Brad

We just moved servers for Black Friday. Please use this thread to post any problems / errors / issues you come across. Please try to be as descriptive as possible (include what you were trying to do when you got the error, include any message that appears on screen, etc...) Thanks

We moved to our BF servers overnight so we're still ironing out some issues. Should have everything working by later today (cross your fingers )

There is a link on the ordering page to a PDF with exact measurements, so you can compare them to shirts you have now to see how they run.

http://www.harborfreight.com/black-friday-sale.html This appears to be for their Black Friday sale. The dates are for November 26th through the 29th (Thursday through Sunday). However, the prices shown on the page are Harbor Freight's current prices for these items. So while these items may be part of Harbor Freight's Black Friday sale, the prices will likely be different in the actual Black Friday ad.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/holidaytoylist

As I've done the past few years, I've looked at the data from the past 4 years including when the ad was leaked for some popular stores and what date Black Friday fell on each year. Based on these numbers and this year's Black Friday date (November 27th), here is the "average" day you can expect these ads this year: November 7: Sears November 8: Gander Mountain November 9: Kohl's, Sam's Club, JCPenney, Sports Authority November 10: Toys R Us, Kmart November 11: Best Buy, Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens November 12: Meijer, Office Depot November 13: Staples, Bass Pro Shops November 14: Old Navy November 15: Lowe's, Menard's November 16: Dick's Sporting Goods November 17: Home Depot November 27: Black Friday 2015 Half Price Books, which already is out, would have been predicted for October 21st. Harbor Freight is predicted to be leaked on October 15th (Thursday of this week). You can go back through the last 9 years to see the leaked dates for many stores here: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Dates Of course you may remember that the last 2 years we had a crazy 36-hour periods that saw ads from Walmart, Best Buy, Target, Kohl's, Sears, Kmart and many others all released right after each other. I expect something similar this year around November 9-10, so be prepared...

You can already get discounts on some models of the Apple Watch. For example on eBay Deals today they have a $599 model for $519: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Watch-42mm-Stainless-Steel-Case-Black-Sports-Band-MJ3U2LL-A/401008393450?hash=item5d5df67cea Free shipping and no tax for most. So there are deals available now and so I'd expect deals on BF as well. Last year eBay was a great place for deals on iPads & iPhones during November. That should be the same with the watch this year I'd guess.

Another one of our favorite t-shirt contests! Below are 3 photos from past Black Fridays. Come up with a caption for each photo and post them in this thread. Entries will be accepted until 9pm ET on Sunday, October 18th. At that point, I'll randomly choose 10 members who have submitted captions for all 3 photos and you'll each win a Black Friday t-shirt. If you've already won a BF t-shirt in a previous contest this year, you can't be selected as a winner again, but you can still feel free to post your captions. Here are the photos: PHOTO #1 http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/cap1.png PHOTO #2 http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/cap2.png PHOTO #3 http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/cap3.png Good luck! http://i.gottadeal.com/main/images/merch/2015design.png

The 5 winners are: jade2002 kboyts radritch gjedda03 msyves Congrats and look for the next contest soon

Probably won't be for another 2-3 weeks. We rarely see any major ad before the last week of October.

I'm guessing you found a massive leak of last year's ads maybe?

FYI, the winners of this contest will be chosen and announced sometime tomorrow. We'll also start the next t-shirt contest

Still pretty early. We didn't post it last year until the 24th. But as always, if anyone gets a copy of any of the big toy catalogs (or any BF ad), let us know ASAP

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/FarmFleetToyland http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/FleetFarmToyBook

It's always Black Friday season for me, haha. But seriously in some ways it's the first week of November for me. That's when we typically start seeing the "real" (non-Harbor Freight/non-Half Price Books) type of ads leaking. That week is also when the online deals typically start to ramp up. Amazon usually starts their expanded Lightning Deals that week as well.

Also just a reminder that the shirts we give away will be up to size XL only, so if you need larger sizes, ordering them is the only way to go. Thanks to everyone who has ordered so far. We know a lot of you are waiting to see if you win one before ordering, so we'll be sure to let you know when the ordering deadline is getting closer.

Right, but I set the amount needed to print to be the lowest possible (3) so that shouldn't be a problem.

Shirts can now be ordered. Details in this thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/252030-order-your-black-friday-gottadealcom-t-shirts/ I'm going to close this thread and t-shirt talk can continue over there

The ordering period for shirts is now over. See end of thread for updates.

Shirts should be available to order in the next day hopefully

http://consumerist.com/2015/10/05/retailers-prepare-to-fight-holiday-shoppers-and-each-other-to-not-offer-discounts/ "Retailers really, really want to wean American shoppers off our recession-era addiction to discounts. Will it be possible for them to resist the temptation to slap “40% off” signs everywhere to attract customers? Retail forecasts for this holiday season show that retailers want to avoid selling products at a discount, while consumers plan to make their shopping decisions according to price."

Target REDcard signup link: http://www.gottadeal.com/Coupon/34640 Some of the best gift card deals recently have been on eBay on their deals page: http://deals.ebay.com They've had a lot of stores/restaurants/gas stations for 10-20% off with free shipping and earning eBay Bucks.

No back design this year. It's cold on Black Friday where a lot of us live, so I've heard many times how with jackets/hoodies on that nobody saw the back anyway. It also helps keep the cost of the shirt low by not having 2 print locations so we might be able to get a better quality shirt for around the same price. I figure most of you have at least one older shirt with the slogan on the back, so if you really want it to be seen, you could wear one of those instead. We didn't have the slogan the year we did the "caution" sign design on the back, so it has happened before But if I had to guess, the slogan will make its triumphant return next year. Just taking a year off.

Yep, no winners from the prediction part, but you can still add a comment to the thread to be eligible to win one of the 5 t-shirts.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/HalfPriceBooks PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-HalfPriceBooks-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/HalfPriceBooks This is their more general holiday gift guide, but it has the details of their Black Friday sale so we're considering it the first ad