Brad

Due to a lot of confusion with the contest and how the rules were worded, we're going to slightly change part of it: Instead of the 3 members with the most deals winning "tiered" prizes, we're going to give a $200 prize to each of the 5 members with the most deals. This increases the overall prize pool from $2,500 to $2,750 and allows up to 18 possible winners compared to 16 under the previous plan.

Sat: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/AAFES-Saturday.pdf Sun: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/AAFES-Sunday.pdf Mon: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/AAFES-CyberMonday.pdf Thanks to our own thorpedo1015 for sending these over :)

The sale is over. The shirts I have left will all be given away over the next week or so, so stay tuned.

Aren't they supposed to replace them every 3 months?

I'd say as long as the fine print doesn't exclude BF, there should be no reason for them to deny you at Lowes. Of course Home Depot can make their own rules as it's not their coupons, but I'd think they would take it too.

The 10% coupons you can get in the movers kits you can pick up at your local post office. Or you can buy the coupons on eBay for around a buck a piece: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=lowes+10+coupon+-depot

For those having trouble with the scanned PDF, here is another link. This version is smaller in size (10.5MB), so the quality will not be as clear, but you might at least be able to see it: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/images/JCP.pdf

threads merged. same thing every year....

added our new Google+ "brand page" - feel free to add us to your circles if you are one of the 4 people that use Google+

Moved to Deal Discussion to give you a wider audience.

yep, things are about on schedule. maybe even a little behind schedule with the mid-level to major stores.

That's what they are there for

Shirts were shipped over the weekend to anyone who bought a shirt or won a shirt before 11/3. For those who won a shirt in the last contest or during Saturday's webcast, your shirts will go out with the next batch at the end of this week.

Time for another contest! HOW TO WIN: Let's say you were given $500 to buy anything in any of the posted Black Friday ads. What would you buy? Reply to this thread with the store, item name and price for each item you'd buy. Make sure you don't spend over $500 total (don't worry about tax) You can view the current ads w/ prices here: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com Feel free to use items from any store, including stores which we post ads from between now and the end of the contest. Limit one entry per member. Entries will be accepted until 10pm ET on Wednesday, November 9th. At that point I'll randomly choose 10 entries and those members will receive Black Friday t-shirts. Good luck to all! http://i.gottadeal.com/main/images/merch/bfshirt2011.gif

Just downloaded it here no problem. It's a big file (31MB) but there were no timeouts or anything. Last year they did ask us to take it down, but then sent over a clean copy anyway, so who knows what will happen today.

Scans (Page-by-page): http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/JCPenney PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/GottaDeal-JCPenney-BF2011.pdf Item Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/JCPenney

Thanks for the feedback. We added the "most views" component to encourage better deals to be posted but we'll definitely be re-evaluating the way future contests are run.

nope. but thanks for mentioning a competitor

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It all depends on how their sales are this year. If sales are down, they could likely assume people only shopped for a few hours vs. the whole day and re-think the whole early opening time trend. But if sales are as good or better than predicted, there's no telling what will happen next year. The numbers that come out in the days after BF will be very, very interesting.

Scans (Page-by-page): http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Hastings PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/GottaDeal-Hastings-BF2011.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/Hastings some Thursday deals, some Friday doorbusters, some all day Friday-Saturday...

link: http://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/62183

Anonymous tip we received: "I'm an employee at Wal-Mart and we were just told that the Black Friday ad will be released on Monday, November 21,2011. We were given that info because the customer demand for the black friday ad is increasing dramatically." I'm guessing it'll leak before that...

Possible Kmart PS3 Black Friday bundle? http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_018W004010044000P?

Is there a specific store you are interested in?