BALANCES. – Summer 2020 will start on Wednesday 15 July. Interesting offers are already current among the giants of the online sale. Linternaute.com focus on the good plans, but also the key dates of the first promotions national “déconfinées”.

Summary Balances on the Internet Best offers of balances, Dates of beginning and end-of-summer 2020 Date 2nd markdown / 3rd markdown summer sale in France The essential

summer 2020 began this Wednesday, July 15, 2020 to 8 hours, for a period of four weeks, on all departments of metropolitan france. These balances have been carried forward for nearly a month to let to small traders time to rebuild their cash without breaking the price. As at the date of the end of the summer sale, it is set to Tuesday 11 August 2020, instead of the Tuesday, July 21, as originally planned. From this Wednesday, many good deals are offered in store, but also online.

Our selection of specials on the Internet :

Good plan AirPods : promo during the sales ! The best deals

Good plans, fan and air conditioning : the specials guns of the balances are there !

Good plan balances camera : a pack with the Canon EOS 80D is just 899 euros

top promotions summer sale

150 euros discount on the notebook PC the Lenovo Ideapad to the Fnac to See the offer The smartphone Huawei P30 to 515 euros at Amazon to See the offer discounts on the Mac Book to Apple at Fnac See the offer 100 euros discount on the iPhone 11 pro to the Fnac to See the offers The fan Eleqo EL-26 to -50% in Baker to See the offers wall oven Samsung -39% in Baker to See The offer on sofa 3 place Milan at 199 euros instead of 399,99 euros in CDiscount to See the offer The refrigerator Beko 295 liters at 299 euros instead of 4374 euros in CDiscount to See the offer The audio headset wireless Jabra Elite -28% to the Fnac to See the offer In direct to Receive our alerts live !

08:46 – Why wearing a mask is mandatory in “all enclosed public places,” is that for in two weeks ?

If it is already strongly advised to wear a mask in enclosed public places, the prohibition to refrain from it is “only” for two weeks. The minister of Health Olivier Veran has given more details on the 14th of July on the reasons for this beat two weeks prior to the implementation of the mandatory wearing of the mask “in all public places closed” : “there is all the work of logistics. (…) Where are the masks ? How to ensure that the French have ? We need to be able to answer these questions. (…) This requires having a few days”. The definition of “public places closed” should also be refined, as does the question of potential sanctions.

08:36 – the wearing of The mask should be made compulsory in places closed to the horizon of the August 1

Tuesday, 14 July, one of the main announcements of Emmanuel Macron has been the following : “I hope that in the next few weeks, we made it mandatory the mask in all enclosed public places.” Objective : to curb the spread of the Covid-19. The French president has given the date of 1 August for the entry of force of this measure, the time to set up the logistical elements.

08:30 – Visit our good plans on the internet !

At the top of this page, we offer you the first deals of the summer sale 2020 identified on the internet. Fan, camera, AirPods… Fashion, home appliances, decoration, furniture, sport… The major retailers online put already forward some interesting offers for all tastes and budgets.

08:25 – A desire to spend in berne in French

The French have been nice to have saved about 60 billion euros for the containment, according to government figures, the desire to spend does not seem to be at the appointment. According to a survey of the Fifg for the online retail site Spartoo, “54% of the French intend to waive the balances or to allocate a smaller budget” than usual.

08:21 – social Distancing and gestures barriers remain imperatives for these summer sales 2020

The sars coronavirus is still circulating in France. For these summer sales 2020, it must, therefore, continue to follow guidelines for social distancing and gestures barriers. On 13 July last year, the Economy minister Bruno Le Maire has pointed out on RTL that there would be “no relief of sanitary rules”.

08:15 – The summer sales start this Wednesday, with some three weeks of delay

Welcome to this live ! The period of the summer sale begins this Wednesday, July 15, instead of June 24, last, to cause cash to replenish at small-scale traders in upstream prices. And what are the balances in line which, according to experts, may well be preferred : health measures, strict remain applied in the shops, which can be a deterrent to customers (wearing a mask mandatory, fitting rooms may not always be available…). Yves Marin, expert in the distribution sector at the law firm of Bartle, highlights as well with the AFP that this context offers “a huge premium to trade in-line”, where the “fitting room is in the home and deliveries and free returns”. The specialist also considers that “the purchases so-called pulse”, and, in particular, those articles of fashion, “will suffer”.

What are the dates of the beginning and end of summer sales 2020 ?

date de dégoal of the summer sales 2020 has been shifted by almost a month. start on Wednesday, 15 July instead of 24 June, for a end date scheduled for Tuesday, August 11 instead of July 21. Set by the decree of 10 June 2020, the new dates are for all the departments of metropolitan France : unlike the usual, no date override is applied to the four départements of metropolitan France to the geographic boundary that are the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Alpes-Maritimes and the two departments of Corsica. In other words, the summer sales are starting and if there end also July 15 and August 11. These summer sales will also be spread over four weeks instead of six, a shortened term of discount in force since the winter sale 2020, under the effect of the Law Covenant. This term applies, in derogation of dates or not, to all the French departments.

What are the dates for the overseas territories ?

usually, Mayotte (976) and Guyana (973) possess the same dates in the majority of summer sale (in other words, off-exceptions) in metropolitan France. This remains the case in Guyana, where the balances of summer are also shifted to 15 July – 11 August this year. In Mayotte, in contrast, the summer sales 2020 remain scheduled to take place from Wednesday 24 June to Tuesday 21 July. Here are the dates of the summer sales 2020 in the other overseas territories :

Guadeloupe (971) : Saturday 26 September to Friday 23 October 2020 Martinique (972) : from Thursday 1 October to Wednesday 28 October 2020 Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon (975) : from Wednesday 15 July to Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Saint-Barthélémy (977) and Saint-Martin (978) : from Saturday 10 October to Friday 6 November 2020

NOTE : in the Réunion (974), the balances of winter 2020 take place between Saturday 5th September and Friday 2 October 2020.

What are the dates of the 2nd and 3rd markdowns ?

If the dates of the balances are imposed to the merchants by the legislation in force, these latter are free to choose the dates from which they carry out greater discounts. Each retailer decides the date of the 2nd apart, some choosing to make a 3rd. In general, the stores display new discount from the second week of the balances.

How to avoid scams during the sales ? watch out for fake discounts ! : the reference prices posted on the sites selling online can be misleading. The slashed price may thus give rise to a “false discount” when it has been inflated artificially, which causes a gap that is attractive between the old and the new amount. This practice can not be carried out on the products mentioned on “sale”. However, to take precautions in the face of this process is widespread, the consumer association UFC – que choisir advises “compare offers from various retailers before making the purchase, to make the idea of “accurate as possible” the base cost of the product. price comparison, valuable allies : Idealo is part of price comparison sites online considered to be independent, which weighs the prices of a same product on a large number of sites. It lists hundreds of millions of deals offered by tens of thousands of merchants. Of course there are other price comparison websites are considered reliable, such as Kelkoo, Icomparateur, leDénicheur. How to recognize a site illegal ? : If it is not a site that is very known, here are a few sure ways to ensure that the cybertrader through which you intend to make a purchase is safe. Start by verifying that the site on which you will be using your credit card is secure, ensuring that the url address of the site in question begins with “https”. Then, look for on the site the link to the legal notices. These last are mandatory. If you can’t find them, it is that this site is not legal. The consumer association UFC que choisir advises lastly to choose a seller who is based in France, as “a remedy will be more complicated if the company is abroad”. More than one French four does not take advantage of the summer sales 2020

According to a study conducted by YouGov *, more than one French out of four (27%) does not take advantage of the summer sales this year. Among these French not wanting to do the summer sales this year, 52% say they have “nothing special to buy, and 34% do not have “the budget”, and 31% say they try to “reduce their consumption” . Beyond these three reasons, the most designated among the proposed answers made to the panel, 27% of respondents who do not intend to make the balances believe that they “push the consumption”, followed closely by 26% said they did not want to “visit places frequented in the current context. Finally, 14% of French people are ready to boycott the summer sales 2020 say they don’t love “go to stores”, 9% consider that they have “already done good business this year” and 6% are based on the fact that they do “order ever online”.

* of 23 to June 24, 2020, in line, on 1054 persons representative of the population French national aged 18 years and over.

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