Brad

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.

CONTEST OVER! WINNERS POSTED! HOW TO WIN: We need you to help spread the word about the Black Friday @ GottaDeal.com web site on your favorite social networking site. You will earn one entry for this contest for each of the following tasks you complete. So the more you do, the better your chances of being selected to win one of the survival kits. Task #1: Post a message on Twitter that includes a link to the BF site and our Twitter account (@gottadeal). You must have at least 5 Twitter followers to be eligible for this task. Task #2: Create and upload a Youtube video that is somehow related to Black Friday. Link to the BF site in the "description" section of the video. Be creative! Task #3: Join our fan group on Facebook and add a link to the BF site on your profile. Go to the Applications tab at the bottom, click "Links" and then "Post a link" on the right. Task #4: Post something about Black Friday and link to the BF site on another message board you visit WITHOUT SPAMMING. Only do this if you are 100% sure it's allowed. Once you are done, post in this thread letting us know which of the 4 tasks you have completed and give us the appropriate URLs so we can verify everything. If for some reason you don't want to post the links publicly, submit them via the contact form here and be sure to include your forum username, as you must be a registered forum member to enter this contest. Entries will be accepted until 10pm ET on Sunday, October 18th. At that point we'll randomly select 5 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a survival kit! Good luck to all!

toy catalog in on their site: http://www.fleetfarm.com/mff/company/weeklyAd.jsp

moving to Holiday Discussion as this has nothing directly to do with BF...

GottaDeal.com has profiles on most of the major social networking sites. Here is the info you need to follow, befriend, subscribe or become a fan of us on all of these sites. We definitely encourage you to use your own social networking contacts to help spread the word about the site. We greatly appreciate it! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gottadeal Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gottadeal MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/gottadeal YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/gottadeal We'll be using these platforms for contests and exclusive news, so it's definitely in your best interest to stay connected on these services in addition to checking the site every day.

Here is another site I added last year's design to. You can order them in black, and they are 2-sided like the originals: http://gottadeal.spreadshirt.com

I haven't either. A reporter contacted me this week wondering where all the BF-like deals were this weekend, lol. Guess there was nothing to this story.

To keep things running smoothly this year, please follow these rules specifically for the Black Friday message boards: - Please search before posting a new thread to avoid reposting topics that have already been posted. Moderators will either close, delete or merge reposted threads with the original topic to avoid having multiple discussions on the same subject. - Please post new threads in the appropriate forum. If the thread is about a specific store, post it in the appropriate subforum for that store. If it is a general Black Friday topic, post it in General Discussion. If your topic is not related at all to Black Friday directly, it does not belong in the BF forums and will likely be moved or deleted. - Avoid trolling or posting comments designed to get others upset. The other general forum rules (http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=53669) apply to these Black Friday message boards as well, so please be courteous to your fellow members. If you see something that should be looked at by a mod or admin, report the post. - Do not post links to other competing Black Friday sites. If you see an ad posted elsewhere, rather than posting a link to it on the forum, contact me via private message and we'll get that ad posted on the site as soon as possible. Many other Black Friday sites are censored here because they have spammed us in the past and do not deserve free advertising. - If you have a Black Friday ad, please contact us either through the forum or through the Black Friday site to get that ad information to us. Do not directly post it on the forum before contacting us. We'll get it posted on the site as soon as we can (and can reward you for your help). - No self promotion. This is in the general forum rules but it bears repeating. This site gets extremely busy during this time of year and it becomes a target for spammers looking to piggyback on the success of the site. Posts or signatures advertising your site, business, blog, iPhone app, whatever will be deleted immediately and will likely lead to your banning. If you want to pay for advertising on the site, contact us through the BF site. - Do not post links to sites that host ads that we were forced to take down. Do not ask others to PM you to get an ad that we were forced to take down. Do not advertise that you have ads that were taken down in your signature. Everyone knows how to use Google - any leaked ad can likely easily be found - no need to put this site in legal jeopardy by posting these things.

I vow to not get too upset when 4 new ads get leaked the same night and I'm up until 4am posting them all

The forum shows this info for your last post: The IP Address is: 207.200.116.73 The host name is: cache-ntc-ab09.proxy.aol.com So it's definitely going through AOL.

Good to see so many members making their first posts in this thread. Keep it up!

this is the 2-sided shirt: http://www.cafepress.com/bfgottadeal.411062352 but like i said, they only let you have 2-sided shirts in white. if anyone knows a site that does on-demand printing like this and allows for 2-sided printing on dark colored shirts, send me a PM.

Only the first non-"value" white one has 2 sided printing. Cafepress doesn't allow for 2-sided printing on the "value" or dark-colored shirts. That's why I'm looking into other companies so we can hopefully get a 2-sided black version similar to last year.

Winners Chosen! See here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showpost.php?p=1616458&postcount=410 HOW TO WIN: I'm going to give away 5 of these GottaDeal.com Black Friday Survival Kits right away. To be eligible to win, reply to this thread and share one of your past Black Friday experiences. It can be something crazy that happened, a particularly good or bad experience at a store, anything you'd like. If you've never experienced Black Friday before, then reply to this thread letting us know why you are excited for this year. Entries will be accepted until 10pm ET on Sunday, October 11th. At that point we'll randomly select 5 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a survival kit! LURKERS: if you haven't registered yet for the forum, this is a perfect opportunity to jump in and get your feet wet. Registering will also get rid of those annoying ads all over the forum as well, so it's a win-win for you. Just click here to register - it's fast, easy and free! Good luck to all!

HPB, in addition to sending us their ad early, is sending us a gift card and tote bag to give away on the site, so look for that giveaway in the coming weeks

We are not going to be giving away Black Friday-specific shirts this year. I ordered a few hundred new GottaDeal.com shirts that we'll be giving away instead. More on that very soon... However I set up a store through CafePress with shirts using the design from last year's BF shirts for anyone who wants to buy them. I priced them the lowest possible price (we're not making any $ on them), but you'll have to get them through CafePress: http://www.cafepress.com/bfgottadeal I also might come up with a new design in the next few weeks and have those sold through one of these types of sites as well. I would have liked to order them and sell them myself, but it just was too much work last year during an already extremely busy time.

Looks like you are using AOL, which changes your IP address constantly, so maybe someone who had used that IP address in the past was banned. If you can figure out what IP address you are using when you get the 'banned' message, we can unblock that IP.

Black Friday Bargains Beckon http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2009/11/black_friday_bargains_beckon.html