'Black Friday' sales - early

'Black Friday' sales - early

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Story Published: Nov 20, 2007 at 4:26 PM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 28, 2007 at 4:44 PM PDT

By Angelica Thornton and KATU Web Staff

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Retailers are offering huge discounts this year because of sluggish sales. The problem is inventory is low, so if you're planning on shopping later this week you need to know exactly what you're looking for, where to find it and you need to get there early.

Those sales circulars stuffed into Thanksgiving Day newspapers used to be well-guarded secrets. Now you can see almost all of them online at Web sites like www.bfads.net and www.gottadeal.com.

The leaks started with Wal-Mart. The company even threatened to sue several Web sites but has now released the information on its own.

This Black Friday sale includes:

  • A Polaroid 42-inch LCD HDTV for $798. That's $400 off.
  • A Sony Cybershot camera for $79.87 – a $50 savings.

Elsewhere, JC Penney's flier includes hundreds of door-busters like a 1 karat gold diamond ring for $499.

Macy's will be selling Claiborne men's leather jackets for $99.99 and Hannah Montana singing dolls for $14.99.

Before you shop check out Web sites like www.couponcabin.com. and www.wow-coupons.com.

You may be able to save even more money. But check the fine print because some stores won't let you use the coupons for certain products.

Also pay attention when you get to the register. Many Black Friday deals come with expensive warranties that are not included in the advertised price. And some stores have special return policies for Black Friday sales.

BLACK FRIDAY WEB SITES:

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com

http://www.dealtaker.com/blackfriday.html

http://www.theblackfriday.com

http://www.blackfriday.info

http://www.tgiblackfriday.com

http://bfads.net


COUPON WEBSITES:

http://couponcabin.com

http://wow-coupons.com

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