Is Black Friday Completely over? (and Wtf Is Cyber Monday)

condensedmilk on 24/11/2018 - 10:03

So I failed to purchase anything yesterday (Black Friday) - was too optimistic about prices (of items i've previously posted about). I'm aware there's something called 'Cyber Monday', and that Amazon, Apple and presumably other stores are still advertising sales. In your experience should I expect anything much to happen this weekend and Monday?

For my purposes the Amazon sale was pretty pathetic, and the vast majority of the items in the lightning sales and deals of the day are complete crap (probably great for some, I acknowledge, but mostly crap to me).

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2018
Electrical & Electronics Black Friday Cyber Monday

Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 24/11/2018 - 10:45
    +4

    Yesterday was a flop IMHO. More ozdeal than ozbargain.

    None of yesterdays offerings made it to top deals. Enough said.

  • FireRunner on 24/11/2018 - 11:05

    Console deals were good (except for PS4 pro), mostly due to increased cashback.

  • qwerty on 24/11/2018 - 12:46

    Cyber Monday is a digital/online black friday - black Friday is supposed to be physical goods in physical stores

    • condensedmilk on 24/11/2018 - 14:09

      Do we expect it to be any better?

  • josetann on 24/11/2018 - 14:13
    +1

    The closest thing to a US-style Black Friday would be Boxing Day. Except crazier (I've camped out for Black Friday before). Stores will have people counting how many people are in the store, shortly after opening (and well before the lines of people have made it in), they stop customers from going in the store because they're at capacity. Two people come out, two more can go in (isn't like this at every single store, but I've seen it happen at Best Buy). The next two days would be a bit hectic too, I'd say Boxing Day would be comparable to a Saturday or Sunday after Black Friday.

    Cyber Monday is yet another way to get people to buy, the idea being that everyone goes back to work and is so bored out of their mind from the mindless shopping over the long weekend, that they will want to do more shopping. In reality, there are lots of online Black Friday deals, no need for a Cyber Monday.

    Anyway, "Black Friday" has always been the kick-off to the Christmas shopping season with the weekend tagging along. Cyber Monday has made it a four-day long shop-fest, which is usually just hype but sometimes true deals can be had.

    I do find it telling that when deciding which US holiday you wanted to adopt to break up the long space between Halloween and Christmas, y'all chose Black Friday.

  • deelaroo on 24/11/2018 - 15:09

    While there wasn't anything crazy there were a lot of consistently cheaper items on Amazon

    We bought presents for our kids and all nieces and nephews yesterday and today via Amazon and everything was at least 30% less than in Big W or anywhere we'd of normally gone. I went to Big W today and it was just abysmal in comparison.

    It has seemed a bit lackluster in that Amazon AU could of done something better this weekend. A lot better press would of helped. Other thought was they should do each day of the weekend (Friday through Monday) a different theme like day 1 just the big items like we did have, Saturday a "US items theme" as their Black Friday starts then, Sunday maybe like fashion and beauty?, then Monday do all pantry and homewares?

    What really has me pissed off though is that while Amazon have "allowed" orders from the US site again they haven't actually announced this to their users. Specially to Prime members.. Like I had to hear via the news.. Couldn't they have emailed or anything??

  • senectus on 26/11/2018 - 12:21
    +1

    was hoping to see a discounted gear sport on cyber Monday. but its all looking pretty pathetic today.

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