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Re:Buy Nothing Day by xor42 on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:10PM (#42276703)
True, although if you're in the EU, there should be a 30 days reference period.

"In all EU countries traders are obliged, when offering a discount, to indicate the lowest price applied to the item at least 30 days before the announcement of the price reduction."

Of course, enforcement of such rules is the problem here. But if you notice such discrepancies, you are more than encouraged to file a complaint to the shop and then to your national agency responsible for the protection of consumers if the seller doesn't act in good faith. I was fairly surprised to see how well the latter has worked against a large company in my Balkan country.

Source: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...

Re:Buy Nothing Day by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:16PM (#42277180)
Gosh if the EU was better about transgender stuff I'd love to move there
Re:Buy Nothing Day by Dansvidania on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:59PM (#42277493)
In what way is the EU doing “less good” in transgender stuff? Genuinely interested
Re:Buy Nothing Day by immibis on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:48AM (#42295267)
Poland has LGBT-free zones?
Re:Buy Nothing Day by Dansvidania on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:28PM (#42301500)
I did not know, thanks for the info. But that is one country among many that constitute the EU.
Re:Buy Nothing Day by Dansvidania on Monday December 02, 2024 @06:35PM (#42301556)
an admittedly shallow search for this topic resulted in a wikipedia page[1] that states that the EU witheld funding to regions in Poland that have policies that were summarily characterized as "LGBT-free zones".

In EU language, this is pretty strong distancing from such positions.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ-free_zone

Re:Buy Nothing Day by Kkoala on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:41PM (#42276938)
Yeah, some just increase the price 30 days before black Friday though, and then offer a huge "discount"
Re:Buy Nothing Day by ozim on Friday November 29, 2024 @03:58PM (#42277056)
I heard some even go as far as increasing price slowly in period of 6 months before BF. To drop it on that day as discount.
Re:Buy Nothing Day by fy20 on Friday November 29, 2024 @04:25PM (#42277228)
How does Amazon get around this?
Re:Buy Nothing Day by Foobar8568 on Friday November 29, 2024 @05:17PM (#42277610)
camel for Amazon, and in Switzerland, we have toppreise. One major online store is also providing full price history (digitec/galaxus).
Re:Buy Nothing Day by sharpshadow on Friday November 29, 2024 @05:30PM (#42277703)
There are ways to circumvent that.