Brad

Considering they always have one of the largest ads (which takes wayyyyy too much time to type up and post), I hope they either don't have a BF ad or that this new scheme fails so horribly that they go out of business before then

Almost seemed like a paid-for spot. A lot of people on Consumerist agreed... http://consumerist.com/2012/01/someone-at-cnbc-has-a-crush-on-geek-squad.html

When possible, please link directly to the books on Amazon rather than 3rd party sites, which are often affiliates that compete with GD. Thanks

Yeah if you want something like this, just post a thread in the freebies and have at it. If you want me to sticky it, let me know.

That pic can't be the actual tree. It only looks 15-20' at the most.

I'm saddened at the fact that the really killer deals are over and none of you seems to be buying anything through the site anymore On the bright side, I don't have to be attached to a computer 24/7 anymore

Home Alone (but I don't think it will make a difference in the voting...)

We've closed the BF & holiday forums on the 27th the last 3 or 4 years. This year is nothing different. I moved the movie tournament and a few other ongoing threads to the Lounge anticipating the complaints if I didn't (and I still got them, lol) I also posted a final post in the closed forum letting people know where to post their BF or holiday related threads from now on

Details here: http://www.gottadeal.com/App You can find it in the App Store on iOS devices or in the Android Market on Android devices.

Story: http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111227/ap_on_re_us/us_sears_store_closings

As we've done on this date the last few years, we'll be closing and archiving the BF & Holiday forums today. I will move a few of the threads (holiday exchange, movie tournament, "what did santa bring you") to the Lounge as those are still ongoing. If you have something holiday or BF-related to discuss, here are some pointers: - general holiday discussion should go in the Lounge (assuming you have access) - discussion of BF items, returns, shipping issues, etc... should go in Deal Discussion We'll open the BF forums back up for BF 2012 in August/September

it was at the sale price when it was posted yesterday. they then raised the price.

Merry Christmas to all my loyal subjects.... errr I mean to all of you great forum members

That was the Wednesday before BF (always the biggest day of the year for the site) so all the ads were already out by then. We had a very big news story hit (likely appearing on CNN's home page) that was unplanned and brought a huge amount of traffic to the BF site. Shortly before that story hit, we had posted a big, prominent link to the BF forum on the main BF site because we had posted all the online sale info on the forum, so when all that CNN traffic went to the BF site, many of them also clicked that big link to the forum which caused the spike here. We usually never have such a prominent "CLICK HERE" link to the forum on the BF site, which is a big reason that record hasn't been broken yet. There have been many occasions since that day when we've gotten more traffic (including a few times this year), but we'd rather have people on the BF site than the forum. So basically, if we wanted to set a new record, I could do it fairly easily whenever we get a big news story, but there hasn't been a reason to send all that traffic to the forum instead of keeping them on the BF site where the ads are. The servers can handle the surge of traffic much better on the BF site compared to the forum. When that record was hit back in 2007, I doubt many of those 3,677 people could access the forum because the servers were so overloaded, so that record doesn't matter too much to me.

Here's mine. These things are tough to get good photos of, lol.

1. Elf 2. Home Alone

Their site was run by Amazon until this year. This was their first holiday season on their own. Guess they weren't ready...

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OK, here are the winners: First, the 5 forum members with the most qualifying deals (max of 10 per day) posted during the contest were: elite2058 magickallight Illinoismom Stowasser bluesky225 Next, the 3 members with the highest average thread views for their qualifying deals (minimum 50 deals) were: sweetdiggity elite2058 hack2222 Finally, the 10 winners randomly selected from all the remaining entries were: noehlp Fishboysmom AmyNay revecca leefamily23 bpr Rockfordmom tinkrbel sherril simplydivine Congrats to everyone and look for a PM from me soon with details on how to claim your prize. Also, for anyone interested in the numbers, here were the exact average views per thread among everyone with at least 50 deals posted: sweetdiggity 353.3 elite2058 263.7 hack2222 242.7 noehlp 207.8 tinkrbel 196.5 Fishboysmom 158.3 magickallight 154.5 Stowasser 153.7 Rockfordmom 150.2 bluesky225 135.1 Illinoismom 118.3

Contest is closed. Winners should be posted tonight once the numbers are tabulated.

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Here it is. Save it and upload it as a custom avatar if you want it back:

...which would imply that someone other than me codes anything for the site. i wish....

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Exactly. Also, I deleted your other duplicate thread. Please do not repost the same thread multiple places.