The ‘Black Friday’ bargains represent 9% of the prices analyzed by OCU

The bargains that can be found on this ‘Black Friday’ represent a 9% of the total prices analyzed by the Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU).

This was stated this Friday by the entity in a statement in which it specified that said prices are those of those products with a lower price to the lowest of those collected between September and October in the 61 online stores that he has investigated, although he warned that not all prices that appear as discounted “They really are.”

Amazon and MediaMarkt concentrate the highest percentages of products with a bargain price, with 28% and 26%, respectively, among the almost 2,500 electronic and household appliance products, as well as transport seats for children and babies, and tires, analyzed by OCU. Other stores with a “significant” percentage of bargain prices They are Worten (18%), Griip500 (18%), Alternate (16%), Cecotec (16%), Carrefour (15%), Fnac (15%), Xiaomi (15%) and TodoPrix (15%).

The products that concentrate a higher percentage of bargains are the robot vacuum cleaners (34% of the analyzed prices), the external batteries (26%), laptops (25%) and televisions (22%). They are followed by air fryers (17%), air conditioners (15%) and headphones (15%). On the contrary, OCU has not detected any bargain prices on wine cellars and baby strollers and no notable discounts on cooktops (1%), microwaves (2%), ovens (3%) and refrigerators (3%).

Royal discount

In parallel, he denounced that “many” of the advertised discounts “they do not represent a real reduction”. In this context, he recalled that the current legislation, specifically the Law 7/1996 of Retail Trade Regulation, establishes that the previous price shown next to the discounted one must be the lowest applied in the 30 days prior.

However, OCU has detected that “numerous” online shops They calculate discounts based on “arbitrary” previous prices, such as the manufacturer’s recommended price, which “in many cases has not even been applied.” After pointing out that this practice “violates” the regulationsthe organization announced that it will transfer the “irregularities” to the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 so that it sanctions these practices “in a forceful manner.”

Finally, he recalled that in online purchases the consumer has 14 calendar days to inform the seller that you are withdrawing from the purchase, without having to give any explanation and then have another 14 calendar days to return it to the seller. “This right does not have penalty: the shipping costs The originals are returned and the return shipping costs are only charged if the store notified it before the purchase,” he added.