Black Friday Vocabulary & Expressions
´Sabrena Doherty 
Improve your sales vocabulary with these words & expressions,
Love it or hate it, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are here again, and I thought it would be a good time to review some vocabulary and expressions to use, to help you with your online shopping!
As we all know, most e-commerce companies do a lot of business (make a lot of sales) on these days in particular, and as consumers, we like to shop at this time. Because, you know, everyone loves a bargain, right?
So let´s learn some vocabulary and expressions related to Black Friday and Sales:
A bargain - a thing or service bought or offered for sale much more cheaply than is usual or expected
A deal - a good offer
A sale / the sales - period of time when prices are reduced
Sold out - there is no more of that item left to buy
50% off - the price is reduced by 50%
€50 off - the price is reduced by €50.
A rip-off - when something is considered too expensive. It can also be a noun - she charged me twice the normal price, I was ripped off.
A discount - a reduction in the price.
To try on - to put on (try) the item first to check that it fits.
To return something - to go back to the shop with the item or send it back if you bought it online, with the purpose of receiving your money back.
A refund - when you receive your money back that you paid for the item
A credit note - when you can buy something of the same value in the shop after you return goods to there.
Goods and merchandise - products from the shop.
Voucher - a small printed piece of paper (or can be virtual) that entitles the holder to a discount, or that may be exchanged for goods or services.
Massive discount - very, very significant discount
A guarantee - a promise from the shop to replace or fix the product within a certain time limit and with certain conditions.
More advanced vocabulary:
Price match - to check that the price is the same in another shop
Dodgy - dishonest, unreliable, poor quality. E.g. That website seems dodgy, I don´t think you should buy from there.
A scam - dishonest or fraudulent.
A mark-up (noun), prices are marked-up - reflects an increase in price.
A mark-down, to be marked down - a reduction in price.
Some expressions about money you might find interesting:
A fool and his money are soon parted - if you have money, but you are not sensible, you will lose it.
Money talks - this means that you can convince people to do things if you offer them money.
To live beyond your means - you spend more than you earn.
To cost a pretty penny and to cost an arm and a leg are expressions to mean that something is very expensive, whereas something that was bought for a song, or costs next-to-nothing, is considered very cheap, or very good value for money.
Some phrasal verbs:
Dip into your savings is to take money from your savings to pay for something.
If you save on something, you spend less money than you normally would. For example, you can save on the electricity bill by turning off unnecessary lights.
Set aside money/set money aside is to save money. You can set money aside for Black Friday to avoid dipping into your savings to buy things on sale.
Finally, to be flat broke means to have no money, whereas if you have money to burn, or if you are loaded, you are rich.
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Practice your numbers in the video below - it is important that you understand when talking about money!
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