Bad Deal Black Friday

Bad Deal Black Friday
Relax, stay home, digest your meal.

Black Friday is for suckers. If you are reading this you are probably not one of them. It should be called Bad Deal Black Friday or maybe just Bad Deal Friday.

CNN Money reported that in 2014 93 percent of stores surveyed are offering customers year-old products for the same “discount” that was offered last year. Oh, that’s smart. Pay the same price for old tech as you would when it’s new.

Paul Joseph Watson writing for the inimitable InfoWars.com spells it out here: “Stores enjoy higher profit margins during the holiday period because retailers artificially inflate prices of goods in the months before Black Friday in order to make the subsequent discounts look good in comparison,” he says. “. . .The scam also relies on shoppers impulse buying another product that has a 98 per cent mark up value. So even if the first item represents a genuine discount, the vastly inflated price of the impulse purchase more than makes up for it.”

So, don’t fight the crowds, obnoxious people and traffic. Stay in, digest yesterday’s meal and relax. Maybe, check out one of many NFL minor league football games being broadcast. Mull which teams the Philadelphia Eagles could beat. Life is too short to subject oneself to commercial corporate scams.

And while Christmas shopping for loved ones, concentrate on gifts that are fun, meaningful, inexpensive, locally made and long-lasting. You can buy tech anytime and it will be cheaper on Dec. 26.

Bad Deal Black Friday