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Found this on the Lakeside mall site: Blitz At 6! Shop early – 6am The Day After Thanksgiving *First 500 shoppers at the Customer Service Center will receive a free goodie bag, special offers, and a chance to win: A Nintendo Wii and Wii Play $500 mall shopping spree A $250 mall shopping spree One of many $50 mall shopping sprees Pepsi prizes and more! *Disclaimer: Prizes randomly placed within the 500 goodie bags; one bag per shopper, ages 18 and up; bags available while supplies last; all prizes must be collected at the Lakeside Mall Management Office by 12 noon on Friday, November 23, 2007. Other exclusions may apply, see Customer Service for details. So it is not that every bag has some sort of guaranteed gift card

Are you sure that is accurate? The Fallen Timbers Mall in Maumee, OH is owned by the same management company and they are doing pretty much the same thing....500 gift bags given out at 6AM, but inside the bags is not a "guaranteed" gift card. C&P'ed from the site: The Shops at Fallen Timbers will distribute 500 goodie bags to the first 500 shoppers on the day after Thanksgiving starting at 6:00am! Bags will be distributed on Main Street in front of JCPenney. Within the bags, shoppers will receive special offers, plus some bags will include vouchers for a Nintendo Wii, a $500 mall shopping spree, a $250 mall shopping spree, and one of many $50 mall shopping sprees.

I ordered one from Bestbuy.com, they didn't have any in stock near here but my best friend lives about 2 hours away and the did show it as being in stock at her location. So I ordered it for in-store pickup. DH has to work this Saturday and so it gives me a perfect reason to go down and visit her :) I'm SO happy that I got this, DH has been bugging for it and I was gonna go to the Sears BF sale to get it at $169, now I can go to TRU first instead on BF! Yay! I also searched Circuit City for the player and they did not have it at any location anywhere near me, just online. I guess I am lucky...esp since I was about to call in sick tomorrow morning just so I could go to the Walmart sale to hopefully get one....guess I don't need to come up with an excuse now!

Thank you so much for posting this!!! None of the locations where I live have it in-stock for instore pickup, but the one that's about 2 hours away does, and it just so happens that my best friend lives in that city! So I will be ordering one right now! Thanks!!!!