Brad

I just upgraded to the latest and greatest version of vBulletin, our forum software. Because of the large number of customizations I did on the previous version, some things are not exactly right just yet. For example, there is no longer a column for the thread starter in the forum thread listings (the thread starter is now under the title). Also the formatting on the user profile pages is not displaying correctly right now. So I am going to continue to work on these issues, but in the meantime, you can once again use the forum, and please use this thread to report any other problems you run across, as there are bound to be some more issues that need to be worked out. Also, while I have enabled some of the new forum features, I am holding off on the rest of them until I can work the bugs out of what we have now. So take a look around, reply with any bugs you find or any questions you might have, and things should be completely up and running within a week or so :)

It's time once again to come up with a design for the next GottaDeal.com t-shirt, and this time we are asking for your help! We'd like your ideas, designs & suggestions for the next t-shirt design. We'll use this thread to collect ideas, and if your idea is used, you'll get one of the first shirts absolutely free! So reply to this thread with your ideas. If you have the ability to actually design something and post an image, that would work best, otherwise you can just post descriptions, slogans, etc... Be sure to be as specific as possible including colors (of both ink and shirts), font styles or anything else you'd like to add. Also if you see another idea that you really like, feel free to reply letting us know so we can see which ideas everyone likes the best. Note that these shirts will be GottaDeal.com shirts - we already have some plans for a Black Friday shirt, so we just need some ideas for the basic site shirt. Thanks and we look forward to your ideas!

We recently had someone register on the forum and PM some of our top deal/freebie/contest posters and try to get them to leave GD and post on some new site somewhere. This person has obviously been banned (as have his 3 other accounts). This is probably one of the lowest things someone can do on a forum like this. If you happen to receive a PM like this, please forward it to me ASAP so that we can deal with it. I doubt any of our great members would consider such a thing, but I'd like to take care of these idiots as soon as I can. Thanks :)

New thread, with the last few posts copied over so discussion can continue. Please keep discussion related to Target clearance only. Off-topic posts will be deleted.

thanks for the great inside info as always :)

We already have a Target clearance thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=92485 Continue discussion there. Closing thread.

No, this is considered advertising and is not allowed.

Because of the BF/holiday forums closing for the year, I've moved this thread here so discussion can continue :)

says out of stock, so not likely

All Target clearance discussion belongs here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=92485 Closing thread.

B.O.C was tonight. Congrats to those who got in on it (including me )

http://ai.pricegrabber.com/pi/2/76/70/27670350_125.jpg Newegg.com has the Olevia 537H 37" Widescreen LCD HDTV with Digital Tuner for $699.99. Free shipping is also included. Olevia 537H 37" Widescreen LCD HDTV with Digital Tuner - $699.99 Shipped - Newegg.com

Repost: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?p=1029016#post1029016 searchalready

That list is mostly affiliates, but it also contains stores which used to be affiliates and no longer are for technical reasons as keeping them in the database would make it easier to change all the links on the site at once if they ever change their mind. But no, they are still not an affiliate.

We are no longer an affiliate of Amazon (and haven't been for almost a year now). They decided a year ago that they didn't want most deal/coupons sites as affiliates because we post deals which they don't make much money on after they pay commission.

Don't put much weight in sites like Quantcast, Alexa, etc... Those numbers are much lower than the real numbers.

Yeah, I think our affiliate rep said both of you were in the same city, lol. They should have hand delivered it to you

can you be more specific? i'm not sure what you are referring to. we already have a link to the User CP (labeled Control Panel on the top bar)

Repost: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=93353 searchalready

those people are banned.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/05/rumor-compusa-going-out-of-business-in-january/

That is just for mods. You can (and always have been able to) alert mods to spam by clicking the red X circle icon to the left of every post.

This is the case with nearly all audio/video cables at stores like BB and CC. Like you said, buy online or go somewhere like Target/Wal-Mart where you might find more "budget" versions which will work just as well.

Once again, the success of the Black Friday site has caused an increase of daily, year-round traffic here on the forum. And to go along with that increase in traffic, I am announcing several new moderators today. First of all, I'd like to welcome Cindy (freesia39) as our new site-wide moderator, joining Marcster and Scott. The four of us will be overseeing the entire forum and will be handling not only post and thread-related issues, but member issues as well. Cindy has been on the forum for over 3 years now and I know she'll do a great job. Next, because of the dramatic increase in new threads posted in the Online Hot Deals forum, we have three new forum-specific moderators who will be in charge of that forum. These new moderators are Aaron, lennon2004 and noehlp. These moderators along with myself and the other site-wide moderators will make sure that the Online Hot Deals forum (which given the fact that this is primarily an online deals site is our most important forum) is as well-organized as possible. Deals that are no longer valid will be more quickly moved, thread titles will be edited to include more information, links will be added where missing, etc... So our new team is: Administrator Brad GottaDeal Moderators freesia39 Marcster Scott Forum-Specific Moderators Aaron (Online Hot Deals) happysunshine28 (Contests & Sweepstakes) lennon2004 (Online Hot Deals) mmm40 (Surveys & Research Studies) noehlp (Online Hot Deals) Rockfordmom (Freebies & Free Offers)

Please read the forum rules (especially #2): http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=53669 We do not have the time to personally explain every mod action we take. Closing thread,