Is anyone else just going to hold? I feel like buying, but then I regret buying because I don't have many BTC, and I feel like buying some product with gold, thats why I tend to hold.

There aren't 2k merchants.

.info has been spewing that number with no basis in fact.

Last year we approached something like 3-6k merchants. We had access to most of Bitpay's merchant list and contact information, we had help from *every* payment processor to reach out to merchants.

We started months before .info even registered their knockoff website.

We got 600. Total. Less than that once you got rid of the scam sites.

I'm also guessing a majority of their 'deals' this year aren't even Bitcoin exclusive.

As a consumer I like that there are 2 sites.  More chance I won't miss out on any deals.  We will see which site is better tomorrow.  I wish there was early access. 

Will the merchant list be up at midnight EST?

T-minus 3 1/2 hours for me to start the shopping spree. And the hunt is on! 

All of the deals are now live on http://bitcoinblackfriday.com

They don't show up for me. I still see the "sign up for a reminder" thing.

Nothing mind blowing.  mostly 10-20% off.  One stores coupon code didn't work.  I like the original site better then the new .info one.  

Needs to be better organized.  It reshuffles the merchants if u reload the page.