Black Friday Deals

[jeremyb]

Soundtoys plugin deals are live: https://www.soundtoys.com/product/

[vintage52]

The top cause of inflation is corporate profits, but no ones talking about that...

Corp profits tend to take money out of a system. Which is a different kind of challenge. And they’re relatively a constant in a social economic sense.

Agreed...however, in this latest inflationary episode, various commentators have noted corporate margins increasing out of step with cost pressure fluctuations both globally and locally. It seems there is growing evidence that businesses that could absorb cost fluctuations, in-house, are instead passing them immediately on to consumers and factoring in a disproportionate profit margin on top under the disguise of an inflation caused price hike. The main culprits being our old friends in banking and finance, oil and energy sectors.

During the last OCR announcement, Bernard Hickey of Interest.com directly asked Orr about the Reserve Bank's view and response to corporate margin pressure on cost of living inflation. Orr's reply was that he was aware of it and had factored it in to the announcement and that the Bank had 'raised an eye-brow' at some local practices, and, although unable to do anything directly to influence the market situation, was implying his hope that the sectors responsible would take the base point increase, the tone and language of the announcement and future projections in to account to dial back continued 'gouging' (my word, not his). He did infer that 'margin profiteering' (again, my words, not his) was not the primary inflation driver, but was part of a suite, and that A/NZ market inflation was now roughly 50% globally driven and 50% internally driven.

A dredge from last year and still so pertinent.

[jimi]

I just drove past PBTech in Albany - they are opening at 5 with a Black Friday sale - Queue pushing 50m up the street. Mental.

[jeremyb]

The thrill of having that strong and stable government in power is driving consumer spending!

[Olderama]

55 min wait to get into the PBTech website

[jhyang549]

Rubber monkey $10 discount code

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Can only be used once and for orders over $100 (excluding shipping). Expires 31 Dec 2023

[TmcB]

Man, I'm confused. When is black friday?

[AiRdAd]

Man, I'm confused. When is black friday?

I agree!

[jeremyb]

Man, I'm confused. When is black friday?

Depends on the retailers it seems, some are doing weeks of sales, traditionally it was always the friday after thanksgiving, and then cyber monday became a thing for the online retailers, on the monday after black friday...

[Conway]

Black Friday is this coming Friday, the 24th.

But the bricks and mortar chains have basically been running sales all year from one to the next, just using different names (eg. Music Planet Black November). Cashflow is tight for everyone obviously...

Tone Lounge will have a Black Friday to Cyber Monday sale as usual. Deals are of course available at any time for your guys, including on Guitars Rock stock.

[KNNZ]

I can vouch for Guitars Rock! Very happy with the deals and purchases I've had with Conway!
I can proudly say I have supported local!!

[jeremyb]

I can vouch for Guitars Rock! Very happy with the deals and purchases I've had with Conway!
I can proudly say I have supported local!!

Always a pleasure!

[Conway]

Tone Lounge Bkack Friday-Cyber Monday sale is now live… until midnight Monday… 15% off all new pedals (including the Wampler & Mythos shipments that arrived this week) & 20% off wiring kits and pickups.

[Conway]

And if you’re in Auckland and agree to adopt my 3 year old cat, I’ll give you a free pedal!

[kdawg2a]

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!!!!!