Do We Need a Black Friday...?

[tandeejay]

I remember a TV show a couple of years back where someone did an experiment. They set up a stall selling muffins for 1 pound (they were in england...) and didn't have much success selling the muffins.
The next day, they advertised their muffins as 2 pounds, but onsale for half price, and they started selling like crazy
another day they set the price at 2 pounds with a buy 1 get one free, and again they sold like crazy
another day 2 pound muffins but 2 for the price of 1... more sales...

What they proved was that people will buy stuff if they think they are getting a good deal. They were still selling their muffins at 1 pound each, but the different way of advertising their price affected peoples thinking.

[ameerat42]

^That's muffin new

[Liney]

It used to be there was the January sales, then we had the January sales and the Boxing day sales. Now Black Friday comes along.

It's an excuse for the commercial entities to get us to spend money. Mind you the fact that all three major sales are within a month of each other I'm surprised they haven't made an excuse for something similar around the middle of the year.

Just remember they never sell anything at lower than the price they paid for it!

[kevin301]

I think the "Singles Day" 11.11 Sales online have better deals, especially for electronic gadgets
Black Friday is slowly becoming a global event.

but hey, soon there will be a reason for a sale pretty much all year round