All apologies but I don’t have my Best Buy account on this laptop, and I cannot remember my password, so I can’t see what’s on sale. But if you are a member of the Best Buy Rewards programs [free to join], and you are logged on to your BB rewards account, they are currently running an Early Access sale. After that, the sale [or whatever is left] will open up to everybody else. Best Buy has been using this online strategy lately.

The more you spend in a year, the higher the reward level you reach, and the earlier you see the offers. If you are a pleb like me, you are at the entry-level reward level so you are the last to see the offers before the general population does.

Sundays are usually [other things equal] the days when new manufacturer-initiated instant-savings promotions are rolling out. In this post, I’m rounding up the latest iteration of these sales using the nicely organized pages at Adorama:

+ Nikon Instant Savings featuring APS-C and full frame DSLRs, Lenses, bundles, and such

+ Sony Instant Savings including a free Joby Gorilla with select Alpha cameras, along with various full frame and APS-C Alpha mirrorless bundles, lens bundles, a handful of Cybershot bundles, two Sony digital paper systems, and assorted photo accessories (flashes, grips, etc)

+ Fuji Instant Savings starting with a couple of GFX (medium format) bundles and then followed by a variety of X-system APS-C camera bundles, lots of XF lenses, and the X100F selling for $1199 instead of its starting price of $1299

+ Panasonic Instant Savings featuring various M43rds mirrorless cameras and lenses, along with a few of their numerous superzoom options

+ Sigma Instant Savings: lots of lenses, a number of which are of the newer ART kind. Shiguma as the good old computer translations like to say 🙂

+ Zeiss Lens Instant Savings with a mix of mirrorless and DSLR lenses

+ GoPRO HERO 7 bundles featuring the Black and Silver models; remember, with GoPRO a different color is a different model; not just a different color!

+ Lexar Instant Savings featuring the various iterations of SD along with some Compactflash and some CFast

+ MSI Gaming Laptops ranging from $999 to $1699

+ LG Instant Savings featuring various computer monitors and one of their Gram lightweight laptops [
+ PS: they weigh more than one gram 🙂

+ Canon Instant Savings featuring a large variety of Full Frame and APS-C DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, assorted lenses of said systems, Powershots (G-series, superzooms, Ixus/Elves), a couple of printers and such…

Adorama is currently running their Black Friday Preview sale featuring over 2800 products which you can filter further down using the left hand side of their website (eg by brand or product type or price-range and so on).

A new feature for the 2018 BF/CM season, Adorama has a Same Price Guarantee sale through Cyber Monday. For products featured on this sale, with the red “Same Price Guarantee” appearing in their individual pages or the search results, you’ll pay the same price whether you buy now or on BF/CM. Annotated screenshot below:

NewEgg has launched their Black Friday Starts NOW sale, featuring their usual assortment of technology, computers, accessories and the like…

If you are a fan of the way of the NewEgg, they are currently running another limited time Pre-Black-Friday sale on their website featuring their usual assortment of computer-y and tech-y products…

But that’s not all, they are also running a couple of email e-newsletter promo code style promotions:

+ the Weekend Special, and

+ another pre-Black-Friday sale with a ticking clock on the page even

NewEGG has launched a Black Friday Countdown sale with some of the offers requiring promo codes for email subscribers [it’s easy to do this, just sign up for their email subscription – with the same email that you use to checkout at the NewEgg website] and you can take advantage of the promotions.

The offers include a 1-year Student and Teacher subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud (the whole thing, not just the Photography plan) for $180 after promo code. Limit one per customer… There’s also a 16GB microSD for $4… Lots of computer and tech products as expected…

IF you are the Early Bird type of a shopper, Adorama has launched a Same Price Guarantee sale on over 2500 items, that, per the verbiage over there, you will pay the same price through Cyber Monday. The same price guarantee is offered by Adorama…

Black Friday is in less than two weeks, but you can have Black Friday festivities right now as Asian retailers have launched their 11.11 sales including Alibaba and their western-facing AliExpress, along with other Asian western-facing retailers such as GearBest which includes a tech-heavy flash sale of their Top 12 Best Sellers including Xiaomi, OnePlus and DJI). Many items come with free show shipping, but always check the shipping options for smaller items, because for a few cents more you can get tracking or better/faster shipping. YMMV on these shopping adventures!

Adorama has launched a Pre-Holiday Clearance sale with 4700 products participating. That’s a lot of products to go through one by one, but you can use the left hand side of their website to filter them in various ways, eg by manufacturer, by product type, by price-range, by reviewing rating, and so forth… Speaking of which, they have the latest Google Chromecast (third generation) in-stock for $35…

The word is abused so much it no longer has any actual meaning. No, this is not an English Language diatribe but rather, the word “Black Friday”… Speaking of which, NewEgg has a 24-hour Black Friday NOW sale. YMMV as usual with these type of sales…

Too many to list here individually, but Adorama is running their own Photo Plus Expo 2018 special offers, featuring a mix of cameras, lenses, photo gear and accessories, computers, Lexar, Sandisk, etc.

And if you like to get a head-start on your shopping, there’s already some Nikon DSLR bundles being offered over there…

Among the latest B&H PPE 2018 specials, don’t forget to check these potentially interesting offers:

+ Zeiss Prime lenses (five options)

+ Epson Printers

+ Vello Camera Remotes & Flash Triggers

+ Ruggard Camera Bags (8 options)

+ LowePro Camera Bags

+ Apple sale (12 options)

Depending on what level of Rewards Zone membership you are, you can get to see the Best Buy “Early Access” sale earlier. I don’t have my BB login on this laptop so I can’t check the sale, but if you are part of the reward program, and logged to your account, the sale is happening at the Early Access sale page…

The end of October is many things, such as Halloween and the start of a new NBA season, but it’s also the Photo Plus Expo (aka PPE) in New York City [see Trade Show Calendar]… As with previous years, B&H Photo is back their first wave of PPE 2018 specials with more coming in the next few days. Many of these expire on Monday, some earlier, some later…

More on these later today…