Getting ready for Black Friday, or How to find out the real price of a product before the sale

Many of us are waiting for the end of the year to buy things with a dizzying discount on the famous "Black Friday". Sellers carefully prepare for sales, because this is a great chance to sell a stale, unpromising product. But the "junk prices" that attract customers are not always honest-stores often deceive us, pre-inflating the cost of things, then to cross it out in red and "favor" us with a "discount". How not to fall for this common trick?

So that you do not sell the product for its real value or with a meager discount, you need to be a little vigilant. We will tell you how to calculate the cunning merchants and teach you to buy only things with good discounts. In our country, such knowledge looks like a revelation, but abroad, where the "Black Friday" comes from, it is much more difficult to deceive consumers.

Germans are preparing for the season of pre-Christmas sales in advance. They wander around the shops, try on clothes, look at household appliances and gadgets, but they don't buy anything. They look for the goods that will be bought at sales and fix its real price.

Someone remembers, someone photographs the price tags, and some even write down the information in a notebook without hesitation. This is a very good, working scheme, which would not hurt to adopt our fellow citizens. It offers several advantages at once, which are not immediately possible to guess.

Another good way from the arsenal of foreign shopping enthusiasts is to track prices using a special Fetchee app. It works with stores from around the world, and to keep track of the price, you need to register and select the products you are interested in. When the price of them changes, you will receive a message. Yes, the program tracks not only the prices of clothing and equipment, but even the cost of airline tickets.

For those who prefer to shop on Amazon, there is a special resource that offers price monitoring — camelcamelcamel.com/. Using this service is very simple — you just need to copy the link to the desired product on Amazon and paste it into the line on the site. You can see how the price of this item has changed over the entire time of its sale.

Copy the product link from the online store to the search bar and after loading the search results, click on the down arrow next to the product link. You will see the "saved copy" function, using which you can see what the product page looked like a few weeks ago.

You can see the dynamics of changes in prices for electronics, for example, gadgets, televisions, laptops and photo equipment on the website of the domestic resource historyprice.ru. This service collects information about the prices of large online retailers and provides it to all interested parties.