[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?

It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with:

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Oi, you lot!

Black Friday - never heard of it before.

All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days.

Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in:

Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders.

This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses.

But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p.

Thank you,

Reply to
Tim Watts
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Tim Watts put finger to keyboard:

Maybe the "Black" in Black Friday refers to your mood? ;-)

Reply to
Scion

Just think yourself lucky we don't have thanksgiving yet!

BTW its black eye friday, well it is in asda and tesco..

Reply to
dennis

How did you manage to avoid it? It is a pre-emptive January sale imported from the US where they celebrate Thanksgiving Day with vast amounts of overcooked turkey and overdose on sickly sweet pumpkin pie.

Are retailers obliged to pay for the extra policing that their marketing frenzy has provoked in deranged bargain hunters?

I expect it will get even worse when we become the 51st US state.

Reply to
Martin Brown

Given that it's more guff from the US, I'm surprised they're not calling it "Friday of Color".

Reply to
mike

In message , Tim Watts writes

I try to make sure I'm never signed up for marketing emails, so I've had very few emails regarding it.

Bit annoying though when I wanted to go on a website and I can't because it's been overloaded

Reply to
Chris French

ha ha very good.. Yes another crap US import - like US'zed halloween.

Reply to
jake

Pretty much ;->

It's rare I actually "get stroppy" dirctly with a supplier, but I've found that when I have (and it's is well deserved - I will always be polite in the case of a genuine mistake) they tend to come back quite quickly.

Like when I moaned at MINI because they wanted an all day booking to look at a knocking on SWMBO's Mini. All I wanted them to do was ramp it and tell me if a spring was broken. I did not expect it fixed on the spot. And the earliest they could look was in a week.

As it happened, I discovered a "shocks and brakes and tyres" place called HiQ that I didn't know existed down the road. the owner (it's a franchise) was decent, helpful and very smart about various common car faults. He gave me a specific appointment the next day. 30 mins after rolling up, they'd verified the sprinsg were fine and isolated the fault to an anti roll bar bush which was not critical. However, they said "factors up the road have the part, if you wait 50 mins we can fix it". They did, and for £70 all in including the time they'd spent with 2 blokes on the ramp rocking it around to find the noise.

They just made themselves a customer for 2 cars for all the stuff they do :)

I would not have worried about a worn bush, but as I was out of there for less than Mini would have charged for a diagnostic, I was happy.

Reply to
Tim Watts

So I can eat 2 turkeys?

Bollocks to that...

I can imagine. Poor moron consumers...

Reply to
Tim Watts

But that will piss off Jose Barrosso.

Reply to
Tim Watts

At least halloween can be fun in a well behaved village community where people knows what's expected of them (ie we do not bother people who don't have a pumpkin out). I enjoyed taking the kids out - going as either Dracula or the Grim Reaper or Charon next year :)

Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day".

Reply to
Tim Watts

I always tick/untick the boxes as appropriate - hasn't stopped the bastards though.

Reply to
Tim Watts

It's a US marketing scam that has come over to the UK

Retail outlets sell goods at a "discount" on Black Friday. In reality the price they are charging is the same as it was last week, last month and higher than the price they will charge in January.

I see that an item I purchased last week is now has a MASSIVE 30% off -- which matches exactly the price I paid with the previous "we pay the VAT and postage" offer.

Reply to
alan_m

Y'know our Boxing Day sales? Digest the turkey by queueing up for shit you don't want or need?

It's that. But a month early.

Reply to
Adrian

Ah, that would be annoying.

I've not had any unexpected ones, including not Ocado. Maybe they think I'm to much of a skinflint. :-)

Reply to
Chris French

Yes - Ocado. Sometimes they send me a Voucher for 1p. I kid you not!

Reply to
Tim Watts

Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it now its out of the box.

Reply to
dennis

+1 mate...

For you I guess it's worse having to let your PC plod through a voice synth on each bloody spam email.

Probably like me listening to a voicemail:

1) Please type your PIN.

2) You have 1 message.

3) First message:

"Silence... Oh hello, I sent you an email and/or a text about something K THX BYE"

4) Message deleted.

3 minutes of my life gone...

And I'd already seen the text and the email!

Reply to
Tim Watts

Several people on my ISP's IRC channel were intending to buy things today from technology companies (such as SSDs), only they found they're more expensive than they were yesterday!

I had an SMS from Vodafone with a URL to check for their Black Friday special offers. I think they forgot to enable it - the URL just gives "Forbidden". What a c*ck-up!

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

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