Soon (or, according to most stores — already) the season of massive sales and gigantic discounts kicks off in the US.
For just such an occasion I have a special Amazon wish list with the same name — I slowly drop things in there that I kind of sort of want to buy, figuring I’ll wait for a discount. And although last Black Friday I scored a NAS — there was 15% cashback on it and maybe even on the drives, which ended up being more than a hundred bucks, even though I had to open a special Amazon credit card for it — this year I’m becoming more and more convinced that you’ll never see a real discount on genuinely good things. The Leatherman bit kit for a multi-tool still costs $40 (which feels like too much for something I don’t really need — I already have decent screwdrivers) — same as it always did. And so it goes with everything on my list — a watch, a hard drive, an axe, a printer cartridge — loads of discounts on versions I don’t like, while the actually decent stuff doesn’t budge in price on Black Friday. In the deals section there’s a sale on vacuums, but not Dyson. Discounts on axes, but not Fiskars. There are Sony headphones on sale — but I already bought those last year. There was a 30% discount, I was waiting for 50 — and ended up buying them at full price )
So the hunt for bargains — I’ll leave that to people with more free time. Discounts do happen, of course — but the wasted hours are hardly worth it.