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Or November 27th deals, or stuff you have seen as a good deal this week, call it what you will.
I seem to recall the thread being a lovely combination of consumerism, consumer hatred and random stuff last year so pitched perfectly for the forum really.
For me this week it has resulted in the impulse purchase of another pair of trainers from the Nike site - additional 30% off the sale price with code FSN15 (so assume for sale products only) . Use it, or don't your right to free choice is not being interfered with here.
Yep good call....I'm waiting to buy a TV for the in laws on Friday and a camera for me!
Camera will be bought this week but also already raided the Ultimate Outdoors Black Friday deals!
XT 8000 disc brakes at Evans. £64.99 each end and a £20 voucher back.
Theres a few from Rapha, not sure if they're available to the proletariat though 😆
I'll check it out but some jerseys and bibs are in there for sure.
I'm on the lookout for a new espresso machine south of £100 please, if anyone spots a decent sale bargain.
Black Friday? Known in the trade as 'Shifting the shite thats been clogging up our warehouses all year, as no ****er wants it, because its crap and overpriced' Friday'
Jekkyl - look on MSE website. There's a link to espresso machines at low prices in the Black Friday section
I really don't like retailers suddenly cutting XX% (45% on the INtense sale banner as I type this) off their selling prices and making out this is some great deal for consumers.
What about your customers who bought before the offer, or the people who don't need your product yet, but will do? Seems a really hackneyed way of going on, other than for seasonal/annual goods, where you're simply trying to shift end of line stuff.
Not much help as the deal has already expired, but I'm waiting in for delivery of my new phone, a Moto X Play at £199.95 from Amazon. Spotted the deal on HUKD.com
Trying to work out if my DGAF attitude to this whole black Friday business is a healthy lack of consumerism, poor budget management or an indication of too much disposable income available.
Either way I just cant GAF.
Theres a few from Rapha, not sure if they're available to [s]the proletariat[/s] anyone who isn't stupid enough to spend £340 on a rucksack, a few pairs of socks and a wallet though
^^ Awe, fanx 😀
Moto X is down to £199 with free cover selection on the [url= https://www.motorola.co.uk/motomaker?pid=FLEXR2 ]Motorola website[/url]..
In case we haven't all learned anything from last year - this is not like Dress Down Friday. Nobody is expecting you to turn up at work looking like Al Jolson (again).
What about your customers who bought before the offer, or the people who don't need your product yet, but will do? Seems a really hackneyed way of going on,
It's actually more about balancing demand.
March/April-September you can fairly reliably sell bikes and outdoors stuff. Especially new/shiny stuff. So your factory/logistics/shops all need s teady supply of those products. Come October no one wants anything, it's cold outside, it's miserable, there's no daylight, so all those sales dry up.
So you cut your prices to generate a similar volume of sale through the lean months.
It also works in maximizing your sales and profit overall, you could sell at 30% off all year round, but why would you? If the market will pay 142% then that's what you charge, once all that market is gone, you knock 10%, off and sell some more to those who can now afford it, and so on and so on until you've sold them to everyone you can whilst till making a profit. Those that buy at the start don't get ripped off, they're simply paying more to get stuff sooner the best example of this computing, you could buy a super computer in a server rack today for £20k, or you could buy a desktop PC with the same spec in 10 years.
Black Friday is the opposite, it's the retailers slashing their prices in order to bleed consumers dry i the knowledge that there are no more paychecks between now and Christmas, so if they don't then they lose out on the Christmas spending. You could view that cynically, or you could view it as the capitalist system working in the consumers favor to give really low prices just when they want to buy stuff.
[url= http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/11/a-pair-of-100-philips-wireless-headphones-for-29-99-is-our-cord-cutting-cans-deal-of-the-day/ ]Gizmodo [/url]are pretty good with the Black Friday sale & HUKD.
[url= http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/11/a-pair-of-100-philips-wireless-headphones-for-29-99-is-our-cord-cutting-cans-deal-of-the-day/ ]Philips Wireless £100 headphones for £29.99.[/url]
25% of everything at Sunglasses shop, plus 8% off at Quidco (if it allows both).
Just bought some Oakley Carbon Blades that I never could justify buying before as a little job leaving present to myself.
Looks like ebay is swamped - I can't buy on there (and it's not even a black friday item 👿 )
looking for a laptop as ours is about to implode.... anyone know of any good sites?
also got a £25 Rapha voucher so might get a sock or full team sky kit for that....
turn up at work looking like Al Jolson
I had to ask my granny to explain that to me 🙂
Brakes - I got an email from Ebuyer about [url= http://www.ebuyer.com/724984-hp-250-g4-laptop-n1a92ea-abu?utm_source=2015-11-25&utm_medium=campaign_email&utm_campaign=B2B_Wednesday ]this Laptop for £290[/url]
I have no idea if it is any good.
[i]I had to ask my granny to explain that to me[/i]
Not your mammy?
a top from Bamboo clothing and a bottle of Haig Club Whisky on Amazon - expensive 15 minutes... - better ask the Boss to give me them for Christmas 😳
Brakes - I got an email from Ebuyer about this Laptop for £290
I have no idea if it is any good.
thanks - looks like what I'm looking for but it seems it's being sold £50 cheaper elsewhere.
I wish I actually needed something so I could get involved. Even maybe want something as a passing fancy. But I don't.
Since when is that a barrier to buying? Be a good consumer and just buy, buy, buy!
I'll bet your frame isn't the latest [s]colour[/s] colourway... 😉
GoPro Hero3+ Silver with clip-on bacpak battery pack for £149.99 @ Argos
I wish I actually needed something so I could get involved. Even maybe want something as a passing fancy. But I don't.
+1
It's worse than Trick or Treat - a whole festival dedicated to consumerism.
a whole festival dedicated to consumerism.
Another one. One of the best things about this thanks giving period is buying yourself stuff just before Christmas then people as what you want and you don't want anything as you've jut bought it for yourself anyway.
That and there are loads of deals on things you are buying for others anyway, so you can save on that other festival of consumerism this time next month.
One of the best things about this thanks giving period is buying yourself stuff
If I had to list all my priorities for any holiday / celebration, buying stuff I don't need would be right at the bottom of the list...
Moto X is down to £199 with free cover selection on the Motorola website..
brill - just trying to persuade the wife that this is the phone she wants, and I think the color choices will seal the deal 🙂
@jekkyl - 50% of Illy espresso machines here
http://www.espressocrazy.com/
buying stuff I don't need would be right at the bottom of the list
Doesn't your 'bike shed' have a log burner installed - nice but surely not essential?
😉
It's not all bad. I got a great deal on a Canon G16 last year when I was actually going to buy one anyway. If you want something specific then you might find it at a good price.
Wicked are doing 25% of Bosch laser measurers
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Bosch-Plr-40-C-Digital-Laser-Measure/p/143017
Useful bit of kit if you've got to measure bigger things with either no help or useless help!
while on the one hand i cant abide this tosh..... in the last three weeks I've mortally wounded the cooker and the dishwasher committed suicide. seems daft to not keep my eyes open for a deal (bottom of the range slashed by 80%) but lets be honest even the cooker is optional.
I had to ask my granny to explain that to me
Not your mammy?
I raise my hat to you. Also, I wave my white-gloved hands in your general direction.
Doesn't your 'bike shed' have a log burner installed
Nope.
Almost pulled the trigger on a pair of these boots today, offer on till midnight.. Tried them on in store thisaft as I work near one.. Nice boots!
[url= http://www.sportsdirect.com/salomon-quest-4d-gtx-walking-boots-mens-182015?colcode=18201592 ]Boooits [/url]
That go pro sorts out my chistmss present es going to get a hero+ that looks like a better buy
Five ten freeriders going cheap if you don't mind them in red or grey...
http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/five-ten-freerider-mtb-shoes-130851/wg_id-7351
http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/five-ten-freerider-mtb-shoes-130855/wg_id-7351
brill - just trying to persuade the wife that this is the phone she wants, and I think the color choices will seal the deal
doh - that was the moto X, not the play. But they still are doing the Play at 220 which is a bit better than elsewhere.
Not mega deal but Merlin cycles are doing extra 10% off at checkout on disc brakes, deore set for £63.
Olympus PEN E-P5 - £329 on Amazon instead of £744 :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CQ3TO4C?ref_=gb1h_img_m-4_5847_8d084a15&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
Sorry footflaps, my mistake 🙂
For reference the thread was meant to be here for people to hate consumerism too, it welcomes all and doesn't judge.
Seasucker bike mount on Amazon :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00APVN0TC?ref_=gbps_tit_s-3_7907_43e32c2a&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
[url= http://www.tier1online.com/refurbished-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon/?sort=bestselling&mc_cid=184fa01cd8&mc_eid=f636c03671 ]possible laptop deals?[/url]
Anyone have any good experiences with cordless vacuum cleaners? (not sexual please!) My Mum is looking for one.
sombrio mid loam shoes 20 quid
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sombrio-loam-mid-top-shoes/rp-prod114745
buy 2 so you can have some dry shoes once in a while! 😕
most sizes in snazzy grey/blue .... or white if you ride a 29er and need appropriate footwear to go with it 😛
Garmin Forerunner 910XT back on at 129 :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005T0Z9CU?ref_=gbps_img_s-3_7907_f4c51232&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
I'm liking lbs Slam69: Brown Thursday, come on down and buy all the shit we can't sell.
sombrio mid loam shoes 20 quidhttp://www.chainreactioncycles.com/sombrio-loam-mid-top-shoes/rp-prod114745
buy 2 so you can have some dry shoes once in a while!
most sizes in snazzy grey/blue .... or white if you ride a 29er and need appropriate footwear to go with it
Has anyone got a pair of these? are they any good?
I bought a pair of 5-10 freeriders last year which I hate (have only worn them about 3 times) so am looking for something else - the Freeriders are destined for either the bin or ebay.
Very cheap Johnnie Walker on amazon.
I'm normally a typical STW malt snob, but are the double black or gold label worth a try?
Some decent stuff in the rapha sale, socks and wallets going cheap too 🙂
the only thing i need is a new LS base layer and they haven't reduced them 😆
Uberbike has 25% everything if you use black25 at checkout. Might get a new expander and narrow wide
My experience of it last year (the first year it seemed to appear here) was that we'd imported the hype from the US but not the low, low prices.... kind of need both.
Black Friday is the opposite, it's the retailers slashing their prices in order to bleed consumers dry i the knowledge that there are no more paychecks between now and Christmas, so if they don't then they lose out on the Christmas spending. You could view that cynically, or you could view it as the capitalist system working in the consumers favor to give really low prices just when they want to buy stuff.
It's UK / international retailers jumping on the American thing to create a previously non-existent shopping 'sale' event. It's no less cynical but it's just another American import.
Thanks for the Uberbike code howsyourdad1
a pleasure pjbarton!
Olympus PEN E-P5 - £329 on Amazon instead of £744 :http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CQ3TO4C?ref_=gb1h_img_m-4_5847_8d084a15&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE
That one seems to have ended already, gutted as I'd have snapped that up. If anyone knows of any similar camera related deals please post them up! Thanks.
Rockape63 - Richer Sounds may have something for you TV-wise?
Bought some Northwave shoes from CRC, available in standard sizes shocker http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/northwave-scorpius-srs-mtb-shoes-2015/rp-prod113211
[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002V30K0O/?smid=A32LG7DNFO0D36&tag=idealocouk-mp-21&linkCode=asn&creative=6742&camp=1638&creativeASIN=B002V30K0O&childASIN=B002V30K0O&ascsubtag=c40VLdcH1FOtkOfZEv_hpA ]for mattyfez[/url]
bit cheaper depending on colours/size etc
Thanks Roger, will have a gander!
Managed to resist buying a pair of XT M785 brakes for just under £100 to replace some still working as good as they ever did Avid Elixir 3 which have some superficial(?) corrosion on the lever. Managed to resist so far. Should I or shouldn't I???? Arrrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhh.
my phone is quite shagged so looking for some deals
motox play for 200 looking good here
http://www.handtec.co.uk/motorola-moto-x-play-16gb-smartphone-black.html
but i will really miss wireless charging ;-(
kimbers - do you really need a branded phone. The Jiayu S3 is only £120 or Amazon have a WileyFox on offer today.
Bugger ! ....just got ever so slightly excited when i saw the Rapha sky jeans at half price - only to then realize that they're out of stock 🙄
Well my Moto X Play has turned up. First impressions:
Big! But I'm used to a Razr i and before that a Defy. If you're already into bigger phones, well and good, it's one of them.
Screen is very good, 1080p, bright and adjustable, vivid modes etc.
Camera is very good, 23MP with Sony sensor, seems good outside and low light.
Battery is huge, meant to last 2 days, can't really comment personally yet.
Speed, it seems snappy, not noticed any lag, apps open super quick.
Best way to think of it I guess would be as an XL version of MOTO G. Bigger battery, better camera, bigger brighter screen. Swappable backs and cases can give it the super premium feel, but I think it looks and feels very smart out of the box.
In reality the hype I reckon will have been bigger last year as it was the first year we saw any 'black Friday' deals in the UK. This year I suspect with certain retailers (i.e. Asda) opting out that it won't be that big a deal, hopefully it'll fizzle out come next year.
If anyone sees any Garmin Edge 1000 or Edge Touring on special offer, do post up on here won't you?
I've jsut had a live chat with Wiggle about another item, I asked if there were any codes going to persuade me to buy today and got told "no, but you may want to wait until tomorrow". No idea what, or how good but I'm hopeful of something.
Anyone seen any good deals on a 685+ flat (or very low rise) carbon bar?
I really shouldn't be looking at this thread. Must resist...
Just got a mail about 25% off everything at The Hut Group. Seems to only be IWOOT and not ProBikeKit annoyingly.
10% off everything at Ribble and Merlin. It's good but it's not great.
Just linked to XTR cranks [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/psa-gore-cycling-jersey-was-80-now-11 ]in the other thread[/url] - down to £135 which is as cheap as I've ever seen them I think