My Thought on Black Friday in Nigeria

Gobe is what will happen when you think you can get Tecno Phantom 6 that goes for N92,800 @ the rate of N45,000 during Black Friday. Disaster is what will happen when you think you can get HP ProBook 440 Laptop 4GB ram, 500GB hard disk at the rate of N35,000 during Black Friday. Abeg, do you want to ruin their business?

This year ongoing Black Friday on Konga and Jumia hasn’t been actually Black to me, we can as well call it Brown Friday because most of the items listed on Konga from day 1 of their so called Black Friday hasn’t changed from the original price. In short if care is not taken, you’ll even pay more for an item on Black Friday than a normal day. The only phone that is meant for Black Friday is the Gionee M5 mini on Konga going forN35,000 other items has a question mark.

Jumia on the other hand hasn’t been fair with their prices… I don’t think they should call it Black Friday, normal Friday will be preferable. But the truth is, the real Black Friday begins from 25^th globally; that is why on Konga, you’ll see 25^th of Nov locked and same with Jumia. 

I codedly crawl pass through Yudala online store and I discovered that their Black Friday begins from 24^th to 28^th of November with an already flash sales of Infinix Zero 3 going for N56,500 (sound a little bit fair though)… but if they can offer Infinix Zero 3 for that price before the Black Friday, then things should be cheaper on their own Black Friday.

Slot on the other hand scheduled their Black Friday to 25^th of November; we are still waiting to see the magic price that will happen that day.

Now my Question

What actually is Konga and Jumia Black Friday professing? High the normal price and put beside it another abnormal price? Or do we simply wait for the so called Flash sale in which I know that the injurious InnJoo will be part of the Flash sale… 

I am not too bothered about Gearbest, Everbuying Geekbuying and the rest of their Black Friday's, I am only concern about our very own Black Friday.

Research shows that most customers are disappointed during Black Friday than they are on a normal day because they don’t really get the items they want, at the price the budgeted for.

This is just me airing my thought aloud!