Brad

Filed this morning. Some stores to close, others to become more "interactive spaces" whatever that means... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/19/toys-r-us-bankruptcy-store-closures/680135001/

Press release (PDF): https://corporate.kohls.com/content/dam/kohlscorp/2017/Amazon%20Returns%20at%20Kohl%27s%20FINAL.pdf Kohl’s (NYSE: KSS) today announced that 82 stores across Los Angeles and Chicago will be offering free, convenient returns for Amazon customers starting in October. Kohl’s will pack and ship eligible Amazon return items for free, providing an additional service and convenience to Amazon customers within select Kohl’s stores. - Can't compete with Amazon? Find a way to get some Amazon customers to come inside your store and maybe they'll buy something I guess.

https://consumerist.com/2017/09/18/toys-r-us-expected-to-file-for-bankruptcy-this-week/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow Bankruptcy filing expected this week...

Thanks to everyone who has contacted me so far. Still looking for more help, so PM me if you're interested. I'll start contacting everyone towards the end of the month.

http://i.gottadeal.com/main/images/merch/contestshirts.png Time for everyone's favorite contest - the first ad prediction contest Simply reply to this thread with your guess for the date and store for the first ad to be posted on the Black Friday site. Only post one guess and if you edit your post more than 10 minutes after your initial post, your entry won't count, so make your best guess now! For help, view this chart for 2006-2016 dates: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/dates.php I'll accept entries until Monday September 25th at 9:00pm ET. At that point I'll randomly select 7 people who posted their prediction and they'll win a GottaDEAL Black Friday t-shirt! If someone ends up being correct on both the date and store for the first ad, I'll send you a $10 Amazon gift card. If more than one person is correct, you all win gift cards. If there are more than 10 winners, the gift card value will be $5 instead of $10. We'll use eastern time zone to determine which day a late-night ad is posted on. Good luck to everyone! IMPORTANT: If the first ad comes out before the contest ends, there will be no additional winners beyond those who already had their guesses posted, but you can still reply to the thread with a comment to have a chance to be chosen randomly for the 7 t-shirts.

UPDATE: The ordering period for shirts has now ended. This thread will be used to post status updates for existing orders.

9/14 to 9/24 - 30% code is SUNSET30

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.

https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/09/2017-top-toys

80 days to go

Great to have Dev back for this year! Wasn't the same last year without hearing "bigjimslade... Black Friday Live... GottaDeal.com..."

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.

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