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It's that time of year again! Time for the... (cue theme song)... 2016 GottaDeal.com Black Friday Product Charts! I'm now making the official call for volunteers for this year's charts. If you'd like to volunteer to help put the charts together this year please send me a PM. It's pretty simple. As each ad comes in you'll be responsible for logging in to a special website where you'll enter all the items with some detailed information (item's description, price, store, type, resolution, etc) for a particular product. Some are fairly easy, others may require more research and effort. It all depends on how much time you're willing to put in. You'll be granted access to a special forum where we have a lil' community of volunteers who all help each other out every year so you won't be alone. These charts have been extremely popular among Black Friday shoppers among this site and all around the country every year, and I expect them to be even more so this year so I'll need lots of help putting them together. This year's product charts, as well as all of the charts from previous years for comparison, will still be located at blackfridaycharts.com. Have a look at a tenth anniversary message posted last year with their past history, how they came to be, all mixed in with a lil' bit of me: blackfridaycharts.com/MyStory.html Let the Black Friday madness begin!

I'm in as soon as I can recover my PayPal account

Congrats, speeddiva and bribri25! I'm all in for the Gottadeal yard sale. I think there might be a t-shirt I missed one of the years' past. Gotta complete my collection Also, you can never have too much Gottadeal merch. Better than packing peanuts for your holiday gifting!

You've all been reading through what I have to say in the charts all this past month. And now comes the part where I get to sit back with my new glasses and read what you have to say! I've got some HUGE plans in store for upgrading the Product Charts v3.0 next year, with us crossing their tenth anniversary and all. So tell me... what did you think about the Black Friday Product Charts this year? What did you like? What didn't you like? Any comments? Concerns? Emotional outbursts? Smart one-liners? Drop it in the suggestion box right here!

After all the updates this week, the final update has landed and we have crossed the finish line for the 2015 charts! Thank you to all the folks who volunteered their precious time this year, and a special thanks to everyone who uses these charts and makes them a huge hit this time every year! Everyone have a thankful and happy Thanksgiving, and have a safe and productive Black Friday/Thursday/Cyber Monday shopping experience!

Looks like Black Ops II and III were reversed, and a few II's for $8 were duplicated. Got it fixed now Will be working on fixing some of the specs on the HDTVs tonite.

New and improved product charts, as seen on Phoenix affiliate ABC15 Daphne Munro's Smart Shopper news segment! ABC15.com - Black Friday shopping season: Chart helps you find the best deals

Ah, got it fixed. If anyone notices anything incorrect about the info in the charts, lemme know so it can be fixed. Please and thank you.

The charts have been updated as of 11/14 to include the most recent explosion of major retailer ads, including Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R Us, and much more! Also fixed a few trinkets here and there to ensure everyone has a pleasant chart experience this year. And I finally managed to load all of the previous charts from years past. And I mean ALL of them going all the way back to the very first Desktop chart from 2005! Enjoy the nostalgia

Says to shop all day long online Thanksgiving Thursday through Saturday, and with free shipping (and possible in-store pick-up) this might be the year I finally stay up 'til midnight EST and do Black Friday from home I'm eyeing that Sony wi-fi Blu-ray player and the Seagate 2TB portable hard drive. Also gotta pick up a PS4 for my roommates as well as start my Blu-ray sci-fi movies collection.

Main site has been updated with surprise #2 for this year... The Back Friday Product Charts: Mobile Site! Having trouble with viewing the main site on your portable device? Want to see what the latest deal is while in line for that doorbuster? Just go to www.blackfridaycharts.com on your iPad, tablet, Kindle, iPhone, smartphone, or just about any internet-capable mobile device to be re-directed to the mobile-friendly version. Just please try to be gentle with it as the duct tape is still holding everything together while the glue is drying

Updated again to include 'Goody's/Peebles/Stage' and 'Michaels' which brings us up to date until the avalanche of major retailer's ads come rolling in Also added a ticker to the main site! Figured we should let everybody else know when the latest goodies are updated

Mind if I call into the web casts and crash the party every now and then?

Updated to include all the current ads (Dell Home &Business, and Half Price Books). Also fixes a few things with the previous years charts so they all display properly.

I just went into my notifications settings and almost everything there was reset/checked off. Set everything back where it needs to be so we'll see how it goes. Of course, I blame the server move for resetting all my notification settings

For example: I just got a response to a PM from one of my chart helpers but I would've missed it if I didn't go straight into my PM conversations inbox.

Another thing I've noticed is I'm not getting notifications as much when I receive a PM. When I receive a brand new PM I'll get the email letting me know and when I get here the little mail icon indicates it. But it doesn't let me know when someone has responded to a PM. Weird.

Remember what happened last year folks? A trinkle of ads now and then, when suddenly... KA-BAM! EVERY major ad from EVERY major retailer in a few days time. Buckle up and brace yourselves for the avalanche

Updates for the most recent ads (Mostly the two from Dell Home and Business) are coming forth by the end of the week. The double whammy of Dell sort of took us by surprise but we're on it. Surprise update #1 to the charts site at blackfridaycharts.com is under way. You now have the ability to not only select what chart you want to see, but also the year! Give it a try and compare what was available from previous Black Fridays. Thus far you're only able to go back to 2010, but I'm working on getting the charts from 2005-2009 available. They were done a lil' differently so they need some conversion technical mumbo-jumbo. You might notice when viewing the Video Games charts I've also changed the way the systems each game is available for are listed. Now, instead of just a bunch of 'Yes/No' answers to every system, which took up a lot of space, the system(s) the games are for are now listed under a single column called 'Systems' to make it easier to read. You're welcome.

According to the article, he claims he's raising awareness for the homeless and is expecting to survive on donations from people passing by. Of course, he may just be after the cheap big-screen doorbuster TV Didn't the first-in-line person at Best Buy last year also come from Florida? Or was that the year before when the Floridan Best Buy first liner got up and left after they were rewarded before Black Friday?

BigJim himself has already confirmed there will be http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/251223-black-friday-webcast-2015/

Poor Brad. Have you had any sleep at all in the last few days?

Alrighty, then! 'Half Price Books', our first ad with items for the charts, is up and we're working diligently to get the next ad, 'Dell Home', ready for launch. Also, I have a few questions for y'all. Do you like taking quick looks at previous BF items to compare how deals have changed over the years? You do? Well, how about any fans of accessing the charts from your mobile device in an easy, streamlined fashion? You are? ... Good thing, because otherwise my surprises I have planned this year would be worthless Stay tuned!

Just checked and they're still there at the link above. I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but I think the charts' site runs off of the same server as Gottadeal.com so it may experience some hiccups here and there since the BF move. If you're still having issues with the charts' site please let me know

Main gottadeal.com deals site appears to be fine, but the forums have a lot of off-and-on outages and comebacks. Took a while just to post this I get the now infamous 'It works!' message mostly when trying to access the forums on my smartphone.