We’re just days away from seeing virtually every online electronics and tech store go crazy with deals for the Black Fridaywhich, as you already know, is not limited to “Black Friday” but extends over the previous week, or even longer. And if you’re looking for it new devices for your PC or console, you probably can’t wait for these offers to start making your purchases… however, in this article we are going to give you a series of advice make the right purchase and you can save the most money possible.
In this article we will focus on peripherals (keyboards, mice, headphones, monitors, chairs, etc.) because, traditionally, these are the devices that sell the most on these dates. Many of them cost relatively little money, which can lead us to rush into the purchase without carefully thinking it through first, sometimes resulting in overpaying. So let’s start with the advice that, based on our experience, we can give you in this regard.
Let Black Friday deals be real deals
Well, we all know what happens on these dates, and if you don’t know, we’ll tell you; It’s like those “VAT free day” promotions, which reduce the price of many products pretending that it’s as if they don’t have VAT, and in reality a few days or weeks before increasing their price to finally end by selling them at the same price, or even more expensive.
Let’s look at an example:
In this store the Corsair isn’t it? Well no, not at all. The monitor is on sale, since they sell it for 1,150 dollars but the reality is that its base price is not 1,659 $ but 1,349 $ (you can see it in the manufacturer’s online store) . In other words, it is on sale, yes, but its discount is not 31% but 14.75%, and you save not 509 dollars but 199.
Do you see what we mean? Here the store significantly inflated the price monitor the basis to make the discount appear much larger than it actually is. In this case the monitor is actually on sale, although less than what is said, but the important thing is to make sure that the offer is real, since there are cases where they end up selling a product above its price. . price.
Compare prices in different stores
Of course, one of the things you should do if you don’t want to spend more money than you should is, when you have already chosen a product, you should compare your price in several stores and do not limit yourself only to the usual store. Be careful, we are not telling you to go looking in unknown and/or dubious stores, but in Europe we have more than a dozen computer and electronics stores in which during this Black Friday they will certainly have promotions on devices, and where you can buy with confidence.
From our own experience we can recommend many stores: Amazon España, PcComponentes, Coolmod, 4Frags, Izarmicro, VSGamers, Alternate, Aussar and GAME are stores where we have personally made purchases without any problems. However, this does not mean that our recommendation remains that you compare the price of each of them.
Watch out for special promotions
This third recommendation would only affect larger stores, since smaller ones usually have general promotions during Black Friday and that’s it. What we want to tell you is that since the “Black Friday promotion” lasts a week or more, they usually organize themed days with special promotions, such as those for peripherals.
In this way, although they will also have many peripherals on sale throughout the period of their Black Friday promotion, some stores activate even lower prices on certain days, as you can see in the image that we have placed at above these lines. For this reason, our recommendation is not to let anxiety get the better of you and wait for the right time to save as much as possible taking advantage of these special days.
