{"id":154630,"date":"2025-11-23T01:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154630\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:15:12","slug":"adrian-weckler-buyer-beware-as-black-friday-still-offers-dubious-sale-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/154630\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: Buyer beware as Black Friday still offers dubious \u2018sale\u2019 prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe work of the consumer watchdog helps, but you should still do your research before grabbing a \u2018bargain\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sales marketing circus: Many high street retailers started their Black Friday sales early. Photo: Leon Neal\/Getty \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2f7502d0-9903-44aa-a602-40debb0d41bc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sales marketing circus: Many high street retailers started their Black Friday sales early. Photo: Leon Neal\/Getty <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There has always been a lingering problem in Ireland with Black Friday \u2013 dishonest sale practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For almost a decade, this newspaper has covered dodgy discount claims, including spoofing and exaggeration from Irish tech retailers that claim price cuts on items that are either discontinued or were previously available at similar prices to the \u2018sale\u2019 stickers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work of the consumer watchdog helps, but you should still do your research before grabbing a \u2018bargain\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,30756,72,87143,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-154630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-black-friday","tag-business","tag-currys-pc-world","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}