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Daisy Lester

Black Friday 2024 – live: Latest news and early offers

Save across tech, beauty, home appliances and more - (iStock/The Independent)

With just weeks to go until the main event, early Black Friday offers are now dropping daily. As the biggest sale of the year, the deals bonanza is your chance to save across tech, TVs and laptops, as well as beauty, clothing, mattresses and home appliances.

Whether you’re looking for Apple Airpods, Ninja air fryers, Shark cordless vacuums, Simba mattresses or Elemis skincare, all the biggest brands and retailers take part – think Zara, Lookfantastic, Amazon, John Lewis, Pandora and many more.

With the discounts seeming to drop earlier each year, we’re expecting plenty of brands to launch their Black Friday events in the weeks leading up to the official sale dates (29 November to 2 December). Boots has just kicked off proceedings with what its calling its biggest Black Friday sale ever. Elsewhere, hundreds of deals are arriving across pretty much every category you can think of.

We’ve been covering the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales for years here at IndyBest, so, we know how to spot a good deal from a dud. If it’s got a decent discount (and it’s worth your money), you’ll find it here.

Read more: Best early Black Friday deals to shop, according to a shopping expert

Black Friday 2024

  • When is Black Friday 2024?
  • Looking for a heated clothes airer deal?
  • The best early Nintendo Switch deals

When is Black Friday 2024?

10:58 , Daisy Lester

Falling the day after Thanksgiving in the US, Black Friday marks the start of the pre-Christmas shopping season. In fact, the first use of “Black Friday” in retail can be traced all the way back to the Fifties, when shops shifted from losses (in the red) to profits (in the black).

In the decades since, what started as a one-day sale has evolved into a four-day event (and, in some cases, a whole month of deals) that’s marked internationally and concludes on what is known as Cyber Monday.

This year, the mammoth sale will kick off on Friday 29 November. Lasting a full four days, the deals will end on Cyber Monday (2 December).

When is Black Friday 2024?

Looking for a heated clothes airer deal?

11:30 , Daisy Lester

When it comes to doing the laundry in the depths of winter, there’s one appliance you may want to invest in: a heated clothes airer.

While a tumble dryer can cost up to £1.55 an hour to operate (depending on the model), a heated airer is a far more energy-efficient way to dry your clothes, as it is likely to cost less than 40p an hour to run.

Now, you can save even more money, thanks to early Black Friday deals. True to form, our team of shopping experts have rounded up the best heated clothes airer offers available:

Best heated clothes airer deals for Black Friday 2024

The best early Nintendo Switch deals this Black Friday

12:00 , Daisy Lester

Gamers, start your engines. Black Friday is the time to save on Nintendo Switch consoles and the best Nintendo Switch games (which are rarely ever discounted, apart from during Black Friday season).

If you’re looking for a price cut, you don’t even have to wait, as our tech writer Alex has hunted down the best early Nintendo Switch deals ahead of the main event.

He’s rounded up everything you need to know about Nintendo Switch Black Friday sales, from the best early Nintendo Switch offers to the deals he expects to see on Black Friday itself. So, what are you waiting for?

Best Nintendo Switch Black Friday deals in 2024

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