Brad

simple poll - if you won a BF t-shirt, what size would you choose?

See here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=116235

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Can I pay to have GD sponsor the port-a-potty?

good price. fyi it comes with the "starter" toner which gives you about 1/3 of the pages as the regular toner (which probably costs twice as much as the printer does, lol)

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- people who are way too excited for BF and have to start talking about it over 3 months in advance

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=115522

too many to remember, lol. there were so many that this year i coded the site in anticipation of getting them. one little change and the items are hidden, the store logo is greyed out and a nasty message is displayed to anyone trying to view the list (although you may still be able to view them through the shopping list feature... )

After looking at both the advantages and disadvantages of moving the BF to another site, I chose to keep it on GD. Having it on another site still really wouldn't have given enough protection for the affiliate stuff, and it would have greatly reduced the GD brand recognition that we get from the BF stuff. I still own all those other domains, but they will just be redirects to the main BF site as they've been in the past. And yes, I've had an LLC for GD for quite a few years now.

While we'd all like to think so, I seriously doubt their threats against sites like ours were "mostly" the reason for their supposed low numbers.

What is everyone's guess on what is going to happen this year? More threats than last year? About the same? Less? (not likely) For the record, Walmart has already contacted us a few weeks ago and their policy from last year has not changed...

maybe we'll get lucky and ace will send their lawyers to have us take the ad down and we can all pretend that none of this existed

3 weeks? Last year the Ace ad (which was first) wasn't out until mid-September. This is 5-6 weeks earlier!

anyone else think these ads are coming out too soon? i wanted to enjoy the rest of the summer without having to think about BF until late September, lol. what used to be 6 weeks of craziness has turned into 16 weeks

Now everyone, don't get too excited, lol. Ace was first last year and there wasn't another ad for a month afterwards. This one is over a month earlier than last year, so realistically we still shouldn't expect another ad until early to mid-October. Luckily I got the BF site done so early this year, lol. No scrambling to get things ready.

First week of August. Amazing...

Because of the first BF ad being released, we are going to open the BF forum today. However, at least initially we will just have this one forum for discussion. As discussion increases, we'll add the store-specific forums and the holiday discussion board as we've had for the last few years, but for now keep all Black Friday discussion in this one forum. Thanks :) Update: store-specific sub-forums have been added. Holiday Discussion forum will be added once we are closer to the holidays.

No posts were deleted today, by me or any of the mods according to the log, so I have no idea.

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