Ni umeffi tu. I’m yet to come across any real “deal” on Jumia. They just list the normal price for those items, with a higher price with a huge X on it to fool you into thinking they’ve slashed it, lakini there’s nothing exciting. Those flash sales pia are suspect. A friend of mine went to buy something that he was informed would be sold in a flash sale starting exactly 2 pm. The price was listed at around 20% of the normal. On clicking the “buy this item” button, he was surprised to find that the amount was for some other nonsensical item, but he could still buy the item he wanted for x thousand shillings more.
For example they say a 32 inch TV plus a wall mount will be sold in a flash sale for 1500 shillings. When you rush to buy them, you’re duly informed that the shs 1500 is only for the wall mount, but you can also buy it with the TV for shs 15,000 more.
That is very fucked up.
Did ya’ll simpletons know that Black Friday starts on the Friday after Thanksgiving Thursday?
“Kyuktothecore,”, I hear you asking, “just what the hell is this Thanksgiving Thursday?”
Well, child, it’s a foreign holiday that’s absolutely irrelevant to you. Plus it’s been used for decades now by corporations to mark the official start of the Christmas shopping season, which spills over into the Valentine’s shopping season, which spills over into the Easter shopping season, and so on…which only serves to advance the corporations’ (evil?) plan of turning the entire year into one shopping “season”.
Maybe we should try to come up with our own festivals and shit, instead of always aping crap we don’t even understand. The Chinese did it with Singles Day, which has gone on to become even bigger than Black Friday.
Anywho, now you know.
Now in the spirit of hypocrisy, I’m going to take advantage of this western concept that I barely understand, to scout for some sweet sweet deals.