Seriously, Fuck Black Friday. Fuck the weeks before raising prices. Fuck the pretend 75% off of a piece of shit item that costs 5 bucks to make. Fuck making that item and marking it up 500%. Fuck not paying the person making that item a living wage. Fuck making a trinket that leverages a desperate person’s full day of labour away from their families.
There is no Thanks I’m giving here…And specifically a big fucking middle finger to the Amazon that takes lives and makes this world a shittier place.
Save the real Amazon by killing off the namesake corporation.
Fuck you Bezos, I hope your yacht fucking sinks while you and your plastic wife are aboard having botched elective surgeries.
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I’m sorry you only buy stupid crap on black friday. I stock on on useful shit I used throughout the year and wait to make large purchases so I can save $100s. I’ve saved like $5000 over the past 5 years with black friday deals on stuff I was going to buy/need anyway.
Relevant comment I left on a similar post:
It’s even worse in Australia. A long while back we had a really bad bushfire that resulted in something like 70 people dying called black Friday. More recently we had a bushfire that resulted in over 150 people dying and 400 injured called black Saturday
It’s honestly insulting to see these corporations come in and have these black Friday sales, showing that they don’t care or respect for the history of Australia or its people, all while they flaunt the masquerade of “It’s for you!!!”
While it’s nothing like the same degree, as nobody was hurt, we already had black Friday in the UK too. It’s the last Friday before Christmas, when the factories would close for the holidays and the workers would typically hit the pubs to celebrate.
Now we’ve got black Friday, black Friday season, and even black week being advertised to us, all based on an American holiday in November 🤷🏻♂️
The Bloody Sunday discounts in Ireland are insane
Black Friday is beyond bizarre.
This women I work with gets up at 430 to get in line for the sales.
Great way to ruin thanksgiving.
In Germany there’s a “previous price” button and they’re not allowed to first raise the prices. I just got a sweater I’d been ogling for months for less than half price.
That’s one angry shower.
Hey, today’s Buy Nothing Day!
I would argue to say black Friday is dead. The deals were definitely not that great this year and there is no time crunch anymore since it’s like a whole weekend or week and nobody has money to do that anymore.
Depends on what you are buying. PC/gaming stuff, yeah this year sucked. sports stuff? amazing deals to be had.
It was 99% a lie even at its peak.
If I didn’t need to buy cough syrup, I wouldn’t have spent a cent today.
Took a walk, sat on a bench, played decade old games, decorated the tree, and ate leftovers.
Living your best life, I see
I needed to pick up sour cream for a dish I was making. It was the store brand, on sale #doorcrasher /s
Yeah I just… Don’t need that much stuff. Most of my money goes to food and shelter.
Like many other commenters here, I spent the day not shopping, not watching TV (I don’t even own one and haven’t even heard of your favorite streaming services), not listening to any popular music or even the A sides or albums by some bands you’ve never heard of, eating only whole foods that didn’t show any form of suffering during their demise when harvested from the community garden, identifying 2026 candidates to align with (whom I shall never name here lest someone bring up an imperfect act they once failed to adequately denounce), and telling loose acquaintances that I am an ally for their non-traditional romantic entanglements.
Was it Black Friday?
I used the day to decorate my reusable tree with sentimental ornaments I’ve been collecting my whole life. My kid did about half the work, holiday music was played for ambiance.
I’ve found the bitching about prices going up to present bigger discounts to be mostly not true unless you are just mindlessly buying small cheap shit.
I’ve definitely saved some money shopping today.
Yeah, it does happen, but it’s mostly shitty companies that do that.
Yeah, I know I’m in the minority in the fediverse on this but for the last few months (for some of what I wanted, about 10 months) I’ve kept glancing at a few things that weren’t urgent but would be needed soonish, and now the prices have all come down a good chunk for Black Friday.
I get if you’re randomly scrolling amazon looking for deals, yeah, that’s garbage. But if you’ve been patient, with actual specific ideas…
Bingo. I basically think about what I"m going to buy in the next six months and list it up and then buy it on black friday if it’s below the normal price. And usually it is.
I just bought 6 bags of $25 coffee for $15 each. Bought a bunch of summer stuff that I will use next year. Saved 60 bucks on what I was going to buy anyway. Didn’t buy any games this year because nothing I wanted was more than $10 off and it will be cheaper after the holidays, but most years I buy all my gaming stuff for the year on black friday.
