Black Friday is Friday 27 November 2026, two weeks away. UK shops often start advertising earlier, which is why a "sale" price is only useful if you can compare it with what that same screen has actually cost recently. SpecPrice does that by judging each listing against its own 30-day median, not a shop's "was" figure.
Forge PC has not tested these monitors for this article, and we have not negotiated any of the prices. The figures below come from SpecPrice's monitor tracker, checked on 13 November 2026. We have only used stock-checked listings. This note sits alongside our GPU, CPU and RAM price watch and our earlier Black Friday parts guide.
How SpecPrice judges a deal
SpecPrice started recording monitor prices on 18 October 2026. On its Black Friday pages it gives a verdict only after it has seven days of a product's own history, and it never uses a retailer's RRP or "was" price. A "Real deal" is at least 5 per cent below the listing's usual (30-day median) price; "Same as usual" is within -5 to +3 per cent; "Price went UP before the sale" is 3 per cent or more above that median. The monitor category page itself shows the change versus the 30-day average on each row. All of the figures below are approximate.
Screens that were already cheaper on 13 November
Several well-known gaming monitors were at or close to their recent lows when we checked, mostly at Scan, with times between 07:16 and 07:57 GMT.
1440p OLED
Monitor | Size / refresh | Approx. price | Shop | vs 30-day average |
|---|
MSI MAG 271QP QD-OLED X28 | 26.5-inch, 280Hz | £349 | Scan, also Box | 10% below at Scan; 20% below at Box |
MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 | 26.5-inch, 500Hz | £549 | Scan | 13% below |
MSI MPG 341CQR X36 | 34-inch ultrawide, 360Hz | £799 | Scan | 9% below |
The MAG 271QP QD-OLED X28, at about £349, is a useful marker: a 27-inch-class 1440p QD-OLED was already meaningfully cheaper than its recent average, two weeks out. If that is the panel you want, there may be little to gain by waiting just because a banner says "Black Friday". Compare any later offer with this figure, not with a shop's own "was" price. Our 1440p monitor guide covers how to choose a panel in this class.
4K OLED
Monitor | Size / refresh | Approx. price | Shop | vs 30-day average |
|---|
MSI MAG 272UP QD-OLED X24 | 26.5-inch, 240Hz | £529 | Scan | 9% below |
MSI MPG 321URXW QD-OLED | 31.5-inch, 240Hz | £599 | Scan | 5% below |
MSI MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 | 32-inch, 240Hz | £749 | Scan | 6% below |
ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDM | 26.5-inch, 240Hz | £724 | Scan | 4% below |
ASUS ROG Strix XG32UCWMG | 32-inch, 240Hz / 480Hz mode | £674 | Scan (£673.99) and Box | 1% below at Box; at Scan it was the 30-day low |
The drop on the PG27UCDM is modest. It is still useful as a reference, because Tom's Hardware's 4K buying guide (updated 6 October 2026) names this 27-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED as its overall pick. The XG32UCWMG, a 32-inch 4K OLED that can also run 1080p at up to 480Hz, was about £674 at Scan (£673.99) and Box on 13 November 2026. At Box that was only about 1 per cent below its average, so treat £674 as close to the usual price, not a deep sale. If you are deciding whether 4K is even the right resolution, start with our 1080p vs 1440p vs 4K comparison.
IPS and everyday screens
It is not only OLED. At Scan, the MSI MAG 274QF (27-inch 1440p IPS, 180Hz) was about £119, 14 per cent below its average; the MSI MAG 274F (27-inch 1080p IPS, 200Hz) was about £99, 11 per cent below; and the MSI PRO MP273U, a 27-inch 4K IPS office-style panel, was about £135, 6 per cent below.
Screens that had gone up
A lower price on a banner is not automatically a discount if the starting point has already risen. On the same SpecPrice check, the LG UltraGear 27GX700A-B (27-inch 1440p OLED, 280Hz) was about £500 at Scan, 6 per cent above its 30-day average, and the 32-inch LG 32U720A-B UltraFine was about £350 at Scan, 12 per cent above. If you see either of those in a "deal" round-up later this month, check the actual number against these recent figures before you buy.
What this means two weeks out
Monitors are a more mixed picture than graphics cards. Our price watch found that SpecPrice was not rating any UK graphics card a real deal on 13 November, while some CPUs were already well below their averages. On monitors, a cluster of MSI QD-OLED models, and a few mainstream IPS screens, were already cheaper than usual. Flagship ASUS 4K OLEDs were closer to their recent averages.
That does not prove prices will stay here, or that they will fall further on 27 November. SpecPrice's Black Friday page is rebuilt through the day and will have a longer history by the Friday itself. If a monitor you want is already at or near its 30-day low, there may be little reason to wait. If it is flat or up, set an alert, compare any later offer with the tracker's low, and only buy if the number fits your budget. All prices are approximate and were checked on 13 November 2026.
Our verdict
Two weeks before Black Friday, UK monitor pricing is already moving, but not evenly. Several 1440p and 4K QD-OLED screens, particularly MSI models at Scan, were below their 30-day averages on 13 November 2026, with the MAG 271QP X28 around £349 and the MAG 272UP X24 around £529. A few LG models had gone the other way. Treat those figures as a baseline for any later "sale" price, rather than assuming the last two weeks of November will automatically be cheaper. We have not tested these monitors; the prices come from SpecPrice's stock-checked listings.
