What I find strange is in cases where I can say: "sorry that is not that good of a deal, you should spend twice that and get this instead as it is a good deal." They always just ignore your advice.

I sometimes find people already bought it. They only wanted my opinion if it agreed with them.

Here in Finland, with any sale like this, the retailer must also display the lowest price for the last thirty days. So we can just look at what we want a couple of weeks before and see that they put the price up by X and then on black friday sales they give you X discount.

It's easy to see the bullshit.

Yep they make tvs that literally only last a year. They are designed to last until next black Friday.

This is true all over the world, I think. At least that's what my LATAM and AU/NZ friends tell me, and where I live, in the US, buying used laptops from a business liquidation is always better than the ewaste sold at the same price new.

What are some good auction sites? I haven't ever found any that look legit.

Nowadays on Amazon they put a fake high price and they put automatically a coupon that will reveal the real price so that price trackers are tricked into tracking the fake higher price

yeah. fuck you grandma. being 80 is no excuse for being too lazy to keep up with all the ways capitalism is trying to fuck you.

Let's at least try to be a little honest here. most people don't have time to keep up with all of the ways that they're being fucked. yes it makes sense to educate them but to say it's their fault they get scammed just makes you part of the soul grinder.