Brad

41 of 42 posted for December (pattiv is the one left). As others have said, if you missed the November deadline, feel free to post in here throughout the year anyway. I may post contests in here throughout the year that anyone who is reading this thread can enter, so there's an incentive to stay active in this thread.

Last day to use these coupons (or give them away here or sell them on ebay for around $10)

that's why i always try to use it on things that you can't use coupons on (but ideally are also on sale) so you don't feel like you're getting that much less value out of it.

The Kohl's Cash earned during the Kohl's week-long BF sale expires tonight, so make sure you use it if you still have any left! http://www.kohls.com

PDF: https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-SamsDec15-BF2018.pdf They're having 20% off membership gift cards again which can be used to renew existing memberships (I used one from the last one day sale to renew my membership just a few days ago).

Bumping this as it starts in less than 4 hours...

I try to put my stuff up in early November. Otherwise I get too busy with the site as BF gets closer that it's almost too late to do it in early December when things finally calm down. Plus the tree and decorations keep reminding me during all those late nights and 16-20 hour days working on the site that there's a light at the end of the tunnel lol.

It's now December so the club is closed to new members. We're at 42 members this time, which means you've already received an upgrade to at least 3 bags per member if you make it all year. I figured we'd have less members this year because I posted the thread 3 days later than last year. I thought about starting it in December 1st but giving 31 days to join might have led to way too many members (and bags to buy). Next year will be interesting because Cyber Monday won't be until December 2nd so there will still be a lot of people on the board in December. Might just have to give a certain number of days to sign up instead of the whole month. It's really meant to reward those of you who are around often so congrats to those of you who were on the forum and found the thread in the 3 days it was available for signups Also, yesterday I received a sample of the bags just to make sure they are the same size/quality/construction as the old ones from 10 years ago and from what I can tell they haven't changed which is great. Now I'll just wait for a deal at some point during the next year and order several hundred of them. I might crowdsource the design for the bag as well in here over the coming months.

7 hours to sign up for this year's club!

Only 1 year until Black Friday 2019!

12 Days of Deals Daily Themes: December 2, Day 1: Home improvement December 3, Day 2: Gaming December 4, Day 3: Toys December 5, Day 4: PCs December 6, Day 5: Home December 7, Day 6: Fashion December 8, Day 7: Baby, Pets and Cameras December 9, Day 8: Beauty/Personal Care December 10, Day 9: Electronics December 11, Day 10: Kitchen December 12, Day 11: Furniture, Lawn & Garden December 13, Day 12: Sports and Outdoors

Also, the club will be the only place you'll be able to get the bags. Well, the club and if you find me somewhere and I have some extras in my car, but that's it We won't be selling them or giving them away in other contests. Whatever is left I'll be keeping for my own use and the never-ending requests from family members

Update: It's now December 1st and the contest is closed to new entrants (so trying to sneak in with a post now won't work ) As of the end of November there are 42 members still eligible to win tote bags.

Having multiple prize choices just makes things more difficult and time consuming, especially when this ends during the busiest time of the year for me. It's a lot easier to just pack shirts or tote bags or whatever in advance and not have to worry about quantities for each item and matching the item to each person when it comes time to put labels on, etc... Plus most customized items have minimum quantities so it's either not possible or very expensive to have just a dozen or two made of something. As for giving prizes to people who missed a month, that's not really going with the spirit of the contest which was to make every single month. We had more than enough people that were able to do it that I don't see the need to make things easier. And yes, giving away shirts in the club made the BF t-shirt contests less active this year and also caused their to be less of them as I ran out of shirts sooner than usual, so I don't think I'd ever do that again with shirts. So now club members can win something by posting once a month and then they can also win a shirt like everyone else.

If you are spending enough to make it worth it, there are many eBay sellers selling codes for around $2.50: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=kohls+40+&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=15&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1&_blrs=recall_filtering

OK, the random drawing has been conducted under the watchful eye of... my dog. Here are the winners: 1st Prize: Apple iPad 9.7" 32GB WiFi Tablet Winner: BFgrl79 (for this post) 2nd Prize: Nest Outdoor Smart Security Camera Winner: jesusluvu (for this post) 3rd Prize: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Winner: elena_398 (for this post) 4th Prize: $100 Gift Card to the Retailer of Your Choice Winner: jgm8 (for this post) 5th Prize: $50 Gift Card to the Retailer of Your Choice Winner: mommyofanangelb (for this post) Congrats to the winners, look for a PM from me to claim your prize. And thanks to everyone who posted on the forums this year.

Winners will be chosen and announced later tonight, so no need to keep checking back for the next 3-4 hours at least

Not surprising, but some details about best selling items: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-announces-record-breaking-holiday-shopping-weekend-cyber

Going to try this and see how it goes. This (temporary) forum will syndicate the Cyber Monday sales we post on the main site over the next day. Threads will automatically created from an RSS feed soon after they are posted on the main site. After CM is over these threads will be moved to the Online Deals/Dead Deals forum and this forum will disappear

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And don't forget that thanks to Amazon's Prime Day getting bigger and bigger and causing more stores to compete on those days we are closer to having a real online-only "Summer Black Friday" in July each year.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-11-24/on-black-friday-more-us-shoppers-chose-the-computer-over-the-mall Preliminary data from analytics firm RetailNext showed net sales at brick-and-mortar stores fell 4 to 7 percent over the two days, while traffic fell 5 to 9 percent, continuing the trend of recent years. No data was yet available for actual spending in stores.

https://www.cnet.com/news/black-friday-2018-rings-up-record-6-2-billion-in-online-sales/ Online sales for Black Friday hit $6.22 billion in the US, up 23.6 percent from a year ago and a new record high, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce transactions across 80 of the top 100 US retailers. Shoppers didn't wait until Black Friday to get started. Online spending on Thanksgiving Day hit $3.7 billion in the US, topping last year's record of $2.87 billion. And Cyber Monday is still to come. Adobe expects Cyber Monday sales to grow 17.6 percent year-over-year to $7.8 billion.

Luckily they still make the same bags I chose for the first run of them all those years ago. Like some of you have said they are pretty big and hold up well. And they are lightweight for shipping which helps me if I'm going to send some to everyone

I've been planning on getting new totes made with the new logo so maybe that's what we'll do for next year's club. Either way, I'll start next year's club thread in a few days. Let all the people who leave after BF and CM leave and then we'll start