I take the opportunity to get cat treats and the seresto flea collars for cheap, otherwise I don’t bother. This year especially prices haven’t been the geatest.
There have been lots of sales and “discounts,” but not a whole lot of things that were that much cheaper than their usual prices or the usual discount price they get to pretty commonly. At least, not in the segments I was looking at. There were a few actually pretty decent deals if you had three or ten thousand dollars to throw away, and wanted something like that, but the more typical “hey let’s get a really good bargain” kind of sales just weren’t there in the kinds of quantities that made the sales weekend famous.
The whole Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/SomethingSunday/CyberMonday/Giving Tuesday/You Forgot Wednesday thing has passed its prime. It was a thing at one time, but now it has gotten so overblown that there is no point. If everything you have is on sale for over a month, it’s no longer a sale. A site “features” several thousand sale items? That’s ridiculous. No one is going to look through those.
It’s like what happened to woot. Too many offshoot pages and no one wants to look at that many.
I needed to go to the local farm and ranch store to get some chicken feed. I looked through the flyer while I was there and found some stuff on sale that I wanted. One was a Vortex binocular and rangefinder combo for $125 off the regular price. When I got home something clicked. I looked at my receipt and the cashier did not ring it up. I went back on Saturday to settle up and they were beside themselves with my honesty. To show their gratitude the manager knocked another 10% off making it a really sweet deal.
I just can’t take advantage of people. I was raised better.
@tweezak Vortexes any good? I had the Fusion X, they fell off a chair and got so badly misaligned that Bushnell refused to service them under warranty.
@Catburd I know many hunters who swear by Vortex. It’s the only brand they will buy however when you get down to it that’s because Leupold is too expensive (Leupold gold ring stuff is superior, IMO). I’ve always had Nikon and Leupold. This is my first Vortex anything. We bought a REALLY nice Leupold Gold Ring scope for my wife’s hunting rifle. It cost probably double what the rifle cost. When I was comparing binoculars for her, I compared Vortex and Leupold. The Vortex had visible internal reflections but the Leupold had none that I could detect. Definitely superior optics from what I could tell. I bought her the Leupolds. As an aside, I haven’t noticed any reflections in the Vortex Crossfire binos I just bought. That said, the conditions in my house are very different than in Cabela’s with a ton of fluorescent lights hanging from the ceiling so not a valid comparison.
FWIW, the coolest binos I’ve played with were at a pawn shop. They were image-stabilizing binoculars. Not sure of the brand. I know Canon makes some. VERY cool!
@tweezak I know Sig has a line of image-stabilized binos too. They had them out at Decorah, Iowa for the NRL Little Hunt on the Prairie. Very neat stuff. No rangefinder though.
It’s all just exhausting. I kind of feel bad about “small business Saturday” getting lost in the shuffle because it’s a more legitimate cause than nearly all the rest of it.
I see if anything grabs me on Slickdeals. But I already have too much crap.
Maybe by Monday I found something I want
I think some sites have the aeropress on sale right now. Usually it doesn’t go below $30 or so even on sale.
I might get one of those
If I’m gonna spend, I might get a special illustrated edition of some book on sale that I love
And I’ll check out Audible and Chirpbooks and the like.
Both of them are running sales right now and I’ve spent stupid money, considering that I’m just buying audiobooks
I might pay more attention to the sale if I were buying serious gifts for somebody other than me
Nay-ish this year. I had to help some friends stay on their feet.
I take the opportunity to get cat treats and the seresto flea collars for cheap, otherwise I don’t bother. This year especially prices haven’t been the geatest.
Is Meh going to offer really good deals? I can wait, some more, I guess.
There have been lots of sales and “discounts,” but not a whole lot of things that were that much cheaper than their usual prices or the usual discount price they get to pretty commonly. At least, not in the segments I was looking at. There were a few actually pretty decent deals if you had three or ten thousand dollars to throw away, and wanted something like that, but the more typical “hey let’s get a really good bargain” kind of sales just weren’t there in the kinds of quantities that made the sales weekend famous.
The whole Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/SomethingSunday/CyberMonday/Giving Tuesday/You Forgot Wednesday thing has passed its prime. It was a thing at one time, but now it has gotten so overblown that there is no point. If everything you have is on sale for over a month, it’s no longer a sale. A site “features” several thousand sale items? That’s ridiculous. No one is going to look through those.
It’s like what happened to woot. Too many offshoot pages and no one wants to look at that many.
/giphy past its prime
I needed to go to the local farm and ranch store to get some chicken feed. I looked through the flyer while I was there and found some stuff on sale that I wanted. One was a Vortex binocular and rangefinder combo for $125 off the regular price. When I got home something clicked. I looked at my receipt and the cashier did not ring it up. I went back on Saturday to settle up and they were beside themselves with my honesty. To show their gratitude the manager knocked another 10% off making it a really sweet deal.
I just can’t take advantage of people. I was raised better.
@tweezak Vortexes any good? I had the Fusion X, they fell off a chair and got so badly misaligned that Bushnell refused to service them under warranty.
@Catburd I know many hunters who swear by Vortex. It’s the only brand they will buy however when you get down to it that’s because Leupold is too expensive (Leupold gold ring stuff is superior, IMO). I’ve always had Nikon and Leupold. This is my first Vortex anything. We bought a REALLY nice Leupold Gold Ring scope for my wife’s hunting rifle. It cost probably double what the rifle cost. When I was comparing binoculars for her, I compared Vortex and Leupold. The Vortex had visible internal reflections but the Leupold had none that I could detect. Definitely superior optics from what I could tell. I bought her the Leupolds. As an aside, I haven’t noticed any reflections in the Vortex Crossfire binos I just bought. That said, the conditions in my house are very different than in Cabela’s with a ton of fluorescent lights hanging from the ceiling so not a valid comparison.
FWIW, the coolest binos I’ve played with were at a pawn shop. They were image-stabilizing binoculars. Not sure of the brand. I know Canon makes some. VERY cool!
@tweezak I know Sig has a line of image-stabilized binos too. They had them out at Decorah, Iowa for the NRL Little Hunt on the Prairie. Very neat stuff. No rangefinder though.
It’s kind of terrible for me because my
brain thinks the whole frenzy is a legitimate excuse to spend more money
than I should.
It’s all just exhausting. I kind of feel bad about “small business Saturday” getting lost in the shuffle because it’s a more legitimate cause than nearly all the rest of it.
This whole month has been “Black Friday”. I get clients to buy computers this month because the deals are the same for the whole month.
I like getting deals for myself but I don’t shop for anyone else because I don’t celebrate holidays.
I see if anything grabs me on Slickdeals. But I already have too much crap.
Maybe by Monday I found something I want
I think some sites have the aeropress on sale right now. Usually it doesn’t go below $30 or so even on sale.
I might get one of those
If I’m gonna spend, I might get a special illustrated edition of some book on sale that I love
And I’ll check out Audible and Chirpbooks and the like.
Both of them are running sales right now and I’ve spent stupid money, considering that I’m just buying audiobooks
I might pay more attention to the sale if I were buying serious gifts for somebody other than me