# Black Friday 2026 AI Gadget Price Drops: What Dropped at Maker Stores > Which AI gadgets dropped under their baseline price at the maker's own store during Black Friday 2026, tracked daily with a CSV, a stated method and limits. - Canonical URL: https://webofmike.com/ai-life/data/black-friday-price-drops/ - Author: Mike Moore (https://webofmike.com/about/) - Published: 2026-11-14 - Last modified: 2026-11-14 - Tags: AI Life - Cite as: Mike Moore, "Black Friday 2026 AI Gadget Price Drops: What Dropped at Maker Stores", Web of Mike (webofmike.com), 2026-11-14. https://webofmike.com/ai-life/data/black-friday-price-drops/ [AI Life](/ai-life/) / [Data](/ai-life/data/) **Short answer:** {{< bf-headline >}} *Last updated {{< data-stat "as_of" >}} (Pacific time). Tracking since {{< data-stat "first_snapshot" >}}. The sale window runs {{< data-stat "window_start" >}} to {{< data-stat "window_end" >}}. Maker store prices only, never Amazon. The Associates line below applies to the Amazon links.* ## Which AI gadgets dropped in price on Black Friday? This table lists only devices whose lowest price in the sale window is at least 2% and at least $1 under their own baseline. Each row comes from daily snapshot rows in the CSV, and the date is the day the lowest price was seen. {{< bf-drops >}} ## Were the Black Friday prices real? The question behind most Black Friday coverage is whether a store raised a list price before the sale. I can only check that where the store's page states a list price next to the current price, and only against the list price I saw at baseline. This table shows devices whose store-stated list price is now higher than it was. {{< bf-raised >}} ## Which categories had the biggest drops? Groups are broad on purpose, because a group of three devices proves nothing. The count column shows how many devices each group holds. {{< bf-groups >}} ## Why does a baseline matter for judging a deal? A sale price only means something against what the product cost before. The best public example is a consumer group study: [Which? tracked 175 home, tech and health products across eight UK retailers for a year around Black Friday 2024](https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/dont-believe-the-hype-most-black-friday-deals-the-same-price-or-cheaper-at-other-times-of-the-year-which-finds-a3TbD5x5KADs) and found 83% were the same price or cheaper at some other time of year, and none were at their cheapest of the year on the day itself. Mine is much smaller and covers US maker stores, so I do not claim it shows the same thing. It borrows the method: write down the price before the sale, then compare. ## How did I track the prices? - **Same data as the price index.** The daily snapshot is shared with the [AI Gadget Price Index](/ai-life/data/price-index/), so the full method is there: one polite request per store page per day, robots.txt read first, nothing estimated. - **Baseline.** The median of each device's first three snapshots on or before {{< data-stat "baseline_end" >}}, so a sale that started early cannot set the reference. - **A drop.** The lowest price in the window is at least 2% and at least $1 under the baseline. Smaller moves are rounding noise or a one-dollar change and are not counted. - **Missing days.** A blocked or unreadable store page is a gap, not a fill-in. If a store was down on the day of its sale, that device may show no drop even though it had one. - **Order of events.** Prices before November 20 set the baseline. Prices from November 20 to December 2 can count as drops. After December 2 this page freezes as the 2026 record. **Limits.** This is a small, fixed sample at the makers' own stores. It cannot say what retailers charged, it cannot see coupon codes at checkout, and it says nothing about how low a price was in the past, because tracking began on {{< data-stat "first_snapshot" >}}. If the number of devices were under 20 I would call it "what I saw", not a market study. ## What are the sources? - The maker's own store page for each device, linked in the [price index](/ai-life/data/price-index/) with the date it was read. - The [Which? Black Friday price history study](https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/dont-believe-the-hype-most-black-friday-deals-the-same-price-or-cheaper-at-other-times-of-the-year-which-finds-a3TbD5x5KADs), for the idea of comparing against a pre-sale price. - The [Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309)](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309), which the snapshot script follows before it reads any store page. ## Which gadgets are worth buying even at full price? Start with the products I own: the [Sonos Era 100 and Era 300 owner review](/ai-life/assistants/smart-speakers/sonos-era-100-era-300-owner-review/), the [BedJet 3 owner review](/ai-life/health/sleep-tech/bedjet-3-owner-review/) and the [Pocket AI recorder review](/pocket-ai-recorder/). A sale only matters if the product earns its place, and those are the ones I have lived with. For everything else, the [deals hub](/ai-life/deals/black-friday/) says which guide to read first. {{< amzn cat-deals "Check today's price on Amazon" />}} ## Can I use this report? Yes, under CC BY 4.0. Credit is a link to this page and the name Web of Mike. {{< data-downloads "history" "latest" >}} {{< data-cite title="Black Friday 2026 AI Gadget Price Drops" >}} ## What changed on this page? - **{{< data-stat "first_snapshot" >}}:** page and first daily snapshot published. Tracking runs daily through {{< data-stat "window_end" >}}.