This year, the list of stores participating in the Black Friday sale has expanded significantly, and most importantly, now customers are offered really significant discounts on the most popular and desired products. Even the latest models of Samsung and Apple smartphones are offered at incredibly tempting prices.

It's just not that simple, and we need to remain vigilant so as not to make mistakes these days. What mistakes can there be? There are only two main ones - to buy unnecessary things and fall for the tricks of scammers. There is also a third, when stores set the initial price prohibitively high, make a big discount, but even with a discount it turns out to be expensive. We have discussed this deception many times, we will not repeat it. Today we are only talking about offers with decent discounts.




1. Long before the start of the Black Friday sale, not only honest stores were preparing for it, but also swindlers. Many exact copies of stores were created, which are very difficult to distinguish from the original, because they use the same design and site structure, and the difference lies in one or two characters of the address. In such a store, you give the money and get nothing!

2. In addition to the copied stores, you can encounter scam sellers on the real sites aliexpress.com and ebay.com. These salespeople work for the future. They create many accounts and let them lie down, then a few months before Black Friday they start trading various small things in order to gain a rating and create the appearance of active work.

Before the sale starts, they fill the store with the hottest items and set very tempting prices. As a result, during the sale, such a seller can sell several hundred smartphones at a price of $ 600-800, take all the money and calmly abandon the store. For the next sale, he is already preparing a new store, which is decorated in the most cunning way in advance.

Aliexpress and ebay.com fight against fraud, but this phenomenon cannot be completely eradicated. People will always find loopholes and opportunities to withdraw money from other people.

3. Counterfeit goods. During the sale, you may be sold fakes of various qualities under the guise of original items. Therefore, purchases must be made in trusted stores, carefully check the name of the site in the address bar, use official smartphone applications and carefully study the sellers on aliexpress.com and ebay.com.




This type of deception is much more difficult to recognize, so many people allow themselves to be deceived all their lives and for some time remain satisfied that they are being deceived.

The modern consumer society is organized in such a way that brands and companies must constantly grow. If they stop growing, others come out ahead, take their market share and gradually crowd out them altogether. Therefore, manufacturers and stores must maintain an army of marketers to sell more and more.

And consumers are happy to follow their lead. The modern model of success is built in such a way that a successful person must consume a lot of goods, services and experiences. If there are no opportunities, you must try to pretend. Social networks constantly motivate and urge us to buy new and new things.

In the consumption race alone, there are no winners. The real needs of a person can be satisfied very quickly, and then there is simply a race to satisfy pride and vanity. It is impossible to satisfy these passions, they will always demand more and more. If we do not come to a conscious lifestyle in time, the consumption race devastates not only our bank accounts, but our whole soul.



What did I buy during the Black Friday sale? My answer is 6 pairs of socks! It was very interesting for me to study the offers from the sale, at some moments I even wanted to buy, but I asked myself the question, do you really need it?

I have an excellent financial situation, you can completely surrender to shopping and buy without stopping all days of sale from morning to evening. But why all this? Why buy shoes if 10 or 12 pairs haven’t been worn yet. Why buy a third smartphone? Why buy jewelry when half of the items from the collection were worn just for the sake of trying them on?

Maybe buy a new laptop? The new discounted models look tempting, but I already have three great laptops. Even if they are not new, one is 2 years old, another is 3, and the last is two months, but in all characteristics they are slightly inferior to the most modern models. After a little reflection, I realized that there is no point in buying a fourth laptop even with a huge discount.

At some point, I wanted to buy more cosmetics, but after evaluating my stocks, I came to the conclusion that much would have to be simply thrown out without opening, because cosmetics have a shelf life, and it is unrealistic to have time to use everything.

A lot of outerwear was bought. Remains dresses and bags, there are never many of them, which means that you can buy and buy. Only when to wear all this? It may turn out like this - now you will buy a beautiful thing, it will wait in the dressing room for its hour, and then you will buy another one and another. Thus, new things will be stored for years until the moment when you want to get rid of them.

This year, we managed to overcome the temptations and pitfalls set by marketers. Only 6 pairs of socks have been bought, which are intended as a gift, but personally I do not need anything this time. Let's get ready for the next Black Friday sale. This is how smart consumption begins.