Jumia Black Friday: What People are Buying

Jumia’s yearly flash sale event, Black Friday, is still ongoing. A lot of people are taking advantage of it to get for themselves valuable items at discounted prices.

Investors King had on Friday reported that Jumia has promised earth-shattering deals in this year’s Black Friday. The flash sales had started on the 5th of November 2021 with packages like Treasure Hunt, Friday Rush Hour, Flash Sales and Wheel of Fortune.

A visit to Jumia’s website reveals the series of offers for the Black Friday sales. Some of the offers include phone deals, fashion deals, Home and Appliances, Computing deals, Television and Audio, Exploring Trends, Health and Beauty deals among others.

It however appears that of all the items available in the store, the ones people are patronizing the more or the top deals are phones, power banks, earphones and phone accessories.

Specifically, under phone deals, there are products with discounts as high as 54 and 52 percent. The implication of which is the product with such percentage of discount selling out very fast to the fastest fingers.

As of the time of filing this report, a UMIDIGI A7S phone listed in the store is labelled to have a 54 percent discount. Similarly, a Gionee S12 (4GB RAM, 64GB ROM) is listed for N58,990 after a 21 percent discount has been removed.

Under the fashion deal, there is also a ‘men luxury diamond waterproof quartz watch with 90 percent discount among other products with their discounts ranging from 1 percent to 90 percent.

Investors king spoke with a few people in order to have their takes about the ongoing sales and what they would like to buy.

“I am very excited about Black Friday. Who does not like cheap things? I will definitely get some items before Black Friday is over,” one person told us. When asked what he is planning on getting, he said is planning to get a Laptop computer.

Another person said he has been eyeing some items on Jumia since Black Friday started and he hopes to get them before it ends. When asked what those items were, his answer was a phone, earbud and a wireless keyboard.

A Banker in Ibadan also said that he has ordered a refrigerator at a 47 percent discount and he is now awaiting delivery.

Jumia Black Friday sales are expected to run until the 30th of November 2021. However, the main event is scheduled for the 26th of November 2021.