Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. But is it worth your time and money? We take a look at the best Black Friday deals, discounts and sales and how to get them.
It's official: Black Friday is coming and its a matter of weeks away. Love it or hate it, Black Friday is here to stay, and this year looks set to be bigger and better than ever. Amazon has already announced details of its Black Friday sale, and we expect the rest of the world's retailers to follow.
Retailers are expected to offer huge deals, discounts and sales on their goods in store and online to get the deal-hungry shopper within us all to spend money. UK customers spend millions on Black Friday every year on everything from TVs and lawnmowers to nappies and candles. You'll be able to find anything you can think of at a discount.
Here, we bring you everything you need to know about Black Friday, and how to get the most out of it. We also bring you the very best Black Friday deals from across the web, to help make sure you don't miss out.
When is Black Friday 2017?
The event is every November, and falls on the first Friday after the US Thanksgiving holiday – this year that is on Friday 24 November.
What is Black Friday?
After a holiday of giving thanks for family, friends and settled life, American retailers opted to juxtapose Thanksgiving with a huge day of commercial spending. Who were we Brits to resist the allure of heavily discounted items too?
It is debated whether or not Black Friday refers to a day retailers finally went ‘into the black’, meaning they finally made profit for the year thanks to heightened sales, or whether it actually has morphed from a description of horrible traffic in Philadelphia on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
When Black Friday first gained huge popularity about ten years ago, it was usual to see newsreel of people physically fighting over big TVs in the middle of Wal-Mart (or Asda in the UK, who has now actually opted to not take part because of the mayhem).
You can’t blame them really, as scenes often got out of hand at shops. But Black Friday has passed beyond trivial now as it has moved online, and it is serious business for retailers.
UK shoppers spent nearly £2bn on Black Friday 2016, a lot of it on discounted technology such as phones, cameras, TVs and Fitbits.
Don’t forget Cyber Monday
Oh yes, and after Black Friday there is Cyber Monday, so-called after retailers realised people go back to work on Monday and kept spending online at their desks.
We might as well call it Black Weekend though, because Saturday and Sunday don’t escape either, it’s four solid days of relentless spending, savings and tempting deals. Gulp.
Best Black Friday deals right now
As we near Black Friday, retailers have begun preparing to kick off huge deals, and some of them have already started, including major sites like Amazon, Currys, and Argos. We bring you the best right here at Tech Advisor.
How to spot a good Black Friday deal
The most important thing to do when considering if something is a good deal is to ask yourself: “Would I still want and buy this if it was full price?” Often the answer to this can be no, which means you need to think whether you’re saving money with a discount, or wasting it caught up in the excitement of a sale.
A deal for one person won’t be a deal for someone else, no matter how many times Amazon, Argos or John Lewis might tell you otherwise.
Sometimes it’s more obvious though. For example, 50% off a £140 Fitbit Charge 2 is a good deal, particularly if you were thinking of getting it in the first place. Conversely, 50% off a £2,000 TV is still £1,000 – think carefully.
Also, it isn’t unusual (or difficult, or illegal) for some retailers to put prices up on Black Friday. Yes, that’s right – sometimes discount prices are higher on Black Friday compared to the rest of the year because dishonest retailers know they will get more page views from people ready to click buy.
So it’s worth scouting out what you want to buy now if you want to wait for Black Friday to check whether the price is in fact better.
Returning Black Friday purchases
You should be able to, as return policies will apply in the same way as the rest of the year, but still check on an individual retailer level. You don’t want to buy something, change your mind and then be stuck with it.
Buying online can be tricky to return items for a refund, so make sure you really want what you Add to Basket.
Black Friday deals curated by us
We love tech here at Tech Advisor (obviously) and we love genuinely good deals just as much. We work with tech every day, so we know a good bargain – and bad deal – when we see one.
You can visit our deals page here, all year round. But over the holiday shopping period our deals pages go into overdrive and we bring you deals from every tech category as soon as we see them. We pick out the absolute best, so bookmark the page to make sure you don't miss out on a bargain.
We will be curating a huge amount of tech deals for you, the discerning tech consumer, so that come Black Friday you can come here and see the best deals, safe in the knowledge that the discount and retailer is legitimate.
For now, you can check out our pick of the top 10 deals available today below.
Best tech Black Friday deals
Best tech Black Friday deals
1. Amazon Echo 2
From: Amazon
Was: £89.99
Now: £69.99 (£20 off)
View Deal
Amazon only launched its latest Echo a couple months ago, and it's already enjoying its first major deal.
2. Google Home Mini
From: Currys
Was: £49
Now: £34 (£15 off)
View Deal
Google's Home Mini smart speaker has a major price reduction just weeks after its release.
3. Amazon Echo Dot
From: Amazon
Was: £49.99
Now: £34.99 (£15 off)
View Deal
Pick up Amazon's cheapest Echo smart speaker even cheaper as it launches its Black Friday offers. Read our review of the Echo Dot here.
4. Google Home
From: Currys
Was: £129
Now: £78 (£51 off)
View Deal
Get Google's smart speaker for more than £50 off.
5. Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus
From: Amazon
Was: £779
Now: £595 (24% off)
View Deal
This is the best price we've seen for the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus SIM-free.
From: Udemy
Now: Up to 90% off all courses
View Deal
Get up to 90% off Udemy's most popular online courses, which range from coding and computers to lifestyle and photography. Hurry, ends soon!
7. DOOM (PS4)
From: Argos
Was: £49.99
Now: £9.49 (£40 off)
View Deal
Kill demons on Mars for less than a tenner in everyone's favourite modern reboot.
8. 3 months of reading for just £7.99 a month with Readly
From: Readly
Now: £7.99 per month
View Deal
Unlimited access to over 2,400 magazines to read online or online across multiple devices.
9. Apple iPhone X
From: Apple
Now: Where to get the best iPhone X deals
View Deal
See the best contract prices for the iPhone X in one place.
10. NordVPN three-year subscription
From: NordVPN
Was: $5.75 per month
Now: $2.75 per month ($3 off)
View Deal
Get three years of NordVPN for just $99, which works out at a tiny $2.75 per month. NordVPN is number one in our best VPN chart.
It's official: Black Friday is coming and its a matter of weeks away. Love it or hate it, Black Friday is here to stay, and this year looks set to be bigger and better than ever. Amazon has already announced details of its Black Friday sale, and we expect the rest of the world's retailers to follow.
Retailers are expected to offer huge deals, discounts and sales on their goods in store and online to get the deal-hungry shopper within us all to spend money. UK customers spend millions on Black Friday every year on everything from TVs and lawnmowers to nappies and candles. You'll be able to find anything you can think of at a discount.
Here, we bring you everything you need to know about Black Friday, and how to get the most out of it. We also bring you the very best Black Friday deals from across the web, to help make sure you don't miss out.
When is Black Friday 2017?
The event is every November, and falls on the first Friday after the US Thanksgiving holiday – this year that is on Friday 24 November.
What is Black Friday?
After a holiday of giving thanks for family, friends and settled life, American retailers opted to juxtapose Thanksgiving with a huge day of commercial spending. Who were we Brits to resist the allure of heavily discounted items too?
It is debated whether or not Black Friday refers to a day retailers finally went ‘into the black’, meaning they finally made profit for the year thanks to heightened sales, or whether it actually has morphed from a description of horrible traffic in Philadelphia on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
When Black Friday first gained huge popularity about ten years ago, it was usual to see newsreel of people physically fighting over big TVs in the middle of Wal-Mart (or Asda in the UK, who has now actually opted to not take part because of the mayhem).
You can’t blame them really, as scenes often got out of hand at shops. But Black Friday has passed beyond trivial now as it has moved online, and it is serious business for retailers.
UK shoppers spent nearly £2bn on Black Friday 2016, a lot of it on discounted technology such as phones, cameras, TVs and Fitbits.
Don’t forget Cyber Monday
Oh yes, and after Black Friday there is Cyber Monday, so-called after retailers realised people go back to work on Monday and kept spending online at their desks.
We might as well call it Black Weekend though, because Saturday and Sunday don’t escape either, it’s four solid days of relentless spending, savings and tempting deals. Gulp.
Best Black Friday deals right now
As we near Black Friday, retailers have begun preparing to kick off huge deals, and some of them have already started, including major sites like Amazon, Currys, and Argos. We bring you the best right here at Tech Advisor.
How to spot a good Black Friday deal
The most important thing to do when considering if something is a good deal is to ask yourself: “Would I still want and buy this if it was full price?” Often the answer to this can be no, which means you need to think whether you’re saving money with a discount, or wasting it caught up in the excitement of a sale.
A deal for one person won’t be a deal for someone else, no matter how many times Amazon, Argos or John Lewis might tell you otherwise.
Sometimes it’s more obvious though. For example, 50% off a £140 Fitbit Charge 2 is a good deal, particularly if you were thinking of getting it in the first place. Conversely, 50% off a £2,000 TV is still £1,000 – think carefully.
Also, it isn’t unusual (or difficult, or illegal) for some retailers to put prices up on Black Friday. Yes, that’s right – sometimes discount prices are higher on Black Friday compared to the rest of the year because dishonest retailers know they will get more page views from people ready to click buy.
So it’s worth scouting out what you want to buy now if you want to wait for Black Friday to check whether the price is in fact better.
Returning Black Friday purchases
You should be able to, as return policies will apply in the same way as the rest of the year, but still check on an individual retailer level. You don’t want to buy something, change your mind and then be stuck with it.
Buying online can be tricky to return items for a refund, so make sure you really want what you Add to Basket.
Black Friday deals curated by us
We love tech here at Tech Advisor (obviously) and we love genuinely good deals just as much. We work with tech every day, so we know a good bargain – and bad deal – when we see one.
You can visit our deals page here, all year round. But over the holiday shopping period our deals pages go into overdrive and we bring you deals from every tech category as soon as we see them. We pick out the absolute best, so bookmark the page to make sure you don't miss out on a bargain.
We will be curating a huge amount of tech deals for you, the discerning tech consumer, so that come Black Friday you can come here and see the best deals, safe in the knowledge that the discount and retailer is legitimate.
For now, you can check out our pick of the top 10 deals available today below.
Best tech Black Friday deals
Best tech Black Friday deals
1. Amazon Echo 2
From: Amazon
Was: £89.99
Now: £69.99 (£20 off)
View Deal
Amazon only launched its latest Echo a couple months ago, and it's already enjoying its first major deal.
2. Google Home MiniFrom: Currys
Was: £49
Now: £34 (£15 off)
View Deal
Google's Home Mini smart speaker has a major price reduction just weeks after its release.
3. Amazon Echo Dot
From: Amazon
Was: £49.99
Now: £34.99 (£15 off)
View Deal
Pick up Amazon's cheapest Echo smart speaker even cheaper as it launches its Black Friday offers. Read our review of the Echo Dot here.
4. Google Home
From: Currys
Was: £129
Now: £78 (£51 off)
View Deal
Get Google's smart speaker for more than £50 off.
5. Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus
From: Amazon
Was: £779
Now: £595 (24% off)
View Deal
This is the best price we've seen for the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus SIM-free.
6. Udemy Online Courses
From: Udemy
Now: Up to 90% off all courses
View Deal
Get up to 90% off Udemy's most popular online courses, which range from coding and computers to lifestyle and photography. Hurry, ends soon!
7. DOOM (PS4)From: Argos
Was: £49.99
Now: £9.49 (£40 off)
View Deal
Kill demons on Mars for less than a tenner in everyone's favourite modern reboot.
8. 3 months of reading for just £7.99 a month with ReadlyFrom: Readly
Now: £7.99 per month
View Deal
Unlimited access to over 2,400 magazines to read online or online across multiple devices.
9. Apple iPhone XFrom: Apple
Now: Where to get the best iPhone X deals
View Deal
See the best contract prices for the iPhone X in one place.
10. NordVPN three-year subscription
From: NordVPN
Was: $5.75 per month
Now: $2.75 per month ($3 off)
View Deal
Get three years of NordVPN for just $99, which works out at a tiny $2.75 per month. NordVPN is number one in our best VPN chart.
Best Black Friday Deals 2017
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