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Bitcoin Black Friday

It's that time again folks.

If you weren't around last year or didn't participate, Bitcoin Black Friday is simply a day (on November 28th) for Bitcoin Merchants to offer great discounts to the Bitcoin community. For Bitcoiners it's a great time to stock up on presents for the holidays.

If you want to get a reminder before the biggest day of consumer Bitcoin spending hits, sign up here: http://bitcoinblackfriday.com (http://bitcoinblackfriday.com)
 
If you're a merchant, sign up on the other form on the website (bitcoinblackfriday.com) to list your deal for free!

Giveaways

Additionally, we're rolling out giveaways, which we'll be doing each Friday (starting tomorrow!) in November. Simply by signing up on the list you will be entered into a raffle to get the following prizes:

Giveaway 11/14/2014

1: Amagi Metals is giving away a bundle including a 1oz silver round custom made by Amagi Metals. Stamped on the round are the words, "Fraudulent Reserve System". Also a Stand for Liberty t-shirt. Additionally, if you're planning on picking up coins for friends and family, wait until you see the offer they have for Black Friday!

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url: https://www.amagimetals.com/ Twitter: @amagimetals Facebook: facebook.com/amagimetals

2: Namecheap.com (http://Namecheap.com) is offering 6 bundles with 1 t-shirt and some stickers.

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3: MixedTees.com (http://MixedTees.com) is offering to give away a hoodie to one lucky subscriber.

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4: Tealet.com/ (http://tealet.com/) is donating one tea box (http://tealet.com/tea/profile/108) to a winner.

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5: Private Internet Access (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/) is giving away 10 month-long memberships to use their VPN.

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6: Bees Brothers (http://www.beesbros.com/) is giving away 1 small gift box (http://www.beesbros.com/store1.html) of candies and honey.  Small gift box contains: Honey, Honey Caramels, and Honey Roasted Almonds.

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7: Bitsoaps (http://www.bitsoaps.com/) is giving away 10 bundles of their soap bars. Each bundle contains two Original Hemp Oil Bitcoin Soap Bars.

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FAQ

Won't this hurt the price? Shouldn't everyone hold?

We don't advocate that Bitcoiners sell out of Bitcoin, only that they support the merchants they worked so hard to get on board and then replenish any bitcoins that they have spent. You can keep your hoard, just spend that fiat that you would during the holidays at merchants accepting Bitcoin.

How many merchants are going to participate this year?

We had 600 merchants participate last year. Thanks to all the growth in the Bitcoin merchant space due to BitPay (http://bitpay.com), Coinbase (http://coinbase.com), and others we're shooting for 6000 merchants to offer a deal this year. That's a small percentage of total businesses that accept Bitcoin, but a large percentage of how many actually interact with the community. We need your help with this, if you want to see your favorite small merchant participate this year, send them an email with a link to sign up on our site, it's free.

How do you screen deals?
I personally review all merchants on the site before we go live. If they're known scammers, their submission is deleted. It's still up to the consumer to double check on smaller stores with few reviews though. Buyer beware.

When will the deals be live?

We tend to tease a couple deals a week before the site goes up. Past that, we unleash all the deals the morning of the 28th.

Giveaway Info

Giveaway Dates: November 7th, November 14th, November 21st.

We’re offering giveaways on those dates to any email subscribers to our mailing list. We will be announcing the giveaways and prizes the Thursday before the giveaway, letting people sign up before the drawing on Friday.

We will be drawing the winner at 3pm PST. The winners will be requested (but not required) to make a post on social media once they’ve won.

No purchase necessary; Giveaway will start on Thursday, November 6th, 2014 at 10am PST and end on Friday November 21st, 2014 at 3pm PST. ; eligibility requirements: over 18, U.S. Citizen*; Entry by submitting email to the mailing list; One entry by a signal person or household; Odds will depend on total entries. Winner will be picked by random number generator and notified by email for receiving the prize. Void where prohibited.

*Sorry about not being international, but U.S. laws, where we are based, are restrictive.

Looking forward to participating in this.

Same here! Let's hope there are some more European based companies involved as well ;D

I think next year we'll actually be able to segregate by country/continent.

yay! great to hear this :)

That would be amazing! Keep up the good work guys ;D

As am I!

I think that spending your bitcoin is the key to have the price of bitcoin go higher over the long term, as spending your bitcoin will contrubate to the bitcoin economy.

Any word if you can get Newegg to offer some deals or a % off?

Awesome. I'll be shopping on that day for sure.  8)

Same didn't notice that Black Friday was soon
Although today could be known as a Black Friday for an entirely different reason
RIP SR2 (purge is still ongoing) So it's probably a few more than that.

It sux that we are excluded, because of borders. ^Sad^
Bitcoins have no borders, why should you?

Can't wait :)

This is cool and will be a good thing for all involved in the community. I'm looking forward to participating and buying something with my BTC on the 28th. I'll sign up and browse the website until then.

I'd love to buy something at a discount for using btc, but when we compare the price of btc from this time last year I'd feel like I was losing money. Oh well, maybe next november *fingers crossed*.

me too  :)

I'm looking forward to this so I can grab some awesome deals.

Sounds like a great event for bitcoin consumers.

Definitely!

What should I do to participate on the giveaways Exactly ? put my email here ? http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/ ?

Good news! Awesome! :)

This looks really interesting!

It's a great idea to get people interested in buying Bitcoins to get deals.

We just submitted our items for the last two Friday giveaways.  I'm not sure if it is possible at this point to change the rules, but if someone outside the U.S. was to win our items we would be happy to ship international.

I wil participate for sure.

Main issue is the law regarding giveaways in the States.

Great initiative.

Btw, what does "20 bundles" from namecheap mean?

They're did that many shirts given out. This week it's 6 bundles, which means 6 winners get shirts.

In other news,

Giveaway listing are updated! More merchants are giving away things. Just sign up on the main website and you'll get entered to win!

 ;D ;D interessante

Thanks for the giveaway information.

Will be waiting for that to happen next year. :)

Who should I contact about donating a Silver NastyFans Minted Seat (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352515.0) for next week's giveaway?