General rule about sales:
Unless you have considered buying the thing before the sale, or have a clear use for the thing, you won’t save anything by buying it.
Also, black friday sales have been massive for a long time now, and it is now common to have manufacturers make dedicated, lower quality goods specifically for sale in on black friday.
What I find strange is in cases where I can say: “sorry that is not that good of a deal, you should spend twice that and get this instead as it is a good deal.” They always just ignore your advice.
I sometimes find people already bought it. They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.
They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.
That seems to be true for a lot of things people ask your “advice” for.
Here in Finland, with any sale like this, the retailer must also display the lowest price for the last thirty days. So we can just look at what we want a couple of weeks before and see that they put the price up by X and then on black friday sales they give you X discount.
It’s easy to see the bullshit.
Yeah, but then they raise the price 31 days ahead of black friday, slipping through the cracks.
I get it though, here in Sweden, the best tool is Prisjakt, they have a price chart going back years for every product, and it really helps!
Yep they make tvs that literally only last a year. They are designed to last until next black Friday.
The place to get decent budget laptops is auction sites, second-hand marketplace listings, charities, and office clearance companies (many of whom are also listing on the auction sites).
For under £100 I got a i7 ThinkPad with 16GB RAM and the ‘Yoga’ fold capability, fully tricked out with touch screen, wacom pen, fingerprint reader and the rest - and even better it all works under Linux, even the fingerprint reader.
There’s a genuine reason the stereotype of weebs with programming socks and a used thinkpad exists.
New devices built to be cheap right from new can never compete for value against pre-owned business machines.
This is true all over the world, I think. At least that’s what my LATAM and AU/NZ friends tell me, and where I live, in the US, buying used laptops from a business liquidation is always better than the ewaste sold at the same price new.
What are some good auction sites? I haven’t ever found any that look legit.
I’m primarily using eBay, but I didn’t name names because the best option where other people are may vary.
The seller I bought from wasn’t actually an auction (though auctions can be great too) - it was a “buy it now” item from a business seller who does electrical “waste” recycling for office businesses.
Regardless of the platform, those kind of sellers are ideal because they have a lot of inventory and are more concerned with getting rid of it than they are with getting the highest price on any single item.
If you don’t track prices, you won’t get deals, no matter if it’s old or new. The last couple years, they tend to rise prices before the bl.
Nowadays on Amazon they put a fake high price and they put automatically a coupon that will reveal the real price so that price trackers are tricked into tracking the fake higher price
If you still believe that the crap they sell under the pretence of a “good deal” on black Friday is actually good then you deserve to be scammed.
yeah. fuck you grandma. being 80 is no excuse for being too lazy to keep up with all the ways capitalism is trying to fuck you.
Let’s at least try to be a little honest here. most people don’t have time to keep up with all of the ways that they’re being fucked. yes it makes sense to educate them but to say it’s their fault they get scammed just makes you part of the soul grinder.
If it doesn’t have soldered ram it might be.
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The article assumes you’re gonna use it for Windows…
