Brad

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

As always, we have several dedicated threads for the hotter items each Black Friday. Please try to keep all discussion related to these items in their official threads. Other threads posted will likely be merged into this main thread.

After not doing a BF shirt last year, this year's t-shirt design has been finalized and the initial shirt order has been placed with the printer. Definitely the earliest I've ever done that but hopefully I'll get the shirts early enough where I can get them packaged and ready to ship before the ads start leaking and I get (even more) busy. I'll post the design and open up orders in the next couple of weeks. As always we'll be giving away a bunch of them too and we'll start the first contest sometime next month, so stay tuned for that

The ones on eBay are refurbs. There are always deals on Beats headphones in November. Target and Best Buy have pretty good deals and they don't sell out too quickly so you should be able to get them.

If this year is anything like the past few years, 3 months from today we should have the big ads such as Walmart, Best Buy and Target leaked

It's early, but we're going to start looking for help for various Black Friday-related tasks on the site. Below you'll find some descriptions of things that we will need help with. If you've helped out in the past, send me a PM and let me know if you can help again this year (and let me know if you can't as well). I'll be contacting those of you who I don't hear from in a few weeks to get your status. If you haven't helped out before, please PM me and let me know which of the items below you'd be interested in helping with along with any related experience/skills you may have. We have 3 tasks that we need help with: Ad Posting: We need as many people as possible with excellent availability (primarily during the first 3 weeks of November including early mornings and nights) and who have above-average typing skills. You'll be taking the scans of the ads and typing up each item in the ad, selecting the appropriate category, entering price/rebate info, etc... This one requires a little more work but you'll get to see some ads before anyone else. We'll give you the exact format to use so you won't be totally lost. Ad Linking: We need people to help link the thousands of Black Friday ad items to the product pages on the store web sites. This involves looking at the ad and searching for the same item on that store's web site and pasting that link in a special form. You basically just need to know how to search a store's site using either the item number (if the ad shows it) or the product's name and then copy and paste. Content Writers: We're looking for those of you who enjoy writing about Black Friday to write articles, guides, interviews, etc... Basically you can come up with your own ideas for pieces, pitch them to me and assuming we don't have something similar, I'll give you the go ahead and you'll see it posted on the site with your name (if you'd like) as the author. You can do as little or as much as you'd like. To make things easier so we don't have more than one person doing the same work, we have a private forum for us all to get together, so if you are chosen you'll get access to that forum where we'll assign tasks and post updates. You won't be alone or feel overwhelmed as we'll hopefully once again have a small army of volunteers this year. We don't expect you to do this work for free - you will be compensated for your time and efforts at the end of the year based on how much you were able to help out. We typically send gift cards as a thank you, but other arrangements can be made. Those of you who helped with this the last few years are encouraged to help again as you all have done a great job. If you have any questions, you can PM me as well. Thanks

Here are the dates (according to our records) when various ads were posted during the past 11 years: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Dates And here are links to text lists of the items in the ads (at least the ones in our database) dating back to 2003: 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 And don't forget, you can also browse the older scanned ads going back to 2004 at http://www.blackfridayarchive.com

Yeah I was able to order a few through the Walmart preorder. If they actually ship maybe I'll give one away here on the site.

Unless they manufacture a lot more than they did the NES version last year, the Nintendo SNES Classic should be a hot item this year.

4 months left. We're two-thirds of the way there

Rumors are floating that Prime Day will happen on July 11th this year. We cannot confirm nor deny this date...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/1/15725732/walmart-strivr-vr-training-module

6 months until Black Friday!

In addition to the 150 Sears/Kmart stores closing, they are also selling the Craftsman brand to Black & Decker: http://www.wsj.com/articles/sears-sells-craftsman-brand-to-stanley-black-decker-1483623215

Might as well start it now so these kinds of posts have somewhere to go. Only 332 days to go

As we do every year, I archived the 2016 Black Friday forum threads. You can view all 13 years of archived posts here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/forum/10-black-friday-archives/ I also created this Black Friday 2017 forum which will remain open all year for whatever Black Friday discussion pops up as well as the few current threads that had activity from the old BF/holiday forums. We'll also use this forum to discuss Prime Day or any other big sale day that the retailers create during the rest of the year. This forum will eventually become next year's main Black Friday discussion board in the fall, so if you want to start earning entries for next year's BF forum posting contest, posts made in here throughout the year will count towards the contest

Merry Christmas

http://www.kohls.com CREDIT EVENT 1/12-1/22 30% off with code COCOA30 CATEGORY CODES $10 off your Intimates purchase of $40 or more with code INTIMATES10. 12/25-1/04. 20% off Ceramic cookware and bakeware with code CERAMIC20. Select styles. 12/25-1/04. $10 off Each pair of men's and women's Rock & Republic jeans you buy with code ROCK10. 12/25-1/04. 20% off Furniture, mattresses, home decor, rugs, curtains, pillows, and storage with code REFRESH20. Select styles. 12/26-1/14. $5 off Curve fragrance purchase of $35 or more with code CURVE5. Excluding gift sets. Select styles. 1/1-1/14. 20% off Juniors and girls 7-16 apparel with code STYLE20. Select styles. 1/2-1/11. 15% off all bedding, mattresses, and curtains with code SLEEPWELL. 1/12-1/22. $10 off $30 Baby & Toddler Apparel, Maternity Apparel, and select Baby Gear with code BABYSALE10. 1/12-1/22. $5 OFF your Britney Spears fragrance purchase of $32 or more. Excludes gift sets. 1/22-2/4. $10 off your Home purchase of $50 or more with code HOME10. 1/27-2/05. $50 off your Luggage purchase of $200 or more with code LUGGAGE50. 1/27-2/05. SITEWIDE CODES 15% off or 20% off $100 or more with code NEW4YOU. 1/3-1/4 20% off with code SHOPFAST. 1/19. 15% off or 20% off $100 or more with code SAVENOW. 1/12-1/18. 15% off with code JAN15. 1/27-1/28.

http://www.kohls.com/ 30% off for cardholders: FROSTING30 15% off or 20% off $100+ for non-cardholders CANDYCANE free shipping for cardholders: KCSHIP4FREE $10 in Kohl's Cash with each $50 spent.

Green Monday sale: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/misc/green-monday/pcmcat748300451084.c?id=pcmcat748300451084 They also have the $25 off $100 by using Visa Checkout again.

http://www.target.com/c/green-monday/-/N-4xwck?lnk=bigdealstodayon&type=products 166 items on sale. anyone see anything good?

https://www.walmart.com/browse/Christmas-Gifts/0/0/?_refineresult=true&_be_shelf_id=5922&search_sort=100&facet=shelf_id:5922 looks like the same sale they've had since early November to be honest...

Amazon has told us (and this can always change) that the current sale prices on their devices: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Devices/b?ie=UTF8&node=2102313011 are as low as they are going to go. They are scheduled to last until 12/24. So if you've been waiting for them to go cheaper, these prices are as low as they'll be going most likely.

Giving up on getting one. I didn't really want one too much. Now, if they come out with a SNES version next year, then I'll be all in on getting one

I've only heard back from 2 of the 5 winners so far. Hope the others get on here soon