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Speaker 1: It's Black Friday. Speaking of spending the dollars. If you're

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Speaker 1: like me, you've already got yourself a good deal, waited

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Speaker 1: for it, and then nabbed it. But there are also

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Speaker 1: some halves out there. What a surprise consumer has been

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Speaker 1: keeping an eye out for US. Jimma Rasmunsen is the

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Speaker 1: head of research and Advocacy and with US High Gemma. Hello, okay,

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Speaker 1: what are the bad deals that are not really deals?

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Speaker 2: Well, we looked at pricing over about three months because

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Speaker 2: we wanted to get a sense of are the deals genuine,

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Speaker 2: And what we found was that about half of the

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Speaker 2: products that are supposedly on sale today, shoppers could have

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Speaker 2: found them for about the same price or a lower

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Speaker 2: price at some point in the last three months. So

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Speaker 2: it really kind of shows that there's so much hype

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Speaker 2: around Black Friday, but the deals are a little dubious.

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Speaker 2: There are some to be had, There are some in there,

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Speaker 2: but a lot it's a bit of pottier.

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Speaker 1: Have you found any ones that are not that have

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Speaker 1: been cheaper in the last while than they actually are today?

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Speaker 2: So we have found that there are some deals, like

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Speaker 2: there are some deals to be had. One thing that

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Speaker 2: we found so Harvey Norman and Farmers they had stick

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Speaker 2: back that was priced at one and ninety nine dollars,

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Speaker 2: So that was for nine out of fourteen weeks for

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Speaker 2: having Norman, and for every week with Farmers and with

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Speaker 2: Black Friday it is five hundred and ninety nine dollars.

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Speaker 2: So this is genuinely cheaper. There are a few others though,

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Speaker 2: where they're actually just like a dollar or two cheaper

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Speaker 2: and the savings are not really as meaningful. So that's

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Speaker 2: a little bit tricky. You could say, yeah, it's cheaper.

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Speaker 1: And apparently for Hosking who loves the dice and stick vacuum,

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Speaker 1: that's actually a proper bargain today, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It is a proper bargain. So I think that's kind

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Speaker 2: of what we want to be saying to people is

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Speaker 2: really it's about doing your research. There's websites like priced

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Speaker 2: Buy or price me where you can put the product

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Speaker 2: in and it's going to give you all of the

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Speaker 2: historical pricing dush, And we kind of feel the proof

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Speaker 2: is in the pricing, not in the marketing height that

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Speaker 2: you know, stop clear out big sale. If you can

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Speaker 2: look at that data, then there's absolutely deals to be had.

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Speaker 2: But it's just about being a little bit conscientious abou

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Speaker 2: where you put your money.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Jim Listen, thanks very much. Look after yourself

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Speaker 1: Jim Rasmussen, who is with Consumer New Zealand. For more

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