Brad

Well then you'd better get started. I'm getting hungry sitting in front of the computer posting Cyber Monday deals all day

The winner has been selected... drumroll please.... pogiporkchop has been selected as the winner of the iPad mini with Retina Display! The winning post, randomly selected from all entries was this post in the "Do you Buy for Yourself on Black Friday?" thread. Congrats to pogiporkchop and thanks to everyone who posted in the BF forums this year. We'll do something similar next year.

Cheesecake Factory - Buy $25 GC, get 2 slices of cheesecake today only: https://shop.thecheesecakefactory.com/

Deadline for entries is midnight PST tonight. Winner to be announced tomorrow.

Seems like it doesn't matter if they open 6pm Thursday, 8pm Thursday, midnight or early Friday. They'll get roughly the same amount of sales for the 2 days combined either way. I don't see them ever going back to opening Friday morning, but I wouldn't be surprised if the open times we saw this year are as early as they go. In other words I'd be very surprised if Walmart, Target, Best Buy, etc... open at 3-4pm next year. No surprise online sales we up big again this year. That's a trend that will continue for a while (and is a big reason why this site exists).

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to earn entries for this contest. Winner to be announced on Monday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/black-friday-sales-fall-sales-start-earlier-27254181 Black Friday down 7% Thanksgiving up 24% Overall sales for the two days were down 0.5% Online up 9% on Black Friday

I'm also going to be deleting the PDFs from our server, but if you need to check out this year's ads (or any ads going back to 2007), you can do it on the Black Friday Archive: http://www.blackfridayarchive.com

Cyber Week sale has started: http://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/113530

Sure, why not. There wasn't much discussion in it last year but we can try it again.

So after they overnighted a new batch of shirts that arrived on Wednesday, I received my original order today. Guess UPS found it eventually. So I'll have some randomly sized hoodies to give away next year with the "classic" 2014 design

The plans: * Tonight or tomorrow, as the online sales wind down we'll move the threads from the Online Black Friday Shopping sub-forum to the appropriate individual store sub-forums for any further discussion. DONE * We'll also move the threads from the "Posted Black Friday Ads" to the Store-Specific Forums. DONE * The remaining Black Friday forums (this main BF forum & the store-specific boards) along with the Holiday Discussion board will remain open until the end of the year at which point they'll all be combined into one forum and archived with the other years. We'll keep one Black Friday forum open all year for any discussion that pops up. As for Cyber Monday, because Cyber Monday has become "Cyber Week" with sales already starting tonight, and because we don't receive much information ahead of time as far as what items will be for sale, we don't plan to have a dedicated Cyber Monday forum again this year. Instead, we'll be posting Cyber Week sales information in the main year-round Online Hot Deals forum, and we invite you to please share whatever Cyber Week deals you find there as well. This way there will be just one forum to check for the online deals instead of two. Just wanted to let everyone know what was going to happen

I went to Target around 9:30 last night. Not much more crowded than it would be on a typical weekend. I figured I should have an actual in-store BF experience for once considering I run this site But then again all I bought was some groceries, so it was not a real BF shopping experience anyway, haha. Went to Costco today around 11. Parking lot was pretty crowded but no lines at all at the registers.

Link: http://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/113455 Up to $300 per order/account. Just ordered a bunch to give away here on the site over the next year

Woot-off going on today: http://www.woot.com

Sale is live: http://www.6pm.com 15% off code: 6PMEU112720141585

Looks like Walmart might have been having issues with their new site design - at least for me I get sent to an older version of their interface.

Servers don't like when you guys refresh over and over and over and over...

4am is enough for me. Getting some sleep. Back up at 6...

iPad Air 2 with $140 GC: http://www.target.com/p/apple-ipad-air-2-16gb-wi-fi-silver/-/A-15117728#prodSlot=medium_1_1&term=15117728

http://www3.samsclub.com/newsroom/Press/1704 "Members can kick off Black Friday shopping online at SamsClub.com on Thursday, Nov. 27 just after midnight EST" Once the scheduled time passes, the tracker automatically says the sale has started.

Looks like more prices are changing for me http://www.toysrus.com

sale appears to have started http://www.gandermountain.com

i don't think it's time zone. maybe they have different servers and you're hitting an updated one and the rest of us aren't.

c'mon toys r us. kind of tough to update the tracker and site if the prices aren't changing for everyone.