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Academy Sports!!!!!!! And for those that missed the home depot listing... don't worry... there wasn't a darn thing worth while.

Black Friday, DoorBusters, and such are forever gone. The retailers know they will get the business anyway. Slap a "doorbusters" on a normal sale item and that is good enough. (Witness all the so called "deals" you can find now as good or cheaper) The smart shoppers (us, less than 3% of gen.pop) know better, the gen. pop is caught up in all the hooplah since the media has covered it over the last few years that they are blind to the non-deal deals. Black Friday.. RIP.

The Fiesta Grill is a STEAL. I bought this grill earlier this year for the regular price ($449) after doing tons of research. I love this grill and for $249 are you kidding me?!!! I should buy another and put it away and wait for my kids to move out and give it to them. HA! Get there early as it is a "while supplies last" deal. The weber is a good price, but "online only" means they'll get you on the shipping costs to make it a so so price.

No smoking deals (so far).. what's to get excited about? :)

With a little effort, you can get all (PC is what everyone else will have, fair deal, not a doorbuster so no standing in line for that one) the below for lower than the listed price already.

Since my post was edited it doesn't make sense.. SO I'll leave it at.. Underwhelmed, 2yrs in a row.

As are most of the "doorbusters". Sorry, I think the ad is terrible on the majority of items. There are a few true doorbusters, but geez. You'd figure in this economy you'd see more loss leaders to get you in. I guess they are banking on the gazillion "doorbusters" that the majority of people won't realize the deals aren't so great. Then again, I guess I'm not a clothes doorbuster guy. Ha! I hope the other stores don't follow this idea!

Thanks for posting it and doing the hard work.. But.. I'm unimpressed with the bazillion "doorbuster" items. Is anything thats on sale now going to be a "doorbuster" to fool the uninformed? Hmm. Marketing at it's best.

Well... I can honestly say..... Walmart deals sucked as almost all of them are still in the aisles at the 4 Walmarts that I've been to, post BF. And... I'm happy about it! Of course.. there are suckers born every day.

any "new"s ?

Just so that I am understanding. Doorbusters are available online. I'm assuming if they are in my cart on Tuesday, when I go to checkout the price will change to the BF Doorbuster price? Or..... are we playing who has got the fastest fingers game to see who can order before they are sold out? Ahh.. I just relooked at the ad. Nothing too interesting anyway. Good deal though for those that have found items they want!

You're right.. I missed that, since I basically stopped following the bullsquash between both formats a while ago. Good to see they made the change. Now if they can only get their pricing down, get all the functionality that they've promised going, and then hopefully one format will die, ableit, I don't see that coming for a few years unless Warner does decide to hitch on with HD-DVD. Price wise... HD-DVD is the way to go at the moment. End it already. Sony needs to "save face" the most this time around, considering they got bombarded in beta/vhs war. But...when the studios see a low price point player, and joe blow buying them up at walmart, you can bet the studios are going to see which direction their hi def dvd sales will be. As I said before... either one is fine.

My thoughts exactly!!!! Either format is good. Obviously you skipped out telling both sides of the story. Hmm.. where is the list for all the movie houses support for hd-dvd only? but I won't riddle your blu ray advertising. What's killing blu ray is the cheap toshiba pricing. Nielsen ratings suck as Walmart, arguably the biggest hd-dvd seller doesn't release their sales figures. Blu Ray stand alone players... $399 plus.... the playstation 3 won't upscale your old standard dvd's either. 480P is it. HD-DVD stand alone... $169 (black friday deal), $199. The average joe blow will choose which format will eventually win out. Price moves mountains. Blu Ray or HD-DVD... your choice.

hd-dvd Toshiba A3 at Sears on BF. $169 It doesn't say if movies are included or if it qualifies for the 5 FREE by rebate though.

$199 desktop w/17" lcd flatpanel and all in one printer from BB is the best deal I can see, even though its using an Celeron processor. Will suit most kids just fine. The one from CC is okay, except it has a $250 rebate to it. If you don't mind waiting 3-4mths for a rebate check, that is the better deal.

What else is there on BF worthy? Clothes? Heck.. we give gift cards for any clothes so that they can go after Christmas and clean up on the after Christmas stuff. Toys? Welp.. I am thankfully past the toy buying stage, except for v.games of course. Usually though, all retailers have just as good as sales closer to Christmas than what is offered on BF, or duplicate type sales. Tools? Usually all the BF sales are had any time during the year. Cheap tools at target type places? Why bother, it's junk. I really can't think of what other product that would make me get up and stand in the cold for that is a "steal of a deal". YMMV!

Targets is a 2 day ad..Kmarts is for Thanksgiving Day, kmarts has such outdated electronic products it makes me think they are the clearing house for old junk. All the big stores will have bundles for PS3 and XBOX 360, or gift cards with purchases. I think we'll see best buy and circuit city offering a lot of free gift cards with purchase deals.

Because BF is supposed to be those special deals, not saving $5. There is supposed to be a good dang reason for us to get up at midnight, freeze our butts off, leave our family on the day after a holiday, stand in line, fight it out (never have seen this though), snatch and grab the best deals... That's BF to me, and so far, there aren't any "oh my gosh, I gotta get up for THAT!

Suck. Kmarts is a joke. Outdated electronics for sure! I don't know what is so specail about any of the Sears items. I would bet I could find most of those items at those prices NOW. Def. not BF worthy. Def. not getting up early and standing in any line..... yet. I'm sure there will be some winners coming out soon. Hopefully more stores are gettinig out of the rebate game too, but I would tend to think that higher ticket and computer stuff will still be rebate dependant.

Quite simple really. And I'm glad Brad jumped in and cleared up the misinformation being spread about. 720p vs 1080P...........price is the difference. Most people will not know the difference between the 2 PQ wise. Yes, in a few years more and more source material will be 1080P, however most cable and definatly the satellite providers compress the signal so much that you won't see much of a difference either. Now HD-DVD (whoever said it's not 1080P is mistaken) and BluRay discs you can tell a slight difference, depending on your dvd player and your display device. Match that with a quality HD-DVD/BluRay player is all you really need. If the price difference isn't much, then sure, go the 1080P route. Otherwise, I'm saving all that cash and buying a quality HD-DVD/BluRay Player to go with my 720P display. To confuse you more, forget TV's and go to Front Projection. THAT will blow you away! That's the ez to understand condensed version.

Depends on what you are going to predominately use the PC for. With VISTA, you are going to want a minimum of 1gb of RAM, so keep that in mind.

It's not on their site. The Lenovo ($499) is looking like my pc of choice on BF though. Of course, it depends on what the rebate is and if/what I have to subscribe too. I remember a LOT of places for the rebate you had to sign up for Vonage or something similar. Something I won't do. EDIT: I must've been blind, I see this is for the Athlon chipped PC. I like the Intels better, so I'll keep hunting.

Come on Office Depot! The best deals for me would be from Staples and Office Max, which we have neither store here! PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPooooooooooooooooooooooey. I haven't burned down the CompUSA list yet though, maybe they have something close to those offered. I was hoping that DELL would send me a 35% off coupon again too. I can get EPP pricing, but that is usually more than a dell home sale with coupon, go figure.

Dont forget some coming from Office Depot!

Anyone else unimpressed so far? Do a few searches on the "deals" in the ads and you can either get the same price or beat it already, with some even MORE than what you can find now!