Black Friday is just around the corner, and so is the best chance of the year to bag a bargain on the latest tech.
While initially an American tradition, Black Friday has swept the globe over the last decade or so to become a mainstay on the shopping calendar. While the Boxing Day sales and Amazon Prime Day are great opportunities in their own right, the former doesn’t take place until after the key holiday period and the latter is available only to those who have an active Amazon Prime account. Black Friday on the other hand is for everyone, and it drops at the right time to assist you with your holiday shopping.
Still, because it is the biggest sale of the year, there’s a lot to know about the Black Friday sale if you want to make the most of it. Even though the Trusted Reviews team will be on hand during the event to bring you the best offers as they appear, it’s still worth reading the following so that you’re entirely clued before the deals start dropping.
When is Black Friday?
Get out your calendars folks, it’s a later sale than usual this year with Black Friday 2024 set to take place on November 29th.
For reference, last year’s Black Friday sale landed on November 24th, and given that some retailers tend to drop their offers as soon as November begins, you can expect a longer sale cycle than usual this time around.
What is Black Friday?
As we know it today, Black Friday is the biggest sales event of the year and has grown into a worldwide phenomenon, but Black Friday started out as a simple term to describe the beginning of the holiday shopping season once the Thanksgiving festivities were out of the way.
The origin of the term is still speculated to this day, but one of its earliest uses dates back to the 1960s, referring to the obscene amounts of traffic that occurred once the Christmas shopping frenzy began.
Which retailers are taking part?
It might be easier to ask which retailers don’t take part in Black Friday, as you could probably count those ones on one hand. That number gets even smaller when talking specifically about tech retailers, with all the major stores taking part as they try to best the competition with better deals on phones, laptops, TVs and more.
For a look at which retailers have been involved in previous years, just scroll through the list below.
Editor’s Note: We’ve included links to stores that don’t sit in our traditional coverage areas in a bid to help general shoppers who have landed on this page.
Why stick with Trusted Reviews this Black Friday?
For longer than any of us probably care to remember, Trusted Reviews has been at the forefront of the Black Friday sale, bringing you the best offers as they appear, and this year will be no different.
Throughout the Black Friday sale and beyond, we will be scouring the internet for the absolute best tech deals so that you can save a serious amount of cash on your next purchase. Think of it as being able to enjoy the Black Friday sale without all the stress of it all (we’ve got that part sorted).
When is Cyber Monday?
For the first time in a few years, the Cyber Monday sale will not take place in November, with the 2024 iteration set for December 2nd. The later than usual date should help any last minute shoppers to cover any outstanding gifts, particularly if they aren’t able to get everything sorted before Black Friday comes to an end.
What is Cyber Monday?
Compared to Black Friday, Cyber Monday is more of a recent phenomenon but it’s become a true staple of the November/December shopping experience.
As you can probably guess from its name, Cyber Monday was designed as an online-only sale to capitalise on the appetites for online shopping the week after Black Friday. With its online-only slant, Cyber Monday also focuses primarily on tech, which is handy for our readers as it tends to offer some of the year’s best tech deals.
Just as with Black Friday, the Trusted Reviews team will be covering all the best Cyber Monday deals as they appear.
Black Friday questions
If you have any questions about the Black Friday sale or even topics that we may have missed, please send us an email at editor@trustedreviews.com and we’ll post a response right here on this very page.
