Is black Friday realy all that Close?

[CKatt]

So it's about a month away now, and already I'm seeing advertisements for pre-Black Friday sales.

Since it's been a few years since I've looked at PC component pricing I'm not sure what to expect come the 24th of November. If I see something that looks like a good deal now should I jump on it or does that just mean there is even better yet to come?  Of course no one knows the future but any of you doing this the last couple years notice any trends?

I'm planning to pick up a new CPU, motherboard, ram and PSU

[dizmo]

I'd just wait for Black Friday, or Cyber Monday. Depends where you are and how you shop, really. 

 

If you don't care exactly what you're getting down to model, then you'll get good savings. If you're set on specific items, you may or may not save anything at all. 

[RONOTHAN##]

32 minutes ago, dizmo said:

If you don't care exactly what you're getting down to model, then you'll get good savings

*sometimes

 

There still is the fact that over the last couple years the only things to really go on sale ever is SSDs and PSUs. Most other components stay at or near full price with the exception of a couple last-gen CPU deals (though these are becoming more year-round). If you want to build now, just buy now IMO, it's not really worth it unless you are just looking to upgrade an already mostly-capable system. 

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

*sometimes

 

There still is the fact that over the last couple years the only things to really go on sale ever is SSDs and PSUs. Most other components stay at or near full price with the exception of a couple last-gen CPU deals (though these are becoming more year-round). If you want to build now, just buy now IMO, it's not really worth it unless you are just looking to upgrade an already mostly-capable system. 

Maybe where you are, but that hasn't been the experience for me and the builds I do around the holidays. 

[TempestCatto]

Honestly I stopped jumping at "sales" like this because more times than not, the sellers jack the price higher than normal, then mark it down a bit to make it seem like you're getting a deal. When in reality you'd save more if you buy it next month.

[CKatt]

Thanks for the perspectives.

I'm in Canada if that matters.

Canada Computers has what looks like a decent bundle right now.  I had been hoping to pick up a 13600k so I was going to wait and see where that's at on BF/CM.

While the sale I mentioned runs for a while there's always the risk of stock running out.

[sk8rs_dad]

Some vendors offer a price guarantee leading up to Black Friday to avoid the pre-sale slowdown.  Black Friday and Cyber Monday haven’t been much of an event in recent years.  Most of the “deals” were available at a lower price earlier.  There’s also the phenomenon of jacking up prices leading up to Black Friday so the “sale” price is the price it was a few weeks before.

[Supersonicwolfe]

Oh yes, in China they are having 11.11 sale already... in October...  and they offer 30-day price guarantee.

 

I pulled trigger on 5800X3D too early and lost $100 discount (but, it's consistently sold out... so.... )

 

DeepCool LT750 AIO is only 70 USD... what a steal...

 

LianLI Lancool 3 got down to 100 USD and Razer Blackwidow V3 down to about 60 USD

 

But do use a price-tracker like camelcamelcamel for Amazon, there are other apps in different region, including China too.

[thrasher_565]

2 hours ago, dizmo said:

Maybe where you are, but that hasn't been the experience for me and the builds I do around the holidays. 

ya but if your looking online for deals all the time you start to notice things. the prices at bf normally pop up before at the same or better price anyway. but its just how low will the price go... and things just get discontinued imo trying to get the best deal you have to spend alot of time looking...and even then you might miss it.

 

pc parts are wired. i was going to get another 6600k since it was like $200 new and well years later way faster and cheaper cpus than it and it only now has dropped in price... but i no its a low wat cpu so i guess thats why people liked it i guess...

Edited November 1, 2023 by thrasher_565