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It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas!

In about a month, the 5th Bitcoin Black Friday will be upon us. I can barely believe it's been five years already.

The date is November 25th 2016.

If you're new to the community or missed any of the last Bitcoin Black Fridays, BBF is a campaign to promote Bitcoin and Bitcoin Merchants. Each year we aggregate all the deals Bitcoin merchants offer and send out information to the press to show them what Bitcoin can buy you for the holidays.

If you want to sign up for an email reminder when the event launches, or receive early deals, visit http://bitcoinblackfriday.com to sign up as a shopper.

If you're a merchant and want to sign up, the form is located here: http://bitcoinblackfriday.com/merchant

Now, some updates to what has changed this year:

- Earlier deals, published deals before the event launches. This has been a big request so we'll make sure to announce as many deals as we can ahead of Black Friday so people can prepare.

- Search - We're going to add a search bar so you can quickly find what you're looking for.

- Smaller event this year in all likelihood. Merchant adoption has slowed, and a lot of consumer attention has shifted away from Bitcoin.
 
Sign up for the newsletter at http://bitcoinblackfriday.com if you want to get a reminder about the day. Let me know if you guys have any questions!

Bump!

Please make sure that fake sites are identified on the day. We have seen scam sites pop up like mushrooms during this period and lots of people lost

money because of this. This puts a damper on the whole initiative, when things like this happens. We should have one site managing these specials,

to make sure that they are legit. Just a heads up...  ::)

We're the official site. I haven't seen any scam sites pop up yet, but I'll let our newsletter subscribers know if any do.

Always be careful shopping!

Yes, but do you remember this --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1268318.0 and how they spoofed the domain and fooled a lot of people?

https://bitcoinonair.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/theres-a-scam-bitcoin-black-friday-site-using-the-info-domain-please-steer-clear-and-spread-the-word/

I got scammed last year and I want everyone to watch out for this in 2016. It's a great initiative, but people gets greedy over this period and then

they become easy targets for scammers.  >:(

Oh great, this is still a thing? Can I still use my btc on overstock?

Submit my Deal  ;) ;)

Good to see you participate again :D

Yeah, last year a lot of person contacts me  :) :)

Haha uh oh. Bitcoin black Friday. That just sends shivers up my spine. Maybe word it differently right people? For those that were around for the bitcoinblackfriday debacle, it was an utter mess. Just a bunch of sketchy crap all going on under one roof.

Sounds like a good thing,hopefully like others state we can keep the scammers at bay to the most part.
It detracts from what you are looking to achieve.
Black Friday does sound creepy though,never really understood the holiday as a Canadian,like the meaning behind it.

This is my first year here, there is not even a year to be exact. I never heard about bitcoin black friday, I opened site and I signed up. But to be honest I don`t know exactly what for I signed up.
I understand part where merchants and buyers meat, but hows that happen, and what kind of things we can buy? Is there a good discounts? Can someone compare last year bitcoin black friday prices with current ones, was there a difference? I don`t wish to sound stupid, but this is the first time I hear about something like this.

To be honest I have the same questions, will I receit a lot of e-mails?

What will happen with bitcoin price in the black friday/christmas? Price goes down a little bit? (I'm not talking about products here)

We keep the email count low.

Bitcoin price historically has risen going into the holidays.

The idea is good but it needs people to keep going and be successful. The list shoud be up to date and available to everyone. Merchants should advertise their products to get people interested. Many people just wasn't familiar with fact this is happening.
Hope it will go better this time, good luck.

The idea would be that people who has not bought bitcoin before, see these specials and buy bitcoins to be able to buy these specials. The affect of more people buying bitcoins, should push up the demand for the available coins, and this should in theory push up the price.

The other side of this is that existing hoarders of coins, will start buying some of these specials with the hoard coins and this floods the exchanges with more coins, pushing the price down.

So depending on who participate the most in this < New adopters vs Hoarders > will determine what happens with the price.

Looks good. I was probably going to do most of my shopping on websites that still do not accept Bitcoin, but I was looking into places that will accept Bitcoin directly as well. Hopefully less people are going to be negatively affected than last night (remember the scam website being promoted?). Anyhow, are any deals going to be shown *earlier* without signing up via email?

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Considering the situation in America, the price may keep rising before Black Friday which would encourage more shopping (if it starts cooling down around that time).

Yes, I just remember what happened last year with a company who promoted their black Friday offer with signature campaign. We all need to be very carefull at the way we trade when thse typs of offers are announced to the bitcoin users. Hope everyone will act with extra care.

Someone can make a site where you can find products in stores that accept bitcoin, just trusted ones, so in this way is more easy to users know more stores and find the best prices.. not just in black friday... ;)

was there not some problem with malware the last time this black friday event was running, just carful what you click on   :o

You can actually use a search engine that finds Bitcoin deals specifically. It's located on the official Bitcoin website so there is no funny business going on with the results I guess. Link: https://www.bitcoin.com/spend-bitcoin-online

It's actually not a bad idea.
Giving people a reason to use Bitcoin (discounts, free shipping, etc)
could possibly create some new users.
Getting people who have never used BTC before interested is one of the main things we need to do if we want Bitcoin to grow.

Cool that this is running again!

Please be on top of preventing another disaster like last year. That was some serious bad stuff going on with a lot of people losing money.

Other than than, great initiative, hope a lot of people will participate.

I wonder how many people will participate in this, if everyone is running to Bitcoin to protect their wealth? I think more people will hoard this year, if the special offers are poor. The merchants will have to go all out this year to grab the attention of the customers.

I was hoping for some specials on the different hardware wallets. I already have one, but it's close to Xmas and I want to buy some for some friends. < Hint : Buy 1 / Get 1 Free >

I will just double check with the merchants to see if these deals are legit, because last year there were many scams.

I was not part of this forum last year, so please tell me what happened last year that people had to lose money ???

Some scammer made a competing site.

People who used the competing site in the middle of the day noticed a bunch of new sites got listed.

The newly listed sites were phishing sites and stole people's money.

Everyone who used bitcoinblackfriday.com was safe (well as safe as you can be shopping online).

yeah reminds me that day,the owner of bitcoinblackfriday.info honestly is pretty smart to scam people(no offense),first he's making a signature campaign to attract people to try out the website when the site just released,and after the site released,inside it have few button that redirecting to some popular website that selling goods but actually the hyperlink redirect to phishing site

I'll definitely be having a look to see what kind of offers are on for Black Friday. Not even sure what I need right now but this is always too good an opportunity to miss out on.

Hello :)
Black Friday for bitcoin :) that might be a great thing over the web, in the btc shops, etc etc...
I think im going to make some campaining, that might teach people about bitcoin in our country, it is a good idea and i dont have even to pay for it, if i can speak to specified people haha :D
Yeah, im going to do something like this, it can always give you profits and you dont risk!

It was bitcoinblackfriday.info... run by an anonymous guy since no one bothered to look into his background.

.com is mine, which is legit and run by me, a real person.

definitely love the idea and will be participating but I to remember some Malware warnings,
so definitely be smart out there people this holiday season.  Cant believe its been so long
holy crap I'm getting old lol.

Yup, definitely will be savings some coins to increase my positions on selected projects. Always try to get as much discount as possible. It speeds up your ROI big time.

I would really want to be part of this having not been involved in Bitcoin during the previous versions of this programme. I guess its a good moment to look forward to and I hope to get some of the things I would need in a cheaper way than what I will get if I have to convert and buy over here because if that has been defeated, then I can not be part of it. Also concerning issues raised on the first page, kindly look into it in other to protect the image of this project...

I thought it sounded very interesting, I honestly do not know about black friday it. but I've heard about black friday it. black friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is usually the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the USA. Is that true ?

Hold up a second, is this a *new* website or was this around last year as well? I don't see any positive trust-ratings on your profile, which is what I'd expect to see if you had created this website sometime in the past.

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I'm considering spending a couple hundred bucks at least to run some upgrades, thus there is importance in such a website.

I think this is a good suggestion. SOmeone can compile and come out a list of all merchants and vendors. Something like a trusted lists since we know there are also more scammers on the internet.

I highlighted the most important aspect. While agree that it is great to see increased Bitcoin acceptance and economic activity in general, I'm a bit concerned that most businesses use payment providers and convert to fiat in the end. Bitcoin can only fully unfold its true potential if direct payments without fiat conversion become the norm, because any conversion adds complexity, costs and possible centralization risks to what would otherwise be a seamless process. Fiat reliance also prevents the establishment of a closed-loop Bitcoin economy.

Therefore I think it would be great if businesses that accept Bitcoin directly receive special attention. Maybe we should design an award for them and push their offers up on reddit.

ya.ya.yo!

This site has been around for 5 years. Here's one of the older sites I could find reporting on it: http://calvinayre.com/2012/11/19/business/bitcoin-online-gambling-sites-pros-cons-and-preaching-to-the-choir/

Feel free to ask some of the older community members about me if you need someone to + my reputation :)

I switched my BitcoinTalk account a couple times and don't tend to do p2p trades on here.

Wow the event is almost here!

Ahah, I also do not know why there was a thread like this. I have never seen this before, hopefully this does not affect the growth of the bitcoin. the reason that I see from all the things in this thread gives a pretty bad impact to the growth of the bitcoin. Better think about how to gain greater advantage so that we can live a Department and doesn't need to be hard work again in search of something to do about the world.

Is this a scam site again (even if it's accidental)?
There was a site last year filled with links to scam sites (I think they were either bitcoinblackfriday.com or bitcoinblackfriday.info (gotapauj was the owner last year). They had a very sophisticated attempt to scamming people and their appearance began for about a month before the event (even getting signature designs and a signature campaign going).

Also, if it's been 5 years that you have been here, what is your first account (as that one was registered in 2013).

I remember last year's bitcoinblackfriday. Was going to buy some stuff, then saw all the reports of scams all over the forum. Stopped me right in my tracks. Be careful this year, guys!

I might be interested in taking part in this and helping out, but I'll have to look for the time to do it. Things are busy right now and I don't know when it'll be letting up.

What have the turnouts been like for the previous events? Were there a lot of companies involved and a good number of shoppers, or is it like a smaller thing that maybe a dozen or so companies take part in?

I don't understand the search thing, there's already one at the top right correct?

or does it not work correctly? either way I guess its better than nothing

Excited to see which vendors on OpenBazaar have submitted! They've already been sharing some good deals in our Slack, like I know Andreas Antonopoulos is offering his new book for just BTC 0.011 ($8.00USD) through OpenBazaar only: https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-ecosystem-cryptobooks/

its just only 1 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes left for the launching. i think it will be interesting to participate on that website and maybe i will follow the other to take a look and see what merchant that join in that website. i hope its for real and will not scam every one which want to buy something in that site.

It's a nice initiative that got tainted by scams. I'm supposing this year we're free of such attempts are we?

Just signed up. I hope we get nice deals.

lol i remember that moment, i was interested on primedice,I didn't figure out  that it was scam site the primedice.io, so many scam sites at that moment, however they were paying their members of the signature campaign even though everyone has figured out that it is scam, at least the members of the signature campaign weren't scammed by the owner.

This is not a scam site. .info was the scam site and quite frankly, signature campaign members on BitcoinTalk are the major reason that they managed to trick people. Lots of people saw that scam site because they paid thousands of dollars of BTC for the signature campaign, without anyone doing their homework on who the people behind the copycat site were.

My name, identity, is associated with the site. I've worked with a ton of different Bitcoin companies in the space. Feel free to shoot me a PM if you want to talk about my old accounts.

There are news articles going back to 2012 which mention me by name. BitcoinBlackFriday.com is the official site.

I don't see any early deals as promised.

I remember this from last year and it was a fisaco.
Millions of innocent blocks slaughtered for no good reason.
Avoid this years disaster called bitcoinblackfriday. >:(

The scam site .info is gone.  This site has been legit for 5 years.  Bought several things last year.  Don't talk about stuff you have no knowledge of.

Looking forward to today's deals!  BitcoinBlackFriday.com is the original and the real BBF website. 

We've participated for the past 5 years and JonHolmquist runs a great service to vendors and customers alike.

Tried to negotiate with merchants but didn't get enough interest to do an early list.

All deals are up now though (listed at least, deals not guaranteed to work on merchant sites until morning), feel free to go take a look.

Just seeing this thread now...but we did add our deal to Bitcoinblackfriday.com. We'll honor this deal through Cyber Monday.

10% off all Koncept Cars forged wheels in our Tailored Collection. Happy shopping! :)

Thanks  http://bitcoinblackfriday.com to help me every year selling a lot of C.A.T. copies!!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Hmm Though the intention is good for the awareness of bitcoin but it seems, it has affected the bitcoin price. Though it is mere a speculation but seems more are pulling out their bitcoina nd exchange for cash.