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God… I had forgotten what this time of year gets like around Black Friday; well it’s getting closer, which means “Black Friday” deal leaks from now until the night before.
Dealsea has summarized all the known ads thus far, here are the good ones:

HDTV Deals of Black Friday 2008

Costco Black Friday 2008 Ad

Amazon Black Friday 2008 [...]

From Dealsea
As someone in the market for an X300 or whatever the revised X300 becomes, I was really impressed with the sale price of the X300 (normally $2200+) of around $1400.
Lenovo has up to Extra 15% off Thinkpad Notebooks valid through Oct. 24.

Use eCoupon code “USPYPWWPOCT” in cart to see extra savings

Lenovo new IdeaPad S10 [...]

From Dealsea
Frys has 3 Xbox 360 Pro 60GB Console Bundle for $350 + $6 shipping.

XBOX 360 Pro 60GB + 4 Games + Black Wireless Controller
XBOX 360 Pro 60GB Console + 5 Games (Online Only)
XBOX 360 Pro 60GB Console + 5 Games (Online Only)

From Dealsea.
Dell Home has some video games on sale. Free shipping $129+. [Comments]

Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) $60 – $25 coupon “24LVPRK0T8ZS9?” = $35
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS3) $60 – $20 coupon “SBFTVHQS0B76FH” = $40
Madden NFL 09 (PS3) $61 – $25 coupon “$BF6K8D$QHRXSC” = $36
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Bundle (PS3) $99 – $40 coupon “RSS0N0WK52L125″ = $59

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Xbox 360) $60 [...]

From Dealsea
Frys has Intel Core 2 Q9550 Quad Core Processor Retail (2.83GHz, 4×3MB, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775 Socket T) for $280 + $5 shipping
– Pretty badass deal, Newegg has this CPU for $320. To get a quad-core, high performance chip in your box, $285 is completely reasonable.

From Dealsea
Amazon has 60-Pack of chips for $25.20. Buy 2 (120 bags) for $50.40 – $15 off with promo code CHIPDSCT (Exp 7/11) = $35.40 with free shipping.

Jens Eckels sent in some badass news that for the week of June 8-14, Wal-Mart will be issuing $100 Gift Cards for anyone buying a Blu-ray Player. In addition to that announcement Wal-Mart is announcing super-low prices, some as low as $15, on Blu-ray titles to choose from if you decide to pickup some titles [...]

Let’s face it… you jumped the gun and got an HD-DVD player and now you hate your life. If you got that player from Circuit City within the last 3 months however, they are quietly offering a trade-in program to re-apply the full purchase price to that of a Blu-ray player.
Not too shabby… thanks Engadget!

Ars Technica is reporting that an M$ mole has given them some inside knowledge. The soon to be obsolete HD-DVD add-on of for the Xbox is dropping from $119.99 to $49.99. You may ask why buy now? Well, if you couple the price drop with the fact that you can get 5 free HD-DVD’s [...]

Brad Agdern sent in a pretty kick-ass little link from the Newegg site, that being a “Products with Gifts” search page.
For shoppers that don’t normally shop on Newegg sometimes they offer products that when purchased, come with additional free-bees… this search lets you look for ONLY products with free-bees.
NICE!

Robert Heron sent in news that L.A. has deployed it’s first and second medical marijuana vending machines that work in the following fashion (from article):

Customers bring their prescriptions for approval at the AVMs, housed in enclosed room guarded 24/7.
They are fingerprinted and photographed.
They receive a pre-paid credit carded loaded with their individual profiles.
They choose [...]

Stephen just sent in some kick ass 1-day news over at Amazon. They have Lost, Season 3 on Blu-ray on sale for $39.99 just for today.
If you like Lost, hop on that!