds, teaspoons, friggin weed spray. The worst part is, there are a couple of big box stores that always find a way to have a sale, in fact its the sign of the apocolypse if they ever don't have a sale - Briscoes and Harvey Norman. The latter is the worst offender because they've been talking about it for 2 weeks and the sale is STILL ongoing as we head into Wednesday. Exclusivity or limited time means nothing, and the discounts often mean nothing either, it's just the name of a sale that's meant to drive everybody into a mad frenzy, and not actually any particularly good deals.
My watching of this video was preceded, interrupted, and followed by Black Friday sales ads. I blocked all of them.
Shop local!
The new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico will make everything even MORE expensive and people will have less disposable income :(
This. I'm going more "all out" this Christmas then I originally planned, because I expect next year prices to have skyrocketed, and who knows what the job market will be.
Have you lived under a rock for the last 4 years? Sending billions over seas has destroyed the dollar, things doubled in the last 4 years. That did not happen in the 4 before that when had the same tariffs. You have tds.
@@yesterdayseyes 1) Tariffs *WILL* raise prices, not lower them, because whoever buys the product pays the tariff, NOT the country that the product is shipped from. 2) Prices are higher because of COVID, and the inflation in the US from COVID was FAR lower then every other industrialized country. 3) Over the last 4 years, the US has had record high GDP, record high stock market, record low unemployment, largest increase in "real wages" in decades, and because the #1 oil producer in the world for the first time EVER because Biden gave out FAR more drilling permits than Trump did. 5) I think you have TDS because you have believe all of Trump's lies, and ignored the reality before you. While we will all suffer under Trump, Trump's policies are designed to hurt most of all the average person who voted for him. 6) Enjoy your Christmas and go all out, because you will find your living conditions far worse next year at this time, and it will be 100% because your vote for Trump. Even though because you have TDS, you will probably still blame Democrats, even though they are the only ones with polices that actually help Americans.
@@yesterdayseyes and &) the US currently DOES have tariffs on China which had started under Trump (and which Biden let continue) and which have only led to the high prices that you false blame Democrats for. The US also already have tariffs on Mexico and Canada for items that don't fall under the NAFTA agreement. Trump just lies when he acts like he is the only person to think of tariffs, when he acts like the US doesn't already have tariffs, and when he lies and says the other country pays the tariffs--other countries don't pay tariffs, whoever buys the item pays the tariffs. Higher tariffs mean higher prices, so enjoy being able to afford even less once Trump takes over.
A few years ago, I bought some shades i had been stalking for months on cyber Monday. 55 percent off, baby.
I remember in the late 90's ordering a Whopper at Burger King and being told the total was over 3 dollars. I was like wtf it's supposed to be 99 cents and they said it was no longer on sale.
This may be the history for the USA but in the UK cyber monday is defined as the first monday in December and is not linked to the date of Thanksgiving. We online shop more than Americans and the date of cyber monday came from a peak in shopping activity after pay day and in order to receive your gifts before Christmas from Royal Mail. Black Friday was imported to the UK in 2010s
Speaking of things that are always "on sale"... Luggage. Have you ever actually paid 500 bucks for a samsonite bag or whatever? or did you get it "50 - 60% off"? I'm guessing the latter, right? have you EVER seen them NOT "on sale"?
At 3:30, "with their new high-speed Internet connection" Hmmm. Actually, most people (shoppers) didn't have broadband at home. After shopping (or not) over Thanksgiving weekend, people used the high-speed connection at the workplace on Monday to do the online shopping. That's what really created Cyber Monday before it was called Cyber Monday.
I don't get paid until tomorrow, so I happily escaped Cyber Monday. 😺
I'm one of those nostalgic for those old Black Friday sales. When the retailers, especially Wal-Mart, began having "the sale" Thursday afternoon instead of starting early on Friday, suddenly everybody and their grandma could come. Not just the hardcore buyers. So immediately there was more competition for limited stock and a huge upswing in push-and-shove misery. My wife and I had gone for years as a fun relationship thing, but quit because of this. Now we do all of our shopping from the couch. The only things I go into a store for are small stocking stuffers for my kids and grandson that I'd rather examine and put hands on for my own satisfaction before buying.
I end up revealing my gifts half the time now. I told my sister that I'm getting her a particular hand cream, and she's thrilled. My mother bought me something full price (technically I bought it and she gave me the money back), and now she's keeping it hostage until Christmas. Even though I know what it is, I also know there will be a story behind it.
Idk, maybe I'm getting older, but what you said is true: we lack that connection with online shopping. I used to like going to stores. Then, as a teenager, I started doing more and more online shopping. But recently, I've started enjoying going to physical and local stores to see what they offer. I think I'll still keep some tech or very specific stuff for online shopping, but I've started enjoying going to clothing stores. I want to see what I'm buying, to check the details and what it's made of, touch it, and try it out myself. I never thought that I'd enjoy that part of connecting with people who work in those stores and receiving that smile from them at the very end.
Another thing about Black Friday (and I bet it applies to Cyber Monday) is that many products are made specifically for THAT DAY. Years ago, I bought my T.V. on Black Friday, thinking I was getting a GREAT discount, only to discover that it lacked a lot of features for the brand, size, and model. A sales rep told me later that it was literally built cheaply to be sold cheap on Black Friday.
I remember back in the late 90s and early 00s lining up outside of Kohls or Mervns. One year they gave out chocolate bars and was wrapped in a coupon for 10, 20, 30% off...other years they gave out little snow globes or Rudolph plush....now all the charm has been sucked out
Now that we have Instagram and influencer culture some of these brands could really get people into their stores if they gave out a little black Friday souvenir to the people standing in line. Maybe they do and I just don’t know because I don’t use Instagram