Why Am I Still Being Offered Black Friday Discounts

[Canary42]

My junk mailbox is still being swamped with Black Friday offers. Today is Sunday. Why then is it called Black Friday ?

[Elina]

Hi Canary, link here. Your junk mail box is still receiving offers beee s to be had. The fighting that breaks out to get their hands on a bargain! .. The whole idea repulses me. What happened to people??

[Elina]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/what-black-friday-2014-everything-4708508

[Elina]

'Your junk mail box is still receiving offers because they're still to be had'

[janbee]

I'm getting them too canary. .. from the likes of Amazon, Gossard, M & S,Harvey Nicks, Boost juice Bars, Pretty Polly, Debenhams. etc The list is endless. I'm not interested in any of it so it all goes straight into my junk box. Still a nuisance though.

[Canary42]

Thanks for that link Elina - but I still think the name's wrong :-)

And as for people, well "greed is great" has been the growing mantra since the Eighties (remember Yuppies), much reinforced recently by the Bankers of course.

[Elina]

I pity what society is becoming Canary.

[jno]

just think of it as early Boxing Day sales (not that such a thing exists any more). If you see something you want and it's cheaper than normal, go for it.

But beware price cuts. I was reading yesterday how somebody was offering Christmas trees at "50% off". Turns out the original price, that had been halved, was only on a website, and only for a week in August...

[Prudie]

Because it's not just one day. An assistant in a very busy Peacocks really made me laugh at the till on Friday - when things came up cheaper then the marked price I said I suppose it's Black Friday? He replied they had discounts right up until Sunday so for them it was going to be a Black weekend!

[jno]

it's Cyber Monday tomorrow so expect cuts in online shopping sites