Black Friday 2013 - Walmart

This year for Black Friday Walmart is having 3 events.

Starts Thanksgiving Day at 6pm.
Starts Thanksgiving Day at 8pm.
Starts Black Friday at 8am – all weekend.

Walmart is offering a 1 hour in-stock guarantee on a larger amount of items than last year. It guarantees the designated items will remain in stock and available for purchase within 1 hour of their event start time. If any of these items sell out, you can buy a Guarantee Card which will ensure you will get the item before Christmas at the Black Friday price.

Here’s the fine print: Guarantee Card distribution will end 1 hour after event start time. Customers will receive a notice via email when item has been shipped and is ready for pickup. Cards must be registered at www.walmart.com/1hourguarantee by 11:59pm CST 12/1/13. If not registered by that time the card becomes a standard Walmart gift card. Limit 1 Guarantee Card per person, per item. Payment must be made at checkout.

Wristbands may be distributed on select items prior to the event time.

This year Walmart was trying to beat the leakers and released their Black Friday ads, emails and commercials in the wee hours of the morning on November 12. I was quite shocked. But I dove in and found some good buys in each of the events. As stated at the beginning of this series…I’m not posting every deal, just the more popular ones and the real good deals.

Event 1

1 HOUR IN-STOCK GUARANTEE

$299 iPad Mini wifi 16GB –> get $100 Walmart gift card {better deal over Target, same price but Target is offering a $75 gift card}
$38 LG Blu Ray player
$278 HP Pavilion TouchSmart 14″ 500GB HD laptop
$39.96 Call of Duty Ghosts
$34 NBA 2K14 and Grand Theft Auto V
$99 Graco Travel System incl infant car seat {really great deal, most travel systems start around $150}
$29 Furby Boom!

OTHER EVENT 1 ITEMS

$99 XBOX 360 4GB console with controller
$499 XBOX One system – with Kinect, contoller and chat headset
$199 PS3 Console Bundle – with The Last of Us and Batman Arkham Origins
$399 PS4 system – with Dualshock 4 wireless controller and wired mono headset
$149 PS3 12GB console with controller
$10 video games – over 29 titles available
$15 video games – over 41 titles available
$25 video games – over 37 titles available

Select DVDs and Blu Ray

$1.96 DVDs – over 152 titles available
$3.96 DVDs – over 37 titles available
$3.96 Blu Ray – over 89 titles available
$4.96 DVDs – over 72 titles available
$6.96 Blu Ray – over 60 titles available
$9.96 DVDs – over 39 titles available
$9.96 Blu Ray combo packs and TV season DVDs – over 96 titles available
$6.96 music CDs – over 20 titles available

$4.50 – $15 small appliances – some really good deals
$24 – $69 10″ – 24″ bikes – youth to adult
$89 Fisher Price 6 volt Barbie Jeep or Hot Wheels Jeep
$49 Disney 6 volt Quad Ride On – Minnie or Monsters University
$35 Barbie Big Box Playset
$20 character table and chair set – Cars, Spiderman, Sophia, Minnie or Disney Princess Save $14.97
$50 Little Tikes kitchen
$54 Leapfrog LeapPad 2.0 Save $25
$25 Vtech Mobigo 2 Save $24.97
$44 Elmo Hugs
$4.50 boys and girls character pajamas – lots of styles available
$3 boys and girls 3 pack character underwear
$39.86 S4 Air Powered Hockey table with overhead scoring
$24.96 Better Homes & Gardens 700 thread count sheet set – full, queen, king
$34.96 Better Homes & Gardens 7 piece comforter set – queen, king Save $35
$24.88 character 4 piece twin bed set with reversible comforter – Monster High, TMNT, Hello Kitty, Disney Princess, Angry Birds, Spiderman, Superman, or Sophia

Event 2

1 HOUR IN-STOCK GUARANTEE

$114.95 Beats by Dre Solo Headphones Save $85
$49 RCA 7″ dual core tablet
$29 Straight Talk Galaxy Centura cellphone Save $70.88
$288 Emerson 50″ LED HDTV Save $210

EVENT 2 TVs

$397 40″ Samsung Smart LED HDTV Save $81
$497 46″ Samsung Smart LED HDTV Save $151
$427 51″ Samsung Plasma TV Save $51
$75 23″ Element LED TV
$227 32″ Samsung LED HDTV
$178 40″ Element LED HDTV
$727 55″ Samsung Smart LED HDTV
$998 70″ Samsung Smart LED HDTV Save $700

$89 HP 7″ 8GB tablet
$99 Nabi 2 7″ tablet
$99 Trio Stealth 10.1″ 16GB tablet
$299 Samsung Galaxy 3 10.1″ tablet
$178 HP 15.6″ 500GB HD 4GB memory laptop
$29 – $69 HP printers
$9.98 McAfee Antivirus Live Safe total protection solution (load on up to 5 devices) Save $60 **this is my want and if I go this is what I am going for first!**

$49 Nikon L27 Coolpix camera 16.1 megapixels 5X zoom
$79 Canon Powershot SX160 camera 16.1 megapixels 16X optical zoom Save $90
$99 FujiFilm S4430 camera 14 megapixels 28X zoom
$99 Samsung HMX-F900 camcorder 52X zoom
$25 Otterbox case 2 pack for Samsung Galaxy S III/ S4 or iPhone 5/5 S
$149.95 Beats by Dr Dre Pill Save $50

EVENT 3

$98 Keurig K40 Elite –> get $10 Walmart gift card
$99 Keurig K10 Mini Plus –> get $20 Walmart gift card
$139 Keurig K60 Special Edition –> get $15 Walmart gift card
$169 Keurig K70 Platinum –> get $20 Walmart gift card
$79 Soda Stream with Mega Bonus Kit

TRADE IN ELIGIBLE SMARTPHONE GET UP TO $300 CREDIT TOWARDS NEW SMARTPHONE

BUY SELECT SMARTPHONES (NON IPHONE) GET $100 WALMART GIFT CARD (NOT AVAILABLE FOR SAMSUNG GALAXY S 4)

2 YEAR CONTRACT REQUIRED

iPhone 5C $45 or 5S $189 –> get $75 Walmart gift card — VZW, AT&T
$99 Samsung Galaxy S4 — VZW, AT&T, Sprint
97 cents Samsung Galaxy SIII — VZW

Whew!!! That was a lot!!! I haven’t done Black Friday at Walmart since I was in high school. I’ve heard the horror stories. But as of now, this ad is really enticing me. No matter what I won’t be able to make Event 1. Family comes first. But I’m really trying to finagle a way to be able to attend Event 2 and if I can that will be totally great! There are quite a few items that I would love to be able to get.

Will you be shopping one of Walmart’s Black Friday events?? #HappyShopping

Anonymous says

December 17, 2013 at 1:13 am

The Ipad Mini Walmart put on sale (Price: $299+$100 gift card) on the day of Black Friday 2013 had “One Hour Guarantee”. That means in that one hour guarantee period, whoever got the ticket of that item and paid for that item must have the item too. They cannot say the item is out of stock, and especially, they cannot say the item is out of stock when they already get paid for the item 17-18 days ago. And now they sent me an email showing they canceled my order saying the item is out of stock. When I paid for the item on Black Friday night(17-18 days ago), the item wasn’t out of stock. On Black Friday, I stayed awake the whole night and got the ticket including excess code and paid for my iPad Mini, and registered my excess code and purchase online, and in few hours I already received the confirmation email from Walmart, which showed my order will be ready between 12/14/13 and 12/22/13 at my local Walmart store. And now on the 12/13/13, I received an email showed that Walmart issued $328.16 to gift card and canceled my order. I didn’t stay awake the whole night on Black Friday to buy just Walmart gift card. If I want to buy just Walmart gift card, I can go to the store anytime and buy it. I didn’t make any mistake, I didn’t complain that Walmart’s site didn’t let me register the excess code in certain time limit like others did, then why should I suffer?

I already bought the case cover for this ipad mini in first week of December, and emotionally attached to this item, and have been waiting for since I paid for my item(17-18 days ago). If Walmart wasn’t sure whether that item would be “in stock or out of stock”, the Walmart wasn’t supposed to advertise “One Hour In-stock Guarantee” on the sale paper, and make customers paid for the item at the store right away. Now they don’t want to refund the money either saying their system won’t let them refund the money, so they issued gift cards in the name of refund the money.

It is really immoral and shameful if they cancel the order just like this, especially big store like Walmart saying the item is out of stock after these 18 days.

Comments

Anonymous says

December 17, 2013 at 1:13 am

The Ipad Mini Walmart put on sale (Price: $299+$100 gift card) on the day of Black Friday 2013 had “One Hour Guarantee”. That means in that one hour guarantee period, whoever got the ticket of that item and paid for that item must have the item too. They cannot say the item is out of stock, and especially, they cannot say the item is out of stock when they already get paid for the item 17-18 days ago. And now they sent me an email showing they canceled my order saying the item is out of stock. When I paid for the item on Black Friday night(17-18 days ago), the item wasn’t out of stock. On Black Friday, I stayed awake the whole night and got the ticket including excess code and paid for my iPad Mini, and registered my excess code and purchase online, and in few hours I already received the confirmation email from Walmart, which showed my order will be ready between 12/14/13 and 12/22/13 at my local Walmart store. And now on the 12/13/13, I received an email showed that Walmart issued $328.16 to gift card and canceled my order. I didn’t stay awake the whole night on Black Friday to buy just Walmart gift card. If I want to buy just Walmart gift card, I can go to the store anytime and buy it. I didn’t make any mistake, I didn’t complain that Walmart’s site didn’t let me register the excess code in certain time limit like others did, then why should I suffer?

I already bought the case cover for this ipad mini in first week of December, and emotionally attached to this item, and have been waiting for since I paid for my item(17-18 days ago). If Walmart wasn’t sure whether that item would be “in stock or out of stock”, the Walmart wasn’t supposed to advertise “One Hour In-stock Guarantee” on the sale paper, and make customers paid for the item at the store right away. Now they don’t want to refund the money either saying their system won’t let them refund the money, so they issued gift cards in the name of refund the money.

It is really immoral and shameful if they cancel the order just like this, especially big store like Walmart saying the item is out of stock after these 18 days.