Brad

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/AdScans

Last year someone on the forum here sent me the ad on 11/13. If you remember, CNN posted a story with highlights from the ad on 11/14. And for the record, we're not going to allow any kind of "Santa's Wish List" on here. Once it's leaked, I'll let my Walmart reps know and hopefully like last year once they see they can't contain it from spreading all over the net, we'll be allowed to post the full ad.

We've had the details of tomorrow's sale for a few days now. Nothing to get excited about. Their normal online-only sale they have every minor holiday it seems like. Minor deals for the most part like "10-15% off select keyboards and mice" - things like that.

http://www.blackfridayvip.com/scans/GottaDeal-NorthernTool.pdf

Here are the scans: http://www.blackfridayvip.com/scans/GottaDeal-Bealls.pdf Since these stores are only in Florida and have a limited audience, we're not going to type up the ad (at least not right now), but I figured there might be a few of you out there who'd like to see it. And Bealls sent this one directly :)

got a postcard in the mail about the sale. also says it's off MSRP

LINK TO SALE (link will become active tomorrow morning) Dell is having a special 8-hour sale tomorrow (Friday) from 8am to 4pm ET. No word on what exactly will be on sale, so we'll all find out soon enough...

and just like that, the target logo is removed from the MSN site (although the story is still listed on the front page) and things on the site speed up a little, lol.

We added one more server this morning. Have another one coming soon. It's that MSN story that is killing us. It's on the front page of MSN with the big Target bullseye logo, so your eyes go right to it, and you know how many millions of people never bother to change their default Internet Explorer homepage from MSN, so a lot of people are seeing it now. Not that I'm complaining Traffic yesterday was about 4x what it was on Tuesday.

And if someone is buying this, be sure to add something (such as K-Cups) to get your after-coupon, pre-tax, pre-shipping surcharge total above $100 so you get $20 in Kohl's Cash instead of just $10.

looks like it could be another busy day. the MSN and CNN stories are still linked on their home pages, so if it gets bad, we'll have to close the forum again temporarily. if it happens, like BJS mentioned, just go to our facebook page for updates

and you know walmart will have a similar grouping in their ad for $3-4 as well - it's one of their yearly BF traditions, lol.

why does everyone panic? wasn't there a message saying it was closed because of high traffic? if i really wanted to scare everyone, i could have posted a message saying the site had been shut down due to a court order because some retailer got mad and sent their lawyers after us...

we also might close the forum to lurkers, so if you are lurking, consider registering so you won't be shut out.

we're mentioned in stories currently linked on the home pages of both CNN.com and MSN.com and the site is getting hammered. i've already began arrangements to get more servers added to our cluster to handle the traffic, but in the meantime we'll just have to tolerate the slowdowns and occasional forum closings during peak times.

We won't know exactly which items will be online until they actually go on sale. Same thing with free shipping. The store that offer it now will still have it. Others might add it for certain items. Again, you won't know for sure until it happens. If WM has a $99 netbook, I'm guessing most if not all of the stock will go to stores and not online.

It looks like 827200, but it's not on the Staples web site. They'll probably add it as we get closer to BF. It won't be the BlackArmor one. If anything, they used the wrong pic.

I've noticed that on a lot of things too. An item's sale price would have to be around 20% cheaper on BF to be a better deal, even if you use the 15% on BF.

Top 10 items people are adding to their shopping lists on the BF site: Duracell Batteries 20-Pack (Free After Staples Rewards) - FREE After Rebate HP 8GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive - $12.99 Staples DVD+R Media 50-Pack - $4.98 After Rebate Staples DVD-R Media 50-Pack - $4.98 After Rebate HP Everyday 8.5" x 11" Photo Paper 50-Pack - $1 After Rebate HP 15.6" Laptop w/ 3GB, 160GB, Windows 7 - $299.98 After Rebate Staples CD-R Media 100-Pack - $4.98 After Rebate Coupon: 10% off Any One Single Item Saturday Only - 10% off Seagate 1TB External Desktop Hard Drive - $69.99 SanDisk 4GB SDHC Memory Card - $9.99

wondering what people are adding to their shopping lists on the BF site for target? the top 10 items: Free $10 Gift Card with $100 Purchase - FREE Selected DVD Movies (Mall Cop, Kung Fu Panda, More) - $5.99 Disney's Up or Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure DVD - $13 Selected DVD Movies & TV Box Sets (Friends, Weeds, More) - $8.99 Selected DVD TV Box Sets (Office, House, Gossip Girl, More) - $12.99 Selected DVD Movies (Elf, Batman, Sarah Marshall, More) - $3.99 Board Games (Candy Land, Memory, Cootie, More) - $5 Plan a Family Game Night Games (Bop it, Sequence, More) - $12 RCA Portable 7" Widescreen DVD Player - $47 Board Games (Apples to Apples, Scene It, Uno Spin, More) - $10

CNN story about the ad: http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/11/news/companies/retail_holidayshopping_blackfriday_target/index.htm

Or maybe Sony paid Staples for "promotional consideration" in their ad, just to get info on the product out there.

So as far as "big" ads we're still waiting on Walmart, Best Buy and Toys R Us. We know when WM will be posted (at the latest). Funny how quickly we went from "where are the ads?" to having only a few big ones left. But there are still a lot of the small to medium size stores to come out.

Build-a-Bear just sent this over:

done typing up the ad. not too bad. target does it right - they don't have 900 items on sale, but the items they do have are pretty nice deals usually.