Brad

Some of you didn't read the whole 10-words-or-less part, lol.

Maybe we'll have to give away an iPad this year to celebrate the launch of this app...

We had a little app made up that would allow you to more quickly browse the forums on your iOS mobile device. If you are interested in downloading it (it's totally FREE!), go here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/gottadeal-com/id391431083?mt=8# For other devices, we also have an updated mobile "skin" which you can access from the drop-down menu at the bottom left of every forum page. Enjoy, and if you download the app, be sure to leave us a glowing, 5-star review (even if you don't like it, lol). We hope to have a full GottaDeal.com app within the next year that has the forum, the latest deals, Black Friday sales, etc... but this will definitely make browsing the forum easier for those of you with these devices.

We had a little app made up that would allow you to more quickly browse the forums on your iOS mobile device. If you are interested in downloading it (it's totally FREE!), go here: http://itunes.apple.com/app/gottadeal-com/id391431083?mt=8# For other devices, we also have an updated mobile "skin" which you can access from the drop-down menu at the bottom left of every forum page. Enjoy, and if you download the app, be sure to leave us a glowing, 5-star review (even if you don't like it, lol). We hope to have a full GottaDeal.com app within the next year that has the forum, the latest deals, Black Friday sales, etc... but this will definitely make browsing the forum easier for those of you with these devices.

There isn't really a good way to tell the record at one given point in time, but for example during the week of Black Friday last year, at any given minute we had on average nearly 4,000 people on the Black Friday site. This is over 24 hours of course, so during peak times you're probably looking at 10,000+ actively using the site. I got the 4,000 number by taking the number of visits * the average time spent on the site / the number of minutes in a day. The forum record is kind of unofficial because you are considered "active" for 15 minutes after your last activity, so we don't know how many of those 3,677 that set the record were actually active at that time.

We don't send people to the forum as much as we used to back in 06 and 07 as we'd rather keep them on the actual Black Friday site for several reasons, so it's doubtful that record will be broke anytime soon. The number of people on the actual Black Friday site at any given time during the week of Black Friday is probabaly 5-10x that number.

Time for another t-shirt contest. This contest will run until noon ET on Monday morning. To be entered, simply reply to this thread and in 10 words or less, tell us why you love Black Friday! On Monday I'll randomly select 5 people who reply to win Black Friday t-shirts. Easy enough? I thought so :)

Shirts will be printed on Monday so I should have them soon. Next contest within the next 24 hours..... could be here on the forum, could be on the BF site, could be Facebook, Twitter, ????

Here is the thread from last year: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?149196-Dates-When-Ads-Came-Out-(2005-2008)-amp-Ad-Item-Lists-(2003-2008) We'll have the new thread up with 2009 dates soon.

Only Walmart sent a letter of the ones in the poll. But yeah, those stores usually don't come out until November.

I won't even have the t-shirts for a few more weeks, but we're going to start the first contest anyway. This one is going to take place on the Black Friday site itself via the new comments feature, so go there and read all about it: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com We'll be running contests on the forums, the Black Friday site, Facebook and Twitter (although most will still take place here on the forums). Good luck and be sure to post your entry on the site itself so that it counts, not here on the forums. In fact, I'm going to close this thread just so there is no confusion.

I'm just going to ignore that awful joke as to not embarass you anymore and say that the issues were not as bad as expected and everything is still on schedule. Look for the first contest within a week :)

Having some communication "issues" with the printer. Hopefully it doesn't delay the shirts. Otherwise we'll just go with a different printer.

In about a week, but I'm guessing they won't hit Target until days/weeks after they first appear in Apple Stores, so I'd be very surprised if they were at Target on Monday. With it being almost 3 months until BF, I doubt stores will have enough inventory of the old model to make them a BF ad item.

ok, attachments should be working now. might not be able to fix the issues witht he old attachments, but new ones should be working.

testing image attachment

YouTube links should be working now. Give me examples of the other problems like the picture issue and I'll try to fix those as well.

$99 netbooks are definitely possible, although the specs probably won't be great. we've posted deals on the site in the past for netbooks around that price. just a week or two ago we had a refurbished model for $89. but those cheaper models usually have smaller screens (7" typically), very small amounts of ram/storage and either linux or windows ce for the operating system.

Too late. I went with Marcster's suggestion to change "TEAM" to "CREW" though. If you don't like the saying, get some tape and cover it up

Shirt order has been placed Besides these new BF shirts, we still have lots of other GD stuff to give away: - regular GD t-shirts - reusable grocery bags - drawstring backpacks - calculators - magnetic clips - coin wallets (GD and BF designs) - pens & highlighters I want to get rid of most of this stuff by the end of the year (so we can get some new stuff) so we should have a lot of contests this year

It won't be for a couple of weeks. The BF part of the site still isn't "officially" open yet.

They'll likely be one color. It's tough enough having the correct sizes for everyone so I don't want to add color variables to the mix. As for if you'll be able to buy them, it will depend on how many I order. I like giving them away because it encourages people to participate in the various contests and other things we do these next few months, but I might be able to set some aside for purchase.

here's a quick idea i put together (front/back): http://www.olsonnet.com/images/bffront.jpghttp://www.olsonnet.com/images/bfback.jpg keep in mind that since these shirts will be given away (i.e. FREE!), they aren't going to be too fancy - just a single color printing, and i'll have to cram the GD name/logo in there somewhere to get some advertising, so... let me know what you think about the design above and how you would change it.

If they come back, we're probably going to stick to the same "slogan" on the back since everyone really seemed to love those. It'll look a little different though and I'm trying to think of something nice for the front. Something like "Black Friday Elite Shopper" or something like that. I don't want to just have the site name/logo like the old shirts. Any ideas for the front?

probably the same