Web sites offer sneak peek at holiday ads

Circle your calendars: Black Friday is just around the corner.

While it's not actually the busiest shopping day of the year, you'd never convince the legions of consumers who get up extra early on the morning after Thanksgiving to hunt down deep discounts at the mall.

You'll see all the ads in the extra-thick Thanksgiving Day newspaper, of course. But you can start to plot your holiday shopping strategy right now—online.

You'll find a range of "official" sources that are posting sale prices now, including:

• Black Friday 2007
• BlackFriday.info
• http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/
• The Black Friday 2007

All have similar formats and content: lists and lists of rock-bottom, get-you-in-the-door, too-good-to-be-true prices.

In some cases, you can view reproductions of the actual ads that will be showing up in your driveway on Thanksgiving Day.

Web sites offer sneak peek at holiday ads Computer Corner WFAA.com