Brad

Time for our penultimate forum t-shirt contest! While everyone is here, let's get some ideas for next year's t-shirts! So to be entered to win, just reply to this thread with your ideas for next year's Black Friday t-shirts. This can be design ideas, slogans, colors, styles, etc... let us know what you want to see next year and I'll take these into consideration when coming up with next year's shirt over the summer. As always, if you've won a shirt this year you can't win another, but feel free to provide your ideas in the thread anyway. Contest ends at 9pm EST on Monday and I'll randomly pick 10 winners from all the replies on Tuesday and you'll all win t-shirts. Good luck!

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/FiveBelow PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-FiveBelow-BF2015.pdf

Big Jim has been MIA. I haven't heard from him so I'm guessing life got in the way of the webcasts this year.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/AceHardware PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-AceHardware-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/AceHardware

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Pier1Imports PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Pier1Imports-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Pier1Imports

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Meijer PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Meijer-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Meijer This has all 3 ads in it - the Thanksgiving sale, the Black Friday sale and the Saturday sale. 64 pages in total.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/DollarGeneral PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-DollarGeneral-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/DollarGeneral

Press release: http://investor.staples.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96244&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2107160 Black Friday deals begin on Staples.com Thanksgiving Day and in stores Friday at 6 a.m. On Thanksgiving customers can buy online and pick up in store or receive free shipping for Rewards members. For more details on Black Friday deals visit http://www.staples.com/blackfridayad starting November 8. Select Black Friday deals (while supplies last) include: Amazon Fire 7” tablet bundle $54.99 (reg. $79.99, save $25.00 with instant rebate) Toshiba i3 notebook with Windows 10 Black Friday Burst $299 (reg. $499 - $150 instant savings - $50 manufacturer instant rebate) Dell i3147-10000sLV laptop with Windows 10 $299 (reg. $499, save $200)

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/JoAnn PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-JoAnn-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/JoAnn

The 10 winners are: riven3d sas377 myboysnme bpr nhughes diana03 stina629 brynnfromtheblock BlackFriDiva conj Congrats and check your PM to claim your t-shirt. Next contest soon!

The last 2 years WM posted it themselves before it leaked, so if that's the case this year, look for it to come out early next week.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/RiteAid PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-RiteAid-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/RiteAid

Item listing with links: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Sales/SamsClub1114 Some aren't showing up yet but they should by the 14th.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Stage PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Stage-BF2015.pdf The ad is the same for Stage, Peebles, Goodys and Bealls.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/SamsClub1114

Yep, Walmart came Saturday and Sam's Club (from the same lawyer) came yesterday. They are both hanging on my fridge with pride

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/TrueValue PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-TrueValue-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/TrueValue

Just got an email through the site from someone with a relative working at Target that says Target will open at 4pm on Thanksgiving Day. Of course nothing confirmed yet, but I thought I'd post the rumor anyway. Target opened at 6pm last year.

Update on shirts available to order: for sizes S, M, L, 3XL and 4XL we have 2 or less in each size left, so if you want these sizes, order now: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Shirts XL and 2XL we have a little more available.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/HomeDepotAppliances These deals start Wednesday and are basically their Black Friday appliance deals. They always start these deals weeks before BF to give you more time to make these large purchases instead of having to do it on a crazy day like Black Friday.

Update: as of November 2nd, all posts made in the Posted Black Friday Ads forum will earn double entries!

Seems like most stores do that. Take a look at the older ads on http://www.blackfridayarchive.com and you'll see a lot of repeating patterns with many stores.

Hey everyone, Thought I'd post this so we don't get as many questions about these things. First, PDFs: we're still going to post PDFs for pretty much all the ads as we always have done. However on those crazy days where the ads are getting leaked one after another, it may take a few hours or even a day to catch up with creating and posting all the PDFs. We'll eventually get them posted, but our first priority is posting the ads on the BF site. We also may begin making the PDFs available only to registered forum members, so if you're lurking, you'd better register for a forum account now if you're interested in downloading the PDFs. Next, ad item listings: as we've done in the last, we'll type up the item listings for most of the ads. There will be some smaller and regional stores where we just don't have the time to type them up when the ad leaks (especially for very large ads). If we're able to, we'll add them later on when things calm down but no guarantees. Also, when I post the thread for a new ad, there may be a link to the item listing that has not been added yet or is in progress. Rest assured, if I include a link to the listing, we plan on having that ad typed up at some point soon.

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Michaels PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Michaels-BF2015.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/Michaels

Press release: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2104921 Prime members get early access to over 30,000 Lightning Deals this year.