Brad

I'd imagine starting next month they'll start having some free shipping deals. I know during the week of BF last year they had free shipping on $49+ orders, plus a free $10 gift certificate if you spent $75.

I'm not sure. I'd think that if a store that offers in-store pickup (for example, Best Buy) has an item online at the BF price, you could check out and choose in-store pickup. The only problem would be that the in-store inventories are not always real-time, so when you order, the stores might already be out of stock. And if you order before the stores open, there's a good chance they won't pick your order until after they open, which again, could mean they are OOS.

Just like last year, the BF site will have a complete list of BF sale items available online. Many of the sale items started becoming available online on Thanksgiving Day last year, so there is a good chance you (whether you are going out on BF or not) will be able to get some items the day before.

OK, last year's posts are now in their own subforum of the main BF forum. Once BF 2005 is over, both the 2005 and 2004 forums will become subforums of the Offline Deals board as they are now. We'll decide next year whether we want to keep 2 years of archives, but for now there's no reason to delete them as there are less than 500 threads in the forum.

I'll take one :) Although take out the FM tuner and transmitter and replace it with a built-in XM receiver.

I agree that they should be locked. I don't know if we should move them to another subforum or just keep them in where they are. If we keep them as one forum, once the forum's been open for a few days, all the posts from last year will no longer be on the first page anyway. There are still a lot of useful threads from last year not dealing with specific items (such as tips, etc...) so we don't want to make them too hard to find.

You both are too impatient, lol. These threads will be moved to the BF forum when the site launches. BTW, sort of off-topic, but what does everyone (who cares) think we should do with the existing posts in the BF forum? Should they all remain open so people can bump them this year or should they all be locked so we start off with new threads this year. Any thoughts?

There is the little red button with the X under everyone's avatar. When you hover it says "Report Bad Post" and we all know "Nef" = "Bad Post" lol

you can pretty much ignore those. the GottaDeal user will never spend points or anything so it really doesn't matter.

I don't think anyone on here really wants to be a mod...

Looks like it's a bug with Opera: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=148077

Yep, it's a very hot deal. It really isn't supposed to be this low. It's supposed to be $229 + $15 = $244 and then the code is supposed to take off the $15 for the free iTunes card but actually takes off $22 more than that.

Looks like $24.99 is for this special box set with the extra stuff. Just the actual DVD will only be around $14.

The thing that comes with this deal is an FM transmitter - not an FM tuner. It's for playing your MP3s through an FM radio (mostly for vehicles). I don't know if there is an add-on FM tuner available. I thought I read about both an FM tuner and FM transmitter in one unit.

If you're just using it for music (and not photos), it's fine for most people. Around $60 cheaper and a little big thinner than the 20GB Photo version.

Yeah $200 isn't going to happen anytime this year (unless a price mistake comes around)

If we were to put, for example, an MP3 player in the store, would you rather have it be for a high amount of points that the first person that can afford (and wants it) can get it, or would you rather have the contest entry method where you can spend a few of your points for a chance at winning it? Or do some each way?

Oooh. Good idea. 1 GottaPoint = $1.00 in GreenZap Probably still not worth it, lol.

Does anyone have any suggestions for things you'd like to be able to redeem your points for? We'll have the GD shirts/stickers/pens, gift certificates and contest entries, but is there anything else you can think of? Hosting accounts? Domain names? Cash/PayPal? What about forum-type things like being able to change someone else's avatar/user title for a day, increased PM limits, access to special smilies, etc...? Someone has to have some creative ideas We have our own ideas & plans but we can always use more :)

Just got this: "Thank you for applying to be an adidas Affiliate Partner. Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to approve your application for the adidas Affiliate Program. As it states in our Affiliate Agreement, not all applicants will become affiliates, and it is within adidas' sole discretion to deny any application for any reason. If you wish to review our agreement please visit our "Be an Affiliate" pages in the Customer Service section of thestore.adidas.com. Thank you again for your interest in the adidas Affiliate Program." I have no idea why we were not approved, but it's their loss

Doesn't matter if it's a repost or not. 10% is 10% and it'll be helpful to someone :) I'm surprised the links even work considering those coupons aren't compatible with the affiliate program. Usually Buy.com removes the "redeem coupon" button if you came to the coupon page (for a non-affiliate coupon) from an affiliate site.

Too bad it's a REPOST!!!!! http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=13259 Gotta do better than that, Keith

I didn't think there ever was an option to edit them. I think that is a mod/admin-only option. Likely to protect the integrity of the important polls that go on in this forum, lol.

yes, vB changed that. before it asked for the title, then the URL. the title field was always optional so they removed it in 3.5. now you just enter the URL and the title is automatically highlighted in your post so if you want a title, you type it right then. don't know why they changed it, but they did and i haven't seen a way to get it back to the old way.

For this kind of deal, this is the right forum as it's not really free - you still have to pay $149 up front and have to activate the unit to get the rebate. It's not like they are just giving them away for no cost out-of-pocket.