Black friday

micek@feddit.nu to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 104 points –

Black friday, en rea, så priset rör sig som förväntat

Edit: I wasn't awake enough to see I wasn't posting in feddit.nu, Hjalmar translated very nice, thx :). The image is of the price of Xbox X in Sweden as I read the price history on prisjakt.nu, a price comparison site. What I perhaps should have included is the price history for not only since 4/11, but the fact that the price had been the same since 5/6 when the price went from 6189 SEK to 5290. There has been a lot of advertising about not only black friday, but black week in sweden (apparently black half-year ;)), so let's hope for the price to drop down under 5290 on cyber monday then shall we :D

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It seems Norwegian. Even if not in the EU, Norway also adopted the omnibus directive that forces online sellers to post the lowest 30 days price nearby the discounted price.

So they can't increase the price and then say "wow, discount!"

https://clp.no/selger-du-varer-eller-tjenester-til-forbrukere-pa-nett-da-bor-du-gjore-deg-klar-for-moderniseringsdirektivet_/

TL;DR: that webstore infringed the law and should be reported and fined

Germany implemented this law in a way which allows stores to post the recommended retail price instead.

It's a fucking shitshow, the RRP is always set way too high and there are "30% sales" all the time now.

Amazon's trick seems to be to offer products at a certain price, but often with i.e. a $60 off "coupon" or whatever. Then when Black Friday rolls around, it's the regular price, no coupon, but with "20% off Black Friday sale" (which may or may not actually be less than $60 off)

TL;DR: that webstore infringed the law and should be reported and fined

How is this illegal? They kept the same price through the "discount" day. And then raised it afterwards. I really don't understand what the issue is. They raised the price 3.5% after black friday. What's the issue?

It depends what OP meant, because they posted just a screenshot with no explanation

If it's just raised the price, not illegal.

If raised the price to promote a fake discount, illegal.

Isn't that illegal though? I'm in Denmark where a product needs to have had the same price for at least 30 days, before you can compare it as a "before" price. Also sales prices need to be a limited time offer (can't spike the price for 30 days and the sell on discount for 6 months). I believe it is 10 days limit.

The guy posts in Swedish here for some reason.

But yeah, the Black Friday thing in Sweden is a joke. It's being used as a way to get rid of old models of televisions and other stuff that nobody really should buy. Any discount on things that are new is very minor, or as in this case in the picture, even more expensive on Black Friday.

This is pretty much the whole point of black friday everywhere

Hej! Tror att inlägg här ska vara på engelska, du skulle kunna testa att skriva i chat på feddit.nu istället :)

Translation for anyone who doesn't speak Swedish

black friday

gaph showing a price going up
Black Friday, a sale, so the price changes as expected

Actually my plan was to post it to feddit.nu, I made an oopsie, sorry 😅

What am I looking at

The price history for a particular product, showing that its price was stable until it shot up the day after black Friday.

Why is that bad? Or really related to black friday at all?

presumably this graph shows the buying price, discounted or not. going by that, the site probably adopted the regular price as the "sale price" and inflated the non-discounted price. after black friday the promotion ended and the price returns to the "old" value.

This only seems to show November. A lot of places did sales in the run up to Black Friday too. It could have been discount for the past month and then they went back to the non-sale price after Black Friday.

Bro this isn't a language-specific sub

Exactly… he can use what langue he likes.

Isn't that exactly what it is? Post should be in English. If it weren't language specific, posts in Swedish, Arabic and Klingon would be welcomed, no?