Are You Looking For Ways to Save This Black Friday?
Black Friday is only a day away (at most a day away, since there are plenty of early Black Friday deals that are currently available). It may have arrived or passed by the time you get to read this, but there’s a good chance you may still be able to benefit from at least some of the information below.
Black Friday Tips
The Early Bird Gets the Worm
Some of these deals go live right after midnight, and there are several reasons for being among the first to arrive whenever possible. The most important is that for some offers there may be limited quantities.
In past years, some of the largest stores (in terms of online presence) have experienced technical issues due to overload on their systems. The Black Friday phenomenon continues to grow every year. Even though the stores do their best to improve and minimize issues like cart errors, during peak times these are likely to occur again.
Use Your Time Wisely
I’ll be sharing some of the best places I have found to get information on Black Friday deals. I have checked out quite a few articles and websites, and I have come up with a shortlist of what I consider are the best.
Beware of the sites and articles with flashy headlines that come up short in substance. There are plenty of those that highlight wonderful products and discounts but that will simply link to the home pages of online stores. Then you’re on your own to browse and find the deals they mention.
There will be way more great offers beyond the ones I mention here. While you are browsing online on your own, you may encounter a situation like I mentioned in the paragraph above. My suggestion is to move on to another website or article. If you check out two or three links and you don’t like what you see, it’s unlikely that it will get better if you stay there.
Coffee and Related Black Friday Deals
Best Quality Coffee
I had mentioned in one of my previous articles (Where to Find the Best Deals on Coffee Pods Like Keurig) that I would be watching this website for a 2021 update. Sure enough, they have updated the information for Black Friday deals this year. Here is the link to their page: Best Quality Coffee Black Friday Deals 2021
If you have enough time, you may want to browse through that article, especially the last part on finding seasonal deals. The Best Quality Coffee website is my preferred place to check for Black Friday deals, but you may have browsed others in 2020. If you found some good information in other websites last year, you might want to check those for updates too.
I want to mention two offers that stood out when I looked through the list. Both are 50% off deals for new customers, and both stores are among the best in terms of the quality of the coffee they sell.
You’ll have a hard time finding healthier coffee than Lifeboost. At half price, I’m pretty sure they will be getting a lot of new customers with this offer.
Trade Coffee is in a league of its own. They are my top overall pick for coffee subscriptions, and they particularly stand out in terms of the way they cover all of the key points in customizing just the right fit for each buyer.
I highly recommend Trade Coffee even at full price, so you can imagine what I would say to a potential new customer contemplating a 50% offer: “go for it!”
Finally, some of the offers are only available for a very limited time (only for a few days). There are also plenty that will be available for quite some time, some even until 2022 and beyond.
Wired
Earlier today I received a Google alert for this one, so it’s one of the latest (and also one of the greatest, in my opinion). For those not familiar with Wired, they started out as a magazine with a main focus on technology. They have since gone more mainstream, and they’re very good at finding outstanding deals.
I can almost guarantee that you’ll be spending serious time here, and not just browsing some amazing coffee appliance deals. Though for starters you’ll definitely want to check out their page on coffee makers and coffee gear. The one that stood out is $50 off the regular $80 price for a GE drip coffee maker.
Here is the link: Black Friday deals featured on Wired.
Live Tracking
This is a page that is providing live updates starting prior to Black Friday and lasting through Cyber Monday. There is a lot of information to start out with ahead of Black Friday, including links to related articles.
I browsed through the deals that are currently featured and found quite a few kitchen appliances. More specifically, I spotted deals for a Mr. Coffee iced coffee machine and a Keurig K-Mini coffee maker.
You can check out the information and updates here: Black Friday deals and live tracking.
Amazon Black Friday Deals
For a direct link to the Amazon Black Friday home page, click here: Amazon Black Friday Home Page
Since many of you will likely be looking for other things besides coffee and related appliances, I wanted to provide that link first and then show how to get to the other pages with coffee and coffee related products.
At the bottom of the image, there are various product categories. You will want to choose “kitchen” toward the far right to see the coffee appliance and related gear deals.
At the far right, you will see a red arrow pointing down (bottom right corner). Click there to get to the next set of product categories.
You want to select the “grocery” category to get to the page with coffee deals (there is a red circle showing where it is located, at the bottom of the page near the center).
Close to the bottom right corner, you will see “coupons” and “lightning deals” (there is another red circle around those two icons). You’ll want to check these pages for additional opportunities to save.
Additional Savings
Be always on the lookout for “stackable” offers (offers that can be used to obtain additional savings). Some examples are coupons and credit card offers. At times I have been able to get things literally for free after all of the potential discounts and bonuses are applied.
In the future I will be writing more about these types of deals, but before I do I just wanted to give you a heads up on these opportunities to save even more money.