Although there are still a few days until Black Friday officially begins, lthe offers have already started Although the strong day of all will be next Friday, at which time from 12 at night, the main e-commerce stores will begin to launch offers with limited units at special prices.
But before launching ourselves without thinking, we must take into account several factors when going head to head towards these offers, since it is likely that they are products with a long time on the market, and they take the opportunity to get rid of the available stock, or Well, these are products that cannot cover all the needs we need from it. In this article we offer you a series of tips to Take advantage of Black Friday offers without being fooled.
Today Amazon is still the king of online sales on the Internet, not only in Spain but all over the world. Amazon offers us through the Prime program exclusive access to offers 30 minutes before publishing them on its website, so if you are a user of this program, you will have preference in all the offers it launches, in addition to the guarantee that it offers and free shipping, excluding the streaming video service Amazom Prime Video. You can see all those offers right now since they update them every day.
Another of the great ones that we can find when buying electronic dispositions, especially accessories for computers, is PcComponentes, a Spanish company that in recent years, has grown like foam thanks to the good service and prices it offers to all your customers. We also have El Corte Inglés, MediaMark, Worten, the telephone operators and the main manufacturers of mobile devices as a reference to find some other interesting offer.
But not everything is pretty on Black Friday, since we can also find some establishments, either online or physical stores, that offer us interesting advantages, but finally they can be a long-term problem, Hence, it is always advisable to opt for well-known brands and stores that we know offer us equal price and quality.
But not everything is Black Friday, since the following Monday we have Cyber Monday, a new "holiday" intended for electronic products mainly, although over the years, it has also expanded to all kinds of products. Even so, Black Friday will always offer us better deals than Cyber Monday, more than anything because it is much more ingrained in the minds of consumers, since it dates from the late 60s in the United States and for several years in Spain.
Set a budget that you should not go over
Many are the users who do not set a budget when it comes to taking advantage of the Black Friday offers, so in most cases they go crazy to buy items that then they will end up in a drawer without giving it any use. Having a budget and knowing what we are really looking for is the best option to take advantage of the offers that may interest us the most without ending up wasting money.
Check the previous prices of the same establishment
In recent years, one of the wholesalers with the worst reputation, and which boasts of not being stupid, has a habit of weeks before Black Friday start to raise product prices that will enter the offers you plan to make. Most of the time, they don't bother to drop the old price, so we can quickly see if they really are trying to cheat us or not. A few days ago, we could see how prices have already started to rise, especially for some televisions, to offer an incredible discount next Friday.
Being Amazon, the main focus where users focus their attention throughout the year, thanks in part to the wish list where we can add the products that we like but that at that moment are out of budget, on the Internet we can find different services that allow us to monitor the price of a certain product Throughout the year, in this way we will know at all times if the products are really discounted or if the price they show is the usual one, even if the opposite is announced. Thanks to Camelcamelcamel.com we can enter the URL of the products that interest us or the keywords to see the price history of an Amazon product exclusively.
Think if you really need it
If we have been wanting to renew our television for a while, buy some good headphones, renew our smartphone ... this it's the best time of year to do it, although throughout the year we can find the odd offer of models that are about to be withdrawn from the market.
If along the way we find an offer that did not fit into our plans but that seems irresistible, we must stop, breathe deeply and with a cool head assess if we are going to give it utility or it can be used to renew our old device.
Read user reviews
When looking for opinions about a product, as a general rule we found, in 90% of cases, negative opinions, since it is users who have had a negative experience who bother to express their bad experience with a product, so when looking for references about a product or opinions of third parties it is not a good solution.
However, read the opinions of customers who have previously purchased that product and have been correctly rated on a web page, for example Amazon, is usually one of the best options when it comes to knowing if the product is as good as advertised or if, on the contrary, the experience has been discouraging.
Tips for searching safely
The famous incognito mode, not only allows us to avoid leaving any trace on our computer when we visit any type of page, but also allows you to search in a much more effective way for the lowest price of a website. The trackers of the web pages that we visit, know at all times which web page we come from, that we have searched and what price we have found it, in this way we can find different prices on the same website for the same product to try to get it let's buy there.
Visit the shops
Although in recent years e-commerce stores have become the favorites for users when it comes to taking advantage of this day, it never hurts to visit physical stores to check the offers and compare prices since it is possible to find some irresistible offer.
Buy abroad, especially in China
Chinese electronics stores have become enormously popular in recent years and have become an ideal alternative to buy not only products such as smartphones that are only available in China, but also to save money on other types of products that are cheaper than in our country.
But in most cases, all these products go through customs, with the connext surcharge that this supposes and that in the end what could be converted into a significant saving becomes a waste of time, due to delivery time, and of extra money that we had not contemplated. In addition, the issue of the guarantee is a headache, since if we have to send the product back to China we can forget about it for a few months.
Shipping costs
It is likely that on some occasion we will find an offer that is especially striking due to the low price of the product, which quickly forces us to move our eyes to the shipping costs, expenses that as a general rule they usually cover part of the price that has been lowered to attract the attention of the consumer. It must be taken into account that the total price of the product in our house is the sum of the product plus the shipping costs, if any. It is useless to say that we have bought a 50-inch television brand "X" for 500 euros, when we have spent 75 euros of shipping costs.
Refurbished Products
If you are not one of the users who they like to enjoy the smell of "new" Every time we launch a product, we can choose the reconditioned products offered by different companies such as Apple, Amazon or eBay. All these products come from product returns, either because the customer did not like the product, or because they have changed their mind or simply because they made the wrong order.
The only flaw that we can find in this type of product affects the box that it contains, since sometimes it may have some flaw or simply be a completely different box from the original of the product, as it happens in some Amazon products. All these products They offer us the same guarantees as if we bought it new, so it may be a good option to search during this Black Friday in this section, especially on Amazon, since in Apple, Black Friday passes you by.
Tips for shopping on Amazon
Selling on Amazon is very easy, and although the security of the companies that currently offer their products has improved in recent years, you can always escape the occasional new appearance that you can take advantage of for your August both on Black Friday and at Christmas.
- According to Amazon, it has more than 2.000.000 million products in its warehouses, which it manages when we make the purchase through its website. As long as the products are fulfilled by Amazon directly, we will have an additional security and peace of mind when buying them.
- Very attractive price. If the price is too attractive and Amazon is not behind, it may be that behind that company is a scammer, who wants to take advantage of the pull of Amazon and Black Friday to make cash.
- The more opinions the better. Some time ago, Amazon began to inspect all the reviews that some products received, especially when they were few and all of them were 5 stars. The more opinions you find of the same product sold by a specific seller, the better, since it will offer us greater security when buying it.