Black Friday!
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Well Black Friday in my country is shit. I was aiming for a new CPU AMD FX-8350 wich I stalked around online shops for a month. Black Friday started like last friday here and alot of shops pulled some serious shitty practices. One of the shops increased by 20% the price of that CPU at the begining of the week just so on friday they could slap a -17% price tag on it. And this is just one example, most of the shops play uninformed people for fools. And I don't even dare to go out to a real shop this friday, unless I would have some kind of death wish and being trampled by crazy old people would be the way I would want to go.
It's when there's a big sale on everywhere, so hordes of angry people camp outside the doors of shopping centres and barge their way in and trample each other to death as soon as they are unlocked.IceForce said:
A bit like the running of the bulls in Spain, only with shopping.
Amazon's got some great deals going on right now, like $15 for Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite. There's also Borderlands GOTY and Borderlands 2 for... $11.99 IIRC. I just picked up Alice: Madness Returns (The version where you get the original American McGee's Alice) for $7.50.
Pretty much every digital download code that they sell on Amazon goes to Steam or Origin anyway, many times I check there because you'll find deals and bundles they don't offer on Steam. EA has never heard of the word "sale" outside of "Monthly Sales Data", so Amazon's generally the best place to pick up any EA games you might be after on sale.
Every year, there's reports of people getting trampled, assaults, all sorts of crazy things, as people fight each other over the goods in brick-and-mortar shops. It's ridiculous, probably our ugliest example of consumerism.
Pretty much every digital download code that they sell on Amazon goes to Steam or Origin anyway, many times I check there because you'll find deals and bundles they don't offer on Steam. EA has never heard of the word "sale" outside of "Monthly Sales Data", so Amazon's generally the best place to pick up any EA games you might be after on sale.
For a more serious explanation, Black Friday is the last Friday before December. The significance is that it's considered the first day of Holiday Shopping Season. Stores have trumped this up over the years, because it's a huge shopping day. Many people get Black Friday off of work, so it's a five-day weekend during which most people are going to start their christmas shopping. The stores used to open up at 6 am, people would camp out overnight to be the first people in. I'm seeing ads the last few days that suggest that Black Friday starts 8pm on Thanksgiving day. Hell, they've been running sales on Amazon and Steam since Wednesday.IceForce said:
Every year, there's reports of people getting trampled, assaults, all sorts of crazy things, as people fight each other over the goods in brick-and-mortar shops. It's ridiculous, probably our ugliest example of consumerism.