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demonquark, to memes in Black Friday

Tbf, it depends. I just bought a pair of converse for 25 bucks. Granted they’re an unpopular color, but hey 25 bucks for a pair of chuck 70s is a good price.

Dettweiler42, to memes in Black Friday

That exact model was $599 in October. I would know, because I bought one.

It’s actually a really great smoker, but the app is terrible.

cerevant,

Shockingly, the app used to be worse. Of course, now today their ad backend is down so the app won’t work at all.

crystalmerchant,

the smoker has an app? Who gives a shit about a smoker for an app…

popcap200,

It’s nice because you can keep track of the internal temperature remotely.

meliaesc,

Why are you remote grilling?

krush_groove,

You’ve heard of weather? Or doing things other than babysitting a hit smoking pit for 16 hours?

MrShankles,

Why are you not?

Zerush, to memes in Black Friday
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Black Friday not $899, but $1099 $999

Stovetop, (edited )

Sometimes it will be $1099 $899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.

Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the “standard” model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you’re getting something better than you are when you look it up.

Zerush, to memes in Black Friday
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

Wrong, Black Friday not $899, but $1099 $999

irmoz, to memes in Black Friday

These transcriptions are getting incredible. I never would have thought it was possible to accurately convey a comic through text, while keeping the meaning and humour intact.

Masimatutu,
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Oh, you’re too kind. I can’t nearly compete with the masterpieces shown over at alttexthalloffame.org :))

idiomaddict,

You really did a great job, plus thank you for that website. Minor correction: struck through, not striked. Striked is only for baseball, afaik

MrShankles,

I kinda assumed it would still be “striked through”, or maybe “stricken through” because of the typographic term “strikethrough”. But “struck through” also seems like it could be correct

I’ma need an expert typographical linguist to weigh-in on this matter. The world needs an answer

idiomaddict, (edited )

Struck is simple past, stricken is the past participle. It’s the same pattern as “write, wrote, written.” Striked through is not “right” here, but at the same time, it’s a totally valid way to say it in various dialects, so that’s right enough for most purposes. In my dialect, workers might have “striked,” but that’s also nonstandard.

Just a regular linguist, which means I’m obligated to make it really clear that prescriptivism is bullshit, but does really simplify things for non native speakers

madcaesar,

Is that AI generated? If so that’s fucking amazing!

irmoz,

OP wrote it thrmselves :)

trolololol,

Plot twist op is a bot

MashedTech, to memes in Black Friday

That’s why I have extensions that track prices so I have an accurate price history.

Master,

But which extensions in particular…

Reliant1087,

Keepa which gives a chart on every Amazon page or camelcamelcamel

MashedTech,

I’m from Romania so I don’t know how relevant they are for you but I use Pricy and Istoric Preturi. And the website Compari.ro

Evil_incarnate,

That’s why I live in the EU, and they have to include the lowest price in the last 30 days with the “discount” price.

notasandwich1948,

I’m in the EU and have never heard of this

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Yes, have worked in the field, can confirm.

GoodEye8,

It’s a relatively new (became applicable in 2022) thing called price indication directive. The TLDR is what the other guy said, the only addition is that member states can set different rules for certain goods.

baltakatei,

Wouldn’t a loophole be to relist something to include some extra trinket with the main product (e.g. lens cleaner with a camera) and argue the “new” listing is something completely different than before?

MrShankles,

Or raise the price 31 days prior, and “drastically discount” it after. It seems like a cool policy in theory, but it also sounds like it doesn’t really have any teeth. Like a “political theater” kind of law. But who’s to say, maybe it could be someone’s poli-sci thesis some day.

Or I’m just dumb and don’t understand something fundamental about it; I also except that

TheSaneWriter,
@TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com avatar

It seems like a difficult thing to regulate. I hope that this can be a starting point that will be potentially expanded later as needed, but we’ll see.

Cysioland,
@Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml avatar
Tikiporch,

That’s a strange reason to live in the EU.

krush_groove,

There’s many, many good reasons to live in the EU, fam.

Gabu,

Yeah, I’d rather live there for the healthcare, education and public infrastructure.

MrShankles,

So if you raise the price 31 days prior, and then put the discount on, you should still be good to squeeze more profit!

Leonardo_da_Vinci, (edited )

You would not gain a profit for 30 days with such high prices.

MrShankles,

Maybe the 30 day decrease in profit would be worth the additional units sold later (possibly at a slightly elevated price), due to the marketing of a perceived “deal”.

I guess there’s a lot of variables that could come into play (type of product, inventory, how many units need to sell over a time period to break even, etc), but it doesn’t seem implausible, so much as it does dependent. But idk, I still can’t figure out how the fuck magnets work, let alone accounting

Potatos_are_not_friends,

The extensions are nice.

The annoying part is the 10 things on my save list haven’t budged in price for over 1.5 years. 😭😭😭

MashedTech,

Oh… Im so sorry to hear that. Second thing I do is check the second hand stores near me. I have one that validates their products and offers a 1 year warranty on the second hand stuff I buy from them, and it’s kind of awesome. They even rate the quality.

fastandcurious, to memes in Black Friday

Haven’t seen this in the comments, shouldn’t this shit be illegal? Forgive me if i am being dumb

Gabu,

For companies “illegal” just means “make more money than the fine you’ll pay once you’re caught”.

Stumblinbear,
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

I’m almost certain it is

Drusas,

Maybe in the EU, but it's standard practice in the US.

Stumblinbear,
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

Nope, it’s illegal in the US. File a complaint with the FTC and they’ll look into it.

chiliedogg,

They’ll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it’s technically a new product.

Also look out for weasel words like “Compare To”, “X value”, or “Special Buy” where they aren’t actually saying it’s on sale.

mindbleach,

New items can’t be “on sale.” It is that simple. The price is the price.

DLSantini,

If robbing a bank got you 10 million dollars, and the legal penalty for robbing a bank was a few thousand dollars, why would you choose to refrain from robbing the bank?

little_hermit, to memes in Black Friday

You’ve discovered the secret sauce of marketing.

RamSwamson, (edited ) to memes in Black Friday

Speaking of sweet Black Friday deals, I came across this gem recently and chuckled a bit, the nerve. this gem

Patches, (edited )

The price decreased by $1.00

K

LemmyKnowsBest,

Yeah they’re clearly mistaken

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