Brad

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Store/AceHardware http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-BF2010-AceHardware.pdf

I've been asked this question and so I'll answer it here: yes, if you've already won a BF t-shirt, you can still win these grocery bags since it is for a different prize. Also, since we get a lot of lurkers viewing these contest threads, please register so you can enter: http://forums.gottadeal.com/register.php Registration is free and allows you to post, enter contests, remove the ads on the forum and use the shopping list feature on the Black Friday site. You must confirm your registration via the link in the e-mail that will be sent to you in order to post, so don't forget that step.

Here's our first contest this year for our popular GD reusable grocery bags! http://www.gottadeal.com/images/grocerybag2.jpg HOW TO WIN: We had this one last year and it was well-received, so we'll do it again: post a recipe for your favorite holiday dessert. Whether it's Christmas cookies, a pie for Thanksgiving or anything else you'd like, share the recipe with everyone here. Hopefully it's something you've made every year that you love, or if you are "baking-challenged", find a recipe that sounds good and post that one. Feel free to tell everyone why it's so good and/or include pics to make everyone hungry. I have hidden last year's thread so you can't just copy and paste last year's entry (not that any of you would be that lazy, lol), so if you entered last year, try to find another recipe to use this year. You can post as many recipes as you'd like (please try to keep them all in one post if possible), but each person will only get one entry for the drawing. Entries will be accepted until 2pm ET on Thursday. At that point I'll randomly select 5 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a 4-pack of GD grocery bags! Good luck to all!

Nope, we don't have one of those. We set up a store like that last year for the BF t-shirts because I didn't order any, but that was it. No regular GD stuff. All that stuff you have to win :)

Now down to $25 w/ 97 cent shipping - pink, red and green still available: http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=bissell+easy+vac&ic=48_0&Find=Find&search_constraint=0

Yeah a lot of stuff in these toy catalogs that we've posted (walmart, TRU, kmart) are at "regular" prices. i think these are meant to be the modern version of the old-school sears/jcpenney toy catalogs that the kids are suppoesd to look through and let their parents know what they want, so more of a catalog than an actual "sale"

fixed now. forgot to change some links from the old TRU version.

Don't know if we'll be able to keep this one up because of WM's legal tendencies, but for now... http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/WalmartToyBook scan: http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-Walmart-ToyBook.pdf

yep, most items were online the last several years. like you said, shipping is the main issue, but they've normally had plenty in stock.

We already had a sale a couple weeks ago. Don't know if we'll have another yet. Depends on how many shirts I have left and how busy things get with BF-related work.

From what I remember, this ad has really never been as good as the actual BF ad. Where the BF ad tends to be full of stuff at 40-50% off, this catalog tends to have smaller discounts.

Of course not, lol. The regular GD shirts should be worn 365 days a year

Pic of the first and second GD shirts for those of you who don't remember: http://gottadeal.com/images/merch/oldshirt.jpg http://gottadeal.com/images/merch/newshirt.jpg I always liked that 2nd design. Our next shirt might be an updated take on that one.

Zales.com contacted us back a few months ago because they were starting weekly "Black Friday" sales every Friday starting in September. And the sales were pretty much exactly the same as they've had all year long. And then they had the nerve to ask me why they weren't getting featured on the BF site, lol.

"Black November", "Black Friday Now", "Eary Black Friday"... all these stores can call the sales whatever they want but if they deals aren't good, people will know. I don't think they are going to fool many people by throwing around these phrases for "normal" sales and expect huge amounts of orders as a result.

We've had 5 total shirts: 1. lighter blue shirt with small GottaDeal.com on front and big "Why Pay Retail" on back 2. gray "team-style" with GD and WPR? slogan and "Est. 2004" on front 3. original black Black Friday shirt 4. navy blue GD shirt with GD logo and WYR on front (current shirt) 5. navy blue BF shirt (current shirt) I have a few of each of the first 3 designs that I saved. Might have to give those away some time as they've apparently become collector's items

Here's a PDF scan as well http://scans.blackfridayvip.com/GottaDeal-ToysRUs-ToyBook.pdf

Thanks to brinak2005 and her source for the ad :) http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BigToyBook

Exactly. It'll be up at some point today though, so please be patient :)

So many great entries it was very difficult to just pick a few, but I don't have enough shirts to give to everyone The winners are: siczlo EmConMom berry1014 stacya lelee24 parteejen Promom spwalkhen acornell2 jerica388 Look for a PM from me soon. And to everyone else, look for the next contest soon as well

Nice. Sent you a PM with instructions on how to get it to me so we can post it for everyone to download :)

Yeah those Pilot G-2 pens are nice - my favorite. Took a lot of searching to find a place that would make those in a small enough quantity without charging an arm and a leg for them.

As for the extra "goodies", I'm trying to get rid of some of our extra stuff by the end of the year so I can order some new items for next year. So you might get different stuff than other people (or in some cases nothing depending how in a hurry I am while packaging the shirts, lol). The early orders got pens & highlighters. Later orders got GD magnets. Future shirts will go out with other stuff I have laying around, so you'll be surprised.

Especially considering you paid for the shirt, lol. Imagine your excitement if you would have won one first

Contest is over. Winners will be announced sometime Saturday as I'll need some time to go through all the entries to pick my favorites.