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We're heading towards Black Friday, and with so many sim racing products available many might be asking "are Fanatec Black Friday deals worth it?" I'll look at whether you should wait for any Fanatec Black Friday deals or not.
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Fanatec may have had a slightly troubled start to 2024, however, since the CORSAIR acquisition, things are looking up for the incredibly popular sim racing brand.
The next big event we’re all eager for is the Fanatec Black Friday 2024 sale. In this guide, we ask whether the Fanatec Black Friday deals are worth waiting for.
I’ll look at previous Fanatec Black Friday sales and the discounts that they offered, along with some predictions for what could be included in this year’s Fanatec Black Friday sale. Ultimately with the goal of helping you decide whether the sales are worth waiting for this year.
Before looking at last year’s sale and some predictions for 2024, let’s take a look at what we know so far about the 2024 Fanatec Black Friday sale. Well, this will be a short section because we don’t know much currently as deals haven’t been announced.
We do know that Fanatec’s Black Friday sale will almost certainly run from Friday, 29th November, through to Monday, 2nd December. In previous years, these are the dates that Fanatec always used for their sale. Occasionally, they’ll extend their sale past Cyber Monday or launch their deals early.
Other than this, Fanatec has been tight-lipped about their Black Friday sale. This is very normal for Fanatec, with a big reveal normally happening just before the sale starts.
Ok, the 2023 Fanatec Black Friday sale was a really good one in terms of the offers available. Although it did turn out to be a pretty bad Black Friday for Fanatec as a whole due to numerous cancelled orders and issues with stock. However, this appears to have been fixed ahead of the 2024 Fanatec Black Friday sale.
In 2023, numerous Black Friday-specific bundles offered pretty good discounts. Fanatec also discounted some of its most popular sim racing wheels and pedals.
If you were shopping for a new Fanatec steering wheel or pedals, you would almost certainly have found something that you liked. Some of the bundles included the most popular steering wheels being paired together.
If you already owned a Fanatec wheel base and fancied picking up some new steering wheels, they ran wheel-specific bundles. Some bundles simply paired steering wheels together to form a cheaper bundle than buying multiple products individually.
The 2023 sale was in stark contrast to the 2021 Black Friday sale, which was rather disappointing. During 2021, Fanatec only offered small discounts on a few items. No wheel bases were included; instead, only a few steering wheels and accessories were included in the sale. That was it.
Hopefully, the 2024 Fanatec Black Friday sale will be much more like last year’s event than the now-infamous 2021 sale!
One area that can impact whether you wait for the Fanatec Black Friday sale is the current deals that Fanatec is offering. Fanatec rarely offers discounts throughout the year; however, this year has been a bit different.
Fanatec currently offers discounts on a few products, including the CSL DD wheel bases, along with some bundle deals as part of their Ready2Race deals.
Currently, you can buy a Fanatec CSL DD reduced to just €199.95 as long as you buy it with a steering wheel and pedal set. This is a pretty insane discount and is ideal for sim racers looking to buy into the Fanatec ecosystem for the first time.
This CSL DD deal will likely be hard to beat on Black Friday, as it offers a huge €150 discount on one of the most popular Fanatec wheel bases.
Check all current Fanatec deals and discounts here.
The final thing I want to talk about is always a big issue when Fanatec announces sales and new products: website availability and stock levels. Every time Fanatec makes a big announcement, its website gets flooded with visitors, and there is quite often downtime.
During these downtime moments, the Fanatec website can become inaccessible, and you’re unable to place orders. This makes it hard to complete an order before the stock levels run out and can sometimes result in a product becoming sold out.
This could be an issue during the 2024 Black Friday sale, and placing an order may be very hard. Especially at the beginning of the sale event.
If you want to avoid this, you can use the current Fanatec deals that are available. Or you could wait until later during the weekend when the traffic has settled down. However, the second approach could make the sim racing product you want sold out.
So now that we’ve examined last year’s sale event and any potential issues that could arise during this year’s event, let’s examine some predictions for this year’s Black Friday sale.
As I mentioned, the CSL DD currently has recently had big discounts available. It’s likely this could continue into Black Friday 2024, especially if there is any QR1 CSL DD stock left on the shelves. I would expect Fanatec to announce some Black Friday-specific bundles following last year’s success.
These will likely include some steering wheels that aren’t typically paired with the CSL DD. There may even be bundles that include multiple steering wheels and the CSL DD wheel base.
The QR2 quick release has been talked about for what seems like years. Now it is here, Fanatec may want to make a big deal about getting it into the hands of as many sim racers as possible. This is exactly what happened last year, as Fanatec ran discounts as high as 80% off for the QR2 adapter.
This could be a trend again during this year’s sale, as Fanatec may be keen to transition from the QR1 quick release to the newer QR2 as fast as possible.
Fanatec updated their entry-level and mid-level product ranges with the CSL DD a few years ago and the ClubSport DD more recently. The next product range to be updated will be the high-end Podium range.
If Fanatec is planning an update or replacement for the DD1 and DD2 wheel bases, these two premium products could likely be discounted during Black Friday.
Also, the DD1 wheel base currently has a large discount available, and the Podium F1 racing wheel was discontinued early this year. These signs all lead towards bigger discounts being available during Black Friday 2024.
We have a dedicated Fanatec Black Friday 2024 hub where we will bring you all of their deals and discounts. That page will be updated as soon as we get any news about Fanatec Black Friday sales, so I’d recommend bookmarking it or checking back regularly for updates.
If you are not planning to wait until Black Friday, check out all current Fanatec deals and discounts here.
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