Brad

Missed another one, lol. I need to set an alarm or something, haha.

Lands' End is now a qualifying retailer

The new Wii is the "Wii U" but it won't be out until next spring at the earliest (at least that's the last I heard), so it shouldn't affect the price of the current Wii much this year. Next year should be a different story though.

haven't decided about t-shirts this year. i have so much other GD stuff to give away (including regular GD t-shirts) so i don't know if i want to order even more stuff. we'll probably have a few limited edition GD hoodies to give away this year too. not many, but a few.

I always post a set of predictions for popular items and prices each year, but this year I thought I'd open it up to you all first and see what you have to predict for this year. So feel free to post items you think will be hot, price predictions for certain items, basically whatever you want. I'll use your thoughts along with my own when compiling the official GD predictions for this year that I'll post in the next week or two.

can't believe i'm stuck doing this for another year. ugh

It was either this or the annual "Is it just me or do the ads suck this year?" thread.

Shouldn't they be leaked by now? (figured I'd beat everyone to it this year )

Here are the dates (according to our records) when various ads were posted during the past 5 years: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Dates And here are links to text lists of the items in the ads (at least the ones in our database) dating back to 2003: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2003.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2004.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2005.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2006.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2007.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2008.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2009.txt http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/archives/2010.txt

I still don't know why you guys want it open so early, haha

Same here

Thinking about opening the BF forums on Thursday (well at least the main BF forum, the store subforums can wait). That'll be exactly 3 months before BF. Seems like a good of a time as any.

I got a shipping confirmation today from my first order from HP that I placed Friday night. That's it so far.

Depending on how many of my various orders at different retailers get fulfilled, I may have one or more extra to give away here on the site at some point. No guarantees until I know how many actually ship.

Let's use this one thread to discuss where these are in stock, reports about your previous orders shipping, and any other Touchpad discussion. I've merged the various other threads in here so we can keep everything together :)

Isn't today (the 17th) the 100 day mark? It was according to some online calculator I tried, haha. 14 days left in August + 30 September + 31 October + 25 November = 100 days.

We recently updated the vBulletin forum software. Part of that upgrade was a newer editor for posting/replying to messages (including the auto-save feature). In the past, we had a special add-on that showed all the smilies in the "quick reply" box. That add-on (which was not an official vB add-on) no longer works with the new vB version. So until that add-on is updated, to get the full set of similes you'll have to click the "Go Advanced" button and then on the right side of the message box you can click the [More] link under the smilies shown to see the full list. I'll see if I can do anything to make things easier in the meantime. I'm also thinking of updating the smilies (and the stock avatars) soon as well.

Let's use this thread for those of you who will be in unfamiliar territory for BF and are looking for suggestions/tips on where to shop. Be sure to post where exactly you'll be and when replying to someone, quote their post so nobody gets confused as to who you are helping :)

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.