Black Friday is upon us soon. It’s that time of the year that both retailers and consumers seem to lose their minds, with one doing whatever they can to drop prices (like increasing them slowly in the preceding weeks), and consumers spotting for deals like hawks. Even though Black Friday has nothing at all to do with South Africa, over the years it’s become customary for people to hold on to their wealth like Bilbo Baggins clutching the one ring, so that they can blow it all on big-ticket items in the run-up to year’s end. We do quite like bargains.

If you were capable or resisting the siren call of Black Friday, thought your wallet was secure and wanted to to dig into a sound month of responsible spending, then I’m afraid that I’ve got some bad news for ya. Local retailer Raru still has a few deals up their sleeves, with some prices being especially tempting. There’s a bunch of fantastic games on sale and Fallout 76.

If you happen to have WeChat installed, you’ll be able to grab an Xbox One for the stupidly low price of R1999 on Friday.

Here’s a round-up of the Sony Black Friday prices, which won’t require you to bulldoze your way through an ocean of aggressive shoppers consumed by the holiday spirit of materialism.

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