When is Cyber Monday 2023? Date of tech sales after Black Friday and how to get the best UK deals

Cyber Monday is the massive online sales event that takes place every year on the Monday following Black Friday sales.

Although it is still about landing exclusive deals, the main difference from Black Friday is that it predominantly focuses on e-commerce and tech products.

Over the years, however, Cyber Monday has morphed into an extension of Black Friday, being adopted by beauty, fashion and other retailers.

From TVs and laptops to clothing and home appliances, retailers will be slashing prices, giving bargain hunters one final chance to snap up a good deal before Christmas. Here’s everything you need to know.

When is Cyber Monday 2023?

Black Friday is on 24 November this year, which means Cyber Monday will be on 27 November. Sales tend to run all day, and some last multiple days.

Major retailers such as Amazon, Currys, Argos, John Lewis and Very will promote their deals closer to the time.

It is worth checking the price of products you are interested in on other websites, as even if a Cyber Monday offer is being promoted it may not necessarily be the best deal out there.

What is Black Friday?

Black Friday is the name given to the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, when big retailers offer huge discounts on goods, in what is considered to be the biggest shopping day of the year.

The phenomenon has spread to many other countries, including the UK, in recent years.

Many stores will open at either 5am or 6am and customers queue around the corner – some even camping out overnight – to get their hands on a bargain.

This has often resulted in mayhem as they scramble and fight each other over heavily-discounted goods. In the US, since 2006, there have been seven reported deaths and 98 injuries linked to the Black Friday rush.

The earliest record of the term “Black Friday” dates back to the Factory Management and Maintenance journal in November 1951, when it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick after Thanksgiving.

Around the same time, Philadelphia Police Department coined the phrase to describe the chaos ensued by the congestion of pedestrian and vehicle traffic on that day.

As the years went on, merchants adopted the term for the day, as it was widely believed to be the point in the year when retailers start to turn a profit and go from “in the red” to “in the black”.