Black Friday 2012 – Best Tech Deals and Discounts

The Black Friday of 2012 is coming in just a few days and retailers have already announced special discounts for the shopping holiday. It would be a mistake if shoppers don’t check out the deals carefully because many of them are not priced lower at all.

If you are looking for electronics or online deals this week, this is really a good time for shopping. Be sure to check out the 4 apps and websites for Black Friday if you haven’t.

Here is the summary of the most prominent Black Friday deals in stores and online.

Deals for Bloggers/Webmasters

1. HostGator

HostGator will offer 50% OFF on all of their hosting services, including shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated servers and Windows hosting. Particularly, here are the pricing of hosting packages:

• Shared hosting: only $2.48/month.
• Reseller Hosting: only $12.48/month.
• VPS Hosting: $9.98/month (for first month only)
• Dedicated Servers: $87/month (for first month only)

If you purchase a domain with web hosting, you will only have to pay more $1.95. This is the best offer of the year. It will begin at midnight Friday, November 23rd, 2012 CDT and run until 11:59PM CDT of the same day.

2. GoDaddy

GoDaddy is kicking off Black Friday deal early and it will last all weekend. They are dropping price of new .COM domain name to just $1.99. To apply, just enter SMCOM199 promo code in your cart at checkout.

3. Studiopress

Studiopress is offering 25% off everything this week only. In order to see the deal, you must use this link to purchase. Then the price will be dropped as following:

• Genesis Framework for only $45.
• A Genesis child theme design for less than $20.
• Save more $20 when purchasing the Genesis framework and child theme combo. It is now priced at $59.96 only.
• Save over $950 by getting the Pro Plus All-Theme Package including all 46 current designs plus every new theme released in the future.

Gadget Deals

Amazon

Amazon has been launching a lot of Black Friday discounts throughout this week. A lot of TVs, cameras, computers, laptops and other gadgets has been on sale such a $499.99 Dell Inspiron i14z 14-Inch Ultrabook or a Samsung 32-Inch 720p LED HDTV for $247. Deals on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, as well as home items can also be found on Amazon.

There are a lot more deals being updated every hour, you can keep track of them here.

Target

Target stores will open on Thanksgiving Day at 9 p.m. You can check out all deals of Target here. Following are some notable deals you can find there:

• Nook Simple Touch was originally $100 and now it is on sale for $49. (but I heard about a better deal at just $39 at Sears).
• Canon T3 SLR Bundle including the EOS Rebel T3 body, lens, gadget bag, and a 4GB SD card is priced at $500.
• The 4GB Xbox 360 Bundle with the Xbox 360 console, Kinect, one wireless controller, and 2 games Kinect Adventures! and Disney Adventures will be dropped to just $200. This bundle was originally $300.
• The 250GB PlayStation 4 bundle which is originally $270 will be also dropped to $200. The bundle consists of the console, 2 games, and a wireless controller.
• Another great deal when you buy Apple products. Particularly, you will receive  a $60 Target gift card with any iPad, $40 gift card for a 16GB Apple iPad Touch and $20 gift card for a 16GB iPod nano. Purchasing the iPhone 4S of Virgin Mobile will also give you $100 Target gift card.

Best Buy

Best Buy will open stores at midnight on Thanksgiving day. They post a huge list of devices that will go on sale this Friday. Following are some deals that you shouldn’t miss:

• 8GB Wifi Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 in white is listed for just $180 and you also receive a $20 Best Buy gift card.
• Samsung laptop with 15.6-inch screen, 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive (originally $574) is now priced at $350. This is a bundle including the laptop, Webroot Security software, wireless mouse, neoprene sleeve and 8GB flash drive.
• 250GB PlayStation 3 bundle will be sold for $200.
• The Nintendo 3DS (Flame Red) with Super Mario 3D Land bundle (originally $210) will go on sale for $150. Besides, the PS Vita Wifi bundled with Call of Duty: Black Ops game will be sold for $200 (originally $320).
• The Toshiba 40-inch LCD HDTV which is originally $420 will be dropped to $180. The 32-inch Panasonic 720p HDTV (originally $300) will also be dropped to $190.
• The Nikon Coolpix S9050 (originally $260) is now 50% off at $130.