The first four pages of the advertisement scan are Bass Pro Shop's Black Friday early bird sales (these items are marked with an early bird icon in the advertisement listings) which are only good on Black Friday from 6-11am.
Like the Gander Mountain sale, most of the items featured are apparel, fishing gear and hunting gear, with some electronics and home items mixed in.
This is the second Black Friday ad to come out today and we expect a few more to appear in the next couple days; so stay tuned!
The sale begins Thursday (Thanksgiving), November 25 at 9am and lasts through the weekend until Sunday, November 28. The ad contains a lot of deals on apparel (many hunting related), outdoor items and sporting goods (lots of guns).
We expect more ads to come available very soon, so be sure to stay tuned!
Walmart is bringing back their Amazing Electronics Event Sale this Saturday, November 6, available both in-store and online!
Last year, Walmart had the same sale where they had multiple items either at or below Black Friday prices. Last year's hot item was the Xbox 360 w/ $50 gift-card, which was not available on Black Friday. This year, the same thing could be true about the PlayStation 3 320GB Console w/ Move Bundle & Bonus $50 eGift Card for $399.
We'll have more in-depth information about the sale items as the week progresses, but for now, here is a list of the featured items on sale:
The sale starts at 8am in-stores, online hours are currently TBD. If the past is any indication, we expect the online sale to start in the early morning hours of Saturday, well before the in-store sale starts. If this is the case, we recommend shopping online first and then going to the store to pick up any items you may have missed out on.
We're only two days into November and retailers are already kicking off their full-forced sales drives leading up to Black Friday. Right now, Walmart is offering their Amazing Online Specials which features the Viore 32" 720p LCD HDTV for $299.99 among many other deals. If this is anything like Walmart's online sales of prior years, Walmart will be cycling in new items every week until Black Friday, so we expect this sale to run throughout the month of November.
NewEgg wants to know "why wait until the end of November for big savings?" As they have started their Black November sale, where every day they will be unveiling new "Shell Shocker" priced items and promotional coupon codes.
And starting Wednesday, Target will begin their Great Holiday Toy Sale. Many of the items included in the Target Toy Catalog require in-ad coupons to get the final sale price (coupons begin in the advertisement on page 13 in the PDF). These coupons can be used both in-store and online (the online coupon code is on the back of the coupon).
Everyone should remember that these sales are not necessarily "Black Friday" caliber, but feature a greater variety of items on sale than will be available on Black Friday.We'll continue to update this post as more sales become available.
Yesterday we received a letter via registered mail from Home Depot. We thought it'd be a letter of them expressing their love for BFAds, how useful they find our site and how much they appreciate us for promoting their sales. So imagine our surprise when it turned out to be a hastily sent, preemptive cease and desist letter that was addressed to a competitor's site!
Obviously, Home Depot loves BFAds so much, they're sending out these letters to all of our competitors so that BFAds.net will be the sole provider of the Home Depot Black Friday advertisement. Thanks Home Depot!
To return the favor, we sent a letter back to Ms. Mueller along with a BFAds Golden T-Shirt! That's right, the first publicized winner of our Golden T-Shirt contest is Ms. Trish Mueller, VP of Advertising for Home Depot!
Congratulations and we look forward to her picture to claim the $100 gift-card!
For the entire month of November (until Black Friday), we will be giving away daily prizes every weekday (Monday-Friday) to visitors who enter our 3rd Annual November Holiday Give-Away Contest.
All daily give-away ends 11:59:59 CST. You only need to enter the November Holiday Give-Away Contest once and you will be eligible for every daily give-away. Limit 1 entry per person. We will be monitoring for multiple entries, so please enter only once.
You can find all information about the November Holiday Give-Away Contest along with the daily prize schedule on our November Holiday Give-Away Contest page.
As a complement to the November Give-Away Contest, we will be running Facebook-exclusive Contests throughout the week and rest of the month, so be sure to become a Fan of BFAds on Facebook for additional chances to win!
Target is also offering a Buy 2, Get 1 Free Video Game Promotion on almost the same selection of video-games. Target's prices seem to be a bit more expensive than Amazon's, but only by a couple bucks.
Both sales last through Saturday, November 6th, but more popular games may go out-of-stock. Regardless, it's a sure-fire way to get some of your Holiday shopping done early!
Wondering what will be the hot video-game of this upcoming holiday season? Look no further than Call of Duty: Black Ops; which debuts on November 9th on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Amazon is currently offering a pre-order of Call of Duty: Black Ops for all three platforms for $59.99 w/ a $20 credit (200 points) towards a future video-game purchase. We do not expect Black Ops to retail for lower than its MSRP anytime before Christmas and certainly nowhere near the effective $40 pre-order price-point it is available at now. The $20 credit (200 points) will be deposited into your Amazon account two days after the game ships.
Kmart will be having a similar sale where they will be offering Black Ops for $59.99 plus $25 in rewards points (gift-card), but will not be offering free shipping; which makes the Amazon deal a bit better if you're shopping online (by only a couple of dollars). The Kmart sale will go live starting November 9.
Lastly, Toys R Us will be having a similar video-game sale starting next Sunday, November 7, where you will receive a $20 gift-card with the purchase of one $59.99 video-game and a $50 gift-card with the purchase of two $59.99 video-games. If you plan on purchasing another $59.99 video-game along with Black Ops, then the Toys R Us deal is the best. Thanks for the tip DickFitzwell!
Black Ops is the seventh installment in the Call of Duty series, with its most recent predecessor (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2) selling over 20 million copies world-wide. Black Ops will be the game of the 2010 Holiday Season, has more pre-orders than Modern Warfare 2 and is already receiving critical acclaim from reviewers.
The sale, oddly, starts this Wednesday, November 3 and lasts through Wednesday, November 24. All listed prices are after-coupon prices as the advertisement features 48 coupons on a variety of items. We didn't want to clutter up the listings, so we opted to not type up the coupons; rather just include the item with its after-coupon price.
If you remember last year, Amazon matched Walmart's Black Friday prices three weeks early; I guess we'll see if it's Amazon calling the shots this year.
Sears is also jumping into the fray, with their Black Friday Now sale starting today. If shopping online, use the coupon code HALLOWEEN to save $20 off a $200 purchase!
We've already expressed our thoughts on the "Black Friday Now" sale in a previous news post, but we might have spoken a bit out of turn. While the majority of the sale is "nothing more than a standard weekly advertisement," the sale price for the Frigidaire 4.2-cu ft. Steam Washer and 7.0-cu ft. Steam Dryer for $1179.88 is a good price if you're in the market for a new washer and dryer.
Target and Kohl's Pre-Black Friday Sales Information
Today, both Kohl's and Target put out press releases detailing their plans for pre-Black Friday sales.
Target will be launching a 4-day Sale starting Sunday, November 21 featuring over 170 items with an emphasis on electronics, movies and toys. Coupons will be available in the Sunday circular to offer even more savings.
On Thanksgiving, Target will have a 1-day, online-exclusive sale featuring items that will not be included in their Black Friday sale. Then on Black Friday (which is actually a two day sale lasting both Friday and Saturday), Target have an unprecedented 25 Doorbuster items on sale and giving away $10 gift-cards if you purchase $100 before 10am on Black Friday.
It is unknown how the 4-day Sale will compare to the Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday sales, but we should have the Target Black Friday before the 4-Day Sale begins, which will give us an opportunity to directly compare both sales.
Kohl's pre-Black Friday plans are a lot more complicated as they will be running four different sales between November 5th and November 20th, with some overlap and a buzz-words like "Power Hours."
There's too much to summarize concisely, but the full details are available in the press release. Highlights include a November 17 Secret Sale where an additional 15-30% will be taken off everything in store and online and the Kohl's Cash promotion, which runs through November 15th, where you get a $10 gift-card for every $50 spent.
We'll be sure to keep you updated on all sales throughout November, so stay tuned!
The sale starts at 7am on Black Friday and lasts throughout the weekend, although the popular items are sure to go fast and quantities are limited.
The advertisement is mostly tools and seasonal items with a couple home items mixed in. The prices are pretty competitive, however it appears that some of the better deals in the ad, unfortunately, have mail-in-rebates attached. Ace is also offering a Saturday only 50% off One Item Under $30 coupon and a Sunday only $10 off $50 purchase coupon.
I'm not entirely sure how we came up with this idea, all I know is it happened while on our way to McDonalds to get the McRib (yes, it's back) and some Monopoly pieces. We were kicking around ideas for new contests and got to thinking about successful contest ideas we could mirror, when someone brought up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
We all know the premise: there are five Wonka bars that contain a golden ticket for a tour of the Chocolate Factory. Unfortunately, we don't have a Chocolate Factory... and we don't think many would enjoy a tour of a living room filled with banquet tables, BFAds t-shirts and computers. Luckily, we do have gift cards!
When we start shipping out the shirts later today, we're going to be including a few Golden BFAds 2010 t-shirts with random orders. If you are lucky enough to receive a Golden shirt, all you need to do is take a picture of yourself wearing the t-shirt in front of your favorite store and email the photo to us. In return, we'll send you a $100 gift-card to the store of your choice!
We're looking at revising the BFADS.NET presents portion of the Golden t-shirt, so the first few Golden shirts awarded may be slightly different than future Golden shirts (and thus worth thousands of dollars on eBay). Winners will receive both their original order and a golden t-shirt.
Anyone who purchased/purchases a BFAds t-shirt is automatically entered into the Golden T-shirt contest and the only way to enter the contest is to purchase a BFAds 2010 t-shirt (remember all profits go to charity).
We're still working on finalizing all the prizes for the November Give-Away Contest, but we hope you all enjoy this tiny contest in the interim!
The early emphasis seems to be on toys this year as we just finished typing up almost 1,000 items between the Toys R Us Big Toy Book and the Walmart Toy Catalog advertisements. Both of their advertisements are available on our adscans page here: http://bfads.net/Adscans
Combined with the Kmart Toy Catalog we posted earlier last week, retailers are pushing their pre-Black Friday toy sales hard this year. The Toys R Us Big Toy Book and Kmart Toy Catalog sales start on October 31, with Walmart's Toy Catalog going live a week later on November 7.
While there are a couple good deals to be found, the majority of the items are on sale for their normal retail price; some are even "on sale" for more than their current price. There are a couple deals where you receive a free accessory with a qualifying purchase (e.g. a Free Toy Story 3 Popcorn Tin with any Toy Story purchase of $30 or more), which aren't inherently great, but if you were going to buy $30 worth of Toy Story merchandise, it's a nice bonus. The most popular thing in the Toys R Us book will probably be the coupon for a free $10 Gift Card with a qualifying $75 purchase.
