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[Sir Tigger KC]

Post up the Black Friday deals you spot! 

Here's one from Selco,  Bosch 18v combi drill £50 + VAT. 

https://www.selcobw.com/bosch-18v-combi-drill-gsb-18v-21

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Most of the Black Friday 'bargains' are about as genuine as 70% off a DFS sofa.

[ronnyd]

"Which" reckon that 87% of Black Friday "bargains" can be had cheaper during the year.

[Rods2]

Somebody I knew who worked as a buyer for Debenhams and of part of his job was buying in sale stock at advantages prices, so they could make sizable reductions and still make a profit. Overstocks, end of line where a new model is due etc.,etc. are always around for use as sale items. Caveat Emptor applies as always.

[TheBoy]

Most retailers now order in especially for Black Friday, which for many is bigger than xmas.  Nobody in (non food) retail does genuine sales, or have for 20yrs or more.

[aaronjb]

Basically.. if it's something you want/need at a price you can justify to yourself, buy it.
If it isn't or you can't, don't.

It's your money

(He says, eyeing up two new monitors for the home office..)

[Mister Rog]

I'm getting pretty p'd off at all the BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday) crap. It's become totally meaningless, just a commercial excercise.

Just once I got a bargain a couple of years ago, from a small independent shop, an electric guitar a genuine "less than half price". Even now in retrospect, I am very happy with it and the price I paid.

One of these http://glguitars.com/product/asat-classic-tribute-series/

Otherwise . . .'dangle berries'

[Sir Tigger KC]

Yes it's another meaningless American tradition that's been hoisted on us by the big corporates!    How many Brits actually understand the reason for Black Friday? 

I did think that the Bosch drill was a pretty good deal though. 

You miserable old buggers obviously didn't! 

[STEMO]

I love Matt's cartoon today in the Telegraph. A desperate punter sat at a screen showing 'Black Friday deals' and saying 'A bad deal is better than no deal'.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I'm getting pretty p'd off at all the BFCM (Black Friday Cyber Monday) crap. It's become totally meaningless, just a commercial excercise.

Just once I got a bargain a couple of years ago, from a small independent shop, an electric guitar a genuine "less than half price". Even now in retrospect, I am very happy with it and the price I paid.

One of these http://glguitars.com/product/asat-classic-tribute-series/

Otherwise . . .'dangle berries'

I bought Mrs Mig something that looks very similar to that (but a Fender squire) a couple of Christmases ago and it plays beautifully.
For some reason it has a lot less string tension than my much more expensive guitars, which suits my old weak fingers.
I keep getting told off for picking it up instead of my own guitars, on the rare occasion I feel the need to play one.
You don't always get more by paying more. 

[aaronjb]

I love Matt's cartoon today in the Telegraph. A desperate punter sat at a screen showing 'Black Friday deals' and saying 'A bad deal is better than no deal'.

In other words, it's about BREXIT, rather than Black Friday..

[Marks DTM Calib]

Yes it's another meaningless American tradition that's been hoisted on us by the big corporates!    How many Brits actually understand the reason for Black Friday? 

I did think that the Bosch drill was a pretty good deal though. 

You miserable old buggers obviously didn't! 

I fully understand it, he was there as a company for Robinson Crusoe

[Diamond Black Geezer]

I got my B4s at a good deal, and never seen them cheaper since, but aside from them, I'm still looking for anything that's a 'bargain' over what you'd normally see ...

[Doctor Gollum]

Yes it's another meaningless American tradition that's been hoisted on us by the big corporates!    How many Brits actually understand the reason for Black Friday? 

I did think that the Bosch drill was a pretty good deal though. 

You miserable old buggers obviously didn't! 

Stock clearance ready for the new year merchandise. Conveniently also gets people in to the shops to extend the Christmas sales figures...

There's now a Green Monday, second Monday in December...

Remember kids, if you need to put it on plastic, then you don't need it... 

[STEMO]

I'm gonna start my "Spend nowt today" campaign, should go down a bundle in Yorkshire. I haven't picked a date yet.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I'm gonna start my "Spend nowt today" campaign, should go down a bundle in Yorkshire. I haven't picked a date yet.

Yep.....Yorkshire folk like to 'keep brass in pocket'

I lived in North Yorkshire for a while. People didn't tend to like or trust foreigners*


*  English people not born in Yorkshire.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Reminds me of Hale and Pace Yorkshire Airways.

[STEMO]

Nowt wrong with a bit of thrift. Spend your brass on proper bargains, like the fruit and veg man or the butchers at the indoor market.
Bus into town, free. Three carrier bags of fruit, veg and meat, say £15. Bus home, free. Aye, lovely. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Nowt wrong with a bit of thrift. Spend your brass on proper bargains, like the fruit and veg man or the butchers at the indoor market.
Bus into town, free. Three carrier bags of fruit, veg and meat, say £15.15. Bus home, free. Aye, lovely. 

Fixed to allow for the three carrier bags

[STEMO]

Nowt wrong with a bit of thrift. Spend your brass on proper bargains, like the fruit and veg man or the butchers at the indoor market.
Bus into town, free. Three carrier bags of fruit, veg and meat, say £15.15. Bus home, free. Aye, lovely. 

Fixed to allow for the three carrier bags

Carrier bags are free in Barnsley market. You know the ones...so thin that everyone can see what you've bought, and give up as soon as you get ten yards away. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Nowt wrong with a bit of thrift. Spend your brass on proper bargains, like the fruit and veg man or the butchers at the indoor market.
Bus into town, free. Three carrier bags of fruit, veg and meat, say £15.15. Bus home, free. Aye, lovely. 

Fixed to allow for the three carrier bags

Carrier bags are free in Barnsley market. You know the ones...so thin that everyone can see what you've bought, and give up as soon as you get ten yards away. 

#bag fail #oranges everywhere 

[Mister Rog]

Well, after all I said SWMBO has been on about us getting a smart TV. At present we only have stupid TVs.

Tesco 49" smart TV with all all sorts of crap that I probably won't use, £269. Unable to find exact specs on internet, but box says 4k Ultra HD blah blah blah, and I do like the way Toshiba TVs work, so done. I asked about scart and was told that almost everything these days is HDMI, so there goes my VHS player !

[Marks DTM Calib]

Well, after all I said SWMBO has been on about us getting a smart TV. At present we only have stupid TVs.

Tesco 49" smart TV with all all sorts of crap that I probably won't use, £269. Unable to find exact specs on internet, but box says 4k Ultra HD blah blah blah, and I do like the way Toshiba TVs work, so done. I asked about scart and was told that almost everything these days is HDMI, so there goes my VHS player !

So probably a Hisense TV then (Toshiba don't make TVs, they just license the brand to others)

They usually have 1 scart socket as they are targeted at the low markets

[Auto Addict]

Went to Poundland today, disappointed to find no Black Friday deals

[STEMO]

I looked online..Amazon, Currys, Argos, etc., desperately looking for something I might need. Epic fail.

[STEMO]

Having said that, we're off into town tomorrow to get our Christmas cards. The wife just might turn that into a very black Saturday 

[STEMO]

And the slippers I got last Christmas, although still serviceable, are getting quite smelly. So I might lash out £7 or so on a new pair. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

And the slippers I got last Christmas, although still serviceable, are getting quite smelly. So I might lash out £7 or so on a new pair. 

Some shops offer 25% off for students. Worth a try.

[STEMO]

And the slippers I got last Christmas, although still serviceable, are getting quite smelly. So I might lash out £7 or so on a new pair. 

Some shops offer 25% off for students. Worth a try.

Yes. I could wait for my lad to come home from uni for Christmas. Thank you. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

And the slippers I got last Christmas, although still serviceable, are getting quite smelly. So I might lash out £7 or so on a new pair. 

Some shops offer 25% off for students. Worth a try.

Yes. I could wait for my lad to come home from uni for Christmas. Thank you. 

A quarter off £7 is £1.75. Better than a knee to the groin........unless you like that kind of thing.  

[Mister Rog]

Well, after all I said SWMBO has been on about us getting a smart TV. At present we only have stupid TVs.

Tesco 49" smart TV with all all sorts of crap that I probably won't use, £269. Unable to find exact specs on internet, but box says 4k Ultra HD blah blah blah, and I do like the way Toshiba TVs work, so done. I asked about scart and was told that almost everything these days is HDMI, so there goes my VHS player !

So probably a Hisense TV then (Toshiba don't make TVs, they just license the brand to others)

They usually have 1 scart socket as they are targeted at the low markets

Hmm, ok. I've been buying Toshiba TVs for years. I just like the way they work. Anyway, this is the model Tesco £269. Not set it up yet, so no comments for or against. I'm not one of these fussy people who debate screen resolutions etc for ages. I'm sure it will be fine for the price and do what I require.

https://toshiba-tv.com/uk-uk/49v5863db

[TheBoy]

It’s fairly well known tosh are going up the shitter almost as fast as John Lewis.

So I’d not bother with the warranty

[STEMO]

It’s fairly well known tosh are going up the shitter almost as fast as John Lewis.

So I’d not bother with the warranty

Sorry to be pedantic, but surely that's down the shitter? Unless you suffer from a very unusual physical impediment, in which case I apologise for being unsympathetic. 

[Auto Addict]

It’s fairly well known tosh are going up the shitter almost as fast as John Lewis.

So I’d not bother with the warranty

Sorry to be pedantic, but surely that's down the shitter? Unless you suffer from a very unusual physical impediment, in which case I apologise for being unsympathetic. 

 

[ronnyd]

Well, after all I said SWMBO has been on about us getting a smart TV. At present we only have stupid TVs.

Tesco 49" smart TV with all all sorts of crap that I probably won't use, £269. Unable to find exact specs on internet, but box says 4k Ultra HD blah blah blah, and I do like the way Toshiba TVs work, so done. I asked about scart and was told that almost everything these days is HDMI, so there goes my VHS player !

So probably a Hisense TV then (Toshiba don't make TVs, they just license the brand to others)

They usually have 1 scart socket as they are targeted at the low markets

Hmm, ok. I've been buying Toshiba TVs for years. I just like the way they work. Anyway, this is the model Tesco £269. Not set it up yet, so no comments for or against. I'm not one of these fussy people who debate screen resolutions etc for ages. I'm sure it will be fine for the price and do what I require.

https://toshiba-tv.com/uk-uk/49v5863db

I,ve got a Toshiba Regza that my late SIL    gave us when she upgraded to some monster set or other. It,s ok apart from an annoying chassis rattle at a certain soundtrack frequency. Tried changing the settings on sound menu to no avail and forums have loads of people with the same gripe.

[BazaJT]

So why in most places does "Black Friday" last a week at least?

[Bigron]

I have a similar model, ronnyd, and the sound is dreadful from its tiny sixpenny internal speakers, so I feed the audio out into a separate amplifier and speakers.
More annoying than that is its reluctance to come out of standby unless I switch it off at the mains and nack on again. Toshiba know of the problem, and have no cure. Others have reported similarissues - does yours do it as well?

Ron.

[Doctor Gollum]

It’s fairly well known tosh are going up the shitter almost as fast as John Lewis.

So I’d not bother with the warranty

Sorry to be pedantic, but surely that's down the shitter? Unless you suffer from a very unusual physical impediment, in which case I apologise for being unsympathetic. 

Aka uphill gardening 

[ronnyd]

I have a similar model, ronnyd, and the sound is dreadful from its tiny sixpenny internal speakers, so I feed the audio out into a separate amplifier and speakers.
More annoying than that is its reluctance to come out of standby unless I switch it off at the mains and nack on again. Toshiba know of the problem, and have no cure. Others have reported similarissues - does yours do it as well?

Ron.

Can,t say i,ve had that happen Ron lad. It sometimes changes channel when the hard drive recorder starts to record. Heap of shite really, just too stingy to get a new one while it,s still working (mostly) ok.

[biggriffin]

Our Bush TV, is 15 years old. Works fine. No 4k,no hd, and not smart.  Doesn't have valves just.

[Bigron]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

[ronnyd]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

[Sir Tigger KC]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

Essex innit! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

Essex innit! 

Best to keep your hand on your wallet when lairy Essex boys are around.

[Nick W]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

Essex innit! 

Best to keep your hand on your wallet when lairy Essex boys are around.

and the girls even more so: all that leopard print doesn't come cheap

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

Essex innit! 

Best to keep your hand on your wallet when lairy Essex boys are around.

and the girls even more so: all that leopard print doesn't come cheap

I've just had a mental image of Kat from Eastenders dressed like a hooker........she thinks she looks classy.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

Essex innit! 

Best to keep your hand on your wallet when lairy Essex boys are around.

and the girls even more so: all that leopard print doesn't come cheap

I've just had a mental image of Kat from Eastenders dressed like a hooker........she thinks she looks classy.

Is that what hookers look like M'lud? 

As a simple boy from the country I wouldn't know you see.   

[Bigron]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

1/4 German and 1/4 French!

[TheBoy]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

1/4 German and 1/4 French!

Don’t tell albs or tigger!

[Bigron]

Pourquoi?

Ron.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Pourquoi?

Ron.

Such a long word for such a short word.

Typically French.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

1/4 German and 1/4 French!

Don’t tell albs or tigger!

I love Europe and it's peoples.  I've worked and travelled widely on the continent, from Poland to Portugal and from Oslo to Athens. 

It's EU which I hate with a passion.    The organisation that aspires to become a sovereign nation and a not very democratic one at that! 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I am 1/4 Yorkshire and 1/4 Cornish, so every day is a "spend nothing" day!

Ron.

What about the other two quarters?

1/4 German and 1/4 French!

Don’t tell albs or tigger!

And I changed his bloody crank sensor ! 

 

[Bigron]

Don't blame me for the sins of my grandparents, Albs!

Ron.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Don't worry Ron. You are obviously a fully formed Brit. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Don't worry Ron. You are obviously a fully formed Mongrel. 

Like all the English really!