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Excel Spreadsheet - BF Filtered Ads - BF2008 Buying Guide
I have created this spreadsheet the past couple of years to help with my Black Friday shopping, I have found it very useful and I hope you will as well. Essentially, it is a spreadsheet that lists all the major Black Friday store ads in a format that can be sorted by store, product, price, etc. Use the drop down arrows at the top of the columns to sort and/or filter the data.

This is a work in progress and more ad information will be added as it becomes available.....

Thanks to all for the offers to help, I really appreciate it.

Download Here [mediafire.com] or here [savefile.com]

11/15 - minor update - added Walgreens and Sports Authority - more coming this weekend
11/16 - Added Circuit City and Radio Shack .....still more to come.
11/16 - Added Office Max, Target and Ace Hardware.....more updates are coming.
11/16 - Added Dicks Sporting Goods and Kmart....still more to come.
11/20 - Added Staples and Meijer's Thursday Ad....more coming over the next few days.
11/21 - Added Walmart
11/23 - Mega Update - Added Bass Pro, Blockbuster, Burlington Coat, Dell, GameStop, hhgregg, Home Depot, KB Toys, JC Penney and Office Depot
11/23 - Added Costco, Kohl's, Meijer, Ritz Camera, Toys R Us.
11/23 - Added Macys
11/24 - Made some categorical and cosmetic changes.
11/25 - Added AAFES, Navy Exchange and Best Buy's "Secret Sale" items.
11/26 - Added Gander Mountain, NewEgg (thanks to FeelFree86) and Sams

******The PASSWORD is------> thanks2fw&sd

11/28 - Another year is done and another Black Friday completed. I want to thank everyone for their kind comments over the past couple of weeks, my family and I really enjoy reading them. I hope that everyone had a safe and successful Black Friday experience this year. Happy Holidays to all and to all a safe and prosperous New Year.

Until next year,

akelnat

Statistics as of 11/27/2008 9:00pm:
Spreadsheet downloads - 201,584
Downloads in the past 24 hours - 40,798 or 1700 per hour
Visits to the donation site - 13,441

Thanks to the 52 individuals that have donated, it is much appreciated!


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Last edited by akelnat; 11-29-2008 at 07:49 AM..
11-13-2008, 07:53 PM

 
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Wiki Spreadsheet So others can update -thanks FeelFree86
Google Spreadsheets Version [google.com] since not everyone has Excel
Searchable interactive sheet [inetsoft.com]

Big PDF file of them. I'll try to get update once it's updated:
http://rapidshare.com/files/16430..._11-16.pdf
Updated 11-24 - 559 page PDF document. Over 100MB size. ALL BF Ads!
http://rapidshare.com/files/16684...-11-24.pdf

Updated 11-16

All,
Here the sheet that allows you to add or remove columns. Please note if you edit this sheet and then want to add the updates (new stores) that OP provides, you will have to do it manually.

Instructions for importing/copy futures updates
  1. Save the updated excel in a different name (so as not to overwrite your changes)
  2. Open BF_Buying_Gude_2008_EditEnabled.xls
  3. Open BF_Buying_Guide_2008.xls (this has the updates that you are interested in)
  4. Select the rows in BF_Buying_Guide_2008.xls that you are interested in
  5. Right click and select "Copy" from the menu
  6. Now goto BF_Buying_Guide_2008_EditEnabled.xls
  7. Scroll down to the last row in this sheet, and select the first cell in the next row (this row should be empty)
  8. Right click and select "Paste" from the menu

Thats it you are done, be sure to repeat the steps above for additional updates that OP keeps providing
includes walmart updates [mediafire.com]

And don't forget to rep the OP.

Password:
56185808385007


Updated: 11/26/08 - 9:00pm CST

Mirrors for this Version incase the other two goes down.:

Last edited by felicita; 11-27-2008 at 09:52 PM.. Reason: Added Mirrors
Old 11-13-2008, 08:01 PM #3
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Thanks as always. This came in very handy last year when comparing different products.
 
Old 11-13-2008, 08:04 PM #4
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This is going to be soooo popular. Sticky very soon!

Direct Link [hotlinkfiles.com]

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Thanks so much!!! Makes everything so much easier!!!
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wow, very convenient. much better than http://forums.slickdeals.net/show...&t=1014111

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Thanks you very much! This will be a tremendous help when I make my BF decisions.
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thanks alot! should be stickied as Official
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Wow, great Job! Thanks, thumbs up and repped!
 
Old 11-14-2008, 01:08 AM #10
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Love the spreadsheet!

 
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Awesome, thank you!
 
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Excellent !!
Thanks a ton !!! Reps on your way..

 
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OH YEAH OP! I was just about to make a thread asking when this would pop up! the buying guide helped sooo much last year! THANKS!!
 
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Sweet! Was looking for this last week... Glad to see its back this year.
 
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Quote from akelnat View Post :
I have created this spreadsheet the past couple of years to help with my Black Friday shopping, I have found it very useful and I hope you will as well. Essentially, it is a spreadsheet that lists all the major Black Friday store ads in a format that can be sorted by store, product, price, etc. Use the drop down arrows at the top of the columns to sort and/or filter the data.

This is a work in progress and more ad information will be added as it becomes available.....
Thanks to all for the offers to help, I really appreciate it.
Download Here or here

akelnat
Looks great, thanks for all the work on it. Only problem I see is that in order to make it printable and still have the font big enought to read, a few of the columns would have to be deleted. No big deal as a couple of the descriptor columns are redundant details and can be deleted without affecting the functionality of the spread sheet. And if you want you can abbreviate the store names to shrink that column down to save space also. Reps +3 to you !
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