Brad

Anything in particular that you'll be keeping an eye on as the sales and deals start ramping up in a month or two?

Down to double digits. 99 days until Black Friday

Press release: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/save-date-july-12-13-prime-day-returns-offering-amazons-lowest-0 Earn a $10 Credit Through Prime Stampcard: From June 16 through Prime Day, members are invited to explore the perks of membership to receive a $10 credit toward their Prime Day order or future Amazon purchase. To participate, members collect a stamp for completing each of four Prime activities: stream Prime Video, listen to Prime Music, borrow a Prime Reading or Kindle Unlimited book or add one to their library, and make a Prime-shipping eligible purchase. Members can visit https://amazon.com/cer/stampcard/hometo learn more.

Happy "Halfway to Black Friday" Day

Next week marks the halfway point. Crazy how fast those 6 months went (yes, I say that every year lol)

Down to 42 members after 2 dropped out in April.

Lost 3 prize club members in March. Down to 44.

Lost 2 members in February. Down to 47

FYI if you want to lock in the current $119 Prime price you can buy their "gift of Prime" gift cards. Then let your current Prime membership expire and apply one of those gift cards to get another year. You can do this for as many years as you'd like by buying multiple gift cards. But if you are like me and grandfathered into the old Prime family plan which lets you share your membership with 4 other people/households, you don't want to do this as you'll lose your old plan if you let your current Prime membership expire. Having that grandfathered plan means I'm pretty much locked in even with price increases. With 5 different households on the plan, the cost for each of us is much less. Prize club down to 49 members after January.

A few days left and there are 10 of you in danger of dropping out of the club this month...

Previous Thread: https://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/334790-amazon-toy-clearance-deal-thread-2021-edition/ Amazon Toy Clearance Deal Posting Thread As we pass the end of the holiday season, it's time for GottaDEAL members to start shopping for great toy clearance deals on Amazon! 1) Please only post toy deals that qualify for free Super Saver Shipping or Amazon Prime shipping. 2) Deals that are part of their Lightning Deals are not clearance deals. Those belong in their own thread. 3) You are able to post more than 1 toy in each post, you can separate the deals if you'd like in your post 4) When posting a toy deal find, please remember to post the following: The toy name, the price (including the original price along with the sale price is preferred) and most importantly, a link to the toy on Amazon. So let's get to posting Amazon toy finds! If you have questions on how to post the deals, please feel free to send me a PM or post your question over in the Discuss GottaDEAL sub-forum.

Only 328 days to go Counting down to the actual Black Friday day seems more pointless every year as BF has become a month+ long event, but we'll keep this thread open for general chit-chat. As you can see the 2021 BF threads have been archived and as we've done in recent years there is this year-round BF forum to discuss any store closings and other news that could affect Black Friday 2022. Black Friday will fall on November 25th this year.

January is here. Down to 57 members. Happy new year everyone!

Last day to get your December posts made. Still 14 prize club members in danger of dropping out.

Happy Christmas everyone

With 10 days left 16 of the 71 initial prize club members have not posted yet for December...

And the winner (chosen at random via random.org) is... drum-roll please... HanShotFirst The randomly selected winning post was this one in the thread I posted asking for help with the color for this year's BF shirts. HanShotFirst had 64 entries in the contest. There were 2,614 total valid entries for the contest this year (basically all non-deleted posts in this forum except for my posts and posts in the 2 prize club threads). Congrats and check your PMs to claim your prize. If the prize is not claimed by January 31, 2022 it will be forfeited.

15 hours left to get your entries in!

Target has the Pro 5-quart bowl lift for $249: https://www.target.com/p/kitchenaid-professional-5qt-stand-mixer-silver-kv25g0x/-/A-15762024? Buy Target gift cards at 10% off (ends today) to make the effective price $225 which is only $5 more than BF.

Read an article yesterday that said that Black Friday has sort of become the halftime show rather than the kickoff for holiday shopping. Sounds about right.

We start the 2022 edition of the Prize Club with 71 members. Good luck to everyone

Last day to sign up for the Prize Club!

Your photos in that thread (and this one) show for me so I un-hid your post.

These are numbers for online shopping. People definitely shopped online on Thursday.

19 days this year vs 5 days last year of $3+ billion in daily online sales. Those early sales are here to stay.