Black Friday Deals 2018 – The top 20 picks for Australia

I search online for black friday deals and find Australian businesses like Harvey Norman, Kogan and News.com.au flogging deals for this American online sale frenzy that happens each year in November. The weird thing is most people in Australia don’t have a clue what this whole online sale event is about.

Before Google Search Australia got invaded with “black friday sales” by all the commercial websites for a “thanksgiving day that Australia does not celebrate”, it used to show the real black friday bushfires in australia that everybody knew about. The bushfires that happened in Victoria, Australia.

The Royal Commission noted that “it appeared the whole State was alight on Friday, 13 January 1939”. The infamous Black Friday bushfires happened on the 13 January 1939, in Victoria, Australia. It was said to be among the worst natural bushfires (wildfires) in the world. Almost 20,000 km² (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burned, 71 people died, several towns were entirely obliterated. So we pay our respects to those affected by those bush fires.

The reality is Black Friday  and Cyber Monday is still a  big event in the US and massive discounts are available online  –  and aussies don’t really mind snagging a good bargain online. And so just for that reason, I have done a roundup of all the good deals  that I have updated from 2018. I made a list, so you too can benefit from these online sale offers here in Australia.

Most of these crazy upto 60% to 70% off online offers are available this cyber weekend (yes that’s what they call it) So you can get off on this – this weekend, but surely some of them companies will extend their offers at the end of this November date, because they so like to give us deals -don’t they.

Some of the deals/links listed above will convert  to the Black Friday discounts  when they start on black friday and some are just discount offers that are listed  for your online shopping convenience from my affiliate partners.  You get a discount and I get  compensated at no extra cost to you for listing the deals.

I have used  most of these products( tech, website and gadgets related ) on this page  and  hope to  test out the rest, which I have not used yet. Hope you find a deal that interests you.

When is Black friday and cyber monday ?

From wikipedia

The earliest evidence of the phrase Black Friday applied to the day after Thanksgiving in a shopping context suggests that the term originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.

 

This usage dates to at least 1961. More than twenty years later, as the phrase became more widespread, a popular explanation became that this day represented the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a profit, thus going from being “in the red” to being “in the black”

Website Design and Theme – Offers

Website deals – It is the perfect time to invest in loads of useful wordpress plugins, tools, themes, plans and more.Our list above features a lot of website related products, whether you need it for your own website, or a client’s, purchasing a product that is priced way below its actual price is always a good deal.

Software Blackfriday Deals

The list also features streaming and recording software, video editing  and  website and online shops software. This holiday season is the perfect time  to get into  downloading or editing videos with our discounted software  products listed above.

If you do spot any good deals worth listing here this year, do send me a note over here and I will include it in my 2019 edition of deals, if good.

You want to check out what we featured earlier check out our 2016 post and these posts over here and here.

Happy deal hunting and have a good cyber 2018 !