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The eBay website is offering a Black Friday coupon, 20% off on select product categories using coupon code PINBF2021 in their shopping cart. Maximum discount $50 using this coupon.
Better yet, the coupon can be used up to FIVE times per eBAY account until 12/10/21
You can see all eligible categories and such at the offer’s Terms and Conditions…
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 😉
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Prime Day 2021 is here, Day #1, Monday June 21 in 2021 at the Amazon website and the Prime Day Gold Box!
REMINDER!!! all offers marked as PRIME DAY are only available to Prime members. If you are not a current Prime member, you can still take advantage of the sales by starting a 30-day FREE TRIAL…
+ Memory Card sale including Sandisk, PNY and Lexar, most of them SD and microSD options
+ a total of 30 options, $13.49 to $183
+ Chromebooks, 19 options, $190 (Samsung Chromebook 4, HP 11.6″) to $1149 (Google Pixelbook Go)
+ two pages of Computers and Monitors from $80 to $2000, including LG, Acer, HP, Lenova, Dell, Samsung, AOC, ASUS, etc
+ mostly laptops but also includes a Chromebox
+ unlocked Samsung Galaxy smartphones including S21 and S20 Ultra, Note 20 Ultra and regular, S21 and S21+, S20 FE, etc
+ two pages of desktops, monitors and tablets including Acer, Lenova, alienWare, Sceptre, ASUS, LG, ViewSonic, BenQ, etc
+ two pages of Razer gaming sales including keyboards and mice and a couple of Blade 15 laptops (on the 2nd page)
+ two pages of Samsung electronics including:
+ 256GB EVO Select microSD for $26, 512GB for $52
+ tablets of all price ranges
+ computer monitors
+ SSDs internal and external
+ 256GB EVO Plus SDXC for $25, PRO Plus for $30
+ three pages of PC Accessories components including Ryzen, WD, Intel, Crucial, TP-Link, ASUS, Cooler Master, Corsair, Gigabyte, MSI, Netgear, LG, Thermaltake, Toshiba, eVGA, PNY, etc
+ Big Smartphone sale with 31 options including Motorola (from Moto G to RAZR), TracFone, OnePlus, etc
+ prices $35 to $1160
+ five pages of AmazonBasics kitchen products
+ Nespresso sale for $100, three different machine options
+ some consider Nespresso to be half a step above Keurig
+ of course Keurig is a bit more chaotic in options than Nespresso, so it’s easier for Nespresso to quality-control their vendors
+ various sales on Kindle e-readers including the Basic Kindle ($55+), Paperwhite ($80 with Ads), Oasis ($205+), etc
+ FireTV Recast (1TB) for $180
+ DVR for cord-cutters with 1TB storage included
+ FireHD 10 tablets (2021 models) start at $80
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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…
If you are participating in the eBay Bucks rewards program, eBay is making changes to the program starting April 1st in 2021. More specifically, you will no longer earn the base 1% on qualifying purchases. The program however is not shutting down. It will continue by offering “Bonus Bucks” promotions. One silver lining of the changes, rewards earned on April 1 in 2021 (and later) will be valid for 12 months…
More details at the updated eBay Help pages…
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…)
Now this paragraph is of historic interest. The Tuesday Woot-OFF is OVER. But during the Woot-off on Tuesday there were some technical difficulties. To counter that, for a few hours, Woot launched all the Woot-OFF deals at once. This is a list of 100+ items. If you were always curious to see what items are offered in a Woot-OFF but didn’t want to sit through it throughout the day, this list is a pretty good indicator of what they offer. This was the “Clearance/Sellout” sub-Woot Woot-Off…
Yes, this is the launch of our new “Deal History Channel” 🙂 We’re also planning a “Deal Shark Week” and a “Mega Deal Twilight Zone Marathon” 😉
A Woot teaser reveals that on Tuesday 1/19/21 between 8am and 10pm central time there will be another incarnation of the Woot-OFF at the Woot website. The teaser does not indicate which sub-Woots will participate ~ it will be revealed when it goes live on Tuesday at 8am central time…
UPDATE: among the Tuesday Best Buy daily deals is the recurring Joby GorillaPod Creator Kit offered for $50…
UPDATE #2: to the Amazon USA Gold Box we go where they have on sale the Fire HD 8 and HD 10 tablets, but the headliner of today’s deals is the new condition Acer Spin 5 convertible laptop for $840 with up to two per customer at the sale price. This is 13.5″ IPS Touch (2256 x 1504), i0th gen Core i7-1065-G7, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe, backlit keyboard, fingerprint, Active stylus (with Wacom AES 1.0), Wifi 6, promised long battery life, various USB ports (two Thunderbolt 3), microSD card reader, Bluetooth 5, HDMI 2.0, 360-degree dual torque hinge, 2.65 lbs, etc, etc, etc…
Since it’s limit two, you can buy one for yourself and send one to me too 😉
UPDATE #3: the latest round of Adorama daily deals is good until Wednesday at 10am eastern:
+ Kodak 10″ Touch Screen Rechargeable Digital Photo Frame Wi-Fi Enabled with HD Photo Display for $120
+ Zendure A2 6700mAh Crush-Proof Portable Charger for $15
Amazon Warehouse Deals, Amazon USA’s used resale persona is having a big Clearance sale for a limited time only. The sale includes over 2000 selections in the Camera and Photo categories… You can further filter them over there by sub-category, price-range, etc… Too many to list here individually obviously…
This Tuesday-only offer got cancelled…
Cyber Monday is here at KEH Camera, offering 10% off many things until Cyber Monday 11/30/20 at 11:59pm ET using coupon code BF20A in the shopping cart over there.
They have exclusions are usual: no NEW condition products, no Leica-branded products, no “USED – Like New”, and no “Digital Photography Starter Kits”. If there’s anything left that is not excluded, enjoy the coupon 😉
B&H Photo has launched their Cyber Monday 2020 deals too, which you can find by paging down and paging down and paging down until your mouse gets tired 🙂 Too many to list individually here… [for a breakdown of their daily deals check our earlier post…]
Separately they have a No Interest IF Paid in 24 Months promotion using the B&H Financing Credit Card. Check the terms and conditions and restrictions (they have nice FAQs) at the aforelinked page.
Note that the B&H Financing Card mentioned in the paragraph above is a SEPARATE product from the previously mentioned B&H PayBoo card…
Adorama has launched their Cyber Monday deals with over 1800 options participating. You can use the categories and options on the left hand side to filter them (eg by brand). Over 1140 of them are in Photography and another 210+ are in Video.
But if you are pressed for time and don’t want to go through 1800 items, Adorama has you covered as well, they have also launched their Top 100 deals. Just like their Top 100 Black Friday, these are organized in blocks by product category (eg cameras, lenses, computers, etc). If you want to see a lot more click on the “See All” at the top right corner of each category block…
IF you had been waiting to finalize and place your order at B&H Photo, they are back after their customary Sabbat closing and their website is accepting orders once again!
Check out their Black Friday / Cyber Monday offerings for ideas…
They are back with a general purpose coupon, KEH Camera is offering 10% off many things until Sunday 11/29/20 at 11:59pm ET using coupon code BF20A in the shopping cart over there.
They have exclusions are usual: no NEW condition products, no Leica-branded products, no “USED – Like New”, and no “Digital Photography Starter Kits”. If there’s anything left that is not excluded, enjoy the coupon 😉
Black Friday, the actual day, can be a huge information overload, especially if you are interested in products that fall into different categories and types. To help with that, Adorama is running a Top 100 Deals page that lists what are in their opinion their Top 100 deals. Each product category has L and R arrows to see more in the slider type thing, and of course it has a “See All” to see a lot more products of that type…
This is a YMMV! If you are participating in the Best Buy rewards program (“My Best Buy”), check your Inbox for an email from Best Buy titled “Drop Everything”. Inside you will find a “click to activate” offer that gets you a $5 bonus certificate that expires on 11/28/20 at night. This can be used online or in-store. I am at the entry-level Best Buy rewards tier and haven’t purchased anything from them in a while, so it may be a “reactivate inactive users” type of a promotion. It’s also possible that customers in higher reward tiers may be offered a higher amount, the “spend more to profit (for them) / save (for the consumer) more” philosophy 🙂
Here’s a screenshot of the relevant part in the email:
PS: it is possible the offer may have been in earlier emails as well, but with the avalanche of Black Friday emails, I’m not able to open them all or read every one of them end to end. If only I was a 16-core Ryzen, instead I’m a 2010 Celeron 😉
If you are planning to jump on the B&H Photo Black Friday deals, make sure you place your orders before 4:30pm ET on Friday. As usual, B&H observes Shabbat, and online ordering is not available between Friday 4:30pm eastern and Saturday 5:45pm eastern. You can place items in the shopping cart but you cannot checkout.
How things have changed! Amazon now has a Brick and Mortar Black Friday Deal. That’s right! This offer is good at Amazon’s brick and mortar “Amazon Books” (bookstores) and “Amazon 4-Star” (B&M stores that stock highly-rated high-demand items). If you spend $60+ on a single purchase, you will get $15 off. The offer ends 11/29/20 at 11:59pm pacific ~ more realistically, at store closing time, I guess the Amazon “terms and conditions” writers have not gotten used to brick and mortar expiration times 🙂
Excluded are Apple, Bose, Nintendo, Ugg, alcohol, and Oculus products.
Not sure if you have an “Amazon Books” or an “Amazon 4 Star” (not Amazon 4Chan!) store near you? Check this page that lists the (currently modest) amount of Amazon B&M stores. Modest if you don’t count Whole Foods that is 🙂
In addition to renting camera gear, Borrow Lenses also sells used gear direct to the consumer. If you want to buy used gear from their website, good until 12/7/20 at 11:59pm, coupon code BLACKFRIDAY2020 gets you 25% off used gear purchases at their website. The coupon cannot be used for rentals, only purchases of used gear…
If you live in a state that collects sales tax on online purchases, and you are shopping or plan to shop at B&H Photo, their PayBoo payment card can save you the sales tax. Legally of course because B&H pays it on your behalf. The process is like this:
Adorama has launched their Black Friday deals portal page highlighting some of the best offers per category and then linking to the rest of them (eg the the 83 camera kits). This is best viewed with a wide(r) computer monitor for the easiest browsing experience… More on these later on…
This offer expired…
Singles Day 2020 is here, November 11, and with it there’s plenty of sales in-progress at Chinese websites (that ship world-wide and have English versions of their websites) including:
+ GearBest, the one I placed most orders with, and has a more organized, less chaotic website
+ Top Tech Feast sale; just not a “Feast for Crows” 🙂
+ $5 off an $80+ PayPal order
+ Alibaba
+ Alibaba’s more western-facing AliExpress
+ that red thing with white inside you may see in product listing search-results, that’s 11 11 written in white on a red background, noting that a product is participating in 11-11 sales; it took me a few minutes to realize I must admit 🙂
+ DH Gate
+ Bang Good, it is indeed a retail website, do not let the name scare you 😉
+ Geek Buying because the geeks will not only inherit the earth but will also buy it 😉
+ Deal Extreme (as of the time of writing it appears to be down per Cloudfare)
+ if you have any other favorites that you found good deals, please feel free to post them in the comments or use the online contact form
As usual, a number of the websites have “lightning type of deals”, and those require some luck because the world market for these websites is decidedly over 1 billion shoppers…
PS: since the names are so close, let’s also make Singles Day a Shingles Awareness Day!
PS2: since the names are exactly the same, we must needs also make today a 45rpm Singles Day appreciation day! The good old and new days of vinyl!
The first wave of holiday shopping has arrived at the B&H Photo website… You can peruse the offers in different ways as usual… More on these later on, I have not yet entered “Black Friday” mode 🙂
I almost missed this one completely while I was lost in a sea of Prime Deals BUT there’s still time, Adorama is running a 48 hour sale that is good until Wednesday 10/14/20 at 11:59pm eastern…
+ Sony a7R II body with Flashpoint TTL R2 flash with intergrated R2 radio transceiver for $1298
+ optionally, “create a bundle and save” and get combined purchase discounts if you purchase this together with select Zeiss or Sigma or Tamron or Laowa or Rokinon lenses; they are all listed over there when you expand the aforementioned “Special Offer” section over there
+ 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable External HDD for $53
+ not so long ago $50~ was the 1TB floor price
+ 6TB Seagate Expansion Portable External HDD for $95
+ Vivitar 52mm 3-Piece Solid Neutral Density Filter Kit with ND2, ND4 & ND8 for $5
+ Flashpoint Zoom TTL R2 Flash With Integrated R2 Radio Transceiver for Canon (TT685C) for $99
+ only the Canon is $99; the rest are $110
Too many to list here individually, check them all out at the Adorama 48 hour sale…
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