Apple & Black Friday.

[iBlueBox]

Anyone know how much Apple will take off the Macbook Pro in £'s for Black Friday?

[Recursion]

No.

/longer

Edited by Oleh (Forum Moderator): Please do not post pointlessly

[Mr-Trainor]

On the Australian Apple Store, the discount is $121. Converting that in to GBP, if they go for around the same amount then it could be about £80 off. We'll find out tomorrow though :P.

[Recursion]

£80? That's a bit rubbish compared to the student discounts :P

[Casio]

In the US it's also $121 which is roughly £70-80, so could be good discounts for us too.

[HotelUser]

Apple's actually giving discounts on things?

[iBlueBox]

Apple's actually giving discounts on things?

They have on Black Friday for a while I think.

[Mark]

£31 reduction on the iPad 2, that's the biggest discount they can do...

[iBlueBox]

Just got back from PC world to get sisters computer.

While there mum noticed they had Macbook Pro what I wanted for christmas.
PC world said they'd match Apples price so took, £81 of it. So just got it then, but not aloud to christmas.

[Markeh]

Speaking of PC World, from their Black Friday sale I just scored a 20" AOC 2036SA 1600x900 monitor. Perfect for my workshop.

£50. Bargain.

[GommeInc]

Why do we have Black Friday all of a sudden and how do we ship it back to the US? Awful name for a marketing event - there was nothing wrong with the name "Christmas Shopping" :/ It sounds like Black Plague or Black Death. Let's hope we don't start cramming ourselves into shops and crushing other humans beneath our feet.

That said, I got a good amount of bike accessories for cheap today - from the Black Friday Christmas Sales.

[Recursion]

Black friday, when the company books go from red (debt) to black (profits) ;)

I'm sure we never even had this in the UK last year?

[iBlueBox]

I think it's only recently started to hit the UK from last year and this.

[GommeInc]

Black friday, when the company books go from red (debt) to black (profits) ;)

I'm sure we never even had this in the UK last year?
We didn't, because it doesn't make sense - it's a wild assumption to assume a day can magically make your accounts go from red to black in a single day :P In fact, most companies who follow this strange, American marketing ploy are in the black anyway (Amazon and Apple are the two I understand followed a Black Friday campaign).

Christmas is a good time for retailers to make money, they need not call it Black Friday :P Commericialisation of Christmas is a good time generally, it need not need a dark name - especially when the books aren't acounted for until the end of the tax year, so you could well have a red Friday waiting for you in April :P

EDIT: John Lewis Parnership have made themselves in the red anyway, they may not see profits until the New Year. As you can tell, I hate daftly named days which make absolutely no sense :P Ship it back to the US, with reversed charges.