It might be a little early to start this thread, but since I already scored mine, I though I would.
There was a panasonic camcorder at bestbuy
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8212258&st=panasonic&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1166235821271
250 - 100 instant savings = 150$ out the door. While the ad said fri/sat, it said 10 minimum per store so I figured they would be gone first thing (and I wasn’t going to wait in line all morning for it). I figured I would go a little later, and if they were gone, so what, several other stores have 200$ and under digital camcorders on fri/sat sales so maybe I’ll get lucky somewhere. So I got to check specs on bestbuys site a little further thur morning before work, and see that it is 150$ online (no in store pickup available but free shipping), so I jumped on it. The next time I checked, they were sold out so I must have gotten there at just the right time. It sells for about 220$ and up online everywhere else so 150$ is pretty good (even if I have to wait for it to ship, and I can exchange or return locally if there are problems). Its also the cheapest decent one for black friday (and I’m poor) so that makes it even better.
Now to find some mini dv tapes (plenty of those for black Friday but I’m certainly not getting up early for that).