Shop online for Black Friday deals

ByABC News
November 19, 2011, 12:10 PM

— -- How do you get prepared for Black Friday deals on electronics? Pour a cup of coffee and sit down at your computer.

Some of the big players in the post-turkey shopping madness are giving you a head start by announcing some of their door-buster specials through their digital channels. And several online stores have already begun offering pre-turkey sales.

The Best Buy chain of electronics stores has announced several Black Friday deals on its website, bestbuy.com, and promised to reveal more next week through Twitter and Facebook.

The announced door-buster items include a 24-inch high-definition Dynex TV for $80, a Samsung laptop with a 320GB hard drive for $300, and an Internet-ready Toshiba Blu-ray disc player for $40.

Walmart is also lifting the curtain early on its gadgets by posting its newspaper insert online at walmart.com. The bargains include a 32-inch Emerson TV for $188, a 15-inch HP laptop for $248 and a dual-screen in-car DVD player for $59.

Target's newspaper insert shows an RCA portable DVD player with a 9-inch screen for $55 and DVDs discounted to as little as $1.99.

Many of the Black Friday ads are posted online at bfads.net and theblackfriday.com.

Amazon and other online stores are also jumping the gun on Black Monday, the usual sale day for Web retailers, by offering early deals or daily discounts on their websites. Some of the recent sale items have included Microsoft's curved keyboard for $15 at amazon.com, a 16GB Lexar thumb drive for $22 at officedepot.com, and a 7-inch Android tablet for $100 at tigerdirect.com.

And you can always find unique stocking stuffers at thinkgeek.com. It may be the only Web store that has Doctor Who key chains for $13, a set of BuckyCubes for $25, and "Star Wars" nutcrackers for $40.

E-mail Ric at ricman@courier-journal.com.