• jeremyparker@programming.dev
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        7 months ago

        I'm not sure if there is a "good time" to buy - not as a blanket timeframe for all things. If you want to save money, use camel camel camel and patience.

        However - it all depends on how much you're talking about trying to save, how substantial that amount is to you, and how much your time is worth - because if you make $20/hour and you spend 16 hours in order to save $5, that's not a great investment.

        Black Friday is almost always a scam. Maybe once upon a time it wasn't, but, capitalists gotta capitalize.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      I bought two 4TB USB SSDs half price, they seem well built and were brand new. I think I did pretty well.

      • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
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        7 months ago

        Online? Because I've been looking for some good external data storage solutions today if you've got a link lol.

        I'm also considering springing for a Synology NAS if I can find a good deal, but I've already dropped a lot on a laptop.

        • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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          7 months ago

          I got it from Amazon, but I'm not in USA so for some reason the discount seems much larger on my Amazon which is the complete opposite of how sales usually work here. It's the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB, it seems pretty nice.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Some of the crap being pushed out cheap is made just for Black Friday. Weird TVs with one HDMI port, or the guts of it are leftovers from three years ago, stuff like that.

      I mean sure, buy a PS5 or whatever because there's no cheapo version of that with a PS4 Pro in it, but for things like TVs, tablets, or things with a million different model numbers? Buyer beware.

      • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        They've already been shamelessly doing the exact same thing with outlet malls for ages: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/outlet-stores-quality-1.3392279 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cyvpJYZlk

        So we really shouldn't be surprised, unfortunately.

  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    I had bought a P11 Pro Gen 2 because I wanted an Oled tablet for reading, and outside of buying a very old Samsung S5e, it's basically the cheapest option for oled along with its Chinese counterpart (Xiaoxin Pad Pro). Samsung Oled tablets are all of the # Plus tablets, which usually retail for more than the p11 pro gen 2.