Black Friday traditionally happens in the final week of November, but this year the starting gun sounded early and pretty much every retailer under the sun is already pushing atypically early, and hefty discounts on OLED TVs – including specialist retailers outside of Amazon.
And while that’s great for avid home cinema hardware bargain hunters, the sheer volume of deals is a two edged sword.
While there are plenty of decent discounts doing the rounds, there are an equal, if not great, number of poor offers masquerading as solid deals.
Key issues can include the deals being on older models that are now outperformed by newer rivals, making them a poor option, even with a discount. A number of the TVs we’ve seen on sale have also been cheaper at an earlier point this year, making the discount less impressive than the retailers would have you believe.
Here to help you get the best price possible for one of the best OLED TVs we’ve tried, tested and recommend our team of experts are on hand updating this guide with the top deals they’ve spotted.
Every deal we recommend is on a set we’ve tested and know delivers the goods in the real world. We've also checked the TV’s price history to make sure it wasn’t significantly cheaper at an earlier point this year – so you can trust our advice.
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When's the best time to buy an OLED TV?
TV prices fluctuate massively over the course of a year, and knowing the best time to buy can be the difference between bagging a bargain and paying well over the odds. Generally speaking, there are three times of year that are best to buy a new TV: spring, big sales events, and big sporting events.
Of these, spring is often the very best. This is because it's the time of year that all of the previous year's TVs tend to be sold with huge reductions so that space can be made for the new models that were announced in January. Generally speaking, TV improvements are fairly incremental from one year to the next and you can usually save yourself hundreds, if not thousands, by opting for last year's model. A word of warning, though: these are end-of-line models we're talking about so when they're gone, they're gone. Wait too long for the very lowest price and you could end up missing out entirely.
If you don't want to wait until spring, there are three big sales events to mark in your calendar: Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. While Amazon Prime Day moves around a bit (and has already taken place this year), Black Friday and Cyber Monday always take place, respectively, on the first Friday and Monday after Thanksgiving in the US. That means that this year Black Friday should take place on Friday 24th November, and Cyber Monday on Monday 27th November. While these sales events don't necessarily guarantee the very lowest prices you'll see all year, you can be pretty sure of getting a deal that's at least good, and quite possibly great.
While slightly less obvious, big sporting events often really do generate big deals on new TVs. Think Wimbledon, the Olympics, and of course football tournaments such as the World Cup, Euros, and the FA Cup Final.
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