Be wary of the 11/11 and Black Friday “offers” as there are hidden price increases according to the OCU.

Day Singles’ Day or Guanggun Jie, November 11th, is a Chinese holiday that originally celebrated the pride of being single, but as always, it has become an occasion to shop like never before and indulge without feeling like you’re wasting your money, because what are the suggestions

Like Black Friday November 11 is considered the most important day in terms of online sales., with particular attention to technology. And although there are proposals that may be good or interesting, the OCU wanted to show that there are not so good suggestions what it looks like.

To do this, they carefully tracked thousands of products and dozens of stores to see if there discount Indeed. And the conclusions they drew won’t sit well with companies that are dedicated to promoting big discounts in their stores and marketplaces.

And the fact is that the study explains that you should not buy on the Singles Day for various reasons. Firstly, because discounts and promotions are completely decaffeinated, and this is at best, since there are stores that use this to increase prices. Let’s look at this in detail.

The OCU says there are not many discounts on Singles Day

The 11th is considered the day of discounts, which are worth spending the money you have been saving for a year. That is, on the day when you buy a mobile phone that you have been eyeing for months. However, according to the study, November 11 did not affect discounts.

This year, Since October, the OCU has been analyzing the prices of 69 online stores. to check if the 11th of the 11th is really the day to buy in our country. Over 16,500 tracked products and these were the main findings:

• 36% of goods could have been bought cheaper the day before. That is, today they are more expensive.
• Barely On November 11, goods are cheaper by 2% than on any previous day.
• The remaining 62% did not change their price. from October to today.

Only Alcampo and Samsung they have a significant percentage of products cheaper than in previous weeks (14% and 28% respectively).

The rest of the online stores either remain the same price or find that a significant percentage of products are now more expensive than they were in October: this is the case in 18 of the 69 online stores visited by the organization.

And it’s not just that there are more expensive products… but also that the increase percentage is much higher than the decrease percentage for those that lower their price: on average, the increase is 13%, and in the case of discounts, only 8%.

The advice that the OCU gives us so as not to make a mistake

1. Comparison is the best way to save.
2. You can cancel your purchase if you are not sure.and you have 14 days to return an item purchased online without giving a reason.
3. Make sure you buy online from sites that offer you warranties: make sure that the page has a security protocol, https, and beware of badly translated pages, with obvious errors, etc. Read the Terms of Service first and pay attention to the tricks of online stores.
4. Choose to pay by card or Paypal instead of transfers and see what to do if you run out of purchases and money.
5. Keep proof of purchaseyou will need them if you must claim.

For all these reasons, the Consumers and Users Organization recommends that we carefully consider what products we want to buy before making a payment, because suggestions that they are trying to sell us from stores not what they seem, but often the opposite.