Deals are like turds. Some turds - no matter how long you wait or how hard you polish - fail to become diamonds (or get you a grad job at Westpac).
In the recent Black Friday sales, my OzB Stinky Turd award goes to Freedom Furniture for capitalising on Black Friday by sending a sale email without offering a single deal due to recently dropping their outrageous prices to barely palatable ones: https://imgur.com/a/V7TuG
Over to you, community. Dishonourable mentions for Black Friday 2017?
Someone didn't do English in Highschool
Yes.
Unsure what you’re referring to. Stinky turd?
If you have trouble with vulgar language you are going to have a big issue with reading most of the comments in Ozbargain.
very necessary.
Shopping Express's amazing voucher deal. or is it!
(until you read the itty bitty fine print about how the voucher is split up into chunks, has a min purchase each and can't be used on certain items)
Definitely this one
There's tricky and borderline misleading deals all throughout the year.
Let's not forget that deals are not a right.
We should hold a plebiscite on that.
The Watch Factory. I found he was selling one for $249 cheaper on eBay and another for $200 cheaper on eBay, so he raised the eBay prices.
Not really specifically to Black Friday but I bought a TV on Friday at JB Hifi. It was a good deal and I did interest free (so I didn't use my spending money for my Japan trip next month). I received a $20 voucher to be used on another purchase before Xmas… yep a voucher worth about 1% of my total spend.
You got a good deal, great !
Got a $20 voucher , bonus !
Where's the problem ?
It's a stingy voucher. Usually these types of voucher promotions have values of 5-10% (considering you have to come back in store and buy something else).
But it's just a bonus, which is why I mentioned it as an honourable mention rather than crappy in its own right.
I’d like to nominate Appliances Online, purely from my experience, not their prices.
I bought a TV via their eBay store on Friday. Their page was showing as having 8 in stock when I ordered. It was marked sent on Saturday. Delivery day confirmed (twice) on Monday (for Thursday). On Tuesday morning they sent me a message saying that the TV was out of of stock. I was a bit confused, as they’d marked it shipped and confirmed the delivery date (which I reconfirmed via their chat service on Monday to organise the day off of work).
I called them up, but the “eBay lady” was busy, said I would get a call back in one hour. Two hours later, no call back, so I rang up again. Spoke with someone, placed on hold while they checked it out. Call disconnected. I called back a third time, spoke to someone who was clearly stressed and overworked (i.e. a bit…blunt). Checks done, yep, my TV was never sent and they didn’t know when they would get stock. As they had no idea when they would get stock, I cancelled the order. I missed out on a lot of other good deals over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. Oh well…
What a joke! Nothing worse than eBay stores who say they’ve sent something and haven’t. Surprising from a company as big as Appliances Online.
Next time make an eBay dispute for not received and they'll get a black mark :)
is the vulgar language necessary?