Brad

new quarter, new thread

Yeah we had to make an unscheduled server move tonight which is the reason for the issues. You may run into problems for the next few hours until the DNS changes take effect for everyone, but things should be all good by morning.

Yep, that's what most of these "Free Shipping Day" offer will be - the same old promotions they've been having for weeks/months/years Shame on WM for making it look like they had free shipping on everything w/ no fine print.

Link to deal: http://www.gottadeal.com/Deal/78807

We should know either way at midnight PST. It'll either be the deal of the day starting then, or one of the Lightning Deals so we'll know the time. I thought I was done for the year with these late nights waiting for deals, haha.

We've had the "post your favorite recipe" contest in the Black Friday forum in past years - go through the archives and I'm sure you'll find a lot of great ideas that are timeless

I didn't know. I just googled for: "what game" "kindle fire" and there was a thread on Amazon's forums asking the same question

http://www.amazon.com/Fibble-Flick-Kindle-Tablet-Edition/dp/B0096DFQO2/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1354465872&sr=1-1&keywords=fibble

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/187723/stores-get-huge-win-in-long-black-weekend.html I'd agree with that statement. Thursday through Monday saw an amazing number of deals, especially online.

I still get the popup occasionally. I think it uses a cookie and once you dismiss it, you might not see it again.

Yep, BackCountry is one of our affiliate partners, definitely legit.

We did things this year pretty much the same way we've been doing them aside from a few minor changes (such as the new dedicated "Posted BF Ads" forum). So I thought I'd post a thread to see if anyone has any suggestions for ways we could improve the Black Friday forums next year. Feel free to post your suggestions here or if you'd prefer, you can PM them to me and we'll consider them for next year. It could be anything from the forum organization structure, official threads, the way contests are done, forum rules, features we should add (I really wanted to bring back the chat room this year but just didn't get the time), etc...

Cyber Monday forum is now gone. The threads for the major stores (Amazon, Walmart, BB, etc...) were moved to those stores' respective forums. Other CM threads that had discussion were moved to the Dead & Expired Deals forum for any further discussion. Everything else was merged into one archived thread. The BF forums will now stay as they are for a month or so before they are all merged and archived after Christmas. Feel free to continue to discuss any BF-related topics (or Holiday-related topics in the Holiday forum). Any threads made about non-BF, non-Holiday topics will be moved to the appropriate year-round sub-forum.

Looks like next week they'll continue the Lightning Deals with "Top Holiday Deals Week" http://www.amazon.com/Top-Holiday-Deals/b/ref=cm2012_ln_thd?ie=UTF8&node=5550343011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-2&pf_rd_r=01E7JHPY9ZB9FBKMB477&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1430424382&pf_rd_i=5550342011

Looks like next week they'll continue the Lightning Deals with "Top Holiday Deals Week" http://www.amazon.com/Top-Holiday-Deals/b/ref=cm2012_ln_thd?ie=UTF8&node=5550343011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-2&pf_rd_r=01E7JHPY9ZB9FBKMB477&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1430424382&pf_rd_i=5550342011

Just a quick note to say we're posting additional Cyber Monday sales that don't have threads in this forum on our main site home page: http://www.gottadeal.com

I'm finally seeing the BF commercials on all the shows I've been catching up on on the TiVo from the past 2 weeks (I've been a little busy... ). Yeah, don't really care for that Target commercial.

Black Thursday? Thanks, but No Thanks: Macy’s CEO http://www.cnbc.com/id/49939275

You can also download the Forum Runner app and add GD as a forum to that app. It'll basically work the same as the GD app.

Your shirt was sent 11/12. It should have been delivered by now. I double checked the address and everything was correct on the shipping label.

The 5 winners are: chester5 BDF brianne frugalnotcheap tjredsox4 Congrats! I'll be contacting you here on the forum next fall to get your shirt size & address. That's it for the t-shirt contests for this year. But don't forget that we're still giving away an iPad next month: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?270691-Contest!-Post-a-Deal-amp-Win-an-Apple-iPad-Tablet!-Ends-12-14 Also 2013 is GottaDeal.com's 10th year, so look for some special giveaways during the year as well as we celebrate our decade of deals

Another story with more numbers from other sources: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/record-number-did-weekend-holiday-shopping-report-says-8k7patm-180762231.html

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/black-friday-sales-slip-shoppers-opt-thursday-doorbusters-165525323--finance.html

http://media.pepperjamnetwork.com/banners/5786/86592 www.timberland.com "Check out what we have in store on Cyber Monday! We will be offering 30% off and Free Shipping! Hurry this is a limited time sale! The sale is valid Cyber Monday only!"

http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-1412508-11227065 www.staples.com Sunday & Monday only Coupons on site for $5 off $50 or $15 off $100 on non-tech items. Free shipping on all orders.