Brad

I'm sure once someone knows they will post it. It's still very early.

that's likely because they are good at keeping their ad a secret, or perhaps they don't have an actual printed ad, but instead more in-store special-type promotions.

The 4 gift card winners are: littlesdcen jdrd90 vsa3janes aprncess Congrats to the winners and look for the next giveaway on September 14th :)

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Black Friday http://www.wsbtv.com/money/17358448/detail.html

Recent Laptop Deals (for pricing history): http://www.gottadeal.com/Deals/Category/laptops

Posted by stationchief:

Digital camera ad items: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Category/DigitalCameras

Video game ad items: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Category/VideoGames

Black friday television ad items: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridaySales/Category/Televisions

This contest ends in just over an hour. I can announce now that vsa3janes is the winner of the digital picture frame for posting the most qualifying deals during the contest. She'll receive a nice Smartparts 10.4" digital picture frame for her great efforts :) The gift card winners will be announced sometime tomorrow, and those will also be posted in this thread. We'll be taking a 2 week break from contests, but coming September 14th - our big holiday giveaway with over $1,000 in prizes

There is no "list" to get a backpack or shirt right now. There was a thread in Discuss GottaDeal for months where the backpacks were being offered for $5/each and nobody wanted any - guess you all are used to the freebies Once the shirts are here in about 2 weeks I'll start giving them an the backpacks away in many different ways. As this is a deal site, those who have been posting deals will definitely be taken care of

I won't be ordering any of those this year. I already will be busy enough giving away (and packaging/shipping) the BF t-shirts that are given away. Bags would just be too much hassle during an already busy time for myself and the site. However I do have quite a few of the GD nylon drawstring backpacks left over though (and will be giving many of those away as well along with the BF shirts), so that's an option. They may not be as big as the larger shopping bags, but they can hold smaller things.

no more votes needed for sizes - as i've said the shirts have been ordered :) and to kill the suspense, no pink shirts - i've posted the reason why here.

I'd have to agree. Unless it is something where you know it was from the store (such as in Best Buy's case, an item from one of their house brands like Dynex, Insignia, etc...), the stores should not have to accept it back. They are not in the business of buying back your items, and if there is no way to prove it was purchased from them, they should not have to offer a refund.

Done.

FYI, we are going to start having new PP threads every quarter instead of every month. So JAN-MAR, APR-JUN, JUL-SEP, OCT-DEC. So we'll use this one for both August and September and then start a new thread October 1st for the 4th quarter. Please remember to use the standard format when posting your clearance finds so they are added to the summary list. Thanks.

Shirts have been ordered. Should have them in about 2 weeks. These will be limited, and you won't be able to buy them. We'll have some fun giving these away over the next few months Also, because of the added costs, there will be very few larger sizes. We'll have some XXL, but few if any 3XLs. Still better than most free t-shirts which are normally all XL. If you want a shirt in a larger size, wait until we order the regular GD (non-BF) shirts.

There is no "official" meaning of those icons. People can use them as they'd like. Some as you've said have implied meanings, but there is no "right" way to use them.

Aside from Ace, the first ad the last 3 years has been in the October 16-20 date range, so I'm thinking it will be like that again. Keep in mind that BF is on the 28th this year which is the latest possible date, so the ads might come out a little later than in past years where it was 4-5 days sooner in the month.

Also Walmart.com has the pink version with a free 1GB SD card for $42.00: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8668691 but you'll have to pay shipping. Still a deal if you'd rather have pink.

bump for today. please vote if you haven't to make sure your size gets represented when i place the order.

Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, if this whole shirt thing happens we probably won't do an option of pink shirts. The choice is basically to have either a choice of sizes or a choice of colors. We can't have both or I'd have 12-18 different size/color combinations and that's just too much for a shirt that will be given away for the most part. Plus with the limited number of shirts being ordered it would be very likely that anyone's exact size/color combination would be gone very quickly. So it's looking like one color (likely black to go along with the Black Friday theme) but there will be a choice of sizes, which I'm sure you all would appreciate more than having a choice of colors but them all being the same size. Thread closed.

apparently ace's lawyers are on the prowl, so if you want the ad, you might want to save it to your computer, just in case...

i'm just looking to get a ratio of sizes - don't worry about being able to win them yet. since most if not all of these will be given away, i could just get all XL like most free shirts, but i'll see how the ratio is first. anything over XL costs more, so that's a consideration. and be sure to vote in the color poll here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=116413

simple poll - assuming the same design, what color would you rather have?