[Closed] Black Friday.... did you buy owt?

I bought a four pack of beer. Does that count?

[although I do have manflu so today's task laying on sofa doing online xmas shopping]

Dunno... was it on sale?

Yes some weber bits and bobs and some of the kids Christmas presents.  Want to pick up a familytent but not seen much of interest

I went down the street to get some stuff from a proper shop.

Bought Lego Boost kit to keep me amused Christmas day.  It was about 50% off.  Bit of an impulsive buy but had fund age from flogging bike bits recently.

I bought an Avio power meter for Mrs Yak. Well I have sent a crank off and have a few days to wait now.

oh rone... even proper shops had sale too

I followed scruff's example, a couple of pints in front of a roaring fire with a 19yr old Swedish model.

A wireless keyboard for my HTPC (the other had broken) and probably about to buy some fermenters for my brewery.

Was going to get 4 new tyres from Blackcircle - 10% discount. Forgot and now they are even cheaper today

From Andertons, wasn’t waiting for Black Friday... but it just so happened I’ve been looking for a portable effects multi program amp to take along to hotels along with my Guitar..

Couple of pairs of riding glasses from the Oakley site with 50% off.

I followed scruff’s example, a couple of pints in front of a roaring fire with a 19yr old Swedish model.

Airfix clear out?

I looked at a few things, none of the prices that special so saved the cash

Avio Power Meter and a garmin smart scale. I refuse to get fat this winter, only poorer

I bought nowt. I don't need or want anything, no matter how discounted it pretends to be.

Biggest discount was earlier in the week. Pre reged at Ford with 24 miles on the clock

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Didn't even know we were getting it

Issue 12 of Cranked. 40% off, so £6.75 with free postage. And it arrived about an hour ago. Excellent service, excellent mag!

Trainers for the kids Xmas presents, Garmin watch for the wife Xmas present, Logitech harmony and a couple of other bits. I then went to a proper shop as some folks call them and bought some 2 bottles of gin as yes they have sales too.

Nice Tracey.

Coke and hookers were 40% off. Bargain.

I bought a 2018 Roubaix on Sunday,at a clearout price as it's the end of the year & the LBS matched the price I'd found on the web.

I decided to upgrade my pedals as Merlin were having a sale.

Bought a torque wrench from Wiggle as they had a sale & I was wary about over tightening things on the new carbon frame..

I also bought one of those Bikehut 1600 lights for £35 that people are saying positive things about.

Biggest saving was obviously the bike,but that was nothing to do with 'Black Friday'.

Tracey. Tell me about the van. Is this in addition to the behemoth.....

Or have you sold that?

Bottle of Maker's Mark from Amazon.

Some of those £1.80 Avid BB5s (totally not fake of course) + some cheap avid levers and some brake cable. Disc setup for >£10 for the pootle-mobile.

Still got the motorhome and Abigales Tourneo Connect. Kevin saw it last week whilst I was in hospital. He said it was too good a deal to miss so traded the  Grand Picasso in. Just been taking the back seats out and the bikes will go in instead of on the towbar. Loads of room inside an great spec

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I bought a new wetsuit, but I don't think it was any cheaper for being black Friday, I just need a new one.

I kind of need a new phone too, but couldn't be bothered to look yesterday.

Oaft, if I had cash that Transit would do me fine.

I got the Bikehut 1600 light (needed a light anyway) and a pair of the Clarks MT2 brakes at £17 an end for the missus. Also buying a load of bits to fix the car but as its ECP I don't think it counts.

Ski gloves for son's school trip. Said they were Black Friday prices but who knows, I was't looking before. Also a couple of things from SportPursuit, but I doubt the prices were any different from when they had been previously.
It's all a big ol' mugs game. Probably the whole of November should be the event: Mugs' Month.

I bought a posh gorgonzola, fig and prosciutto pizza at Sainsbury's - £4 reduced from £5. That's living!!

Nope. Nada. Nothing.

No.

I did sit next to a chap through the school concert last night who was buying up half of Amazon it seemed while telling his wife that black Friday was as cheap as it gets... Personally, I watched the kids play some amazing music.

Just a couple of Christmas presents (headphones for my son and a waffle iron of all things, for my daughter) Didn't save much (less than £20) but would have got them anyway so better than nowt.

There were a few things I wanted, but none were discounted. From what I could see everything discounted was just junk.

Cyber Monday for amazon, so I might see if the kindle oasis gets discounted, but I doubt it will.

Stanton Slackline frame.  I need to stop drunkbrowsing, but I'm sure that will be Grant's.

Airfix clear out?

That would have been a better chance of me sticking body parts together. 😭

Nothing at all here.

Windscreen wiper and a brake light switch. It was a black Friday sale but they do a discount every weekend anyway so no different from that

Just bought the new Chromecast from Argos, £20.  Will be a nice upgrade from my old one.

Well, I bought a TV but it was unrelated to Black Friday. It wasn't expensive £330 reduced from £400, but it's been sold at that price from a dozen retailers for a month or so. It's a nice 4k job with the right version of WebOS and all that.

I picked it up from Currys in the end at it was the closest to me, interestingly perhaps they had another version, same size, same brand, same features, but slightly different model number - £400 reduced from £500. I asked the guy if it was different, he said "I don't think so, it's a Black Friday Special". There was a pile of them near the door and people were grabbing them in a semi-panic state, the guy who I asked about it when I picked up mine brought it to the car for me.

I'd like to think that it was the 2019 version of the 2018 one I chose, but knowing a little about how LG bang out dozens of the same monitor under different model numbers (sometimes with different mounts, but often not) I do wonder if it was an invented discount.

Tacx Flux, I wanted a new turbo and at £400 it’s was a no brainer. Wanted an Elite Direto but couldn’t justify the extra £150 on top of the Flux.

For some reason last Friday seemed also to be Black Friday on the Playstation store, so I bought DiRT Rally for the PS4 @70% off £8.99).  For those long winter nights when nothing else will do.

I think this is the first Black Friday thing I've ever bought, and it wasn't even Black Friday as I bought it on Wednesday.  Ah well.  It's ace nonetheless.  And really, really difficult to master.  The engine noises alone are worth the admission.  Makes NFS cars sound even more like distant lawnmowers powered by a hairdryer motors 😋

I picked it up from Currys in the end at it was the closest to me, interestingly perhaps they had another version, same size, same brand, same features, but slightly different model number – £400 reduced from £500. I asked the guy if it was different, he said “I don’t think so, it’s a Black Friday Special”.

I read somewhere that they make a model that is slightly different (e.g. diferent colour bezel) that's exclusive to a particular retailer to avoid price matching.

Hive, phone, OneUp EDC, shirts, tyres and cat food purchased by me..

I read somewhere that they make a model that is slightly different (e.g. diferent colour bezel) that’s exclusive to a particular retailer to avoid price matching.

That wouldn’t surprise me. I almost bought a branded washing machine from them before I found out it was not only a curry’s only machine, but Curry’s actually had them manufactured by someone else and paid to use the brand! Customer reviews were appalling, dodged a bullet there.

For some reason last Friday seemed to be 'Black Friday' in my head, so I toddled over to the Playstation store and checked out the discounts.  I sat on it for a few days and finally bought DiRT Rally for the PS4 @70% off, ie £8.99).  For those long cold winter nights when nothing less than a blanket, rum and race-athon will suffice.

I think this is the first 'Black Friday' thing I've ever bought, and it wasn't even Black Friday as I bought it on Wednesday.  Ah well.  It was Black Friday inspired, and is ace nonetheless.  And really, really difficult to master.  The engine noises and easy replays alone are worth the admission.  Makes NFS and GT in-game engine sounds even more like distant lawnmowers powered by hairdryer motors 😋  Have a gander/earful, share my joy!:

A Hope stem.

Where are there deals on cat food?

Where are there deals on cat food?

Amazon had some lightning deals.. not sure if they're still on.

Exposure Joystick for 89 quid from cyclerepublic. Not sure if it’s a Black Friday thing as the deal is still on.

Impact driver from screw fix for the future garden Room that probably won't get built.😁

and a waffle iron of all things, for my daughter

You are not alone, I did exactly the same!

Picked up a bunch of things from Amazon Warehouse as they were doing an extra 20% off... one of them turned up with some bits missing, called up Amazon, got a full refund and they said I could keep it (a set of dumbbells that were missing the securing collars).

@ Cougar - re new Chromecast, I have a glitch on mine when attempting to cast Channel 4 programs.  In fact it's pretty much unusable despite uninstalling then reinstalling app.  Would this happen with a new Chromecast do you think?  Thanks!

Anker soundcore 2 for £27. Had been after one for a while for on the turbo in garage but theyve been £40 for ages. Back up to £40 again today so happy that it was a genuine reduction.

Would this happen with a new Chromecast do you think?

I've no idea TBH.  It's higher spec than the original, supposed to be a lot faster and snappier in operation so it might well fix the problem.  For £20 I'd probably chance it.

If you've got the V2 - hockey-puck shaped thing rather than a stick - then it's an incremental upgrade so maybe not (unless yours is faulty of course).

Some PC games, a pizza and a bicycle. The last 2 weren't black friday sales though.

Cougar - thanks for that, suspect I have the original so worth taking a punt.  It works on everything else except Channel 4 where it keeps stopping and going back to the start, very frustrating.

A pair of SIDI shoes, gloves for the road bike and a Superdry bag

anyone noticed prices increase just before

then lo

bargain of the century

they should call it trying to shift last years overpriced shit still friday

Thinking about one the OLED TVs from Richer Sounds but my 6 year old LG is still so good and 4K is still pretty sparce, so can’t justify it.

Did buy a new bike last were though.

Vittoria Corsa's

S - Works 7 Shoes (Not till my birthday)

Rab Microlight Jacket (missed out last year)

New phone, though badged as 'Black Friday' was on sale over a week earlier. £200 for a Moto Z2 Force and a free pair of gawdy headphones. Bargain.  Just need the Moto Mod power pack to come back into stock on Amazon to compensate for the meagre battery.

The rest of Black Friday was meh.

Wasn't going to but last thing last night remembered I was planning on buying a Sony zx2 compact in the next month or so so thought I might as well see if anyone had a deal and much to my surprise (as there's normally sod all I want on offer) it was available on giff gaff £50 cheaper than cheapest I could find anywhere else and a free pair of £120 wireless headphones included.

Some vittoria Corsa CX III

A bunch of chains

some old stock shimano MT53 shoes, (Very)Old model I know but I really liked mine for the short while i had them before some dodgy african mud got the better of them.

Merlin saved me a pack of money by having sold the last of the Road bike I liked(maybe better so I already have 5 lying around)

I bought a Logitech M590 bluetooth mouse for £26.99 from PC wolrd today, which apparently was reduced from £49.99 ... how on earth can a bluetooth mouse be that expensive ...

One mouse two PCs ... one being laptop ... arrggghhh ...

Resisted the urge to buy a set of reserve carbon wheels 20% off on ubyk,

think I’ll wait another year till Xt 12 speed is launched and I.ll need the newer hub

oh and a bergamot grandurance drop handle  ..

In the end all I bought was a shirt on H&M £14..

dissapointed with crc and wiggle same stuff has been on sale weeks, didn’t spot any new offers

Flights for the family to fuertaventura for Feb half term. School have an inset day on the Friday before half term and picked up some discounted rayanir tickets for that date which knocked best part of 1k off the price of going on the sat or sun.

....and the Bikehut light

Bought a clutch alignment tool and a Garmin 735 xt watch charger

Saved zero

But I did have a clutch to align and a watch with a broken charger .....

Some properly discounted Christmas lego for the kids and a 15 quid Osram outside light, supposed to have been 48 quid originally but I think it would be more like 25 so a BF swiss I reckon. Still, put it up over the garage doors today and will be good for before and after night rides.

Need some new hiking boots but the offers didn't seem any better than usual, it is all a bit meh now. Best one i saw was the Technic crane down to £110 from 230 but we have nowhere to put it and the wife would justifiably have killed me

New SRAM X7 FD for a tenner off ebay.

Two Fire 8HD 32 gb without ads for £80 each (down from £110 each) for the kids’ Christmas presents. Sorted.

15% off just eat, so had a curry. It wasn't as good as normal, I think they'd knocked the quality down by 15% to compensate.

Got a coupe of echo dots while they were on £25, we'd been thinking about a speaker for the kitchen anyway and these will do the job, notmsure where to put the other one yet, somewhere upstairs, but not in the way.

I upgraded my phone allowance on a black friday deal (0.5 to 25Gb 😜). No way I’ll use that amount (but I can ‘gift’ it to my 4g broadband...

i bought a new helmet (but it wasn’t specifically discounted, the guy in Alpine gave me 10% though).

i did succumb to 20% off some funcy Fjallraven breeks... 🤦🏻‍♀️

Basketball shoes for the daughter and desperately needed pair of flat pedals for me. Made use of Quidco (though one never knows for sure if that discount comes through) and addidas’ 30% off.

Son who was extremely keen to get the pre release whatever hyped up NBA2K19 paid 70odd quid a few months ago is abit disappointed that he saw it on sale now for 30!! He has learnt his lesson now.

@cinanom_girl the channel 4 app is just terrible, ime !

Got some Nike trainers 60% off on their store

And got all the kids Xmas presents at Smyth's yesterday with their 10% off. Not a huge saving, but all that's out the way now!

I was on the look out for some road carbon disc wheels but in the end bought a joie 360 car seat for 10 month old mini D. That's how I roll these days.

Missus bought me a Calibre Astronut for Christmas while they were 20% off.  Christmas day will be spent on a pump track somewhere 🙂

Hope E4 brakes and rotors from Ubyk.

I had intended doing the bulk of my Christmas shopping on Black Friday but the deals were a bit meh.

LETITSALE for 50% off all wolf watch products. picked myself up a 10 piece box. was nearly swayed for a winder. free p+p

https://www.wolf1834.co.uk/

I bought a sandwich for lunch from the Coop and some brake pads from Wiggle for the commuter. The whole black Friday thing doesn't really do anything for me....

Saved ourselves at least £700 by taking the advice of some on here & not buying a new telly in Black Friday sales. The old one had green lines running down the screen which have seemingly vanished, so we don't need another telly just now!