Yes, Cyber Monday is officially here, although, it’s really just one giant Friday to Monday Black Cyber weekend! Let’s take a look at some of the retailers participating:

+ B&H Photo Cyber Monday with all kinds of offers, scroll-down in an ever-scroll format or filter by categories and brands

+ Adorama Cyber Monday in a cool blue website color-scheme, broken down by various categories and such

+ Amazon Cyber Monday, it’s like the regular Gold Box but Cyber-Monday’ed. Use the usual filters on the left-hand side to narrow things down to product categories of interest, eg Camera and Photo
+ PRO-TIP: when you are in the Cyber Monday Gold Box, the Amazon search box up at the top of their page is pre-filtered to search for the Cyber Monday deals specifically (you can adjust it as you please though to search sitewide, or within specific product categories)

+ NewEGG Cyber Monday – back in our time kids, the NewEgg website would always crash at the Black Friday reveals. Nowadays, both the web servers and the customers have grown up 😉

+ 1-Year prepaid Netflix-style CreativeLIVE subscription for $99 after coupon code CYBERSAVE
+ or $20 off class orders of $40+ with coupon CYBER20

+ sales and coupons at 6 Dollar Shirts, I bought many times from them before, and they have stood the test of time, considering/despite the $6+ price 🙂

+ Woot sale-a-brates with a “best of woot” sale and cyber week deals

+ Best Buy sale-a-brates with a “Cyber Monday is Here” theme 🙂

Black Friday is here and in the pacific time zone, and pretty soon in Hawai’iii too, so more websites are officially and formally “dressing up” their websites in Black Friday gear!

More specifically, the NewEgg website is now a Black Friday crash test for your browser and phone and tablet and laptop. Yes, it’s that bad 🙂 Save any open files before going there 🙂

Amazon too has updated their Black Friday page, which looks pretty much like a special edition of their usual Gold Box 🙂 Another browser crashing test! Speaking of which, there’s another drop of 230+ Kindle ebooks on offer. Because reading is FUN-da-MENTAL!

Already in Black Friday mode are the websites of B&H Photo and Adorama and
Monoprice and KEH Camera and many and more…

On a blog-related note, I have temporarily increased the number of posts that show on the home page from 30 to 50, so you can see all the recently-posted deals on a single page, so you don’t have to navigate 2nd and 3rd pages. It may slow down access a bit but probably not ~ unless for some strange reason this blog goes viral with the web or the forums or the search engines (unlikely LOL).

And one last thing, which I should have mentioned at the start of Black Friday week (yes, I’ve become very rusty), we have a FREE Full-Text RSS Feed with Feedburner if you want to keep up with the offers using your favorite RSS readers and such. If we had Patreon, this would have been a great Patreon reward tier, but back in our time, we didn’t have such things on the internets, we just had text-based browsers and dial-up 🙂

Amazon too has pushed out their Black Friday offers using their usual Gold Box format. The sale includes 270+ Kindle eBooks including the 4th book in Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive. He writes book at a crazy 20fps speed 😉

Speaking of Amazon, which is usually reserved in allowing outside payment options, they are now accepting Venmo, part of the PayPal family!

Adorama has added more offers to their Black Friday is ON sale. Too many to list here individually, but you can use the various categories and sub-categories and such to filter them through by your area(s) of interest…

The party has began! B&H Photo has launched Black Friday pricing on various cameras and lenses from most of the major manufacturers including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonica, Zeiss Zeiss Baby, Shiguma, Tammy “Tamron” Wynette, Voigtlander, Rokinon, etc… No Leica however 🙂

Too many to list here individually, more on these later on as I start digesting things and getting into Black Friday mode 🙂

PS: as with all previous years, B&H goes early/earlier with their Black Friday, because every week they are closed on the Sabbath, which is Friday PM to Saturday PM. So plan your purchases accordingly!

Day #2 of the B&H Optic West (Monterey, California) free event begins on Monday 11/7/22 at 1pm eastern time! This consists of the Main stage and the Explorer stage. You can find them all at the trade show’s YouTube Playlist. Or for your convenience you can find the YouTube-embed of the Main Stage at the bottom of this post.

To sale-a-brate the event, there are OPTIC Show Special Offers in-progress as well. Some of them require coupon code OPTICW22.

The B&H Photo OPTIC West Conference is live in progress. IT is a two-day event. Day #1 has already taken place!

And of course, there are OPTIC Show Special Offers in-progress as well. Some of them require coupon code OPTICW22.

Each day has two live stages and you can live-stream and rewatch them in this YouTube Playlist.

Below you will find YouTube-embedded Day #1 of the Main Stage, nearly eight hours long!

If you like to get a …head start on your holiday shopping season, well, B&H has created a sale just for you, the …Holiday Head Start sale. Because Halloween is over and now the 2022 Black Friday and Holiday Shopping season is …inevitable 🙂

We join this in progress, Adorama is currently running a 48 Hour Flash Sale featuring products from all the major product categories they carry including photography, computers, gaming, lighting and studio gear, drones and binos, A/V and music, and such. Too many items to list here individually…

UPDATE: things are fairly quiet camera/photo-wise at this current iteration of the Adorama daily deals (until Thursday at 10am ET) so I’m appending them to this post instead of creating a brand new one:

+ Logitech G G PRO X Gaming Headset with Microphone for $90

+ IK Multimedia iRig Stream Solo Ultracompact 3×1 TRRS Audio Interface for Smartphones and Tablets for $30

+ DPVR E3 4K Gaming Combo with E3 4K VR Gaming Headset and NOLO Controller for $399

+ Lenovo D27-30 27″ 16:9 Full HD WLED VA Monitor with 3-side Near-Edgeless Design for $125

Adorama is currently running what they call their Biggest Clearance Sale of the year. As of the time of writing the sale features 4326 options! They are slightly too many to list here individually, so check for your brands and products and product types and systems of interest!

Adorama has launched their pre-Labor-Day Labor Day sale with a total of 1546 options available as part of this sale. The items you see are sorted by “Popular Results”, but you can filter them by many different ways using the options and filters at the aforelinked page…

Adorama is sale-a-brating National Camera Day with 416 offerings as of the time of writing. There are various camera kits in this bundle, including mirrorless, DSLR, fixed lens, a few medium format and a couple of instant cameras too.

Obviously too many to list here individually but you can use the filters over there by manufacturer and such…

To sale-a-brate the OPTIC 2022 trade-show, B&H Photo is also running in parallel OPTIC 2022 special offers with the usual assortment of camera and photo and electronics and such.

Too many to list here individually, but if time permits, I may highlight some of them offers later on…

Adorama is having another variant of their Clearance Sale with 2446 products participating as of the time of writing.

Prices start at $0.25 (one item) and then move on to $0.49 where there is a handful of lens-caps, body-caps, screen-protectors and such. You can see these when you sort by lowest price…

The NAB 2022 show is happening and B&H Photo is having their customary NAB Show Specials…

More on this later on, on a time-permitting basis…

NewEgg is in the game too, they have launched their Black Friday specials as well. As usual you can filter them by various product categories and sub-categories on their website… Time-permitting I will digest these later on…

Black Friday has also arrived at the Best Buy website which includes a dedicated “Apple Shopping Event”… Bubbles with the various product categories are shown, and yes, there is one for Cameras and such…

And so it begins! Both Adorama and B&H Photo have launched their Black Friday pages and deals…

More details as I start digesting them…

Hide your e-wallets, the deals are e-coming!

We are about ten days away from Black Friday and as it is often the case, the early Black Friday deals parade is upon us!

Both Adorama and B&H Photo have launched their early specials.

As of the time of writing there are 673 offers at Adorama. B&H Photo does not have an offer counter… Regardless, they are too many to list here individually…

If you are fond of shopping from the western-facing variant of the Ali Express website, their 11/11 Singles Day sales are up and running…

Note that if you are Married you are not allowed to shop on Singles day 😉

UPDATE: among the Thursday NewEGG dailies there’s $25 off the Ryzen 7-5800X, $10 XBox Gold Live, WD, 256GB Team flash drive, chargers, microSDXC, RAM, and lots more!

Cooking for the holidays but also every day? Well, well, well, the Amazon USA Gold Box has gone hot-pot crazy for Thursday 11/11/21 with all kinds of offers… There’s also a sale on more affordable trackers/smartwatches ($50 to $100), Ninja cookware, SodaStream, 17% off Samsung monitors ($300 to $680), up to 40% off Motorola smartphones, Roku Ultra for $69, Blue Yeti for $100, and lots more…

Speaking of cooking, Amazon has a limited time sale (it’s not a daily deal, it lasts longer but I don’t know for how long) 100+ cookbooks and food-books for the Kindle. From mooncakes to comfort foods, from diets to un-diets, they have lots…

If you like books but you are not fond of Amazon, the Barnes & Noble website is offering $20 off with purchases of $60+ using coupon code SAVE20 until 11/15/21 at 3am ET. Exclusions apply… Meanwhile for 11/11 only, at B&N B&M cafes, Veterans and Active Military can get a free tall coffee or tea drink. The offer says “while supplies last” which I’m not sure what it means in this case…

The Western-facing persona of Aliexpress is teasing their singles day offers for 11/11. These will go live at 12:01am pacific time on 11/11.

But if you are familiar with shopping from the Chinese version of Aliexpress, China is 13 hours ahead of New York time (Eastern time), so their festivities will begin earlier.

As with all big shopping holidays (eg Black Friday), the sales expand temporally in both directions, so basically November is a Singles Black Friday Cyber Monday month 😉

Day #2 of the the 4th annual B&H Photo Depth of Field Conference starts on Monday 3/8/21 at 6:30pm eastern time [New York time]. In addition to the “main room” that is live-streaming on YouTube [see yesterday’s post], they have three different virtual ballrooms, each one having its own day-long schedule running in parallel.

And this being B&H, they are also running an assorted set of Trade Show deals. Among them you can find:

+ 124 Camera offers
+ 307 Lenses of DSLR and Mirrorless
+ 279 Photo Accessories
+ 219 options under Computers/Tech
+ 212 Lighting options
+ 32 options under Video

In parallel to the previously mentioned Depth of Field Conference, B&H Photo is also running an assorted set of Trade Show deals. Among them you can find:

+ 124 Camera offers including Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Panasonic and a hint of Sigma too

+ 307 Lenses of DSLR and Mirrorless kind from the camera manufacturers mentioned above along with 125 lens options from Sigma [keep in mind many of their lenses are available in different mounts, each one counts as a separate option] and 25 from Tamron [not Tokina]

+ 279 Photo Accessories including battery grips, flashes, bags, memory cards, stabilizer-y things, etc, etc, etc

+ 219 options under Computers which includes actual computers, hard drives, software, tablets, etc, etc, etc

+ 212 Lighting options including strobe, on-camera, triggers, backgrounds, LEDs, etc, etc, etc

+ 32 options under Video which includes camcorders, drones, and stabilizer-y things among others

+ that’s over 1200 options out there, I can’t possibly summarize them all here – head on over to the Trade Show offers pages to see and filter and sub-filter them based on your areas of interest…

Not to be confused with Amazon Warehouse Deals which sells used items, Amazon has an Outlet store which sells new condition overstock items. As of the time of writing they have nearly 9000 items. You can use the left-hand side categories over there to filter them by areas of interest.

They have 75 items under the Camera & Photo Outlet of the C&P (= Camera & Photo) accessory kind. No cameras, no lenses. Except for a couple of generic kids cameras that is.

Of related interest is the Electronics Outlet with over 830 items as of the time of writing…

These are not daily deals. They are on-going overstock outlet offerings which have their own schedule (or mayhaps determined by the Amazon AI Price Bots, who knows…)