- Hey everyone, I'm Melea from Freebies2Deals.
Black Friday week is here, everyone's asking me
all these questions about Black Friday,
whether you can get the deals online, in store.
What time does it start online?
Can I get all of the deals online?
There's so many questions, so today
I'm gonna answer all of those questions,
plus give you all the secrets and tips
you need in order to get all those Black Friday deals
online, at home, in your PJs.
Are you guys ready?
Okay, let's get started.
(techno music)
Okay, the first question I get all the time is:
Can I get the Black Friday deals online,
or do I have to go in store to get those?
It totally depends every year,
and it depends on the store, so let me
give you some guidelines for that.
If it says in store only in the Black Friday ad,
then that means in store only, but
that does not mean that another store like Amazon
might not swoop in and offer that
same deal online for the same price.
If your store isn't offering that Black Friday deal online,
chances are another store is going to,
so you can watch for those, and all
of the Black Friday online deals start
before actual Black Friday in stores,
so you can look online and try
to find those deals, and if you don't
find them, then you can use in store Black Friday
as a last resort, or you can wait until Cyber Monday.
Either way, I want you guys to know,
I have never ever, ever stepped foot
in a Black Friday store ever, because I've
gotten every single deal online for the same price,
if not cheaper, than the in store ad price.
Okay, the next question is: Walmart has
a one hour guarantee in their Black Friday ad.
Does that work online too?
The answer is: no it does not.
That one hour guarantee only works in store
during the allotted time that Walmart
has put out in their Black Friday ad.
If you're there within that time,
in line with your ticket, you are good to go,
and you can get that product, it's guaranteed.
All right, the next question is:
When do the online Black Friday sales start?
This is my number one asked question,
and I have to tell you guys, it starts
different every single year.
It is so frustrating for me, because I wish
I could just tell you it starts on this day at this time.
It does not start Black Friday, it does not
start on Thanksgiving, it is always earlier than that.
Last year in 2014, it actually started
a whole Friday before Black Friday.
Crazy, right, and the only people
who knew were people who
were looking themselves and found out,
who did some research, or who were
following a blogger like me.
This year, Walmart is starting on Wednesday night.
I mean like, 2 AM, 3 AM in the morning, right?
Because if you get online at 6 AM,
all of those hot deals and the doorbuster deals
they did let out early are gonna be gone.
So, I'm gonna be up late, so if you
want to jump online with me, I will
post on Freebies2Deals.com, I will
post on my Facebook page under Freebies2Deals,
and on Instagram under Freebies2Deals.
I will let you know when all the stores go live.
Some of them have already started,
some of them start even earlier than Tuesday and Wednesday,
so when those happen, I post them on the blog,
but if you follow me on any of those places,
I will tell you, hey, Target is live,
or Target's going in one hour.
It's gonna be live in one hour.
You might have to stay up a little late,
a little later than you wanted to,
but would you rather be drinking hot chocolate
in your pajamas hanging out watching
a movie while you're waiting for the Black Friday deals
to go live, or would you rather
be out in the freezing cold, standing in line
for a few hours, and then fighting other
moms and parents for the same gift?
I think you guys would probably prefer number one, right?
So, that's why we're gonna do it together this year,
so if you haven't done online shopping
before on Black Friday, this is the time.
You're gonna do it, and I know you're gonna do awesome.
All right, another question is:
Can I really get the same prices
as a Black Friday ad if I shop online?
Yes, you totally can, and I've tested
this out for the last six years,
and I have never been proven wrong.
You can always find those deals,
you just have to be vigilant in looking
for those deals online, so you can't
just expect it to fall in your lap,
you might have to stay up a little later,
you might have to get online super early
in the morning, but those deals are there.
Even after Black Friday and Cyber Monday,
those deals will pop up again through
sites like Amazon, and even Target.
Okay, now it's time for some secret tips
that I'm going to share with you guys
in case you didn't know, about Black Friday shopping.
The number one and most important tip
is that you guys need to make sure
that you're shopping the online
Black Friday deals on your computer, okay?
Don't do it from your mobile device,
don't do it from your iPad, it has to
be on a computer, and let me tell you why.
The mobile versions of most websites are not complete,
so even Amazon's mobile version of their site
is only a small portion of their site,
so not only are you missing product information,
but you're also gonna have problems navigating,
so if everyone's hopping online to grab
a crazy TV deal, and you're on your phone
and trying to navigate either an app
or an online version of the mobile site,
you're gonna go much slower than
someone on a computer that has full access to
a website, it has all the links and everything they need.
You might be fidgeting around trying to find
where you need to go to find that deal,
or the page you want might not pop up,
so if you're going to a computer,
you'll bypass all that craziness and all that frustration,
and you'll be able to get the deal quickly.
Another problem a lot of people have
with the mobile version of a site
is that the checkout process does not go seamless.
People have problems checking out,
they can't finish their order, and while
they're trying to figure that out
and deal with all that frustration,
someone else has snagged that item
out of their cart, and it's not theirs anymore.
That is why you're gonna want to make sure
that you use the real version of a site on your computer.
The second tip I wanted to give you guys is,
every year people ask me, who has the
best price on a trampoline, or who
has the best price on the Xbox One?
Unless you're gonna go through
every single ad that has come out for Black Friday,
you probably don't know the answer to that,
but I do, so I have put together the best of the best
Black Friday deals post for you.
It has all the hottest items,
and it tells you which store has it for which price,
so you know exactly which store
you want to buy it from, or if
multiple stores have the item
for the same price for Black Friday.
You can find this at Freebies2Deals.com,
and on the right hand side of my blog,
you'll see a big widget, it looks like this.
You can click on that any time you want,
and that whole list will pop up for you.
This will only show up on the
full version of Freebies2Deals.com off of a computer,
so if you try to find this on your mobile device,
you won't find it, because it doesn't show the sidebar.
Okay, so now you guys should be ready for Black Friday.
You should be ready to go out there,
or stay at home, and drink some hot cocoa,
and get the deals online, but most importantly,
if you have a question about Black Friday,
please leave a question in the comments section
below the YouTube video, so I can answer
that for you guys and help you get ready in time.
If you guys haven't yet, you're gonna want
to click on the videos over here,
because I have a how to budget,
and stay under budget for Christmas video
you guys might be interested in,
and I also have a really cool video
about the hottest toys for Christmas this year.
Hop on over, watch those videos,
and I'll talk to you guys next time.
See ya.