It's a trap. Notoriously, electronics bought for Black Friday are the worst batch available. You can expect higher error rates and technical issues for CPUs and GPUs bought during BF.

This sounds a bit conspiratorial to me. Do you have a source?

It is a bit conspiratorial. Since everything that’s is being made is shipped immediately and nobody has a warehouse to store bad Black Friday electronics I would take such statements with a grain of salt.

Not so conspiratorial, I don't know about AMD but companies like Samsung do sell modified SKUs (I believe mainly TVs) with generally worse processor power than their not BF counterparts. A quick Google (or HN even) search should bring up a few articles about this behavior.

They also have store-specific models which may be the issue. All subtly different and generally only the base model is reviewed.

Eh? Source?

Then you just RMA them. Problem solved.

They lowered the prices everywhere, not Black Friday specific. PC demand has collapsed due to the coming recession.