• remeberthegoodtimes@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Not the deal you think. They usually cost around 100 euros. They jacked the price to 199 on September 28th, just so they could have this make-believe discount on Black Friday. You should definitely use Keppa to see the price history and don’t impulse buy. For reference, they were selling at 89.99 between August 29 and September 7. Between 27-29 of March they were 79.99.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. An HD560S will likely serve you better, too, and it should cost roughly the same amount.

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      1 year ago

      I saw them on German Amazon at this discount, then switched to the UK Amazon and they were like 90-95 pounds without any discount on there lol

      It’s nothing new but still boggles my mind

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      1 year ago

      Amazon did the same for an nvme I JUST bought lmao. The original price is 54 but apparently the “sale” made it go from “$150” to $84 somehow. It’s absolutely disgusting how this is allowed

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      1 year ago

      This kind of shit should be illegal - its purposefully misleading consumers. Fake discounts are illegal in the U.S.

      “Under federal law in the USA, it is illegal to sell a product at a discounted price if the original price was not offered to the public on a regular basis for a reasonably sustained period of time.”

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        1 year ago

        I hate “Retail value” too for shopping networks on television and websites and some outlet stores. Retail value then discounted and then clearance sale 75% off at outlet stores where I live and you still overpay for some no name T-Shirt or pants. QVC is so bad with retail value after watching that South Park episode I actually sat down for a full hour and watched it. They had a computer retail value $1600 for $549 or something and no computer even worth $1000 or more was that bad and I found many computers for $450 that were better. It was many years ago not gaming just a tower and mouse and keyboard I think. There also get their own custom model names and QVC only items for other things so its harder to do a direct comparison because its only listed on QVC. The whole hour it was constantly this major deals that weren’t actually deals. Like their sheets I found online cheaper and other items.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not from the US, but atleast in the EU the fines for fake discounts are so small that some companies make a profit with the scam and have enough capital left over to just pay the fine and continue like nothing ever happened.

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      1 year ago

      I saw a dog shit Lenovo laptop jacked up to $3,000 yesterday with a Black Friday tag of $650.

      The laptop was barely worth $650. No dedicated GPU, sub par screen, average specs.

      All this Black Friday stuff is just a trap at this point.