Brad

Also, we had a similar thread last year, so if you want to check that out to see what was asked, see here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?158372-Questions-about-online-Black-Friday-shopping-Post-them-in-here

The easiest way you can help support the site is to make sure you click through to a store using links on GottaDeal.com. This lets them know that you came from here so we get credit for that purchase. So if you remember, before you start shopping at an online store, click the link for that store on this page: http://www.gottadeal.com/Stores We may also put up some links to the more popular stores in the forum header later in the week to remind you. Thanks. We greatly appreciate it :)

Before making your purchases this year, be sure to check our coupon section on our main site to make sure we don't have any coupons that can save you even more on your purchase. You can view our coupon section here: http://www.gottadeal.com/Coupons Just choose a store and you'll see the coupons/promotions/offers we have for that store.

We'll use this thread to try and answer any questions about online Black Friday (or Cyber Monday) shopping that you may have. Note: if your question is something like "Will this store have their BF items online?" or "What time will this store put their items online?" or "Will this particular item be offered online?", you probably won't get an answer in here. We're going to post whatever info we have in the various threads in this forum. So find the thread for your store and see what information we have. If there isn't a thread yet for your store, be patient. Once we have firm information, a thread will be created.

Besides this sub-forum, we've got 2 easy-to-use, ad-free pages to help you get the best online Black Friday deals this week: First is our Online Black Friday Item Tracker - this page will show you all the Black Friday ad items you can order now at the Black Friday ad price (or less) and is being updated continously by our amazing group of volunteers. Next is our Online Black Friday Sale Tracker - this page will show you dates, times, discounts and other information on all the various online Black Friday sales, from both B&M and online-only sites - the same info found in the threads in this sub-forum, just listed on one single page. Both of these trackers are going to be updated constantly for the next week, so we suggest you bookmark and check them often.

This is the 4th year we've had this particular sub-forum. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, this is where we'll be posting every bit of information we receive about online Black Friday sales and deals (and it will also be used for Cyber Monday). As always, to keep things organized and to prevent spamming, only the moderators and myself will be able to create new threads in here. Everyone can reply to the existing threads however. If you know of a specific online Black Friday special, either PM me with the information or (preferrably) use the contact form on the Black Friday site. We'll take a look at it, and if it looks good, it'll get it's own thread in here. I will attempt to only post information confirmed by the retailers or our affiliate reps to avoid confusion. If we make guesses/predictions based on past years, we'll be sure to label them as such so nobody is disappointed if they don't come true. New this year: we are going to create threads for each store and label them with just the store/site name. Once the sale goes live, we may update the title so you can see at a glance which sales have started. Finally, this is a very popular sub-forum, but it's useless if we have to close the forum because of server load. So PLEASE do not constantly refresh threads every few seconds. This really is only an issue when the items go on sale (midnight Wednesday/Thursday), but take it easy on the server. Thanks.

These addiitonal items have been added to the listing on the BF site.

Flyer handed out in stores this weekend: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/sams1.jpg http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/sams2.jpg

I miss the old days when there were basically 2 BF sites instead of 2,000. But sites like ours probably contributed to BF going mainstream. All those news stories we had back starting in 2005 caused people to become more aware of it. I wouldn't be surprised if the importance of BF goes away as stores focus on the whole 2 month period before Christmas. But luckily GD was around before the BF explosion and we will be around for whatever comes next.

No, I don't think we've ever posted a Boston Store BF ad early. At this point we're probably done adding new stores to the listings on the BF site. Anything semi-important that leaks will just get posted on the forum as scans. We want to devote this week to preparing for the online sales which is going to take up a good chunk of our time.

Scan: http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-BF2010-GuitarCenter.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

i think these are fine. if someone needs those, they can post and let us know.

bump for the webcast - starts in under 10 minutes for anyone who isn't sick of seeing BJS's face on their computer, join us!

Thursday sale: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/dollargeneralthursday.jpg Thurs-Saturday sale: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/images/dollargeneral3day.jpg

already being discussed here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?190578-Florida-couple-already-in-line-at-Best-Buy

Lot of stuff in the ad at regular price, so we'll probably skip those for the item listing on the BF site. If something is on sale or comes with a free item, we'll add it.

Scan: http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-BF2010-GameStop.pdf Listing: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com

Full Lowes ad scan is now linked in the OP.

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?190169-About-Online-BF-Ordering-Read-This-Before-Posting-a-Question

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?190192-When-do-the-quot-actual-quot-ads-come-in-the-paper

Scan: http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-BF2010-SportsAuthority.pdf Listing coming soon

Before you are going to order something online, just click on a link on GD for that store (anywhere on the site will work - on the BF site, on the main site, on the forums, on the stores page here: http://www.gottadeal.com/Stores Just click on a link, even if it's not for the exact item you are looking to buy. That tells the store that you got to them from us.

DVD and Blu-ray deal schedule: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=s9_al_gw_feat?ie=UTF8&docId=1000452571

We'll start contacting those who have volunteered overt the weekend once we determine who gets which store(s). And for those of you who can't help with this project but still want to help give back to the site, PLEASE spread the word about the Black Friday site to everyone you know - in person, on your Facebook page, Twitter account, other forums and web sites. Contact your local newspaper and TV stations - whatever you can do to help would be greatly appreciated! Also, when you do your Black Friday online shopping, try to remember to do it through links on the site to help us out. You can click the "Stores" tab above to find links to all the major stores to click on before buying. THANKS!

I think we should come out with a complete line of GD camping gear for these news photos: http://www.gottadeal.com/images/bbline.jpg