Welcome to the Product Dork Guide for Black Friday and Cyber Monday! This topic will be the place to discuss sales any related sales.
Traditionally Black Friday begins on November 29, the day after Thanksgiving, and runs until the following Monday. However, in the last few years many retailers have moved to offering deals for a week or more. We’ll be covering the best ones here.
How this thread works
The Product Dork team will be updating this post with some of the deals that we like. If it’s a deal on a previous product we’ve featured, We’ll also post a link to that. That way you can see any previous commentary about the product.
What happens when you find an awesome deal?
I’d encourage you to reply to this topic instead of creating a new one. We’ll be monitoring this topic and make sure that the good ones end up in the list.
If you’re curious about how any of this works, you can check out last year’s Black Friday or Prime Day discussions.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale predictions
In the past we’ve broken the deals up a few different ways. We’ve done stores, product categories and brand lines. Sometimes we’ve done a combination of both. I’ve also considered splitting this into different threads and keeping only our top deals here. We’ll see. How we do it this year will probably depend on first few deals people find.
In the mean time, here are a few predictions we have:
Board Games
- Amazon has a deal on Ticket to Ride right now. Dixit is an amazing value. If you’re a serious gamer, Gloomhaven is on sale.
Coffee & Tea
- Amazon If you’re looking to upgrade your coffee game Amazon has the highly-rated OXO coffee maker and grinders on sale.
Clothing
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Bonobos has 30% off everything with code BFWEEK.
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Mr. Porter private sale begins November 13.
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Indochino is will have custom suits on sale. Get an additional $30 off with code MAIL30.
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Ties.com - Up to 45% off orders with code DEALWEEK.
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Zenni Optical has 20% off all glassis with code BF2019.
Electronics
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Amazon will have deals on the Pixel 4 and Pixel 3a. If you want to upgrade your Android. This is the right time.
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Best Buy The deal isn’t available yet, but we’re expecting $200 off Macbook Air Models. We’re also expecting a good deal with the Sonos Beam at $319 (Usually $399). We should also see the Roku Streaming Stick+ 4K HDR for $29 (usually $49).
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Walmart is starting deals a bit early. They have an Apple Watch Series (3 GPS + Cellular) for $199 and Airpods for $144 right now.
Headphones & Audio
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Amazon Good prices on VIZIO 5.1 and VIZIO 3.1 speaker systems.
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Target Get the Sony MDRXB50BS headphones for $89 (Usually $199).
Household
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Amazon Both the Airmega 300 and 400 air purifiers are on sale. Check out our comparison and review.
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Roomba The Roomba 614 and 675 are both on sale. Also, check out our commentary on the best robot vacuums.
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Snowe Home Will be having sales starting on November 25. I’m a big fan of their pillows. Here’s how you can get an additional $35 off.
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Target has started their Black Friday sales early including 25% off bath and bedding.
Personal Care
- Target Free $5 or $10 gift card with any Quip purchase. Read our Quip review.
Software
- Serif, the company which builds the Affinity toolset has 30% off everything in their store. If you’ve upgraded to Catalina and are looking for a CS6 alternative, be on the lookout.
Tools
- Home Depot has some deals on tool kits like this brushless drill/driver set.
Video Games
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Amazon Promo credit when you purchase a Switch Light.
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CDKeys.com has a bunch of excellent Cyber Monday discounts including Minecraft for $7, Overcooked for $2 and Fallout76 for $16.