It's holiday hurting season for retailers, but store owners have been teasing up shopper interest by "leaking" bloggers ads for Black Friday doorbuster deals on their awesome merchandise. "People will shop for gifts this year...at just how low a rate remains to be seen," says BloggingStocks (which lists bargains like $10 sweaters at Target). Gizmodo says Toys R Us will have 50 percent more "doorbuster" deals than last year, a total of 150 from 5am to 1pm on November 28th. Kotaku presents an early edition of GameStop's BF circular ($199 for an Xbox 360 bundle!) CrunchGear shows two different Staples BF circulars as if they are unearthed ancient scrolls. Cult of Mac is interested in cheapo mini-laptop netbooks that can be tweaked to run OS X. Nike apparently is launching a limited-edition Black Friday sneaker, Nice Kicks reports. Meanwhile, Blackfriday.fm and blackfriday.info are rounding up the deals from all the usual suspects. Still says TechSlant, "I'm not seeing any deals that are really making me want to wake up at 4am.... I mean, where's the $150 Blu-ray player?"

Of course, in these tough times, you're bound to have money-saver party-poopers like the folks at Mainstreet, where they give painfully sensible advice such as not buying stuff you don't really need. Then there are shopping pragmatists. At Suite101 the advice is to "recruit a friend or family member to divide and conquer different sales in order to take advantage of several Black Friday deals." Identity Theft Blog gets in a plug for its special interest, warning that "identity thieves will be on their A-game" this season. Consumerist notes that Black Friday isn't really the year's biggest shopping day (according to Mastercard). Blogging Stocks notes that low prices are great for consumers but have investors and economists scared to death. Then again, if Black Friday sales fail to bust all the doors--as Walletpop notes--there's always Cyber Monday.