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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
it pisses me off to no end that a store can sell something for 5 hours and a really low price but cant sell it for the same price any other time.
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The prices you see on Black Friday are actually losses most of the time. At RadioShack, we had (for example) a 7" portable DVD player on sale for $150 with a $70 Mail In Rebate... bringing it down to $80. At $150, we're barely making a profit on it. At $80, it's a significant loss. You can't get that price every day. The prices exist to get people into the store, where they will then proceed to buy other things, that are not on sale. From then, when they have a good customer experience, they will become repeat customers, who will continue to buy things.
That doesn't mean I'll buy things on Black Friday. I don't even bother looking at the sales. I don't want to put up with all that shit just to save myself a few dollars on something I don't really need anyway.