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    Der Black Friday wird zum Black Fraud Day, sagt der britische Chef für Cybersicherheit


    Der Black Friday wird zum Black Fraud Day, sagt der britische Chef für Cybersicherheit

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/18/black-friday-turning-into-black-day-says-uk-cybersecurity-chief

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    12 Comments

    1. EdmundTheInsulter on

      The whole thing is an invention by retailers so that they can benefit how they want to.

    2. tony220jdm on

      Prices go up in November to bring them back down for the black Friday event

    3. Cutemudskipper on

      I didn’t know we were calling Amazon online criminals now, but I’m not opposed to that. I don’t know if it’s amazon as a whole or just individual sellers, but it’s ridiculous how they get away with scamming people every sale.

    4. NuggetKing9001 on

      Every year I put a load of stuff I’d want to buy in my Amazon basket. When the price changes, it tells you the whole “information but items in your basket” message.

      Everything I put in there dropped by pennies, but the advertised price was as though it had been cut by a substantial amount. The items had never been advertised at the “old” price, which had now been slashed through.

      It’s fraud, a scam, whatever you want to call it, but you aren’t saving anything.

    5. Turbantastic on

      I saw an old lady get shoulder charged into the shadow realm all for a shite Polaroid TV a few years back in Asda. Mental what people do to “save” a few quid.

    6. ChefExcellence on

      Did any of the commenters here read the article? It’s not about retailers like Amazon fiddling with prices to make discounts look more substantial than they actually are, it’s about fraudsters who are not legitimate retailers at all.

    7. FaceMace87 on

      Black Friday in this country is usually just an opportunity for retailers to clear out the shit they can’t sell

    8. Enough_Ad6462 on

      There are websites that survive a few months during sale times that only exist to take people’s money. Watch yourselves when buying from an unfamiliar website. They are getting more sophisticated and faking a decent website isn’t hard. Even Amazon gets many temporary listings but at least they have good record to protecting customers who get scammed.

    9. ChorltonCumLightly on

      It’s such a nothing event in the UK that retailers desperately try to make a “thing”.

      In the US there’s an actual reason for it. Black Friday is in between Thanksgiving and Christmas. As their stock changes from one holiday to another, in the weekend after thanksgiving the logistics of pricing work out that it’s more cost effective to reduce prices to clear their warehouses for Christmas stock.

      There is no reason for Black Friday to exist here, as most people already know it’s a shallow scam to make retailers look cheap at the time of year where they can get away with their highest prices.

    10. corf3l on

      2 days ago I added a kettle/toaster into my amazon basket that was £125
      Today it’s listed a £145
      Wonder what it’ll be on Friday…

    11. Baslifico on

      > “Never feel pressured into buying anything online,” said Adam Mercer, the deputy director of Action Fraud. “Creating a false sense of urgency is a tell-tale sign of a fraudster.”

      No it’s not, it’s a standard sales technique used _literally everywhere_.

    12. c3ric on

      We all are a bit more tight with money, i know it requires more effort, but do your search if you really want a product.
      I do major purchases like a new tv, hoover or a kitchen appliance in time, usually a month to a few months of planning keeping an eye for the best deal

      A product on offer doesn’t necessarily mean is a good deal or of good quality and we can see that on regular products in store.

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