You already know that many stores “give up” and the days before Black Friday raise prices so that the offers look better later, when the reality is that you are not saving more money than at any other time of the year. Also, many directly expose crossed out prices that are not what the product actually has, so how do you hunt for a good deal really on hard drives or SSDs during Black Friday?
The price of hard drives on Black Friday
Despite the fact that you have been keeping track of a disk or SSD during the last days or weeks, it is quite likely that you have not followed its daily price progression to be able to determine if the sale during Black Friday is really good or if Instead, they are trying to trick you into thinking that it has gone down more than it actually has. Fortunately, there are tools that will do this monitoring for us and that will allow you to know the price history of any product, such as CamelCamelCamel.
Imagine that, for example, you are on the trail of a 4TB WD Red, a very common hard drive for NAS and the like. Thanks to this tool we can see that its price has remained around €100 for a long time, but in August it dropped to €92 and then rose to almost €120. Right now, it’s at €103, which means it’s a bit above trend.
Come Black Friday, there’s a good chance this hard drive will be on sale at a lower price, and now that you know what it should be worth, you’ll avoid getting cheated. For example, if you see that the offer leaves this disc at €90 or less, the offer will be real (a 10% discount more or less), but if a price of (this is an example) €200 appears crossed out and they sell it for €100, you will know that the offer is a hoax because that is its normal price, and it is not really on sale.
Ok, but what offer can be considered “good”?
Now that you know how to detect fraudulent offers and differentiate them from those that are real offers, what criteria should you follow to consider that the offer is good and that the product is really worth buying? This will depend on the aspirations that each one has, but if we take into account that it is very common to see offers and flash offers that reduce the price by up to 20%, during Black Friday we will not be able to consider as a “good” offer anything that does not reduce its price by at least 25%. Now if you find offers that reduce the price by 50% or even more, we could say that they are the authentic “bargains”, worthy of Black Friday.
Therefore, no matter how attractive an offer on a hard drive or SSD may seem to you (whether internal or external, the fact is that storage devices in general are constantly the target of offers), the recommendation is that you first analyze their history of prices to avoid that the store deceives you and thus be able to buy the device, for real, with an offer that is worth it.
Finally, one last tip: almost all online stores are going to have special promotions for Black Friday, so we also recommend that you look for the product you want to buy in several stores and do not limit yourself to just one, since you will be surprised by the difference of prices that you are going to find. When it comes to sales periods like these on Black Friday, a hard drive that, for example, has a 20% discount in one store, could have 50% in another.
