Black Friday ‘best’ deals – are they worth it?
The Martin Lewis Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Martin Lewis Podcast is here – founder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis answers your financial questions.
What is Grey Friday? When is Cyber Monday? Martin reveals whether Black Friday is any good. He shares the best and the worst type of deals – plus his take on pre-Xmas, Boxing Day and January sales. But before you get pulled into an impulse buy, Martin coaches us in his ‘Money Mantras’ and ‘Black Friday shopping memo’.
This week, listeners Sheena and Aimee got in touch to ask about interest on Help-to-Save and energy bills. Elsewhere in the podcast, ‘Tell Us’ the most expensive thing you’ve bought but never used.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello and welcome to the intriguingly named The Martin Lewis Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | I wonder what that's going to be all about. |
| 0:11.4 | Now, regular listeners will know normally much of the show comes from my chat with Nihal on Five Live. |
| 0:16.2 | But due to the World Cup, there is no chat with Nihal. |
| 0:18.9 | Not because the World Cup's playing, but because |
| 0:20.9 | Nahal has been drafted as second water boy for the England team. Yes, he's the one who holds |
| 0:25.8 | the bowl with the backwash after the drink the water, then spit it out. Enjoy yourself, mate. |
| 0:30.2 | Miss you. So what's going to be in today's program? Well, it's Black Friday. So I'm going to be |
| 0:34.5 | focusing on cutting edge shopping tips |
| 0:37.6 | to make sure that you can control your impulses |
| 0:39.9 | and get the very best bargains if you're going out for doing that. |
| 0:43.1 | And also crucial information on your consumer rights. |
| 0:46.1 | There's also questions on help to save. |
| 0:48.2 | And I want you to tell us the most expensive dud deal you've ever had. |
| 0:53.5 | Let's get on with the show. |
| 1:10.6 | So the big subject this week is Black Friday, because it's on Friday, as you would expect. |
| 1:16.8 | Although interestingly, I actually called last week Grey Friday, because what we've seen this year is the deals spreading. |
| 1:25.3 | They're no longer just jammed into the Black Friday weekend. Many companies have |
| 1:30.3 | pre-stended their offers so that their Black Friday routine starts earlier. So we had many that |
| 1:36.1 | were on last week, about half of the normal deals I cover started in last Grey Friday. And that's |
| 1:40.9 | quite an interesting reversal, because when we started to see the Black Friday |
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