amy0807

Let's all keep our fingers crossed that Wal-mart will redeem itself.

Wal-mart is starting to pull price matching items. Read this thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?p=637240

Walmart is most certainly proving that they are not the low price leader. They pulled all of our price matching items too, and we have a population of only 3500. Corporate must have told all stores to pull them for our little town to do the same. You won't even be able to use them for price matching, so you'd be better off to go elsewhere. I will be up all night waiting for the sales to start online and try my best to bypass Walmart all together. Again, bah humbug, Wal-mart. Here's hoping all the board gets reindeer poo for Christmas! ***Anyone else's Walmart pulled PM items?

dh called our Walmart yesterday and they said they would accept ads printed off the internet.

Walmart has an Xbox game that is $29.95. It's on sale at another store for $9.99. I'm betting they will love that. Anyone buying the Dora and Diego ABC and 123 games--they are $8.88 at Walmart and $3.99 at Target. I'll be getting about $30 price matched right there. Plus there are a few of their $9.72 movies that are $7 elsewhere.

I usually show up at about 3:30 to 3:45 AM and I am in the first five.

Oh...and to stay on topic....my Walmart has yet to bring in anything outside of the ordinary.

I'm sure Andy Wise is browsing this site and this post is just for him. I want him to "Get Smart". I am in the Memphis, TN viewing area and when our news was aired at 10 PM last night I was excited at first when they mentioned this website. I have used this website for the past two years to plan my Black Friday shopping lists and have never been disappointed by false ads. I'd like to clear up some of the mistakes he made in his report. Andy Wise reported that the site has posted regular prices of products in the lists and not the real Black Friday deals. Some of the prices listed are every day prices. Why? Because retailers always list some items in the sale paper at the regular price in the midst of their sale items to pad the ad or to point out particular items. (Example: The Dora Kitchen listed in Walmart and many others that plainly say Every Day Low Price.) This does not make GottaDeal.com less honest. They are simply relaying the ad of the retailer as is. For you to insinuate that it did shows how uninformed you are of these sales and the practices of retailers. Andy Wise said he printed the ads and took them to local stores and asked managers about them and they told him they were wrong. Up until a certain date when the sale paper is due to be released, managers will not confirm anything as being in their Black Friday sale. They are instructed to do this. Take a look at the ads posted here once you receive them in the mail and then compare. You'll see the truth for yourself. I have already started getting ads and they match perfectly what is posted on this site, other than Walmart who decided to change prices in certain areas on the computers. The stores don't like these ads being "leaked". Of course they will deny the ads being correct. Andy Wise stated that the Walmart ad was copied from Walmart.com. The ad scan was posted here long before it was added to Walmart.com and many of us who had been watching the site know it. How can you copy something from a website before it is posted? The scan was posted quite some time before Walmart.com added it to their own site. You should have checked this to be a fact before falsely reporting it. Andy Wise advised viewers to avoid this website. For that, I am sure Brad is thankful. Speaking as someone who has experience in advertising--bad press is often the best press. I'm sure there has been a slight jump in traffic to this site due to your warnings. Want examples of bad press in action? Paris Hilton....Janet Jackson....2 Live Crew's Banned in the USA album back in the 80's. Bad press peaks curiosity and interest. For anyone just visiting this site for the first time, the ads are correct. They were all correct last year. Managers cannot confirm this until the ads are officially released. If you're still leary, check them this year so you will know where to visit in 2006 to be prepared for Black Friday. GottaDeal Loyal Fan, Amy0807

WalMart.com The Kodak digital camera is for sale online for anyone who wanted this and is afraid they might not be able to get it on BF. There are also a few toys that are not on sale in the BF sale such as the Gameboy Advance SP Pack with a game and more for $99.46. It includes a car charger, carrying case, earphones and PacMan Collections game. They also have the Video Now in color with 3 discs for $54.77 (with 97 cent shipping on this item).

The reason why digital zoom is important rather than the digital zoom is because the digital zoom will result in a lot of low quality, grainy pictures that you cant print or anything. I know this to be true because I borrowed my mother in law's digital with 3.1 MP and 3x digital zoom and no optical and used it on vacation in September. They looked good on the lcd screen and when I uploaded them to my computer the thumbs looked great, but as soon as you open them up it's grainy and fuzzy. You might be able to print a decent wallet on about half of them. I have been searching for a good digital camera as well. My friend has a Kodak 5 MP with 3x optical and 4x digital but only half of her pics could be printed above a 4x6 and not be terribly distorted. So I am eyeing Walmart's Minolta with the 8x optical zoom for a bit over $300.