Brad

Here are some of their past ads: http://www.blackfridayarchive.com/Store/Verizon

Decent deal on a Switch console with Super Mario Odyssey and a bunch of Mario merch on the front page: http://www.gottadeal.com/DirectDeal/160597 I think ThinkGeek forgot to turn on the "no coupons allowed" switch for this bundle, so the 20% off code works.

I know that retailers absolutely hate it when it’s late because they lose one of the precious shopping weekends between BF and Christmas. Counting BF weekend, there are 5 weekends this year and next year, but then in 2019 when BF goes back to the 29th, they only get 4 weekends which are where they make a huge chunk of their Q4 revenue. For myself running the site, when BF is on the 28th or 29th it pushes Cyber Monday to December which can have some negative financial effects, but there is also more time between Halloween and BF which is when the hype is highest, so it probably evens out.

Amazingly they all fit in a single Rubbermaid storage bin. I got rid of the actual newspaper sections so it's just one heavy 50lb+ bin of ads. Enough space for this year and then it'll be on to bin #2

Yep, started doing it back in 2006. Really wish I had some earlier than that, but we have a couple years before that in digital form on http://www.blackfridayarchive.com I keep telling myself I'm going to scan all my older ones so we have cleaner copies on the archive site, but the stack of ads I have is very imposing and the thought of scanning every . single . page in all those ads scares me away. The ads I have are from the local paper, so I'm missing some stores that we didn't have around here back then as well, but I've got all the big ones (Walmart, Target, Kohl's, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Sears, JCPenney, Kmart, etc) from every single year.

If you missed it, just look at last years ad: http://www.blackfridayarchive.com/Ad/Kohls/2016 Aside from some of the tech items, the ads are virtually identical.

Toy Catalog: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/MeijerToyBook Electronics Gift Guide: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/MeijerElectronics

I think they want to release it themselves so you'll go to their site, make your shopping list on their site, etc... They want the traffic and promotion to help themselves, not a bunch of other sites. I can see where they are coming from, but it's the internet - once it's out there, it's nearly impossible to completely erase it.

If they release it "officially" the same day as last year, you'll have it once again a week from today.

Yeah we had to remove it from the listing on the BF site

Enjoy the ad while it's still there. Hearing Kohl's isn't very happy right now...

I heard from Dev a few days ago and he said the webcasts are still a go. He was on the forum yesterday but didn’t post.

The Kohl’s Black Friday ad or the JFK Assassination records that were just released. What are you browsing?

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Kohls PDF:http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Kohls-BF2017.pdf

I heard 5pm for store opening time...

Our Twitter (@GottaDEAL or @BlackFridayNews) is a good place to be notified right away about pretty much every new ad within minutes of it going on the site. With the emails, we don't want to bombard you with so many, especially when things get busier. So unless it's a bigger ad (which we'll email about right away), we tend to wait a bit until we have a few that we can then email about. - Another option if you have a forum account is to "Follow" the Posted Black Friday Ads forum. Go here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/forum/117-posted-black-friday-ads/ and click the "Follow this forum" button in the upper right part of the page. You can then choose to be notified instantly when I post a new thread in that particular forum, which means a new ad has been posted. Then go to your Notifications control panel: http://forums.gottadeal.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications and set the various options for getting notified of new posts or just new threads, as well as if you want those notifications emailed and/or just shown when you are on the forum.

Some that I remember from typing up the ads all these years: Toys R Us almost always has the Fisher-Price Doctor's Kit and Sears for the longest time always had the Craftsman clock made to look like a circular saw blade.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/CostcoHolidayGiftGuide If you plan on shopping on Costco.com this year for some higher-dollar items, you can buy a $25 off $250 coupon on eBay for a dollar or two.

On the site (http://www.sears.com/wishbook) you have to hover over items. It's really not that convenient. They are making a printed book with (I assume) the prices printed so once that is out we can post that instead.

This was a popular contest a couple of years so we'll bring it back. And with more people on the forum let's increase the prize pool to 15 shirts! How to enter: reply to this thread and post a one more more recipes for your favorite holiday foods. Whether it's Christmas cookies, stuffing for Thanksgiving or anything else you'd like, share the recipe with everyone here. Hopefully it's something you've made every year that you love, or if you are "baking-challenged", find a recipe that sounds good and post that one. Feel free to tell everyone why it's so good and/or include pics to make everyone hungry. Entries will be accepted until 9pm ET on Wednesday, November 1st. At that point I'll randomly select 15 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a Black Friday t-shirt! If you've already won a shirt, you can't win another but feel free to share your recipes if you'd like. Good luck to everyone And don't forget that if you want to order more Black Friday shirts, for the next couple weeks you can still do that here. http://i.gottadeal.com/main/images/merch/contestshirts.png

The winner of the $50 Amazon gift card is... ilikefree and the 10 t-shirt winners are... tracy0504 qtpie HanShotFirst kellis4321 giz len_mullen MariahA Sassoon17 budgetsRsexy wittenlover Congrats and look for a PM from me soon to claim your prize. Another contest coming soon

I forgot that last year Kohl's posted their ad on their site at like 5am on a Friday morning. If they do it again this year, it'll be next Friday

First batch of shirts (from both orders and contest winners) will be shipped within the next week or two

Press release: http://searsholdings.com/press-releases/pr/2062 Wish Book: http://www.sears.com/wishbook

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/RiteAid PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-RiteAid-BF2017.pdf