Black Friday is coming up soon and, as in real life, there are bargains and sales aplenty in the virtual world of Second Life! I will be updating this blogpost with information on where you can find listings of Black Friday sales across the grid.
Courtesy of YouTuber NovataSecondLife, here are two Flickr collections of Black Friday sales in Second Life:
- Look BFS 21 SL, curated by The Palaverer
- Black Friday SL 2021, curated by Lee HyeRim
One thing that I do find irritating about these collections of pictures on Flickr is that you often have to hunt around in the image to find the store name or logo, while “50% OFF” is often in HUGE letters on the pic!
Perhaps the best and most comprehensive listing of Black Friday sales to date is the one on the Fabulously Free in SL website. Note that some of these sales have already started! For example, Belle Epoque’s 50%-off sale has its final day today, November 22nd, 2021. So please check the start and end dates of each store’s Black Friday sale!
I will be updating this blogpost throughout the week as I hear of especially good deals, and new lists of sales. Stay tuned!
UPDATE Nov. 23rd, 2021: TeleportHub.com has a list of stores participating in the Black Friday Weekend Sale 2021, running from Nov. 26th to Nov. 29th, 2021 (some stores may have different start and end dates, however; please check the list carefully).
UPDATE Nov. 23rd, 2021 8:29 p.m.: Kalhene is having a 50%-off sale on both their Maitreya-Lara-compatible Analexa mesh body (available here; now just L$999), and their new, curvier Erika mesh body (available here; now just L$1,295). The sale starts today, Nov. 23rd, and runs until Nov. 28th, 2021.
Here is my review of both bodies, which include heads, hair, and a nice starter wardrobe. They were a real bargain before, and they are an even better deal now!
Also, While Seraphim has yet to publish its Black Friday sales listing, it did post the following image to Flickr, with a teaser:
Get Those Wallets Ready, Friends! There Are Over 425 Sales On The List And There Are Still 3 Days Until Black Friday!
So, when Seraphim does publish its list, I will be sure to update this blogpost with a link to it! If they do indeed have over 425 entries, then it will be by far the biggest list of Black Friday sales in Second Life! (UPDATE Nov. 25th: Seraphim has now published its Black Friday list! Have at it!!!)
UPDATE Nov. 24th, 2021: Pink Cream Pie is having a 50%-off sale, but the Pink Cream Pie store group will also be FREE to join from Nov. 26th to 29th, 2021! (The group normally costs L$314 to join.)
With your group tag active, you can pick up dozens and dozens of free group gifts on the second floor of the store, including all the group gifts from 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020! So be sure to join the Pink Cream Pie group when it is free to join.
UPDATE Nov. 25th: In addition to a 50%-off sale starting today and running until Monday, November 29th, 2021, Blueberry is giving all members of its Blueberry Store VIP group L$250 in free store credit! Please check the group messages for the HUD to attach and click on to get the credit. The Blueberry Store VIP group costs only L$20 to join, so it’s worth it! Note that the free store credit will expire if not used within two weeks.
UPDATE Nov. 25th, 2021: The Meshbody is having a 50%-off sale on all male and female Legacy mesh bodies, which is an especially good deal! (The regular retail price for Legacy bodies is L$5,000, so that works out to L$2,500 with the 50% Black Friday discount.) The sale runs from Friday, Nov. 26th to Monday, Nov. 29th, 2021. (UPDATE Nov. 26th: Meshbody has increased the discount on Legacy mesh bodies from 40% to 50%, so I have updated this paragraph.)
Also, a reminder: if you are shopping for a new mesh body, that while it is technically not a Good Friday sale, Belleza still has their 50%-off sale on all male and female Belleza mesh bodies (more details here). The male Belleza Jake Bento mesh body is for sale for L$1,500, and the female Belleza Freya, Venus, and Isis bodies are only L$1,250 each, or you can pick up the three-pack for L$2,250! And both the Jake and Freya bodies have excellent support among Second Life fashion designers.
UPDATE Nov. 26th, 2021: I have checked and I can confirm that Maitreya is having a 50%-off sale on the Maitreya Lara mesh body! It is just L$1,375. The petite breast add-on option is L$299, and the flat chest option is L$249.
There’s no notice of this sale in the Maitreya V.I.P. store group, so the news just seems to be spreading via word of mouth. Expect the sim to be very crowded once word gets out on this bargain! (Maitreya had a sale like this last year, too, so I was expecting this.)
Happy shopping!
UPDATE Nov. 28th, 2021: Here’s a list of all the stores offering a free store group join this Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.
At Seraphim we’ve been happily surprised in the increase in sales this year…there are now well over 600 on the Seraphim list and more still coming in through til Cyber Monday!!! Happy shopping times!!!
Hi there, Ryan! I’d like to contribute my Black Friday sales spreadsheet to this list. I’m aggregating sales from various feeds and websites (including Seraphim) and have put them in this fully searchable sheet. It contains information about merchandise type (including whether or not a store has men’s items), Flickr/FB/MP catalogs where available, and more. You can also sort the sheet by store name, start date, or end date.
So far, I have listed over 1000 shops, and I am updating it continually over the weekend.
The sheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MCzXdm-8nmNdBGNCcYE05GJBEIh8UuJY5F6uzhI1Fac/edit?usp=sharing
If more than 100 people try to access the sheet at once, Google Docs chokes up, so I’ve made a mirror of the sheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQA6p02PxRdrDQ0O5_xwKKelHN78KSKXrbErfUHT1OKPDElev0nlJZlNij9_fEw-WEdJozTp4hzl-5j/pubhtml
This second link does not allow users to sort rows, but you can still use Ctrl+F to search.
Oh, this is awesome, thanks Nadja!