Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You ain’t even getting cheap TVs. 100 people might get one (as a loss leader), the thousands others overpay or are getting shite they’re trying to get rid of.
That’s one of the things I felt Honey did well is show you how much something cost for the last 6 months when you’re on the product page. You could see that they whacked the price up a week before black Friday to show you a “50% Off!” banner.
Where’s it listed though? I’ve never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have ‘price last changed dd.mm.yy’ written on the price tags, but it’s far from universal, and doesn’t say how much it was before.
What exactly is wrong with Klarna (besides the fact it’s a fintech company)? It started popping up as an option recently whenever I buy something online.
CEO is a huge union buster in Sweden and also laid off all his support staff for AI.
Plus, they’re loan sharks. They make money off of desparate people.
Genuinely the worst “Swedish” tech company, even worse than Spotify. (Their stocks are listed on the NYSE, so they’re actually American companies americanifying Sweden)
Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You should have laws against that
Michael Hill advertised a “Member Event 25% off Sitewide” sale on its website, implying that all products sitewide were discounted by 25% for members, when some products were not discounted.
MyHouse promoted their sale with ads stating “Up to 60% OFF RRP EVERYTHING ON SALE“, followed by “+EXTRA 20% OFF”. The ACCC considered this misleading as the additional 20% off did not apply to all products.
Hairhouse Online’s “SAVE 20% to 50% SITEWIDE” promotion was misleading because more than a quarter of the products available on its website were excluded from the sale offer.
Ensure discount claims are genuine: Only advertise discounts where products have been genuinely offered at the higher price for a meaningful period. Avoid creating artificially inflated “was” prices solely to support discount claims. This also applies to displaying the RRP price next to a discounted price – if the product has not recently been sold at the RRP price, this could be misleading.
Document pricing decisions: Maintain records of previous pricing to support any discount claims and demonstrate compliance with ACL requirements.
Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.
In my experience it’s more of a “everyone is too overworked and underpaid to have time to fact check all of the political lies being thrown around.” And the people that aren’t overworked are either the ones trying to lead protests and voting movements, or the ones upholding the status quo because it benefits them. Definitely not as simple as “Americans hate having basic protections”
Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.
You ain’t even getting cheap TVs. 100 people might get one (as a loss leader), the thousands others overpay or are getting shite they’re trying to get rid of.
That’s one of the things I felt Honey did well is show you how much something cost for the last 6 months when you’re on the product page. You could see that they whacked the price up a week before black Friday to show you a “50% Off!” banner.
In the EU, the 30 day price history is required to be included by law
Where’s it listed though? I’ve never seen that, either online or in physical shops. Some places have ‘price last changed dd.mm.yy’ written on the price tags, but it’s far from universal, and doesn’t say how much it was before.
It’s required for digital goods I believe, but I’m not really sure.
https://www.price2spy.com/blog/omnibus-directive-pricing-transparency-in-the-ecommerce-industry/
https://www.techspot.com/news/98956-steam-show-eu-users-game-30-day-low.html
Oh consumer protections, how I long for thee
There are other services that do that, Pricerunner for example
pricerunner is owned by Klarna, use pricespy or camelcamelcamel
What exactly is wrong with Klarna (besides the fact it’s a fintech company)? It started popping up as an option recently whenever I buy something online.
CEO is a huge union buster in Sweden and also laid off all his support staff for AI.
Plus, they’re loan sharks. They make money off of desparate people.
Genuinely the worst “Swedish” tech company, even worse than Spotify. (Their stocks are listed on the NYSE, so they’re actually American companies americanifying Sweden)
Conflict of interest.
Rtings disagrees with you.
Which has a different view of this in the UK:
https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/nine-in-10-black-friday-deals-cheaper-or-same-price-at-other-times-of-the-year-which-finds-a4Z2J3u5lTI2
You should have laws against that
https://mdlaw.com.au/news-insights/misleadingretailpricing/
Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.
In my experience it’s more of a “everyone is too overworked and underpaid to have time to fact check all of the political lies being thrown around.” And the people that aren’t overworked are either the ones trying to lead protests and voting movements, or the ones upholding the status quo because it benefits them. Definitely not as simple as “Americans hate having basic protections”