Brad

Ad scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/OfficeDepot Scan (PDF): http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/GottaDeal-OfficeDepot-BF2012.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/OfficeDepot

We're still waiting for CVS, or at least the full scanned ad. I know that's a big one for some people.

Don't think we've ever posted ads from any of the Bon-Ton stores (Younkers, Boston Store, etc...) but they were supposed to send their ad(s) over this week. We'll see about that...

yeah for some reason there are like 4 items that don't start until 4am.

The way this week has been going, we'll have all of those by the end of the weekend

Depends what everyone defines major as. Kohl's, Toys R Us, JCPenney, Lowes/Home Depot?

They have it going on now, so yeah it'll probably stick around through BF.

FYI, we've replaced the PDF and scan images with the actual newspaper circular.

Also keep in mind that Target's "Doorbuster" items aren't only available for a specific time like other stores. They just label their hotter items as doorbusters to generate some hype. If they still have them in stock, you could buy them for the ad price at any time during the entire sale, not just for a few hours.

There are 16GB and 32GB versions of that generation out now. Apple.com is selling both now.

Ad scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Target Scan (PDF): http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/GottaDeal-Target-BF2012.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/Target

Be patient... I'm sure it won't be very long now

JCPenney is having a BF sale this year. But they are not doing snowglobes anymore. Something else instead... We should have the ad by the end of the weekend if all goes well.

They do that every year. Annoys me too.

The fine print says if they are unable to fulfill your order, you get a refund. Not much of a guarantee, lol. So you have to pay for the item right away, and if they don't have enough stock by Christmas, they just refund you or possibly substitute another item. I thought they might give you a gift card or something if they can't fulfill it, but I guess not. They get your money up front and don't necessarily have to get you the item.

Ad scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Costco Scan (PDF): http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/GottaDeal-Costco-BF2012.pdf Listing (coming soon): http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/Costco

CNBC video from today - "Is Black Friday Dead?" http://money.msn.com/money-video?videoid=e79cab7e-db6a-48ce-9a04-cab2d8cc58bc&from=en-us_msnhp

Seemed like in the past, you could get some sleep, get to stores for 5am opening and shop the whole day if you wanted to. Now you have to leave Thursday night (and being Thanksgiving you usually don't have time to get any sleep during the day) and you probably get home early Friday morning exhausted and sleep the rest of the day. I'd think stores would be much more empty around noon than they were years ago.

No way, lol. The site is getting hammered with traffic. The MSN.com front page has a story about Walmart's BF ad that links directly to GD. We couldn't handle another ad right now

Do you guys think you shop for a longer or shorter overall time in stores because of the Thursday night openings?

Some states have MAP (minimum advertised price) laws. That's the reason for the differences.

Yeah Saturday is the last webcast t-shirt contest, at least for this year's shirts. We'll have one or two more forum contests for shirts. I'm holding back some shirts in case there are shipping problems with the ordered shirts.

If we run out of shirts for this year, we can always give away 2013 BF shirts like we did with a few contests last year We need to end all t-shirt contests in the next 4-5 days so that there is plenty of time to ship the shirts and have them get to the winners in time for BF, but we can give away reserved shirts for next year after that point in time.

We'll know more in a week or so. We'll post our full schedule of the online start times as we do every year so you won't miss anything.

Front and back pages, full ad to come soon. http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/bf/Target/1.jpg http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/bf/Target/2.jpg