Black Friday: the price is not always right

The Black Friday is upon us and the shopping feveralso thanks to the Imminent Christmas, increases. However not always it is as affordable as it would seem.

Black Friday: pay attention to prices

Price listthe price comparison site, noted how al Black Friday of 2018 prices have fallen, on average, by 0.95% and, in some cases, they even are increased.

One tip is to compare carefully the trend of prices to do a purchase reasoned and that it is not dictated by the euphoria of the moment.

Doing so is simple: PriceSpy monitors some products for which the “price history“, A graphic and it price history to understand if at present it is convenient or not; in addition it also provides a future price prediction.

The last wheel of the discount wagon

To give an example, during the last Black Friday they were the Notebook to be less discountedwith a price change of -0.30%.

Even the price is increased by 19.50% of cases.

Smartphone And TV have been through it better: -1.07% for the first, -1.43% for the latter. As for Smartphones, the 25% of the products was on sale, but the 19.17% had a higher price compared to the other days, which made the discount average quite small.

One in three TVs it was sold at a price lower and the 7% had an average discount of 16%.

That of earphones is another category with high demand.

The 6% was proposed with one average discount of 21%the highest among all products, but since the 21.40% was sold to a higher pricethe total average it was a increase of 4%.

Pagomeno’s comment

Lucio NataloniCountry Manager of PriceSpy, said: “Black Friday is becoming more and more popular with consumers, so much so that in the last two years the search volume for online products has increased by 34%.

By monitoring the price trends of the most popular products on a daily basis, however, we found that on average the discount percentage on Black Friday is not like that.

This is why we provide them with a simple, impartial and complete price comparison tool, so that every purchase is made in a conscious way and not in the wake of emotion ”.

Also in 2018, the products more convenient were i microwave ovens with a price change of -4.34%with a discount average of 18% for 6% of products offered.

Instead the brand winter jackets (The North Face, Napapijri etc) are increased by 7% on average.

In conclusion, be vigilant on product prices and don’t get too carried away by enthusiasm!