Black Friday

[sp1814]

What are your thoughts on this brand new annual event?

Is it:

a) a great way of picking up bargains before Christmas
b) a cynical exploitation of the gullible
c) a sad import from the U.S. like the bastardisation of Halloween
d) very racist (why isn't there a White Friday???)

Note...d) is a joke.

Really.

[dannyk13]

b) & c)

[Jackdaw33]

Me too, b and c. I'm surprised the PC mob haven't mentioned d. It wouldn't surprise me.

[sapelesam]

b and c, didn't he hang out with Robinson Crusoe.

[emmie]

going on the one show last night, Matt Allright wasn't impressed, he said that by and large one can get these bargains before and after Black Friday.

[ichkeria]

I’ve made great savings today by ignoring the whole damn thing :-)

[Mamyalynne]

It doesn't move me one way or t'other.

[hereIam]

Leaves me cold !

[jno]

if you're looking to buy something, check the price a few days before and on the day. If it's lower, buy.

If you're not looking to buy something, don't.

Ooh look, only three days to Cyber Monday!

[Cloverjo]

Not bothered. I have got a couple of pounds off things online that I would have bought anyway. I'm not going to brave the crowds at shopping centres.

[ludwig]

I wouldn't categorise it as any of those things really. It's just a thing. Obviously an import from the USA but no sadder than any other marketing device.

Personally I take no more notice of something that calls itself a 'Black Friday' sale than I do of a 'New years day' sales or 'blue cross' sale or a 'closing down' sale or any other kind of sale.

[yogi-bear]

b) and c) up to 'U.S' (without the Halloween reference)

January sales are just old, obsolete stock they cant get rid of, unless sold much cheaper.

[Cloverjo]

We went to a shop called "Half Price Sofas" to try to buy ..erm... a sofa. OH asked the sales assistant if we'd have 50% off the ticket price. She said 'No, that's just our name. You don't get half price.'

[Voltage]

E...living next to bluewater and can't effing get in or out because of traffic jams ...pathetic!
Black Friday paah!!

[jno]

bad idea living over the shop, Voltage

[Voltage]

bluewater wasn't here 20 odd yrs ago grrr

[jno]

must have been a surprise ... "arrr, what be they a'buildin' in the bottom field, gaffer?"

[Voltage]

lol...nevermind this time next year we wont be here ...moving!

[emmie]

don't move to the capital, that's log jammed from the get go.

[Voltage]

off to Lincolnshire fingers crossed

[Voltage]

sorry SP for going off subject