Brad

We'll pretty much accept anything this year. Last year it was a little different because the first person to do it automatically won, so we were worried about having to choose if 2 people did the task and one had more "significant" landmarks, but this time as long as it's something your town/city considers a landmark, that's good enough to earn an entry.

For some inspiration, here was last year's contest: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=124346 This should be a fun one and we should get some great pics. And since it involves you actually leaving the house, I've doubled the number of prizes from 5 to 10 to give you some additional motivation

CONTEST OVER! HOW TO WIN: These tasks were part of a very popular contest we did last year. Last year the first person to complete each task won, but this year we are going to do it a little different. To be entered into this contest, all you have to do is complete at least one of these tasks. If you do more than one, you'll get additional entries, one for each completed task. Task #1: Design an actual holiday ornament featuring GottaDeal.com somehow. Take it to a store that has Christmas trees on display. Hang the ornament on the tree and take picture(s). Be sure at least one of the pictures proves that the tree is located at an actual store. Leave the ornament on the tree. Task #2: Make a sign saying "I Love GottaDeal.com!". Go to a store that we traditionally post the Black Friday ad from (Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Toys R Us, Sears, Kmart are some examples). Find an employee to agree to hold the sign while you take their picture. Make sure the employee "looks" like a real employee (store shirt, etc...). Task #3: Create a flyer for Black Friday @ GottaDeal.com - the kind with the little strips of paper on the bottom that people can tear off (like this) - and post it on a bulletin board at a public place. Be creative with your flyer design! Take a picture of the flyer on the bulletin board. Task #4: Print out this GottaDeal logo. Take it to 3 of your local "landmarks" (however you define them) and take a picture of the logo somewhere near/with/on each of the 3 landmarks. Entries will be accepted until 10pm ET on Sunday, October 25th. At that point we'll randomly select 10 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a survival kit! If you need help posting pictures, see this thread. If you don't have enough posts to post pictures yet, send them directly to gottadeal.com [at] gmail [dot] com. Good luck to all!

i e-mailed our corporate PR contact at TRU to see if we can get a copy e-mailed to us this week. we'll see what she says tomorrow.

see here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=150175

CONTEST OVER! Our friends at Half Price Books, in addition to sending us their Black Friday ad early this year, have also given us a HPB prize pack to give away. This includes a HPB tote bag as well as a $5 gift card to use for merchandise at the store. I'll also throw in a GottaDeal.com t-shirt as well to complete the prize. To be eligible, just reply to this thread with the title of your favorite book. We'll take entries until 11/8 at 10pm ET and then we'll randomly pick a winner. HPB doesn't have locations everywhere, so please only enter the contest if you are going to use the GC. Good luck to everyone!

The highly anticipated Harbor Freight ad should be out this week, lol. I thought about going to my local HF store today to see if they had it, but then I realized it would mean having to spend 1-2 hours typing it up so I thought better of it The "good" ads like Sears usually don't start until later in October.

don't worry, we'll have plenty of other contests. we'll have some like the ones last year where we make you go to a store or something in order to win

"THE EVENT!" is in huge letters on the front page of their BF ad. Wait, I didn't just say that...

our 2 winners are.... rogue1230 and mongoose you'll be getting a PM from me shortly. everyone else, look for another contest soon. we'll have many of these over the next 6 weeks :)

contest closed. winners to be posted in a few minutes...

a few more minutes left!

They are actually having 12 consecutive "Black Fridays". http://www.awltovhc.com/image-1412508-10713791 I'm afraid a lot of retailers are going to run this whole BF thing into the ground this year. You can call something a BF sale all you want, but if the deals are awful, people aren't stupid and you won't sell anything.

CONTEST OVER!!! WINNERS POSTED!!! Here's a quick contest for you poor souls stuck at home on a Friday night with nothing better to do but be on the forums, lol. Reply to this thread between now and 9pm ET (that's about 35 minutes from now). I'll randomly pick 2 people from all the replies and they each will win a GottaDeal.com t-shirt. Good luck :)

Just an update: this pesky error is still around this year, so if you see it, no need to contact us - we know about it and will fix it ASAP. This should be the last year with this problem as next year we'll be using vBulletin 4, the latest and greatest forum software version which hopefully gets rid of the problem. Again, the error will look like this: Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4088 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 4088 and it will appear at the top of the forum pages.

we posted it early last year, on 10/19, so i wouldn't be surprised to see it in the next few days. if anyone has access to it, please let me know :)

and when you factor in tax, in most cases it's better to just order online from a place like amazon who will usually have them for a few bucks below the retail price w/ free shipping and no tax for most.

I need to know the IP that this is happening for in order to fix it. When it happens, immediately go here: http://www.whatismyip.com and PM me with the IP address

since i got a few questions about this, yes, you can come back later in the week and add more tasks if you do them. you can just post another reply with the additional tasks and you'll earn the additional entries :) and again, if you decide to send proof of your tasks through the contact form, be sure to include your forum username otherwise you won't be able to win.

The 5 winners of GottaDeal.com Black Friday Survival Kits, chosen randomly from all eligible entries, are: codeblue okannie neboo marimacc Princess7915 Congrats, and you'll be getting a PM from me shortly For everyone else, the next week-long contest is open here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=153140 and as we did last year, we'll have random "quick hit" contests now through Black Friday, so keep checking back often :)

This contest has now closed. Any entries posted after this time will not be eligible. Winners to be announced soon...

no, last year's deal was the same B2G1F deal

Farm & Fleet and Fleet Farm are 2 similar, but separate stores. Here is the Farm & Fleet Toyland catalog: http://www.farmandfleet.com/promotions/flyer_detail.aspx?id=461

2 hours left to get those entries in!

Probably something with your computer. Haven't seen anything and nobody has reported anything like that.