Show HN: Fuck Black Friday (opens in new tab)

Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people.

Try these instead:

- Ignore Black Friday

- Forget Black Friday

- Buy Nothing Black Friday

etc.

> We will send you one (1) email newsletter with charitable activities to spend money on instead of spending it on unnecessary stuff

What's wrong with showing that list right on your website? Why do you want my email?

Nothing but a poorly-worded rant against Black Friday followed by several referral links to retailers.

Yes, referral links to retailers.

Childish website. Flack Friday is crucial for retail, economic growth and beneficial for the consumers as with larger movement of goods, margins are dropping. As a matter of fact it also carriers a sentimental vibe with a hint of a tradition.

I only see some straw man anti-arguments that don't really explain why black Friday or consumer driven economies are bad (hint: they are not)

EDIT: looks like I overreacted by taking the OPs intent seriously. It turns out to be just a landing page for referrals? Oh the irony.

After seeing a bunch of Black Friday adverts on tech websites (e.g. VPN sales, domain sales, and so on) and looking at infographics showing exponential sales growth on this day for the past several years, I've decided to assemble a list of companies that aren't just doing their best to raise their revenues on BF, but actually use the moment to do something good. That's what the Black Friday basically is.

As the notion of black friday has spread fairly convincingly to the UK (in the last 5-10 years, particularly the last 2-3) there's a bit of push back here.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17226966.buy-now...

'Nowt' being yorkshire vernacular for 'nothing'.

For myself, I picked up a pretty good deal on some headphones, and also spent a load of money on coffee beans yesterday to have just about every coffee roaster I've ever ordered from email me this morning to offer 25% off. You win some you lose some.

Ever since I heard of an elderly man being trampled to death on Black Friday the whole holiday makes me sick. I just don't purchase anything (except utilities I guess) on black friday. I wish traditions like this would die.

This is cool. It would have been even better if the full contents were available to the users without having to enter the email. Seems kinda pointless to have to enter my email address to get "one (1) email newsletter".

Meh. I'm keeping my precious money, and spending it on useful things for myself instead.