Overclockers UK Kicks Off Black Friday with Incredible Offers

atm apart from tempting mum into a newer phone on Friday i'm just going to clear some credit card space and banking ready for when i finally want a newer chip it's needed but it's want vs need so need to be sensible on it being a decent one at a fair price.

I figure £600 for chip and mobo if ddr4 and if ddr5 add another £200 sometime next year at least but so long as it can feed the GPU fully it'll do so even a 5800x is enough but i'd at least like the v cache be it zen3v or zen4.

My PC is at least allowing me to play anything at ultra so i can't complain especially as i won my card has saved me all the stress everyone else has been going through it's not so much about the saving as it is about being able to enjoy it all nicely :)

Black friday is a mixed bag thou there are deals but across the board less so just a slightly average price rather than marked up.
 
Black Friday is actually a scam for non electrical. There is a loophole regarding "sales"

If you have a franchise with 50 stores. Take any product or garments A,B, and C.
product A costs £25 retail. If they raise the price to £50 in 49 stores, and leave ONE store at £25 they are legally allowed to call that product in the one store as being on Sale with 50% off. They can do that in all 50 stores, with products B and C and more, having 1 product remain the same price, and raise it everywhere else.

Of course there are genuine deals to be made, but there is definately a plethora or deceiving tricks to fool you into thinking you got a deal.

I think electronic products especially online are often legit. There are many "price checking" sites that show you which site has the lowest product. And these sites monitor prices all the time to show you trends. I dont think sites like OCUK will raise them because you will see that has been done.

I think OCUK just flat out rip off their customers from Day 1. (excluding inflation etc.)
Wouldnt surprise me if every product uses a cost plus model.

I worked at Comet years ago and had to change the "Price Tags" and I saw them getting put up in price from October through December in time to return to pre October prices for the "January Sales".

Knocked me sick but people fall for it because they don't know better, my mum falls for it all the time in Morrisons etc, no matter how many times I tell her.

Now when you look at adverts on TV, you will see "Was priced at £xx.xx between xx/xx/xxxx & xx/xx/xxxx" at the bottom is smallish text because of complaints around the whole pricing thing you mention.

I remember hearing I think it was Dixons used to have a store, that they would stock everything at a stupid price, but it was only open 1 hour per year or something stupid like that, and they would link to that store as the "Sold here for x amount between here and here" so they could justify it.

There may be genuine bargains out there, but when it comes to PC stuff typically the main shops don't actually really discount anything, since they will have typically put the price up a couple of weeks before.
 
There's often tiny batches of actual good deals to get people moving, but those are generally gone on an instant.
 
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