The sales "day", at least for the West, is a week (maybe two?) when everything is on sale but the transactions are held as pending until the sale day. It is ve

The sales "day", at least for the West, is a week (maybe two?) when everything is on sale but the transactions are held as pending until the sale day. It is very annoying because the discounts are usually 1-2% (again as a westerner, may well be different for Asia) and it means you might have to wait a week or two for the product to ship. I have asked stores if they can bill me full price and ship immediately and they say no. So its really a marketing con to consolidate one or two weeks worth of sales into one day and then proclaim they had such a huge salsa day. Imagine if Amazon billed two weeks of sales right on Black Friday. The numbers would be insane.