Expert warns about fake discounts during Black Friday sales

During the advertised Black Friday sale, sellers often resort to various tricks, in particular, “fake” discounts. The financial consultant of the Package service from X5 recalled this Olga Matveeva.

You can avoid falling for this bait if you monitor the prices of the goods you like in advance, writes Gazeta.Ru.

“Some sellers deliberately inflate the prices of goods before a sale in order to hide the real price of the item and create the illusion of a big discount. It’s easy to find out if a store is deceiving you – prepare in advance and study the prices for the items you are interested in,” Matveeva said.

There are often cases when during a sale the cost of the desired item, even with a discount, is 60% higher than it was before, the expert explained.

Often, goods are offered at a discount, the price of which was previously increased by sellers two to three times. In this way, sellers are trying to sell stale cheap goods: dishes, cosmetics, household items, and everything that sells poorly.

To get an objective idea of ​​the real cost of a product, it’s a good idea to look at how much it costs in other retail outlets, the expert concluded.