Brad

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

Get a $50 GameStop Gift Card when you purchase any new Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, or PS4 Console Save $100 on the Xbox Minecraft Bundle $100 off the PlayStation 4 1TB Bundle which includes Spiderman Save $70 on Select Xbox One X consoles Get $100 off PlayStation VR Bundles $20 off the PlayStation Plus 12 Month Subscription Get Assassin's Creed Odyssey for only $27 Get Horizon Zero Dawn for only $9.99 Save $20 on Fallout 76 WWE 2K19 only $27 NBA 2K19 only $27 Get Shadow of the Tomb Raider for only $27 Get PS4 DualShock Controllers for only $38.99 50% off Hitman 2 Get Overwatch Legendary Edition for only $19.99 Grand Theft Auto V is only $19.99 Destiny 2 Forsaken is only $39.99 Get Far Cry 5 for only $24.99 $30 off all PlayStation 3 Consoles Get the PlayStation Vita for only $129.99 Get the 250GB Xbox 360 Slim for $79.99 The Last of Us only $14.99 Save $10 on Call of Duty Black Ops 4 Get Forza Horizon 4 Standard for only $39.99 Get the Funko Mystery Box for only $20 Get $100 off the HTC Vive Pro Head Mounted Display for a truly immersive virtual reality experience Get a PlayStation 3 Open World Blast from the Past System Bundle for only $99.99 at GameStop.com. Get a Wii Best of Blast from the Past Bundle for only $159.99 Get a Wii U Game Night Blast from the Past Bundle for only $194.99 Get a Xbox 360 Open World Blast from the Past System Bundle for only $74.99 Monster Hunter World is only $19.99 Diablo III Eternal Collection is only $19.99 Get Elder Scrolls Online Summerset for only $14.99 Get Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Special Edition for only $19.99 NASCAR Heat 3 is only $24.99 Get $50 off the Ultimate Co-Pilot Chewie Buy 2 Get 1 Free on Pre-Owned Games Buy 2 Get 1 Free on Retro Accessories and Software Get 50% off the Nerf Rival Stormtrooper Blaster at GameStop.com Shop online for these deals starting at 12am EST or 11pm CST tonight. http://www.gamestop.com

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

Only 370 days to go! Black Friday 2019 is on November 29th. We go from the earliest possible date to the latest which means it'll be the longest wait between Black Fridays.

Ads from this year have been posted on the Black Friday Archive: https://www.blackfridayarchive.com

https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/its-time-heres-sneak-peek-amazons-cyber-monday-deals

* Tomorrow all the threads from the "Online Black Friday Sales" and "Posted Black Friday Ads" sub-forums will be moved to the appropriate individual store sub-forums for further discussion and those 2 forums will be removed to clean things up. * The remaining Black Friday forums (this main BF forum & the store-specific boards) along with the Holiday Discussion board will remain open until the end of the year at which point they'll all be combined into one forum and archived with the other years. We'll once again keep the main Black Friday forum open all year for any discussion that pops up. * As for Cyber Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Week, because Cyber Monday has become "Cyber Week" with sales already starting later tonight, and because we don't receive much information ahead of time as far as exactly what items will be for sale, we don't have a dedicated Cyber Monday forum. Edit: yes we do this year * Instead, we'll be posting Cyber Week sales information in the main year-round Online Hot Deals forum, and we invite you to please share whatever Cyber Week deals you find there as well. This way there will be only one forum to check for online deals instead of two. Of course you can also check the GD home page for the latest sales & deals too as that is where we'll be posting them all. This is all the same as we've done in the past, so nothing new this year. Thanks to everyone for another great Black Friday season

Giving away a $11.23 Amazon gift card in the #contest channel on our Discord server if anyone here is interested.

https://corporate.bestbuy.com/saturday-only-best-buy-reveals-50-deals-at-50-off/

https://corporate.kohls.com/news/archive-/2018/november/kohl-s-helps-customers-cash-in-on-cyber-week

Xbox One Minecraft bundle $199 with $60 Kohl's Cash: https://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/197761

https://news.walmart.com/2018/11/23/walmartcom-unveils-cyber-monday-plans-offers-easier-shopping-more-brands-and-more-deals

Hisense 55" 4K HDR Roku TV back in stock for $248: https://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/196641

The Discord server has been a great addition to the site this year and we will definitely use it more and integrate it more into the site and forum over the next year. It's not too late to join us if you haven't. We'll also keep it running all year and maybe have some contests on there during the non-BF time of the year.

http://www.kohls.com looks like Kohl's dropped free shipping down to $25 today

Kohl's tracker with doorbusters that just went live: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Tracker/Kohls