Brad

Also see here for an explanation: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/24/swoopo-entertainment-shopping-with-a-hint-of-scam/ Those prices are not actually what you pay for the item...

Like the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true... And I don't choose those ads. That's all handled through Google. Companies bid to have their ads shown on GD and whoever bids the most gets their ads shown. I (or GD) doesn't endorse or recommend any particular site you might see in those ads.

Details: http://stores.ralphlauren.com/promo/foa_mmadness.asp http://media1.stores.ralphlauren.com/promo/graphics/FOA_mmadness08/FOA_MidnightMadness_01.gif

bump chat is tomorrow night :)

we've always used www.contagiousgraphics.com for our GD t-shirts

Nope, this was the only one I've posted and it's just going through the BF site layout.

It's a full membership for the 10 weeks.

That's true, but 87 cents vs a dollar per week isn't much over a 10-week period. Or look at it this way, instead of signing up for a year right away, do the 10-week "trial" and then sign up for a year for $40 afterwards. So for $50 you get 62 weeks, 2 Black Fridays, 2 holiday "seasons"

Sam's Club is offering special 10-week memberships for $10 this weekend and next only. Go to your nearest Sam's Club October 17-19 or October 24-26 and get 10 weeks of membership (that takes you through Black Friday and both pre- and post-Christmas sales) for just $10. Not a bad way to try out Sam's during the time of the year where they have the best deals, and much better than the free one-day pass where you have to pay the extra upcharge if you buy anything.

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=119590

also don't forget to watch bigjimslade's newest BF video (he even shows some of the "tools of the trade" that he uses while camping out): http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=117716

don't let that stop you from sending it...

GOOD NEWS: Someone sent me the Best Buy BF ad tonight (and was very proud of themself) BAD NEWS: It was last year's ad, lol The wait continues....

thanks to everyone who signed up. just got done approving all the comments :)

instead of spending all that time checking the site, you could be going to your local stores, making friends with the employees, asking if they've seen their store's ad, giving them our site URL or your e-mail address in case they get it, etc... i just post the ads i get, but it's up to people with the ads to actually send them to us

Last year's Big Lots thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=88420

LOL. noon on Thursday? I think bigjimslade is setting up next week

also, for those of you who subscribe to our youtube channel, similar to our myspace friends, we may end up using that as a way to disseminate "information" (text lists, links to pdf files) that we may otherwise not be able to post on here...

yeah i'll do that next time. thanks for the link. i guess you can add one of youtube's pre-loaded songs into an already-posted video, so i just picked out a boring instrumental just so there isn't total silence for this one.

yeah i'll at least add some music for the rest of them. just wanted to get something up quickly for this one and since i'm not really a youtube person i didn't know what the rules were for adding music (copyright stuff, etc...) thanks for the help :)

I'm going to be posting some Youtube videos over the next 6 weeks as yet another way to introduce new people to GD and the BF site. These will be in addition to the ones bigjimslade will be doing. None of these videos will likely have anything in them that you don't already know from visiting the site, but they'll basically be site updates and other news that hopefully end up being returned in Google search results and help us get the site promoted in other ways. I just uploaded the first one which is a quick tour of the BF site home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFdSvV-vtOs If at all possible, sign up for a Youtube account if you don't already have one, rate the video (5 stars of course ), and leave a comment either saying how excited you are about BF, or how much you love GD, etc... And if you want to subscribe to our channel, that would be even better. And who knows, maybe I'll pick some people who help me out and send them a BF t-shirt... UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who helped out. Look for a new video posted soon and we'll do this again!

not looking like there will be an ad today. and let's try to keep this discussion in the existing "antsy" thread...

so many of the sales will be online, so you'll be able to get some deals. plus a lot of the online sales start late thursday night or early friday morning, so when everyone else is camping out and can't order, you'll be able to get the deals :)

Repost: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=108003 searchalready

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