Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by DjchunKfunK » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:59 pm

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Looking for the cheapest possible PS4 so I can play all the PS exclusives I've missed over the last few years (Horizon, Spiderman, some others I'm forgetting). I'd probably bite around £170.

So far I've not seen a single Black Friday deal anywhere for anything that's tempted me.
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Alan » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:52 pm

:lol:
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Snowy » Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:14 pm

I bought a bottle of Buffalo Trace bourbon (reduced to £15), after my brother asked if he could use some of my Blanton's special reserve to mix a bourbon and coke. I almost had to have him burned at the stake, such was the level of blasphemy in his request.

Black Friday pwned!
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:38 pm

Snowy wrote:
Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:14 pm
I bought a bottle of Buffalo Trace bourbon (reduced to £15), after my brother asked if he could use some of my Blanton's special reserve to mix a bourbon and coke. I almost had to have him burned at the stake, such was the level of blasphemy in his request.

Black Friday pwned!
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Tommy » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:21 pm

I haven't seen anything that's really taken my fancy thus far.

The Echo Dot deals which every retailer seems to be pushing look pretty good, but I'm unsure whether I'm blinded by the reduction.

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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Raid » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:30 pm

I suppose it depends on what you want one for. I use mine to control Hue lights so I have one upstairs and one in the living room (which is plugged into the speakers allowing us to request songs via Spotify). Amazon are currently doing the older 2nd gen model (the type I have) for £20 if you want one for even cheaper.

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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Wrathbone » Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:10 am

The baseline price for a PS4 seems to be £220, which is crap. I was hoping for at least sub-£200. Guess I’ll hang on for a while longer.

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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Raid » Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:01 am

That's actually increased then; the base package PS4 was £199.99 two years ago when we bought ours. Given that the announcement of a true next gen model seems increasingly likely in the next year or so, you'd think they'd be trying to flog them a little more.

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Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Nov 23, 2018 1:30 pm

is that £220 for 500Gb ?
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Solitaire » Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:22 pm

Nespresso from Macy's: Delonghi, also a concrete shaving bowl, and stainless steel sandwich lunchbox from Bespoke (also getting a free "Black Box" gift set from them, with the purchases I made, so we'll see if something interesting is in it, or at least re-gift-able stuff). I partially blame the whiskey that I'm presently drinking for these purchases, but they will all be put to very good use, almost daily, so money well spent I think.
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Rossell » Fri Nov 23, 2018 7:07 pm

The gym I want to join won't make me pay until January if I join them this coming week. Saves me £76. Ah why not.

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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Nov 23, 2018 9:14 pm

meanwhile in the US the $199 PS4 Spider Man bundle has completely sold out everywhere. That is £150, £70 cheaper than the shit deals we get here ](*,)
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Alan » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:33 pm

Xbox one was £140 at Tesco, had to bite my lip to stop wasting money on that
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Drarok » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:46 pm

Achtung Englander wrote:
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meanwhile in the US the $199 PS4 Spider Man bundle has completely sold out everywhere. That is £150, £70 cheaper than the shit deals we get here ](*,)
Are you remembering to factor in sales tax? Their prices exclude tax, ours have VAT included.
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Re: Black Friday - its bollocks but what will you get

Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:11 pm

Most states have single figure percentages
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