Discounts on everything, even on the trip: how to get the most out of "Black Friday - 2018"

While the crowd stormed the malls, book your cheap planes and hotels. About actions that many people do not notice, tell, together with the service Momondo.

What is this day and why it's black

"Black Friday" - the beginning of the Christmas sales in America just after Thanksgiving. Over time, the tradition came from the United States and spread around the world. For example, sales in Russia last Friday, November held for five years, although the Thanksgiving Day we celebrate, and Christmas comes later.

This Friday is called "black" even with the 60-ies - for the most popular version of the name came up Why is it called Black Friday and what is the meaning of it? Police in Philadelphia. When sellers have announced discounts, Americans have not yet digested the turkey with a celebratory dinner, rushed to bargain. This created huge traffic jams, accidents and complicating police work - none of the area is not allowed to take time off in the day.

Vendors were afraid that the negative associations make shoppers stay home. Therefore, in the 80 shopkeepers and traders began to explain the "black Friday" accounting traditions: profit accounting book recorded in black and loss - red.

Where to look for discounts in the "Black Friday"

Who gets the best deals are not the fastest, and the most savvy. In each category sales - especially their lucrative shopping.

1. Sales in stores

In theory it's simple - you go to the store and takes the necessary thing cheaper. In practice, everything is complicated by the fact that people like you, very much.

• Shop can not only Friday: sale often starts on Thursday eve and lasts all weekend. Some shopping centers open at midnight on Thursday.
• If you are waiting at the door of the shopping center, just after the opening go to the upper floors: usually buyers storming start from the first floor, and the rest for some time remain empty.
• Decide in advance what you want to buy and at what store it can be found. It is difficult not to be distracted by inviting storefronts with a super offer, but the right thing is better to buy in the first place: it is often the number of discounted products is limited.
• We must act quickly, it happens that gets a discount, for example, only the first 100 customers. Keep an eye on the conditions of the action, not to see the empty shelves, came 10 hours after the start.

2. Online sales

Output active shopping go into the work week with online Closeouts. In "Cyber ​​Monday" can be ordered on the Internet everything that does not have time to buy.

• Advance sign up for email-mailing favorite stores, to keep abreast of hot offers.
• See, if the number of items in the sale is limited. The online stores are shares which the first 20 smartphones go from a 80% discount, and the price of the others is reduced by only 10%.
• Try to lay down their purchases in shopping cart in advance - this will help you gain time.
• Use quotations "Black Friday" in other countries. In America, the home of the festival, there are a lot of steep sales with free shipping.
• Buy computer software, music, games - online discounts apply not only to clothes and electronics.

3. Overstock airlines

As you remember, "Black Friday" helps people to buy gifts for the New Year in advance. But if you are caught on and run after gifts December 30, nothing terrible will happen. Another thing - travel. There, the purchase price at the last minute will result in tens of thousands of rubles, and can even make you give up the trip. To travel cheap, pay attention to the sale of tickets in the "Black Friday" Airlines already distribute promotional codes for future actions in advertising posts and email-newsletters.

• Watch the action on flights within the country or the nearest foreign countries in domestic airlines. For example, the S7 or "Victory" makes discount flights to Russia and neighboring countries: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan.
• Pay attention to the European direction of Russian carriers. For example, Utair reduces prices for flights to Milan, Berlin, Vienna, Munich.
• If you're going to Moscow on New Year's big chance to find cheap tickets. Airlines often arrange such surprise for residents of regions.
• Subscribe to the mailing list of resources that collect the most attractive offers on all airlines. For example, service Momondo tell us about all the actions that prepare the airline for this "Black Friday."

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4. Low prices for hotels

Shares, when the night at the hotel can be reserved for $ 1 - it's not an urban myth, they do occur. Sales from the airline, plus a discount from the hotel - and you spend a minimum on a journey that can be surprise gifts for the New Year.

• Keep an eye on the class room you book: often discount applies only to the "economy" or, on the contrary, only "luxury".
• Well think about travel dates: usually armor with high discounts sunk. If you decide not to go, be gone all of the amount paid
• Buy cheap airline tickets, and then find a hotel - the correct sequence. On the contrary it is better not to do: it is likely to find a ticket for the desired date. Always start with a search for a place on the plane.

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