Brad

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.

Want to chat but there's nobody in the chat room? Post in this thread and it's likely someone will notice and join you in the chat room. Please only use this thread to let others know you want to chat. Thanks :) Chat room: http://forums.gottadeal.com/misc.php?do=flashchat&room=1

we have lists of the old ad items here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=115267

Yes, you'll have to answer the anti-spammer question towards the bottom of the "edit profile" page: http://forums.gottadeal.com/profile.php?do=editprofile in order for it to save any other changes you make to that page. The anti-spammer thing is just temporary due to automated spam-bots being able to bypass the normal registration process. The only time you have to fill it in is at registration or the first time you need to make any changes to your profile.

When I replied to his e-mail (basically telling him we may or may not comply and he'd have to check the site every day to be sure), I made sure to refer to him as Chad instead of Chadwick, just to annoy him, lol.

that should not be that "hot" at all. most of the online stores (amazon, walmart) have been taking orders for months and would have stopped if they didn't have enough stock to fill those orders. as with last year with the cookie monster and ernie, expect them to massively overproduce them, and you'll probably find them for $20 on clearance in january.

Big Lots doesn't want us to promote their BF ad: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=121478 so I don't think they need help promoting this sale either

That was fun. Everyone in the chat room got a BF t-shirt (ok, not really, but if you missed it, shame on you ) We'll have a "scheduled" BF chat soon where I'll give away some shirts in the chat room. Anyone have a day of the week that works best?

GD is briefly mentioned in this video: http://cfc.ktul.com/videoondemand.cfm?id=24764

http://forums.gottadeal.com/misc.php?do=flashchat&room=1

I think the main thing is "claiming" the item(s) and then they worry about getting it to the front of the store later, lol.