Brad

Last year's Big Lots thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=88420

LOL. noon on Thursday? I think bigjimslade is setting up next week

also, for those of you who subscribe to our youtube channel, similar to our myspace friends, we may end up using that as a way to disseminate "information" (text lists, links to pdf files) that we may otherwise not be able to post on here...

yeah i'll do that next time. thanks for the link. i guess you can add one of youtube's pre-loaded songs into an already-posted video, so i just picked out a boring instrumental just so there isn't total silence for this one.

yeah i'll at least add some music for the rest of them. just wanted to get something up quickly for this one and since i'm not really a youtube person i didn't know what the rules were for adding music (copyright stuff, etc...) thanks for the help :)

I'm going to be posting some Youtube videos over the next 6 weeks as yet another way to introduce new people to GD and the BF site. These will be in addition to the ones bigjimslade will be doing. None of these videos will likely have anything in them that you don't already know from visiting the site, but they'll basically be site updates and other news that hopefully end up being returned in Google search results and help us get the site promoted in other ways. I just uploaded the first one which is a quick tour of the BF site home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFdSvV-vtOs If at all possible, sign up for a Youtube account if you don't already have one, rate the video (5 stars of course ), and leave a comment either saying how excited you are about BF, or how much you love GD, etc... And if you want to subscribe to our channel, that would be even better. And who knows, maybe I'll pick some people who help me out and send them a BF t-shirt... UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who helped out. Look for a new video posted soon and we'll do this again!

not looking like there will be an ad today. and let's try to keep this discussion in the existing "antsy" thread...

so many of the sales will be online, so you'll be able to get some deals. plus a lot of the online sales start late thursday night or early friday morning, so when everyone else is camping out and can't order, you'll be able to get the deals :)

Repost: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=108003 searchalready

The winners for this contest were Mugglemom and PentiumMMX. Congrats :) Look for the next contest soon

Best Buy just today threatened to terminate any affiliate who posts the BF ad early. That threat probably won't stop us, but it's not looking good overall this year...

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=116204

THE NEXT AD WILL BE POSTED TONIGHT!!! (that is, if someone sends me one by tonight )

We didn't have one last year, but we had one either 2 or 3 years ago (when things weren't nearly as busy as they are now).

Thanks for doing this again RealLivePrinces :)

FYI, that code is supposed to start tonight at 12am CT and expire Wednesday at 12pm CT

BB usually has the BF prices online during the day on Thursday. I think midnight Wednesday night was when they did it last year.

PLEASE only post info for this year. We know when stores opened last year, but we are looking for confirmation of this year's times only.

The twice-a-year 20% off everything coupons should be out in just about a month.

How is that Target's problem?

i'll be in the chat room while i do some work if anyone is bored :)

http://www.fleetfarm.com/weekly_ad/catalog/

Just like Fleet Farm, I imagine Farm & Fleet will be adding the catalog to their site some day this week.

CONTEST OVER - ENTRIES NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED! It's contest time again! Your chance to win a limited edition Black Friday @ GottaDeal.com t-shirt! Reply to this thread with a story about your worst Black Friday experience from a previous year. Whether it was your fault, someone else's or just something you saw happened, give us the details. And if you are a BF newbie and this is going to be your first Black Friday, then let us know what you hope it's going to be like for you this year. Entries will be accepted until Tuesday night at 11pm ET. At that point I'll randomly select 2 winners who will each receive their own Black Friday t-shirt. Good luck to all!

We're going to try having a scheduled chat in the chat room here on the forum this coming Saturday night. We'll "officially" start it at 9pm ET, but feel free to stop in anytime (even earlier than 9 or later that night) as hopefully it goes on all night as people come and go. You can get in the chat room by clicking the "FlashChat" link on the left side of the blue bar across the top of every forum page, or just click here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/misc.php?do=flashchat&room=1 To encourage as many people as possible to join us, I'll be giving away some prizes during that chat, including GD backpacks and the extremely popular BF t-shirts. We didn't have the chat room during last year's BF, so hopefully it gets used a lot this year as it can help take the pressure of the servers instead of constantly refreshing a specific forum thread during busy times. If you look at the bottom of the forum homepage: http://forums.gottadeal.com/ You can see at a glance if anyone is in the chat room at any given time. If you are in a chatting mood at any time (regardless of if there is a scheduled chat) and nobody is in the room, feel free to post in the new "I'm in the chat room" thread and it's likely someone will see it and join you.