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Show HN: Fuck Black Friday

21 points by saviorand 7y ago

saviorand 7y ago
After seeing a bunch of Black Friday adverts on tech websites (e.g. VPN sales, domain sales, and so on) and looking at infographics showing exponential sales growth on this day for the past several years, I've decided to assemble a list of companies that aren't just doing their best to raise their revenues on BF, but actually use the moment to do something good. That's what the Black Friday basically is.
stockkid 7y ago
This is cool. It would have been even better if the full contents were available to the users without having to enter the email. Seems kinda pointless to have to enter my email address to get "one (1) email newsletter".
roschdal 7y ago
Meh. I'm keeping my precious money, and spending it on useful things for myself instead.
CraneWorm 7y ago
> We will send you one (1) email newsletter with charitable activities to spend money on instead of spending it on unnecessary stuff What's wrong with showing that list right on your website? Why do you want my email?
- pxtail 7y ago
  As Mailchimp "monkey-rewards" (lol) logotype at the bottom inticates - probably just to send even more affiliate links than ones currently displayed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
tomlong 7y ago
As the notion of black friday has spread fairly convincingly to the UK (in the last 5-10 years, particularly the last 2-3) there's a bit of push back here. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-nowt-free-festival-alternative-to-black-friday/ https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-now... 'Nowt' being yorkshire vernacular for 'nothing'. For myself, I picked up a pretty good deal on some headphones, and also spent a load of money on coffee beans yesterday to have just about every coffee roaster I've ever ordered from email me this morning to offer 25% off. You win some you lose some.
keiferski 7y ago
Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people. Try these instead: - Ignore Black Friday - Forget Black Friday - Buy Nothing Black Friday etc.
- bbody 7y ago
  I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck in the title, I skipped over it immediately. The only time I can think of that using the word fuck actually made me look more favorable on something was https://gofuckingdoit.com/ https://gofuckingdoit.com/.
- lidHanteyk 7y ago
  "Black Friday" is an offensive phrase to me. It's unnecessary and alienating to me; the very concept reminds me that I am trapped in a consumerist hell. On the other hand, fucking is quite natural, quite reasonable, happens all the time in healthy societies, and is part of the backbone of human existence, Try these instead: * Fuck consumerism * Fuck malls * Fuck sale pricing And so on.
  - keiferski 7y ago
    Or, you know, some people find Black Friday, consumerism, and malls vulgar and off-putting, and find an overuse of expletives equally vulgar.
    - notus 7y ago
      Saying fuck doesn't harm anyone, fetishized consumer culture does.
rinchik 7y ago
Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition. I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not) EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.
- nojvek 7y ago
  Yep. Let’s consume consume and endlessly consume and Trash the planet. US is already the largest producer of greenhouse emissions considering its population. We also consume a crazy amount of energy per capita and not much of our garbage gets recycled. Sure mindless consumption might be good for GDP but it isn’t great for the planet.
notus 7y ago
Ever since I heard of an elderly man being trampled to death on Black Friday the whole holiday makes me sick. I just don't purchase anything (except utilities I guess) on black friday. I wish traditions like this would die.
nathanaldensr 7y ago
Nothing but a poorly-worded rant against Black Friday followed by several referral links to retailers. Yes, referral links to retailers.
- saviorand 7y ago
  Nope. No affiliate links on the website.
ijiiijji1 7y ago
Exploit Black Friday by flipping stuff and make some money.

21 points by saviorand 7y ago

After seeing a bunch of Black Friday adverts on tech websites (e.g. VPN sales, domain sales, and so on) and looking at infographics showing exponential sales growth on this day for the past several years, I've decided to assemble a list of companies that aren't just doing their best to raise their revenues on BF, but actually use the moment to do something good. That's what the Black Friday basically is.

stockkid 7y ago

This is cool. It would have been even better if the full contents were available to the users without having to enter the email. Seems kinda pointless to have to enter my email address to get "one (1) email newsletter".

roschdal 7y ago

Meh. I'm keeping my precious money, and spending it on useful things for myself instead.

CraneWorm 7y ago

> We will send you one (1) email newsletter with charitable activities to spend money on instead of spending it on unnecessary stuff What's wrong with showing that list right on your website? Why do you want my email?

pxtail 7y ago
As Mailchimp "monkey-rewards" (lol) logotype at the bottom inticates - probably just to send even more affiliate links than ones currently displayed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tomlong 7y ago

As the notion of black friday has spread fairly convincingly to the UK (in the last 5-10 years, particularly the last 2-3) there's a bit of push back here. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-nowt-free-festival-alternative-to-black-friday/ https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-now... 'Nowt' being yorkshire vernacular for 'nothing'. For myself, I picked up a pretty good deal on some headphones, and also spent a load of money on coffee beans yesterday to have just about every coffee roaster I've ever ordered from email me this morning to offer 25% off. You win some you lose some.

keiferski 7y ago

Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people. Try these instead: - Ignore Black Friday - Forget Black Friday - Buy Nothing Black Friday etc.

bbody 7y ago
I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck in the title, I skipped over it immediately. The only time I can think of that using the word fuck actually made me look more favorable on something was https://gofuckingdoit.com/ https://gofuckingdoit.com/.
lidHanteyk 7y ago
"Black Friday" is an offensive phrase to me. It's unnecessary and alienating to me; the very concept reminds me that I am trapped in a consumerist hell. On the other hand, fucking is quite natural, quite reasonable, happens all the time in healthy societies, and is part of the backbone of human existence, Try these instead: * Fuck consumerism * Fuck malls * Fuck sale pricing And so on.
- keiferski 7y ago
  Or, you know, some people find Black Friday, consumerism, and malls vulgar and off-putting, and find an overuse of expletives equally vulgar.
  - notus 7y ago
    Saying fuck doesn't harm anyone, fetishized consumer culture does.

rinchik 7y ago

Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition. I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not) EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.

nojvek 7y ago
Yep. Let’s consume consume and endlessly consume and Trash the planet. US is already the largest producer of greenhouse emissions considering its population. We also consume a crazy amount of energy per capita and not much of our garbage gets recycled. Sure mindless consumption might be good for GDP but it isn’t great for the planet.

notus 7y ago

Ever since I heard of an elderly man being trampled to death on Black Friday the whole holiday makes me sick. I just don't purchase anything (except utilities I guess) on black friday. I wish traditions like this would die.

nathanaldensr 7y ago

Nothing but a poorly-worded rant against Black Friday followed by several referral links to retailers. Yes, referral links to retailers.

saviorand 7y ago
Nope. No affiliate links on the website.

ijiiijji1 7y ago

Exploit Black Friday by flipping stuff and make some money.