After spending several weeks in the shadows while the other big retailers duked it out for the early Black Friday announcement spotlight, Amazon finally announced dates for its end-of-November schedule on Nov. 13: Amazon's Black Friday event will start on Thursday, Nov. 21, and run through (Cyber) Monday, Dec. 2, with new deals dropping every day.

Early Black Friday deals have landed at Best Buy, so I've been scrolling the full sale all morning. While gathering all the biggest discounts, though, I noticed a problem. I price check every deal I find, to make sure it's the lowest on the web, and have found that Amazon has snuck into Best Buy's party this week.

Amazon Canada has announced today its Black Friday deals will kick off on November 21 and go through November 29. As for its Cyber Monday deals, they go from November 29 to December 2. This is a great time to get your holiday shopping done early with a few clicks of a button.