Which do you think is more likely for 2017: a Black Friday sale...or the first time ever for Comet Pinball not to run a Black Friday sale?

Hmmm......

Huge Black Friday sale once again at Comet Pinball!

15-30% off selected products (2SMDs, 8SMD flashers, 4SMDs, 10SMD lighting strips, post lights, and Opmax) while supplies last. Orders over $199 get a free $22 sample kit of our Matrix lighting products. Sale runs all day Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

We'll have all hands on deck and already rearranged the office for maximum speed/efficiency. There are 25 empty postal bins sitting by the front door...bring it on!

http://www.cometpinball.com (Sale page not live yet)

Yep! Post lights and strips. And there is matrix a sampler kit if you order $199 or more.

This guy has it all figured out!

My heart sank a little. All 8SMD flashers are on sale...except for flex. Sad trombone. (We just don't normally sell enough of those to justify stocking up for a sale).

This sucks! The sale will go live around midnight on Thursday (not sure which time zone). Last year we were total newbies and ran out of some stuff very quickly. This year we've planned ahead better, but it's still possible/likely we'll run out of certain things before it's over. Mostly I just spend the few weeks before the sale and the few weeks after stressing about inventory levels.

This year we're trying to keep the shipping madness down to as few days as possible, and take a day and a half off before it starts.

This is dedication.

The 8SMD wedge seen here will be on sale: http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/8smdflash.htm (these are the same size/style as 906 incandescent bulbs).

Edit: Whites, ice blue, and amber of these: http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/2smd-ct-ft.htm.

Sadly no. We've actually been exploring some options internationally. We need higher international volume to have a shot at better prices. Maybe we can figure out a way to get it lower in 2018. No promises.

Flex flashers? http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/8smdflexflash.htm

Just to clear things up, #555 bulbs, aka wedges, aka T10 socket, are a 6.3V bulb.

What people usually call "flashers" means 12 or 13V. Those are what would be 906 in incandescent world, and are a T15 socket...which is larger than the T10. (However T10 sized bulbs would fit in a T15 bracket, and we do have 12V bulbs that are T10 sized like these: http://www.cometpinball.com/product-p/5smdflash.htm).

Seems like those aprons probably use both. The bulbs that trigger when a 12V flasher goes off in the game should also be a 12V bulb. If it was a 6.3v bulb instead, they would have burned out quickly.

Hopefully that made sense. Message me if you still need help!

Correct, only the things listed.

The plan is midnight EST (meaning, roughly two hours from now). Be kind if I end up a little bit behind.

Sale is up! If there are any issues, send me a direct message. I'll get that faster.

To clarify the 2SMDs and 4SMDs have limited colors that are on sale (whites, ice blue, amber for the 2SMD...and whites, red, and purple for the 4SMD). Turns out, it's very difficult to gauge inventory 4 months in advance!

All other products are all colors. And in some cases, there is an upper limit on how many you can buy. You can thank the guy who bought 100+ lighting strips last year!

They will return. Really sorry, we've been having manufacturing issues on those. Should have them back in the next two to three months. I'll send you a message as soon as they arrive.

Only doing certain products seems to be the route for us, but maybe that will change sometime. Thanks so much for understanding! It's a stressful time for us, so we love the extra good vibes.

Oh, sorry. I misread this. The blinkers have been having issues. 1SMD frosted sunlights should be arriving much sooner.

Those went from $1.99 each to $1.79 each. Some things are 10% off. Some things are 25% off. Some are as high as 33%.

So sorry, truly wasn't meant to be misleading.

Glad you still ordered @kiwipinz. Maybe next year we can do 1SMDs also.

Thanks for pointing that out. This is actually a limitation of our e-commerce site. The frosted cost more, but because the price on the page doesn't update automatically when changing from none -> frosted, you won't really see that until you add it to your cart. There might be something I can do about this going forward.

Haha, so are we. Opmax in particular are very expensive to make...one of our lowest margin bulbs.

Haha, thanks for mentioning that. I think it's time to freshen up that email...

Sadly we do not, so sorry! Maybe something we should consider for the future.

Thanks!! So good to hear. Can't wait to see what you do with the matrix...

I had been dreading the frenzy of this sale, but it actually went very smoothly. Each year we'll get a little bit smarter about how to do it right.

Thank you so much to everyone who ordered!!! All the comments we got have been extremely positive and appreciative, and that went a long way to making it...dare I say...fun?

Group hug?

Did you really? Amazing.

Bummer.

The USPS has been consistently great for us...but not perfect of course. Once in a while a package goes rogue. If it's been a week and there is no update, please reach out to us and we'll get you straightened out.

...well, your package anyway.

And by package, I mean the order we shipped to you. MAYBE THEY STOLE IT AND ATE YOUR CANDY?!?

As sad as I am that you have to wait, I have to admit that it's flattering to have customers obsessively checking tracking information because they're so excited.

Someday I'll do an audit on delivery times for different countries. I'm certain that Italy is the worst. Packages just sit in customs there for about a month. It almost feels like they wait until people get fed up and start making calls, and then the package magically arrives!