I've been wanting to get a new gaming monitor for weeks, and the best deal popped up today which happens to be Friday the 13th. My roommate keeps joking that I'll regret it and something will go wrong with it. Am I being superstitious or is there actually something to this?
You're definitely being superstitious. Friday the 13th has no actual connection to product quality or how well electronics will work. It's just a date, and bad luck is just a pattern our brains like to see when random things happen. If your monitor breaks down in two months, you won't blame it on a random Tuesday - you'll just assume it was a defect. But buy it on the 13th and suddenly people remember the date. That's confirmation bias, not reality.
The real question is whether the deal itself is good. Check the return policy, the seller's reputation, warranty coverage, all that practical stuff. Those actually matter for whether you'll be happy with the purchase. If it's a legit deal from a solid retailer and the monitor has decent specs for what you need, grab it. Your roommate's just messing with you anyway.
There's no mechanism by which a calendar date affects a monitor's manufacturing quality or reliability - the timing of your purchase has zero influence on whether the hardware will fail. Your roommate's joking around, but if you're genuinely worried, the real question is whether this deal is actually good and the seller is reputable, which has nothing to do with superstition.
The date your monitor arrives has nothing to do with how it'll perform, but I get why the superstition sticks around. I bought a laptop on Friday the 13th years ago just because the price dropped and I needed it, figured why not, and that thing still works fine - I use it all the time for reading and taking notes. Your monitor's quality depends on the manufacturer, the batch it came from, and how it gets handled in shipping, not on which day you clicked "buy now." If the deal is genuinely good, grab it.
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