https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article161/green-friday-buying en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:44:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article161/green-friday-buying/#c1543225440-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article161/green-friday-buying/#c1543225440-1 @illwieckz : This is an interesting thinking, and I would agree with it, except in my case, it was a discount on bicycle spare parts, like tires, cogs and chains, from an online store specialized in that. And they should know that people do not buy such spare parts if they do not need them. You do not buy a pair of bike tires impulsively, you do if you plan to use them. That shop also sells things that could be extra purchase, like clothing, bottles and any kind of bicycle equipment, but they still decided, willingly, to apply discount on spare parts. They cannot expect to sell these to people that would not have bought them anyway at some point, I would therefore assume that since they decided to apply this discount, the consequences are harmless to them, otherwise they would not have done it. Or they should not have done it, but this is their doing, not mine. Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:44:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article161/green-friday-buying/#c1543013572-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article161/green-friday-buying/#c1543013572-1 Well, it still has a negative effect and still produces a social prejudice but you're not the one suffering from it. Black Friday is only profitable for sellers if you buy something you don't need: It's the deal to reduce the price to sell something instead of selling nothing. If the purchase is not an extra purchase and if you're going to purchase in any way, purchasing on Black Friday is just making someone getting less money to feed their child than the fair price would give him. It means you don't pay the fair price. Because of that, buying something with a discount on Black Friday that would have to be bought in any way is a social injustice. Then it gives the seller a false feedback that will wrongly think the discount worked, and will be enticed to replay the Black Friday game that is just a loss for him. Black Friday is a deal, it's a game, and it's a sad game. In this game the discount is only fair (at the seller/customer scale, not the society one) because it's an extra purchase. If it's not an extra purchase it's not fair in any way. I would say something like that: « Play the game for real and be sad for real, or don't play the game at all and be nice for real, anything between is worst ». Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:52:00 +0000 illwieckz