Black Friday 2025 - What did you get?
 

...yes. Black Friday now exists in my part of the world as well. Retailers imported it plus Halloween in October as well, even though we already have a similar holiday for dressing up and pulling pranks called Carnaval.

Anyway, I got:

Red Dead Redemption

Final Fantasy VII-VIII Remastered Twin Pack

Octopath Traveller

All of these for the Switch with cartridges. The most expensive one was Octopath which cost me 34 euro.

I'd say it was a solid haul.

I got a new electric razor from Amazon.

I could use a new razor too tbh. Mine finally died sometime ago and shaving has been kind of funny lately.

Ah to be a grown up...

I haven’t see any good deals anywhere. Kevin Eastman’s store is all 20 percent off, but not really anything I need.

I’m praying Amazon puts the Super7 4kids turtles on sale again. I never grabbed Donatello when he was $44, but now I wish I would have. Was able to get the other 3 a few weeks ago for $20-35, which was great.

Ah I haven't bought action figures in years. I bought 4 large FW TMNT action figures back in 2012 or so. Those were my last ones.

Sometimes I do spot a cool action figure and all but never buy it because I'd just have it inside a box or posing on my shelf and that doesn't appeal to me. Action figures were the **** when I was a kid because I got to play with them. As a 30+ year old man I no longer do that lol

The only thing I got this year was just an extra 20% Black Friday discount at the comic shop.

I already bought any game I wanted and the ones I don't own didn't have any kind of sale or discount. I didn't need any new electronics, and we already bought the PS5 earlier in the year. If anything, maybe we would have gotten one as a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale, but we already got it.

Not a thing. Stayed home, barely looked at anything online and the only things I did look at are, of course, not on sale. Maybe I'll check again for "Cyber Monday" if I can remember to.

Discounts a couple things we were already planning to get daughter for Xmas

Nothing in movies so I put that money to pre-ordering Pee Wee’s Big Adventure from Criterion

So far only Paper Mario:Thousand year door on Switch for $32. I had it on Gamecube for 20+ years, but now the Switch remaster.

Didn't you work retail? If you still do that, then I don't blame you at all for staying home. This past week must have been rough at work.

My brother has it for the GC. I'll see if he'll let me play it sometime instead of buying the Switch remaster.

Kind of... vendor employee, Field merchandiser/rep, so it happens in a retail environment, but thankfully I don't work for those stores. I don't have to deal with people unless they're actually shopping my company's stuff.

That said, those accounts were busy on Wed., and for some reason schools around here have decided that kids now should have off ALL week, so everyone's whining, obnoxious kids were also out there, so enjoying the peace Thurs and Friday was nice.

Many regular retail people here unfortunately do have to work Thanksgiving and Black Friday, while we enjoy the luxury of staying home. Stores don't usually want us vendor people present on Black Friday anyhow. Not sad about that. lol Other than annoying people around this week was fine. Our crazy burden is all next week instead, changing seasonal stuff around again and Christmas fully goes up.

I got a deal for 12 training sessions with my fitness instructor with 3 of them being free.

I never goto Black Friday retail. Not worth it imo.

I ordered 3 movies from Amazon...

M3gan and M3gan 2.0 4k/Blu Ray ($13 each)

Sonic 2 Steelbook 4k/Blu Ray ($15, hadn't bought it, just part 1)

I don't have a 4k TV but they come with the Blu rays...you can get a 4K TV some other time. Just 1 is typically $25. Hope they don't come damaged. I don't have any steelbooks. In general I don't care about special covers but it's a great price and the Sega Genesis cover is obviously the cooler one.

No games or toys most of those are not on sale. Not the ones I'd want anyway.

I never really bother with Black Friday except for once I got a big TV several big TVs ago.

Incidentally I did do a big $3000 purchase this Black Friday. Upgraded from my Canon R6 Mark II to the Canon R6 Mark III. Pretty wild the difference between the two, really, despite the camera bodies looking almost (like 99.5%) exactly the same.

The problem with Black Friday is how a lot of deals are not as good as they make it look like. As in the products are on sale with an appealing discount, but perhaps they had a bigger discount sometime earlier in the year already?

I hate when it's like "up to 40% off!" but most of it is like... 10% now. Also, I swear as kid most stuff was on sale, often for a lot more, while now it's often just "special deals," so you aren't going to get any deals unless you're actually after that one particular thing.

That's probably marketing's oldest trick in the book lol

And you'd think they'd be less greedy in a time where people are tighter on money compared to 20-30 years ago but noooo...

The other trick is an item always costing say... 80 bucks, but then on Black Friday it's like regular price 100 but now special price 80!