Apparently there will be at least two Staples ads for Black Friday this year – each being specific to a certain region or regions of the country. You’ll probably know which ad circular you’re dealing with by this upcoming Sunday but until then, here are some good deals from both of the available leaked Staples circulars so far. Keep in mind that some of these deals might not apply to you depending upon where you live.
In the ultimate test to see whether or not Blu-ray is ready for mainstream adoption, Wal-Mart will be selling a Magnavox player for $128. If it creates stampedes like Wal-Mart’s $29 DVD player from 2003, we’ll know Blu-ray is here to stay. If people casually mosey over to the electronics department, glance at the tag, and head elsewhere, we’ll know that the high-definition downloading initiative is in full swing.
Micro Center has apparently decided to beat the Black Friday rush by offering up some pretty enticing deals this coming weekend. There’s a small catch, of course: you’ll need to get your hands on a special coupon this Saturday. These coupons “will be distributed to customers in the line prior to store opening, or in the order of entering the store until gone” and must be redeemed by 2:00 PM on Saturday.
Stores will open at 10:00 on Saturday and, again, you’ll have to get there in time to grab a coupon. If you have a Micro Center near you and are willing and able to follow all the rules, there are some pretty outstanding savings to be had, such as:
Wow, Kmart will be open from 7AM to 9PM on Thanksgiving Day, which should leave just enough time for employees to make the traditional super late-night Thanksgiving dinner with their families. The store’s ads are spread out across four circulars, so here are some of the better deals from each:
We’re admittedly a little late on the uptake for this one but in case you missed it, here are some good deals from Radio Shack’s leaked Black Friday ad:
Office Max looks to be a good stop to add to your list, as the store will have some pretty aggressive deals on various products, including:
Target’s Black Friday ad got leaked over the weekend and in true CrunchGear form, here it is on Monday. Notable deals inside include:
So Photoshop was our nemesis this holiday season: the bundle in the “leaked” Sam’s Club ad is not $224 for a Wii and a bunch of games it’s $425. Not great but not bad, either. Considering the Wii itself will cost $249, less than $200 more for two games, three Wiimotes, and three Nunchucks isn’t bad.
BlackFriday.info just posted Circuit City’s Black Friday ad. Hopefully the company will live to see next year’s ad, too. Some notable good deals:
Break out your credit cards, if you still have them! Black Friday is right around the corner so we’ll be seeing leaked ads all over the place for the next few days.
Today’s is a big one, Best Buy. Though BlackFriday.info highlights an $899 50-inch Panasonic Viera. Nine-hundred for a 50-inch TV may seem like a good deal till you realize it’s only a 720p model. If you’re already resigned to spend a grand on a TV it might as well be a 1080p one, right?
I did spy with my eye, however, that Best Buy has Transformers on Blu-ray for only $10. Now that’s a deal, especially if you consider that it won some Blu-ray award a few days ago for best sound.
Sam’s Club has a hella good Black Friday doorbuster item. For only $224, the discount warehouse is selling the Wii, two bonus Wiimotes, two bonus Nunchucks, Mario Super Sluggers, and King of Clubs Mini-Golf. Yeah, I know, good deal. You get all that for $25 less than a Wii alone. It might even be good enough to forgo post-turkey sleep and wait in line with soccer moms at 2:00am to ensure you get one of ‘em. Just make sure you’re a Sam’s Club member before Black Friday.
UPDATE – People are reporting that this will actually be $425, which is about right for this kit. Take with a grain of salt.
Ho… lee… crap. Best Buy is running a contest for Black Friday. One winner in each of 25 select markets gets a $1,000 gift card, a ride to Best Buy in a limo, early access to the store (that’s at 4:30 AM, mind you), and a bunch of other stuff. Sheesh.
So how do you win? You submit a 250-word story on AskABlueShirt.net about what you do “to make the day after Thanksgiving a particularly fun and special day.” The press release says that Best Buy is looking for people “to share how Black Friday shopping is an important holiday tradition for them and their family.” Nothing like a little rampant American consumerism to bring loved-ones closer together, eh?
Black Friday is right around the corner – well, like a month away – and thanks to the leaky Internet, retailer’s deals will slowly appear allowing for a bit of preplanning. We are going to track the lowest priced GPS unit, Blu-ray player, and HDTV as each one of these advertisements leak out over the coming weeks. Sears’ deals have just surfaced and it’s a great place to kick off the deal hunting expedition.
GPS: Sears
tomtom ONE 130 – $99 (doorbuster)
Blu-ray Player: Sears
Sony BDPS350 – $179 (doorbuster)
HDTV: Sears
Panasonic 42-inch TH-42PX80U Plasma – $699 (doorbuster)
Ah, Black Friday. After working at Circuit City from 2000 to 2006, I don’t care how good the deals are, I’m sleeping in that day. This year is shaping up nicely though if the $99 GPS and $149 Blu-ray player rumors are true. Reportable, the GPS units are going to be top tier units from Garmin, TomTom, or Magellan and the Blu-ray player should be the Samsung BDP-1500. Still, I don’t care how cheap I can get a gizmo or widget, there is no way in hell its worth getting up at 3:00 A.M, only to wait outside in Michigan’s freezing November temperatures; my mother-in-law disagrees though.
The numbers are in from Black Friday and HD DVD players including the Xbox 360 HD DVD player and other stand alone players sold more than 750,000 units. The data pushed out by the NA HD DVD promotional group is comprised of retailer reports and other point of sale data. If you’re still on the fence then check out this edumacational site and see what HD DVD has to offer your home theater experience. I know I love my Xbox 360 HD DVD player, though, Blu-ray ain’t too shabby from what I’ve seen.
It’s nice that AT&T made the Shine from LG available for purchase on Black Friday, but shouldn’t they have pushed out the press release on Friday and not today? The shiny slider with its 2.2-inch LCD screen, 2-megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth capabilities is now available for $149.99.
Product Page [via Press Release]
We try to keep on top of the Black Friday madness – it’s all here - but we’d need an army of supermen to catch every single sweet deal. Did you guys find anything cool? Share your big buys here, tell us which stores were blowing it, and vent about how you’re not going to get that mail-in rebate from Circuit City for another 6-8 weeks. Watch that credit card debt there, son. Leave your stories and comments below!
We’ve featured a few great Black Friday deals in the last couple of days, and here’s a brief round up so your mid-day shopping madness levels may rise.
Circuit City: $7 2GB SD cards? Word. This is at least half as much as the nearest competitor’s advertised price. What’s great is the circular said nothing about limits, so buy a handful. They always come in handy.
Wal*Mart: $150 8-Megapixel digicam with 6-inch digital photoframe? Check. If you’re going to shop at Wal*Mart, this is a great gift for your parents, who, like mine, are probably still using a dinosaur of a digicam, and this gets mom a digiframe, too. Also, the evil empire’s $20 voyager-class Optimus Prime. Very nice indeed.
Buy.com: $230 Slingbox Pro + Cable bundle, including shipping? You bet. The Slingbox is a geek’s dream machine, and this price makes the dream a reality. Never let me type that again.
Amazon.com: Lots of deals on fun, hot peripherals? You know it. Not the hottest, but that’s a sweet price for the MX Revolution mouse, to be sure.
AT&T: $150 Blackjack II hitting the shelves? That’s amore. More than one person I know has called the Blackjack their favorite smartphone ever of all time since Jesus walked with dinosaurs. Hyperbole aside, it’s good, and the Blackjack II is a real upgrade. And at this price, you can get into the smartphone game ahead of anyone you know.
Best Buy: $230 laptop and printer bundle? Yah, but probably sold out while you were digesting. This is an old-school deal. While it’s not a good laptop or a good printer, they should both work fine with the Wi-Fi you’re stealing from your neighbor’s double-wide.
Apple.com: Generally decent discounts on pretty much everything except the iPhone? Sure, including up to $101 off MacBooks, an un-Apple like discount. Also iPod Nanos and Shuffles are discounted roughly 10% as well, and still include the free custom engraving. Shuffles are a perfect way to get someone into the iPod lifestyle. They’re the gateway DAP, leading to harder cocaine use later.
Target: Olevia 37-inch LCD HDTV? Absolutely. I have one of these, and at $549, it’s the best deal on an HDTV we’ve seen yet. The picture quality is fantastic, but the audio is just so-so. I’d pair it with a decent 5.1 surround sound system, like the 5-disc Magnavox one it’s featuring for $79. That’s $628 for a decent-sized LCD HDTV and a home theater system. You cannot beat that for one-stop shopping.
So continue shopping, friends. Keep the wheels of commerce turning, and the calories from Thanksgiving burning. (Can a blogger be a Poet Laureate? Nevermind, I only like haikus.)
Check out CrunchGear’s Black Friday listing here. We’ll have more for you tomorrow. Gobble gobble.
Well, shoppers won’t be knocking down the doors at GameStop come Friday over any bank-breaking mega-deals, but at least you can get bit of cash off almost anything. Some standouts include World of Warcraft for 10 bucks, some good DS deals, and of course the ever-popular UMD Movies for your PSP, which are $4, about as much as it would cost to rent ‘em. My advice? Buy a Super Nintendo.
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