October 2012

Amazon Black Friday Deals Week 2012 Countdown Sales Starts Thursday

Can you smell it? Black Friday 2012 is almost here. I4U News just reported that Amazon will launch their early Black Friday 2012 sales on November 1. This is tomorrow!
Update:
Countdown to Amazon Black Friday Deals Week 2012 has launched.

Amazon will launch their already traditional Countdown to Black Friday Deals Week sales events Thursday, November 1. The Amazon Countdown to Black Friday 2012 event features special sales on electronics, DVDs, magazine subscription specials, toy bargains, deals on clothing, shoes, jewelry, and more.

The Express Holiday flyer got published on BlackFriday.com revealing the early Black Friday 2012 deals at the fashion store.
Starting November 14 you can save $30 on a $75 Purchase, $50 on a $150 purchase and $90 on a $250 purchase. These are great savings!
There will be Black Friday Preview event on November 21.
Some Express Stores will be open on Thanksgiving and there will be an Express Black Friday 2012 sale. Details of the Express Black Friday 2012 sale have not been revealed.

The Stein Mart Black Friday 2012 Ad has been published on BFAds. The Stein Mart Black Friday ad has a unique feature. There is a scratch & save field that can save you up to $100 on your purchase if you get lucky.
You need to bring the Stein Mart Black Friday 2012 flyer to the store and scratch off the seal there. Savings range from $10 to $100.
The items on sale in the Stein Mart ad include electronics, fashion and housewares.

Another Black Friday 2012 Ad gets revealed. The Music & Arts Black Friday 2012 Ad features 4 pages with 23 deals according to BFAds.

The Music & Arts Black Friday 2012 ad reveals that you can already shop for Black Friday deals online on Thanksgiving Day. This is going to be true for many Black Friday sales this year.

There are some interesting music instrument deals featured in the Music & Arts Black Friday 2012 ad.

See all published Black Friday 2012 Ads.

Update:
The Ace Hardware Black Friday 2012 Ad has been removed from BFAds because they received a Cease-and-desist letter.

~~The Ace Hardware Black Friday 2012 Ad appeared on Black Friday sites like BFAds today. The Ace Hardware Black Friday ad has always been one of the first ads of the season when we look back.~~

We are still waiting for the major Black Friday 2012 ads to be publishing including Walmart, Best Buy and Target.

The Pep Boys Black Friday 2012 Ad just made it onto Black Friday sites like BlackFriday.com.
The 4-page Pep Boys Black Friday 2012 Ad features car part deals, car accessories and more. There are lots of tire deals as well.
If you need something for you car in November it is worth checking out the Pep Boys Black Friday sale.

Bath & Body Works Black Friday 2012 deal will include the 2012 V.I.P. Bag with 7 products at a value of over $100.
The leaked flyer on BFAds has no pricing information yet. Last year the Bath & Body Works VIP Bag sold for $20 at a purchase of $40 and more.

The list of Black Friday 2012 Ads is growing slowly. We expect to see more releases in the next two weeks.

Victoria's Secret will have again a limited edition Victoria's Secret Tote with a $65 purchase on Black Friday 2012. The Victoria's Secret Tote is every year a big highlight from the lingerie retailer.
There will be more Victoria's Secret Black Friday 2012 deals that the company will reveal closer to Black Friday. The scan of the Victoria's Secret Black Friday 2012 tote deal leaked on Black Friday sites like BFads.

The ToysRUs toy catalog has leaked a couple days ago. Now ToysRUs published the 80 page catalog online on Facebook.

The Great Big Toys“R”Us Book is set to arrive in homes and newspapers across the country this weekend, the trusted guide features 80 pages of deals on the broadest assortment of toys, including hundreds that can’t be found anywhere else, and over $8,000 in savings – more than ever before – on everything from dolls, board games and construction sets, to toys sure to excite a tech-savvy generation of kids, plus dozens of gifts with purchase, available in Toys“R”Us stores nationwide beginning Sunday, October 28 through Wednesday, November 21.

The Holiday toy catalogs are getting released and some leak ahead of schedule like the Kmart Toy Book 2012 on BFAds.
The Kmart Toy Book 2012 features the Fab 15 toys with coupons. The 46-page toy catalog from Kmart is filled with tons of Holiday toys. The new Furby also made it onto the front page of the Kmart catalog. I am not sure if this is wishful thinking or will the new 2012 Furby follow the original Furby and sell like crazy?
Shop Kmart here.

Clothing stores are keeping it simple on Black Friday. Their deal is in many cases a sale on everything a certain percentage off. Tommy Hilfiger stores will be offering 40 off on the entire store all day long on Black Friday 2012.

In addition if can get a hold on the Tommy Hilfiger Black Friday 2012 flyer (see it on BFAds) you get an additional 25% off on your purchase of $200 and more.

This is an awesome deal for Tommy Hilfiger fans.

Walmart has published their 2012 Toyland Wish List Book full of Holiday toys. The Toyland Wish List Book toy catalog is valid from November 4 until November 22. This means the prices will change on Black Friday 2012, November 23.

The new Furby and the new Leap Pad2 made it on the front page of the Toyland catalog along with classic favorite Barbie.

You can browse the Walmart Toyland Wish List Toy Book 2012 on Walmart.com now.

One of the most beloved Holiday toy catalogs is already available online. Scans of the 80-page Great Big ToysRUs Toy Book 2012 have leaked on several Black Friday sites including BFAds.
The ToysRUs toy catalog is valid starting October 28. It ends before Black Friday 2012 on November 21.
The ToysRUs Toy Book 2012 contains lots of coupon deals that give you considerable savings on select toys.

The landscape of Black Friday sites has changed since last year. BlackFriday.com relaunched with rolling up two other Black Friday sites. BlackFriday.com digested BlackFriday.info and Black-Friday.net.
Black Friday sites are the destination of leaked Black Friday ads. At least that what they have been historically. Most Black Friday ads these days are controlled leaks by retailers. Still, the traffic draw to "classic" Black Friday sites is huge.

Besides BFAds we recommend Slickdeals as sources for the latest Black Friday deals and leaks. Slickdeals announced that their Black Friday 2012 Forum has opened. The community-based online deal shopping is the destination for the Black Friday shopper community since over 12 years.
Slickdeals has these 5 tips for Black Friday for you and we approve of all of them.

We have never seen good toy deals on Black Friday. Unless a retailer decided to discount a certain top holiday toy like for instance Zuh-Zuh pets to lure customers into stores. Now we have also statistical proof thanks to a study conducted by ShopAdvisor.

My tip is to shop for hot toy deals ahead of Black Friday or wait into late December. Waiting has though the risk that hot toys have sold out.

Study findings:

During the 2011 holiday shopping season from Sept. 20 – Dec. 31, ShopAdvisor users “watched” 252 different toys worth $25 or more. ShopAdvisor kept track of prices and availability of these toys, and sent alerts to users when prices dropped. The total value of the 252 toys on the first day they were “watched” was $22,138. After watching these toys for three months, ShopAdvisor discovered the following shopping facts:

Amazon will offer the Amazon Black Friday 2012 Deals Week and also a Cyber Monday 2012 Deals week this year.
The Amazon Cyber Monday 2012 Deals Week will start on Sunday November 25. There will be Cyber Monday deals throughout the week following the Thanksgiving Weekend on Amazon.com.

The Amazon Cyber Monday 2012 Deals Week will offer limited-time sales and specials from across Amazon, including sales on electronics, low prices on DVDs, magazine subscription specials, toy bargains, and fashionable deals on clothing, shoes, jewelry, and more. You'll find the best deals we've got right here, and Deal of the Day bargains you'll snap up for holiday gifts, and maybe even for yourself.

Bookmark the Amazon Cyber Monday page now.

Amazon confirmed that the retailer will host a Black Friday deals week again this year. The Amazon Black Friday 2012 Deals Week will start on Monday, Nov. 19 and last through Black Friday 2012, Nov. 23.

During the Amazon Black Friday 2012 Deals week you'll find limited-time sales and specials from across Amazon, including sales on electronics, low prices on DVDs, magazine subscription specials, toy bargains, and fashionable deals on clothing, shoes, jewelry, and more. You'll find the best deals we've got right here, and Deal of the Day bargains you'll snap up for holiday gifts.
Bookmark the Amazon Black Friday page.

You can take a look at the Lowe's Black Friday 2012 Ads if you register for a MyLowe's card by October 31. MyLowe's members with a registered MyLowe's card will receive an email in early November with a link to the Black Friday 2012 values.

You need to be opted-in for the Lowe's Products and Offers e-newsletter to receive the Black Friday 2012 sneak peek email.

This is certainly an interesting Black Friday promotion from Lowe's. If you are a frequent Lowe's customer it might make sense to give up some data for the MyLowe's card.

The Black Friday 2012 Ads are here and this is the place where you find all Black Friday 2012 Ads as soon as they are published.

The Black Friday 2012 countdown is underway and we are already in the midst of early Black Friday 2012 sales.

Black Friday Countdown and I4U News will guide you to the best Black Friday 2012 deals all November long.

We are gathering all interesting Black Friday 2012 ads here from Black Friday sites and directly from retailers.

Click the links below to get the deal details of each of the listed Black Friday 2012 ads.

The Half Price Books Black Friday 2012 ad has been published on BFAds. This is the second full Black Friday 2012 ad that has surfaced. The Harbor Freight Black Friday 2012 Ad was again first this year.
The Half Price Books Black Friday 2012 ad is simple again. The two page advertisement says that the first 100 customers will get a free tote bag with a $5 gift card. One of the 100 tote bags contains a $100 gift card.
Additionally you get $15 off on purchases $50 or 15% off your entire purchase.

Walmart posted the hottest toys for 201 on their site. You can actually rank them. Right now Walmart fans have ranked the Nintendo 3DS Value Bundle on first place followed by Bright Starts - Doodle Bugs ARound We Go and on third place is the Wooden Activity Table with 45-Piece Train Set.
Vote for your favorite toy picks for the Holidays 2012 by comparing toys on Walmart now.

Of course we all wait for the release of the Walmart Black Friday 2012 Ad. We expect it to be again early released by Walmart early November.

It is here. The first full Black Friday 2012 Ad has leaked. Earlier today the partial Fred's Black Friday 2012 Ad appeared, but now we have the usual first Black Friday ad. The Harbor Freight Black Friday 2012 ad came one day later than last year.
The 4 page Black Friday flyer features 35 deals according to BFAds.

The time of Black Friday 2012 ad leaks has come. We already saw a single Black Friday 2012 deal leaking from Sprint.

Now BFAds leaked four pages of the Fred's Black Friday 2012 ads.
Bargain Mom's actually reveals that this is a controlled leak from Fred's. The retailer sent out their Black Friday 2012 Ad to select sites and gave permission to "leak" four pages.

In recent years more and more retailers understand how to use the hype around leaked Black Friday ad to their advantage. The biggest coup landed Walmart last year, when they published their highly anticipated really early online to avoid uncontrolled leaking.

The four pages of the Fred's Black Friday 2012 ad reveal that the doors open at 5am on November 23.
The leaked Black Friday doorbuster items include a $79.95 7-inch Polaroid tablet and $79.95 motorized ride-ons for kids.
Because the Fred's Black Friday 2012 ad did not leak in its entirety it cannot be crowned with the title of the first leaked Black Friday 2012 ad.

It is time to plan your Black Friday 2012 seasons shopping. As said in previous years Black Friday is not a single day shopping event. It is a season. All of November will be Black Friday sales. It is not true that the best deals are then coming on the actual Black Friday except the few mid-night doorbuster deals that are hard to get.

We have seen the best deals spread ahead of Black Friday last year. Now a white paper published by RetailMeNot confirms this. They even saw on their customer data that the best deals have been scored last year on Thanksgiving Day.

Last year many "official" Black Friday sales already started on Thanksgiving Day. If you actually started to shop on Black Friday for the advertised deals, then it was too late as they have sold out.

The BFAds T-Shirts have become the uniform for Black Friday shoppers who are actually getting out in the middle of the night to score Black Friday doorbuster deals. The launch of the BFAds T-shirt design voting also somehow already marks each year the beginning of the Black Friday season.

So head over to BFAds and vote for one of the six available BFAds Black Friday 2012 T-Shirt designs.

Two weeks ago we featured the Black Friday 2012 Deal predictions by GottaDeal. Today we take a look at the predictions by another shopping site called DealNews. The DealNews Black Friday 2012 predictions are pretty detailed. The highlight in the TV segment is a 42-inch 1080p HDTV for $189. Target had a $199 42-inch 1080p HDTV Black Friday deal last year.

Besides TVs, DealNews makes Black Friday deal predictions for Apple products, laptops, tablets, smartphones, toys, media players, travel and apparel.

Macy's thinks big when it comes to the Holiday shopping season. Macy's is hiring 80,000 seasonal workers for the Holidays. This is 2,000 more than last year reports CNN.

During the year 175,000 work at Macy's, which also owns the Bloomingdale's stores.

ToysRUs is also getting ready for the Holiday shopping season hiring 45,000 seasonal workers and Kohl's adds 52,700 workers, which is 10% more than last year.

The retailers want to make sure you have a pleasant shopping experience during the Holidays. These hiring numbers also suggest that the retailers expect better sales during Black Friday and the traditional Holiday shopping this year.

ToysRUs today announced that it will offer Price Match Guarantee on all items available in its ToysRUs and BabiesRUs stores nationwide, helping customers to stretch their budgets further this holiday season.

Now through Christmas Eve, the company will match competitors’ in-store pricing on identical items, any time a customer presents a local competitors’ current, valid print advertisement showing the item available for less. In addition, if a customer finds an item sold in Toys“R”Us or Babies“R”Us stores available for less on Toysrus.com or Babiesrus.com, the company will match the online price.

The Kmart Orange & Black Friday is the start of "spooktacular" savings for fans of Halloween and trick or treating. Kmart tries to skim some of the marketing power of Black Friday for their Halloween sale this Friday, October 5.

Kmart's Orange & Black Friday event features: 50% off Halloween costumes and Halloween kitchen textiles, tabletop, decor, as well as a "Kmart Kreator" tool, a social tool where users can create their own Halloween "Kreature" using costumes and accessories available at Kmart.

Via Kmart.

Despite low discounts the Apple Black Friday Sales event is always a big draw each year. Apple's strategy of keeping a tight leash on pricing makes 10% discounts a huge deal.

On top of that most Apple products are ideal Christmas gifts. This year the iPad 3, iPhone 5, new iPod touch and new iPod nano will be the most gifted Apple products.
The Apple Black Friday sale is only on the actual Black Friday (November 23, 2012).

The Apple Black Friday 2011 deals included savings $41-$61 on the Apple iPad 2, $101 off MacBook Pro, $101 off MacBook Air, $101 off iMac, $21-$41 off iPod touch and $11 off iPod nano.
Apple was also offering Black Friday deals on accessories. Most notable have been savings of $11 on iPad Smart Covers and $5 off a $50 iTunes Gift Card.