I don`t there were any bargains, just shit they couldn`t sell through the year at normal prices.
Yep, believe me this is all a con. There is nothing worthwhile being sold at any lower price than can, and will be found at all other times of the year.
Not the case really, if in Jimbob's case there is something you need and monitor the price you can tell if its low.
Often is impulse buy where you don't know, is where people are caught out. But if you look/research items in the months leading up you know if it's a good price or not.
Jimbob MAY have found one of just 8% of retail products that is genuinely lower today, Black Friday, than it will be tomorrow, next week or in "the sales" before Christmas. Unless you have a feed into the sales and marketing departments of the major retail chains, and know exactly what their pricing policy will be on all their lines, that is a closely guarded secret, and you as a consumer will have no idea what the price may be outside of BF, no matter how much research you do. Buying today is a gamble; in most cases you as a consumer will lose and the product WILL end up cheaper than today, or a better quality product will be on offer at a far more competitive price than the "BF so called giveaway".
As said, it is all a con, a gimmick, to make you spend more in the long term.