Every year we go through the same nonsense with Takealot around Black Friday. For some reason, the online retailer marks up most of its products around Black Friday only to discount them while pretending that customers are actually getting a decent deal on the stuff they buy. Of course, Takealot loves playing dumb about this and uses the ol’ “we are not in charge of the prices on products. 3rd party sellers set the prices”.
There is some truth to the matter though. Takealot does give 3rd party sellers access to adjusting product pricing at any time. This means if you sell something on the store, you can easily mark up the original retail price and discount it to what the product actually sells for. That way, customers think they are getting a deal when they are simply buying the product for the original RRP.
But Takealot isn’t innocent. The company has done this multiple times in the past on products they sell themselves. It is also sad that around Black Friday, suddenly all of their listings skyrocket in price to fool customers into thinking they are getting a larger discount. Chances are, you’re not.
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Granted, there are products on Takealot that are genuinely discounted. It is just sad that it is hard to sort through the dumpster fire of fake trash sales in order to find the actual deals.
Take the latest Black Friday TV deals post I wrote this week. I struggled to find the same TVs on sale at Takealot….
