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In addition to their Black Friday only coupon, Dell Refurbished has also launched a 3-day coupon that runs until Sunday 11/26/2017 at 11:59pm central time. Free US ground shipping as usual. Coupons cannot be used on clearance items or combined with other offers.
+ 50% off any item priced $499 & up with Coupon Code DELL2017BF
+ 40% off any item priced $498 or less (excludes E7240 models)with Coupon Code DELL2017BF
Woot has a trio of Woot-OFFs for Black Friday, the only one that could have camera/tech related gear is the Woot Sellout Woot-OFF (renamed Woot Holiday)… Meanwhile one of the day-long deals are refurbished Pixels (first gen; with headphone jack) starting at $330.
They also have some longer running deals, headlined among the Electronics by the previously mentioned half a dozen Canon DSLRs and a superzoom.
The other big thing at Woot is that you pay $5 flat shipping for everything you buy from now until Cyber Monday night. So instead of the usual 24 hour Texan time zone, it’s a 96 hour Texan time zone window.
These lighting deals expired… For the latest, check our string of Gold Box posts…
These daily deals expired but for more action, check the B&H Featured Sales
This 3-day promotion expired…
CreativeLIVE has a 3-day Black Friday promotion, you get up to 50% off every class they offer on their website. They have many and more classes, photography and beyond. No coupon is needed, the prices you see are the prices you pay!
This 3-day coupon expired…
These lighting deals expired… For the latest, check our string of Gold Box posts…
Black Friday is here in the pacific time zone, and the Monoprice Black Friday is upon us. Use coupon code BF2017 to take 20% off almost everything at their website without a minimum purchase requirement. EXCLUDED are doorbusters, some sales items, where prohibited by law, cash-like equivalents (eg house gift cards), and any brands that disallow couponing on their products.
These lighting deals expired… For the latest, check our string of Gold Box posts…
These offers expired as did Black Friday 2017….
Are you pressed for time and don’t want to sift through a lot of things? Adorama has created a handy Top 100 Black Friday Deals offered on their website. You can browse through the top 100 or use the sub-categories on the left-hand side to zero-in on areas of interest. This is a new visual style, more user friendly!
The Pentax K-1 body only is bundled with Pentax D-BG6 Battery Grip, together for $1900 at B&H Photo… The Pentax HD Pentax-D FA 24-70mm f/2.8ED SDM WR is on sale for $1100 with free shipping on its own as part of the B&H Black Friday sales… Or you can get them together for the same total price ($2994) as a bundle.
Sigma is back with a Black Friday Lens Sale featuring 92 products in this promotion nicely organized at B&H Photo. Almost all of them are lenses, along with a couple of flashes and converters/adapters. They are available in Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sigma and Sony A. You can use the options on the left hand side over there to filter by these and more.
Speaking of B&H Photo, they have a massive Apple sale featuring laptops, iPads, Mac Minis, and more. Click on “Load More” at the bottom of the page to see more.
NewEgg too launched a brand new 24 Hour Black Friday sale with a variety of offers. As usual with NewEGG, some of the offers may require the use of promo codes which you can use by signing up to their email newsletters. It’s easier than it sounds, they have details at the top of the page. I am too brain-dead to go through the NewEgg BF sale, so that’s a DIY adventure 🙂
And the offers keep on coming! If you are a Prime member, AND you have either the Amazon Chase Prime VISA credit card, or the Prime Store credit card, AND you purchase eligible products participating in the promotion you will receive a whopping 20% back as a statement credit on your credit card. You get the usual 5% plus a 15% bonus cashback, making it 20% total. The six eligible categories include Electronics, but it’s only a subset of all products that are eligible. This happens automatically if you fulfill the prerequisites, so you don’t have to enter a coupon. If you can find items you want/need with this, it’s a great deal. I’ll look into it more later in the weekend. Expiration date unspecified.
The new condition Manfrotto MVH502AH Fluid Video Head with MT055XPRO3 Aluminum 3-Section Tripod is a Black Friday sale at Adorama going for $250 with free shipping and handling! No coupon, no rebate, it’s an old fashioned sale!
Rakuten has a “make your own deal” type of a Black Friday! Coupon code BF20 gets you 20% off almost everything at their website. The usual exclusions apply (cash-equivalent items not eligible, some brands don’t allow coupons, some products cannot be legally discounted, etc). The maximum discount is $40 using the coupon (in order words, purchases over $200 get a flat $40 off discount if my math is right). The coupon expires on Saturday at 3am ET.
I am posting faster than Doug Flutie is throwing passes during a two-minute warning 20-point comeback attempt 😉 The official Microsoft Store too has their Black Friday sales, featuring a number of Microsoft’s own hardware including Surface bundles of different kinds, a showcase of various Windows 10 products, Xboxes, their Cortana powered speaker (made by Harman Kardon who is now part of Samsung), Mixed Reality headsets and bundles, and more. Speaking of the Cortana-powered speaker, you can get it for FREE with purchase of select Surface Laptop bundles.
Dell Home too has launched their Black Friday Sales featuring a number of laptops and desktops, including XPS 13 and XPS 15 models, along with Alienware, HDTVs, various computer monitors including UltraSharps, Gaming (including Xbox One S and PS VR), electronics and more. At the very bottom there is a $15 laptop backpack appetizer doorbuster of sorts. Next to it you will find the $60 1-Year Dropbox with a $25 gift card offer as well.
eBay is innovating too in the ever-changing world of Black Friday madness. They have now launched a Black Friday Price Matching page where they meet or beat some of the advertised offers from the Black Friday ads. As of the time of writing, there are 88 listings there, a few of them are tech items, but no camera gear. I will monitor it (on a time permitting basis) to see if anything pops up.
Speaking of eBay and price-matching, the official BOSE eBay store has price-matched their own Black Friday offers 🙂
Speaking of eBay, here’s an appetizer doorbuster, the 8GB Transcend Class 10 SD card is offered for $5 with free shipping by PhotoVideo4Less (New York). Limit two per customer.
All the posts are sprawling today, so might as well, while we are talking eBay, the official Google eBAY store has their own Black Friday specials running with free shipping:
+ Google Chromecast for $25
+ Google Chromecast Audio for $25
+ Google Home for $79
+ limit three of each per customer
I forgot to post this together with the earlier DJI Spark Mini deal, so it gets its own short post. The DJI Mavic PRO Black Friday sales are here.
If you want a lower price, Adorama is offering it for $849 with free shipping and FIVE useful free accessories… If you prefer free drone training (optional), and free accessories you can get it for $900 at the official DJI store.
It looks like this is the new way Amazon is doing teasers of lightning deals. Previously they gave us a 20+ hour heads-up in the Gold Box. Now the maximum future visibility we all have is four hours. More specifically four hours from the top of the hour, so it’s somewhere between 3-4 hours depending on when you check.
This means I can no longer do the nightly schedule posts because I can only “see” 3-4 hours ahead instead of 20+ hours.
Instead, I started using a brand new Gold Box tag (Bookmark This if you like; there’s also a link to it in the Blog Sidebar). I am using this blog tag to mark all the posts that talk about Amazon Lightning Deals, so you when you string them all together, you see the latest lightning deal posts.
Adorama has created a nice visual page with their Best Canon, Nikon and Sony offers from the latest round of instant savings. This is very handy because I can’t find time to create summaries or even go through all the Instant Savings promotions of every manufacturer. For next Black Friday, I am definitely merging with IBM’s Watson 🙂
Impromptu Lightning Deals Updates
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For a limited time, Stacksocial is offering the 2TB Lifetime Zoolz Cloud Storage for $35. You only pay $35 once, and you have lifetime access to 2TB of cloud storage. This is divided into 1TB of Instant Vault and 1TB of Cold Storage. Offer cannot be combined or stacked with existing accounts for more storage.
Also on sale is the new condition Code Black Drone with HD Camera for $35, all sales final, with a 30-day warranty. There’s also so much they can offer for $35 🙂
Another wave of Black Friday deals will go live on Friday starting at 12:01am eastern! So get ready 🙂 Here are some tips to make the most of this:
+ use the blue menu bar at the top to quickly check if you are interested in products from a particular Manufacturer or Camera Mount or Camera Type (DSLR, mirrorless, superzoom, etc)
+ if you want to catch up to all the posts you may have missed, under the “HOME” button there are baked-in links to the first five pages of this blog. You can open them in background tabs/windows and skim/scan them all
+ subscribe to the Full-Text RSS Feed (FREE)
+ if the website crashes or slows down and such, use the Feedburner RSS feed link above as a backup. It is hosted separately by Feedburner, so it’s not affected by what happens to the website
+ I was supposed to be updating the “Situation Room” in parallel but there are so many things to sift and post, I just haven’t found time to do yet
+ UPDATE: I forgot there was a Search Box on the website – I brought it up higher in the Sidebar so it should be above the fold on Desktops and Some Laptops. It’s below the Black Friday links.
If you are looking for a microphone and some nice scifi-looking headphones, there are a couple of secret bundles at Amazon that are definitely doorbuster material. They are sold and shipped by Amazon itself, so you know it’s not a scam. You can always gift, trade, or sell the unwanted piece.
The Blue Microphones Blackout Yeti microphone goes for $90 on its own, while the bundles headphones go for $200 each. So you are paying less than half on the bundles:
+ Blue Blackout Yeti Mic + LOLA headphones for $143.91
+ Blue Blackout Yeti Mic + Mo-Fi headphones for $174.69
Speaking of headphones, Adorama has some real doorbusters as well:
+ Shure SE 535 In-Ear for $299 in Clear color scheme
+ Shure SE 535 In-Ear for $349 in the Limited Red Edition
+ for Apple fans looking for lightning headphones, the AUDEZE Sine On-Ear with 24-bit Cipher Lightning cable go for $200, also at Adorama, new condition, with warranty.
Waves and waves of deals, these are the focus Camera Black Friday Deals, click on the big tabs (cameras, lenses, tripods, etc) to see all the details. Due to time constraints I can’t break them down further…
A new Star Wars movie is less than a month away, and if you are feeling unofficial Stormtrooper pride, the white color scheme of the Canon SL2 with the 18-55mm IS STM lens is now down to $599 with free shipping as well (this was released a few weeks ago, long after the original black SL2 came out) at Amazon by Amazon itself and at B&H Photo with free 16GB Sandisk Extreme SDHC and Corel Paintshop PRO 2018 (in case you want to correct the Stormtrooper’s shooting in post).
Rokinon has discovered autofocusing technology and now they are ready to conquer the universe! Two of their autofocus Sony E system, FE lenses, are on sale as part of the Black Friday festivities, the 14mm f2.8 FE AF goes for $499 with free expedited shipping, while the 50mm f1.4 FE AF goes for $399 with free expedited shipping at B&H Photo.
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