Black Friday Ads from the Past: Lists & Scans

[Brad]

Here are plain 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 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024

And as always you can also visit the Black Friday Archive to browse over 1,400 historical Black Friday ad scans going back to 2000. Several older ads from 2000-2003 were added since last year. Additional older ads will be added soon.

 

Also you can browse the Black Friday forum archives to relive past discussions, see when ads were leaked in a particular year, etc.

[Brad]

Also for those of you who like the old ads, we have an account on Bluesky that posts random old Black Friday ads several times per day:

 

https://bsky.app/profile/blackfridayarchive.com

[Kanyon71]

Just went to the old ones being posted. Circuit City was showing. Man I miss some of the old stores. Guess I’m old I prefer to be able to hold what I buy at the point I buy it. I find myself shopping Amazon less and less every year. Didn’t buy a thing this Amazon days sale. 

[wittenlover]

On 9/7/2025 at 3:51 PM, Kanyon71 said:

Just went to the old ones being posted. Circuit City was showing. Man I miss some of the old stores. Guess I’m old I prefer to be able to hold what I buy at the point I buy it. I find myself shopping Amazon less and less every year. Didn’t buy a thing this Amazon days sale. 

 

Yep. Same. No chance of order cancellation if we're walking out the door with our items already in hand. 

[cllehto]

On 9/7/2025 at 12:51 PM, Kanyon71 said:

Just went to the old ones being posted. Circuit City was showing. Man I miss some of the old stores. Guess I’m old I prefer to be able to hold what I buy at the point I buy it. I find myself shopping Amazon less and less every year. Didn’t buy a thing this Amazon days sale. 

I find the Amazon sales hard to navigate. They change the format each time and have so many items on sale that I have a hard time finding stuff.  But if you're looking for something specific, look a few days before the sale and a coupon might make it cheaper.