Scottish shoppers have been issued advice to avoid spending cash on counterfeit or sub-standard products in the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.
This Friday will see retailers slash prices and offer one-time promotions to mark the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Online sellers will take this one step further by extending deals to Cyber Monday on November 28.
But experts at Advice Direct Scotland, which runs the national consumer advice service consumeradvice.scot, are urging Scots to be "savvy shoppers" in the sales.
