Are there any good Black Friday deals this year?

I work for an online business. Its very small but the owner tries to run it like a Fortune500 company. They're all about SEO and attend all kinds of seminars with words like Synergistic and 'metrics that mater' etc. They've spent the past month upping all our prices by 30% so we can offer a 20% discount and still make more than normal. Its shitty and I'm not a fan, but this seems to be the norm lately. That, or just offering worse quality in general. Ive avoided black Friday deals for a while now.

Also very illegal in some places.
One thing I do to combat this is I make a list of stuff I'd like to buy at a discount in early summer and keep up with the prices every two weeks or so until black Friday. This helps me know if a discount is real or not. I even made a power automate script to check the prices for me
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The big box store my dad worked at in the 80’s did this. They’d all have to stay late the night before raising the prices of many items, so that when they went on “sale”, they still were making money.
Check geizhals.de, skinflint.co.uk or other sites that track prices to not fall for this.

Since this is a global forum, you will get plenty of irrelevant suggestions.

But sure, I'll bite:

Sony WH-1000XM4 for 2290 SEK at Komplett, Webhallen, Net On Net, Power, Elgiganten and Dustin.

Jabra Elite 7 Pro for 1290 SEK at Inet, Kjell, Komplett, Net On Net, Power and Elgiganten.

Bose QC SE for 1990 SEK at Net On Net, Komplett and Elgiganten.

I don't know whether that's a good price in SEK for the Jabra headphones. I have the Elite active 7s (sport edition) and am very happy with them.
- It is a good price for them, not amazing, but a good price, accoring to Prisjakt's history graph it is the lowest by 200sek they have been on sale for since they launched.
Hestra gloves seem to have a good discount on pricerunner / prisjakt.nu
- I can also vouch for the quallity of Hestra gloves, their moose skin leather gloves are excellent

Think yubico is having a ~~buy 1 get 1 free~~ deal for their yubikeys this cyberweek

Edit: its a buy 1 get 1 50% off deal

Protonmail has good Black Friday deals of you want to de-Google a bit. FoundryVTT also does a good Black Friday deal if you're looking for a virtual tabletop for D&D or whatever other TTRPG you want to play.

Every year Hulu offers 12 months for $12

Always hard to pass that one up.

France https://www.dealabs.com/

Makeship is having a sale on their new Glow in the Dark plushies. It's not a huge discount, but the proceeds go towards supporting independent artists which is always a good thing.

https://www.makeship.com/shop/gitd-2023

If you're into the smart lighting thing, depending on what you're looking for Philips hue has some decent deals on same lights and accessories.

Of note here is that Phillips hue now force an account to use their lightbulbs, which means they aren't really "standalone" anymore. They now force data sharing and may remove non cloud use in the future.

If you prefer to use a local home automation option like home assistant or hubitat, Phillips bulbs just got way worse.
- I thought the bulbs still function as stand alone ZigBee devices to use with a bridge of your choice

I can't really speak for your area, but there aren't many things going on where I am in terms of Black Friday, not like last year and the year before. The closest thing to a constant throughout the years is that one humorist (run between family members) at the store every Black Friday with the charity stall that sells coal lumps; arguably not store-appropriate, but it fills in vacant areas and has a visual niceness effect.

Barnes and noble has a pretty good deal on their exclusive hard covers. Buy one get one 50% off

https://us.lskd.co/ has some pretty steep drops on activewear and they're pretty good quality

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/11/the-best-sports-tech-fitness-deals-black-friday.html DC Rainmaker keeps a pretty good list of sports tech deals. This guy has been the go-to reviewer of this stuff for several years and definitely knows what he's talking about.

https://www.moosejaw.com/content/p-Thanksgiving-sale Moosejaw always does a pretty good sale around this time of year. (they're a lot like REI and offer extremely easy free returns)

https://www.lodgecastiron.com/shop?Sale=All Sale Items&page=1 Oh, and Lodge cast iron is running a sale. They seem to only discount their most popular products once or twice a year so this is a good time to grab a few items

I'd buy a standing desk

I was just looking at that today. Costco deals look like real deals. Zenni optical might have some stuff. Target has their “40% off some lego sets” again.