It’s THE shopping event of the year: Black Friday will also take place this year one day after Thanksgiving, the American harvest festival, on November 26th, 2021. Bargain hunters can look forward to huge discounts.
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According to tradition, the official Black Friday is not only held in the USA the day after Thanksgiving, but worldwide. It is to be understood as a kind of starting shot that heralds the Christmas season. And since Christmas Eve is always coming up sooner than you would like to believe, the shopping event can be used to make your first purchases for the upcoming festival. In order to increase the incentive for this, large online retailers such as Amazon, Ebay and Otto lure with attractive offers from different product categories – such as household and technology, hardware store and health. And as a Prime customer, you can enjoy even more benefits and discounts.
What are the advantages of Amazon Prime?
Even if you are not a member of Amazon, you can access all offers on Black Friday. With a Prime subscription However, you have the advantage that you can view all lightning offers – i.e. special deals that are only cheaper for a short time and are sold out quickly – 30 minutes earlier. In addition, you don’t have to pay any shipping costs for Prime products. In some cases, the orders are even delivered on the same day, provided it is a so-called “same-day” delivery. And that’s not all of the benefits. As a Prime customer of Amazon:
- you can use products on Bill buy, but these do not have to be paid until the new year
- you can return all items that were shipped before December 31st until January 31st, 2022
- New customers who order something from Amazon for the first time pay for their first delivery no shipping costs
Extra savings tip:
If you are not (yet) a Prime customer, you can get one Sign up for a trial membership for free and test it for 30 days – only for Black Friday, of course. The subscription only becomes chargeable after the free period, if you do not cancel it: You then pay 7.99 euros per month. For the price mentioned, you can enjoy even more advantages, such as:
- Stream unlimited films and series
- borrow eBooks for free
- Hear over two million songs
- unlimited storage space for photos
Who Invented Black Friday?
How could it be otherwise that Black Friday has its origins in America – the land of opportunity. This applies not only to its name, but also to the shopping event: In the USA, the day is celebrated in many shops, while throughout Germany it is primarily online shops that advertise it. But what is actually behind the term? In fact, there are the wildest theories about who or what started Black Friday. One of them is that post Thanksgiving sales have always been and still are, which is why most stores are in the black.
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