Use this thread to post any mentions of GottaDeal.com that you come across in newspapers, magazines, TV news stories, radio shows, important web sites, etc... :)

Helping get the word out about the site is one of the most important things you can do to help us out. Tell your friends, post on other boards, e-mail your local newspaper, radio & TV stations - every little bit helps :D

http://consumerist.com/consumer/advertising/first-black-friday-spotted-ace-hardware-who-cares-300164.php

First Black Friday Spotted: Ace Hardware. Who Cares.

Much like the red robin of Spring, this season's first Black Friday ad, one for Ace Hardware, heralds the advent of Thanksgiving.

All we have to say to Black Friday this year is BFD!

All things considered, the Black Friday deals aren't that great...

Too many shoppers are participating, increasing competition. Retailers have caught on to the fact that shoppers have caught on, using tactics like stocking a limited quantity of super-OMG items and put them at the front of the store to draw people in, and then having so-so deals around the store.

If you're off the type to camp out in front of a store overnight in hopes of getting $100 off a TV, you obviously need to get a higher paying job as you value your leisure time too little under your current one.

That said, $9.99 is a great price for a Black & Decker 120-Piece Drill Bit Set with Case. Still, if there's something you really like, you're probably better off sleeping in and waiting for some other speculator to put it up on eBay.

Ace Hardware Black Friday Ad [Gotta Deal] (Thanks to Brad!)

radio station:

http://www.wlit.com/pages/robin.html

another radio station:

http://www.ricandlaura.com

The Washington Post mentions GottaDeal already!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091902174.html

another radio station:

http://www.987theriver.com/pages/personality_markrobertson.html?page=3

story about Canadian shoppers crossing the border for BF:

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_15475.aspx

and just ignore the other BF sites listed at the end. those are the copycats who claim to have ads first even though they have GD watermarks all over them, lol :P

http://blogs.roanoke.com/storefront/2007/10/black_friday_ads_already.html

Gottadeal is listed in the reader comments section.

Found this article online on one of my local TVnews pages:

Head Online For Early 'Black Friday' Peek
Sites Posting Ads Early Despite Retailer Crackdown

POSTED: 7:16 pm EDT October 18, 2007


Sales planned for the day after Thanksgiving are already popping up on many Web sites. But at least one retailer, Wal-Mart, has reportedly threatened to sue several Web sites that leak its big "Black Friday" deals.

The day after Thanksgiving has traditionally become known as "Black Friday" because of its huge potential for retailers to grow holiday season revenue and thus cross over from operating "in the red" to "in the black."

A successful "Black Friday" promotion could make a huge dent into a holiday sales goals for major companies. Consumers often benefit with massive sales that may start as early at 5 a.m. but last only a few hours. Major retailers generally do not release their "Black Friday" sales list until much closer to the day after Thanksgiving. But in recent years, certain Web sites have posted the deals online as early as October.

Gottadeal.com bills itself as an official Black Friday deal site. If you go to the site now and click on "Black Friday," you will already find sales information for two retailers: Ace Hardware and Harbor Freight. The site even offers an e-mail sign-up to alert you of new "Black Friday" deals when they are posted. Plus, the site touts more than 130,000 online members who post sales comments on its message boards.

*********.com is another site that offers a sneak peak at "Black Friday" deals into addition to other sales information. By searching for "Black Friday" information now, you'll find deals posted for Sears and Ace Hardware that are "rumored." In fact, the Sears link also has a statement that reads, "Possibly not a true ad due to some non-existent items." Harbor Freight's "Black Friday" ad is listed as well. This site also offers e-mail sign-up and coupons.

Seatle Kirotv:

http://www.kirotv.com/smallbusiness/14373014/detail.html

Looks like it is the same story as the one above though, just a different station I guess.

CNet story: http://www.news.com/Wal-Mart-tries-to-stop-early-Black-Friday-ad-posts/2100-1024_3-6214424.html

Good (and humorous) article: http://www.fool.com/personal-finance/general/2007/10/23/holiday-spoiler-alert-sites-already-leaking-deals.aspx

Reuters story
http://www.reuters.com/article/consumerproducts-SP/idUSN1940584420071022?sp=true

AP story: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jNyaKcxlOBsnGhOZiGTm-1sc-Dnw

Arizona Republic blog: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/1106biz-blogspot1106.html

CNN.com story about the Target ad:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/08/news/companies/Target_blackfriday/index.htm

http://www.tvpredictions.com/blacksears110707.htm

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3709931

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2007/11/05/c2bz_beallcol_1105.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=70843

Just watching cheaters on G4 and they had a 60 second info about Targets BF ad leaking. Brad was quoted! Very cool will probably see a traffic pick up!

Yeah, I saw that on teh Feed last night :) I meant to post about it too lol...but I forgot. Yay GD!

http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=df44dd97-3a1d-4d53-8a78-bfdc9a0be3c1

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200711/ij_11_15_07c.html

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/11/15/shoppers-look-to-black-friday-sites-for-deals

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/11/rounding_up_hd_news_an_early_l.php

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071116/COL23/711160417

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/nov/16/plotting-sales-strategies/

http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2007/11/18/feature/doc473f7d86a6cb2732167634.txt

http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/savingsdebt/insight/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5724893

http://www.wlns.com/global/story.asp?s=7375012

http://www.kentucky.com/101/story/233363.html

http://www.cwarkansas.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f023df1a-76a0-4eab-a1f8-f1767c1e970e

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flhlpvasquez1119sbnov19,0,3661156.column?coll=sofla_business_promo

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/11/16/the-wal-mart-weekly-next-year-try-a-little-innovation-for-blac/

http://www.allthingshidef.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=3C644C50F0DA47FDA581C56C5FDF5FC7&nm=Hi-Def+News&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=4D9875B0D13E40A5AE1ECE4453543AD5

http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3711701

http://www.reginalewis.com/

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b667cb74-5bb0-45f0-9bad-c63779fa24fd&rss=112

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.blog18nov18,0,1899611.column?track=rss

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-bz.ml.holiday18nov18,0,562444.story?track=rss

http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20071118/BUSINESS/111180131/-1/rss04

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/BUSINESS/711180311/1003

I guess we were on Fox News today:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?111807/111807_ff_deals&FOX_Friends&Best%20holiday%20deals%20on%20the%20web&acc&US&-1&News&104.27&&&new

(that link should show the video)

One of the local morning news shows in Buffalo did a short story this morning on where to find the deals for Black Friday and Gottadeal was the only place they mentioned...(sorry i looked but no link on their site for the story)

One of the local morning news shows in Buffalo did a short story this morning on where to find the deals for Black Friday and Gottadeal was the only place they mentioned...(sorry i looked but no link on their site for the story)

Thanks for posting this and welcome to the community! Do you remember what station it was on? If so please post it.

http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/210838.html

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14647225/detail.html?rss=ind&psp=news

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzshopping1120sbnov20,0,891346.story?track=rss

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wesh/20071120/lo_wesh/14639317

http://www.wsiltv.com/p/news_details.php?newsID=3522&type=top

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/shoptoit/2007/11/post_1.html

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/FEATURES01/71119095/0/SPORTS06

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_business_blog/2007/11/wal-mart-unveil.html

http://www.9wsyr.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=b667cb74-5bb0-45f0-9bad-c63779fa24fd

Indianapolis News - was coming to post this.. see its already here.

One of the local morning news shows in Buffalo did a short story this morning on where to find the deals for Black Friday and Gottadeal was the only place they mentioned...(sorry i looked but no link on their site for the story)

As an ex-Buffalo resident, I'm curious as to which station had this, too!

it was on channel 7 .. WKBW

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/business/21circular.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

Hubby just called to tell me that on his way to work, 99x ( a local alt rock station) had a blurb about gottadeal in thier newspile today! I'll look around thier site & see if I can find anything!

cnbc this morn about BF add being leaked early to a few sites an Gottadeal was one

gottadeal.com featured on KATU news in Portland, Oregon this morning :)

MSN story: http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/FindDealsOnline/HowToScoreBlackFridayDeals.aspx

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2218335,00.asp

Very neat!