What are good strategies in scoring the best Black Friday deals?

When you say "going into the States" - what do you mean by that? You live in Canada and you're gonna come over to shop black friday? Well anyway - it depends on what you want really. The best strategy that has worked so far is - in my family - we recruit cousins to do camp outs. There are those camp out in electronic stores and others who camped out in other places. So we pretty much spread out in different stores. Though I've done it before, I strongly recommend against camping out. I didn't think it was worth all the hassle. Done it once, never again. Just wanted to know what it feels like to camp out. Good luck anyway!