I eyed a Pfaff at LQS then it went down in price during Black Friday week so I decided to pull the trigger. Not high end but exactly what I wanted & no crowd to fight either.
Store employee spent about 1.5 hours with me.
It came with a free 1st year cleaning & maintenance which I didn’t realize until I picked it up. ($80 value)
When I come in the store for fabric, etc they recognize me & I feel valued. They’re Mom & Pop so he’s the repair guy.
Chain & Big Box stores won’t do any of the above & my parents always shopped local stores.
Our DIL always has a head of steam for Black Friday bargains & get up in the middle of night to get there but she said she’s done buying some things like small appliances on BF because they don’t last long.
Speaking of “Sales”. It irks me to no end when stores put items in their sale ad & I know it’s every day price.. Our big local grocery chain does this every week - it’s a 10-12 page ad with nice colored pictures but only about 1-2 pages have a real sale price.