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    Americans aren’t getting Black Friday deals this year.

    All the increased prices of tariffs and uncertainty, nobody is going to run a sale worth jack.

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    Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.

    You ain’t even getting cheap TVs. 100 people might get one (as a loss leader), the thousands others overpay or are getting shite they’re trying to get rid of.

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      That’s one of the things I felt Honey did well is show you how much something cost for the last 6 months when you’re on the product page. You could see that they whacked the price up a week before black Friday to show you a “50% Off!” banner.

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      Joke is Black Friday deals are more expensive than other times of the year.

      You should have laws against that

      Michael Hill advertised a “Member Event 25% off Sitewide” sale on its website, implying that all products sitewide were discounted by 25% for members, when some products were not discounted.

      MyHouse promoted their sale with ads stating “Up to 60% OFF RRP EVERYTHING ON SALE“, followed by “+EXTRA 20% OFF”. The ACCC considered this misleading as the additional 20% off did not apply to all products.

      Hairhouse Online’s “SAVE 20% to 50% SITEWIDE” promotion was misleading because more than a quarter of the products available on its website were excluded from the sale offer.

      Ensure discount claims are genuine: Only advertise discounts where products have been genuinely offered at the higher price for a meaningful period. Avoid creating artificially inflated “was” prices solely to support discount claims. This also applies to displaying the RRP price next to a discounted price – if the product has not recently been sold at the RRP price, this could be misleading.

      Document pricing decisions: Maintain records of previous pricing to support any discount claims and demonstrate compliance with ACL requirements.

      https://mdlaw.com.au/news-insights/misleadingretailpricing/

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        Americans don’t give a single shit about how fucked they are. If they did, they’d do something about it that’s a little more effective than waving signs at a parade.

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          In my experience it’s more of a “everyone is too overworked and underpaid to have time to fact check all of the political lies being thrown around.” And the people that aren’t overworked are either the ones trying to lead protests and voting movements, or the ones upholding the status quo because it benefits them. Definitely not as simple as “Americans hate having basic protections”

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            You could just say “pants-pissing fear of possible discomfort to the point that they’ll tolerate outright abuse.”

            That’s servile, cowardly bullshit. Those who are overworked and underpaid have greater incentive than anyone to take action.

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              Just because someone is underpaid doesn’t mean they have nothing to lose. That’s exactly why we’re in the situation we are right now. People that are buying the propaganda obviously won’t do anything about it, and even among people that don’t, many aren’t in the position where they’ll be alright if they get wrongly deported, detained, injured, or even just sent to court. Good lawyers aren’t exactly cheap and neither are medical bills.

              Yes, the government here sucks and I don’t want to be caught dead defending them (especially considering they would never defend me), but creating a divide between regular people is also exactly what they want because it helps them promote their naive nationalism. Attacking regular people isn’t exactly a great way to get others to agree with your ideas. All it does is convey a sense of elitism and hostility.

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                Everyone who ever did anything of note had plenty to lose.

                Americans think their historical heroes were Disney characters without families, jobs, or hopes- just the “good guys” whose victory was guaranteed.

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                and they still cheer their asses off at hockey games when they unironically put their hands on their hearts and sing it full-throated like absolute clowns

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    Don’t they just jack up the prices in the 60 days prior so they can show “discounts” which is just the regular price or even higher?

    Edit: oops this meant to be a reply. Anyway yeah put groceries on sale.

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      My favourite part of the pandemic was when they promised $1400 in compensation and wow guess what there is a tv on sale for $1400 and people were like: wow, i need a new tv.