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three rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right.

In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”.

The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same.

In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with $1099.99 struck through with “$899.99” written underneath, and Wallace charges.

edit: grammar

  • @tilcica@lemm.ee
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    1712 years ago

    in slovenia we just passed a law that requires shops to state the price change of an item in the last 30 days :)

    • @ximtor@lemm.ee
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      302 years ago

      I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october

    • Vincent Adultman
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      42 years ago

      Brazil’s consumers rights department listed itens prices so stores can’t fake advertise them. Countries with regulations: ok, we can do Black Friday, but…

      • Jamie
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        52 years ago

        I like how for all the problems Brazil has, the consumer protection laws are consistently some of the best around.

    • @ximtor@lemm.ee
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      102 years ago

      I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics “super discounted” to the same price they had in september/october

      • @ohlaph@lemmy.world
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        62 years ago

        Big items I usually start watching a few months out. If I see a store or brand that pulls tthis garbage, I simply go elsewhere. If I can’t find it on offer, I buy it regular price at the smaller retail store.

      • @Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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        112 years ago

        It might actually work if the requirement was a year instead of 30 days.

        Also mandate minimum font size for it and that it must be displayed along with the current price anywhere the current price appears.

        • @Localhorst86@feddit.de
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          92 years ago

          I honestly think 1 year would be too far back to be actually relevant to the current price, but I can see a 3 month period being a good middle ground.

    • GregorTacTac
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      82 years ago

      Oh wow that’s cool! I’m from Slovenia too and I didn’t know that.

      • @MashedTech@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Oh… Im so sorry to hear that. Second thing I do is check the second hand stores near me. I have one that validates their products and offers a 1 year warranty on the second hand stuff I buy from them, and it’s kind of awesome. They even rate the quality.

    • @Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee
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      222 years ago

      That’s why I live in the EU, and they have to include the lowest price in the last 30 days with the “discount” price.

        • @GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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          52 years ago

          It’s a relatively new (became applicable in 2022) thing called price indication directive. The TLDR is what the other guy said, the only addition is that member states can set different rules for certain goods.

          • baltakatei
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            32 years ago

            Wouldn’t a loophole be to relist something to include some extra trinket with the main product (e.g. lens cleaner with a camera) and argue the “new” listing is something completely different than before?

            • @MrShankles@reddthat.com
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              52 years ago

              Or raise the price 31 days prior, and “drastically discount” it after. It seems like a cool policy in theory, but it also sounds like it doesn’t really have any teeth. Like a “political theater” kind of law. But who’s to say, maybe it could be someone’s poli-sci thesis some day.

              Or I’m just dumb and don’t understand something fundamental about it; I also except that

              • TheSaneWriter
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                22 years ago

                It seems like a difficult thing to regulate. I hope that this can be a starting point that will be potentially expanded later as needed, but we’ll see.

      • @MrShankles@reddthat.com
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        42 years ago

        So if you raise the price 31 days prior, and then put the discount on, you should still be good to squeeze more profit!

          • @MrShankles@reddthat.com
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            22 years ago

            Maybe the 30 day decrease in profit would be worth the additional units sold later (possibly at a slightly elevated price), due to the marketing of a perceived “deal”.

            I guess there’s a lot of variables that could come into play (type of product, inventory, how many units need to sell over a time period to break even, etc), but it doesn’t seem implausible, so much as it does dependent. But idk, I still can’t figure out how the fuck magnets work, let alone accounting

  • @demonquark@lemmy.ml
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    42 years ago

    Tbf, it depends. I just bought a pair of converse for 25 bucks. Granted they’re an unpopular color, but hey 25 bucks for a pair of chuck 70s is a good price.

    • @MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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      82 years ago

      It definitely does, I’ve already made out pretty good on a couple things but you have to know the actual price well in advance and shop outside of Amazon

    • GigglyBobble
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      172 years ago

      This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don’t even care anymore.

      • ares35
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        there’s a couple decent deals on basic laptops… that aren’t shit-tier specs, either. that’s about all i’ve seen–but then, i haven’t been “looking” either. rent keeps going up, can’t afford anything so i don’t even bother to look at ads and sales on things that aren’t absolutely essential to simply exist.

        i do plan on going to wm on friday… but later in the afternoon–for a few groceries.

    • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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      172 years ago

      For companies “illegal” just means “make more money than the fine you’ll pay once you’re caught”.

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      142 years ago

      They’ll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it’s technically a new product.

      Also look out for weasel words like “Compare To”, “X value”, or “Special Buy” where they aren’t actually saying it’s on sale.

    • @DLSantini@lemmy.ml
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      52 years ago

      If robbing a bank got you 10 million dollars, and the legal penalty for robbing a bank was a few thousand dollars, why would you choose to refrain from robbing the bank?

  • @irmoz@reddthat.com
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    702 years ago

    These transcriptions are getting incredible. I never would have thought it was possible to accurately convey a comic through text, while keeping the meaning and humour intact.

      • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        92 years ago

        You really did a great job, plus thank you for that website. Minor correction: struck through, not striked. Striked is only for baseball, afaik

        • @MrShankles@reddthat.com
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          42 years ago

          I kinda assumed it would still be “striked through”, or maybe “stricken through” because of the typographic term “strikethrough”. But “struck through” also seems like it could be correct

          I’ma need an expert typographical linguist to weigh-in on this matter. The world needs an answer

          • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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            2 years ago

            Struck is simple past, stricken is the past participle. It’s the same pattern as “write, wrote, written.” Striked through is not “right” here, but at the same time, it’s a totally valid way to say it in various dialects, so that’s right enough for most purposes. In my dialect, workers might have “striked,” but that’s also nonstandard.

            Just a regular linguist, which means I’m obligated to make it really clear that prescriptivism is bullshit, but does really simplify things for non native speakers

  • @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    822 years ago

    Years ago, in October I wanted to buy a new TV, my wife said we should wait for black Friday but I just bought it anyway. I keep checking the price day after day and the price of it keep rising slowly every day, until black Friday when it had a 40% sale off and was still more expensive of what I paid two months before.

  • @RotatingParts@lemmy.ml
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    262 years ago

    The only way to know if a Black Friday price is good is to know the usual “regular” price of the item. That takes planning to jot the price down a month or more in advance and then wait to see what the Black Friday price is. It’s all a game.

    • jaamulberry
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      142 years ago

      Also using plugins like camelcamelcamel can help with this. Shows you a graph of history for prices

      • @keylogthis@midwest.social
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        32 years ago

        I use Keepa, same type of thing, and I’ll just set it to notify me when it reaches the desired low price again. I rarely buy anything unless it’s on sale prices now.

  • Dettweiler
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    212 years ago

    That exact model was $599 in October. I would know, because I bought one.

    It’s actually a really great smoker, but the app is terrible.