Brad

I know what was going on... and it was some crazy stuff...

Just tried and it works for me. Don't know why you guys are having problems

I've made some changes to the shopping list feature (and the GottaPoints store) which should hopefully fix some of the problems. The main problem people are having is because they are not checking the "remember me" box when they log into the forum. I've made it the default now, so it will automatically be checked for you. Once you do that, the cookie is set and you should have no problem accessing the shopping list and GottaPoints store.

Getting .ca domains was too much of a hassle the last time I checked. I do have gottadeal.co.uk registered though :)

Follow the instructions in this thread and see if it helps: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=17471 Note the "Remember me" part especially.

Well I have the domain, don't know when or if anything will ever be up. I'm sure you've noticed that there are very few Canadian deal sites - the likely reason being that there are an extremely small number of canadian retailers who a) have good enough web sites and (more importantly) have affiliate programs for those sites. You have Dell and Amazon and that's about it, so you see deals for the same stores posted over and over again (much like RedFlagDeals which is a very good site). But we're going to look at the idea sometime early next year and see what we can do :)

No, the Dell coupons on the site are not usable in Canada. However Dell does release some coupons occasionally for their Canadian site but there are typically nowhere near as good as the ones for the US: Save an additional $100 on select DELL PCs when you spend over $649 with coupon code 2P2NR45K4TW?23. Expires November 10, 2005. Save an additional $200 on select DELL PCs when you spend over $1599 with coupon code LL7W?TRDZKJFB$. Expires November 10, 2005. Dell Canada Any interest in GottaDealCanada.com?

That one is in the regular (non-"early bird") ad scan. It's hard to make out the specs, but I believe it's very similar to the one for $398 - also a Sempron.

Google alerted me as well. Looks like a lot of the local stations picked up on the CNN story.

Do a search - this has been posted already.

There might be something... :) Actually more skins doesnt really use more resources because you're still using only one skin at a time.

One year I remember Walmart setting up a huge row of carts parallel with the front of the store starting at the door and going along the line of people. This prevented anyone from getting near the door without going around to the end of the line of carts and to the back of the line. Seemed to work pretty well.

Already posted: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=17566&highlight=hasbro

Exactly. These big companies likely have people entrenched in their competitors' organizations for things like this. I think the stores' main complaint (other than being embarassed when these get leaked so early) is that people won't buy as much before BF (when they stand to make more $) if they know a better deal is coming. That argument doesn't have much validity to me. How many people were originally planning on buying a laptop AT WALMART but now won't because they think they are going to be one of the select few to get the $398 model. Everyone knows there are going to be great deals on BF, whether the ads are out or not, so people are going to be waiting anyway.

Similar thread: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=14814 Continue discussion there

Depends how much of a professional-looking installation you want. The simplest installations involve a cigarette lighter adapter for power, a cassette adapter to get sound out of your stereo, and then the anteanna which you have to route somewhere to get good reception. If you want better sound by hooking up directly to your receiver, then things can get more complicated.

Then you come back here to GD and we'll find you a similar deal to be ordered online

Yes it was, these are definitely the real ads.

If we have to remove the scans and the list, we'll still keep the items in the database - they just won't be shown, but then a few days before BF they will magically re-appear and still be in your shopping lists, so don't worry about that. We might even let them stay in the shopping list part of the site and just not have them shown with the rest of the ads. Like I said, we haven't even been contacted yet, so don't get too worried yet. If you print out your shopping list on Thanksgiving day, the Sears items will be on the list either way.

I actually had an IM conversation with the owner of that other site yesterday. Apparently it is true. We haven't been contacted yet (knock on wood) but still I would suggest that if anyone wants to have the Sears scans that you download them very soon. Sears was one of only 2 stores that made us remove the ads last year (Home Depot was the other), so it is not too surprising.

Here was the thread. All 10 winners in the first post: http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=14375

you mean the thread a few weeks ago where we gave away 5 t-shirts, then 5 more? the winners were posted in that thread :)

The 700m uses regular old DDR RAM, so you might be able to get that cheaper.

Just a heads up that if you haven't downloaded these yet and want to view them later, you might want to grab them soon. That's all I'm going to say...

If you can't read it, we can't read it. We have the same quality ads. Most likely it requires a new 2 year contract with Cingular. To be honest, you are better off getting it from Amazon or Buy.com who have the RAZR for free after rebates, and they've also been including free Bluetooth headsets as well.