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    Holiday Shopping Forum Moved

    in Discuss GottaDEAL

    Posted

    Now that the post-holiday sales are pretty much over, we have closed the Holiday Shopping (formerly Black Friday) forum to any new posts and have made it a sub-forum of the Offline Hot Deals forum, so you can sell browse and search all the old threads.

     

    Here is a direct link to the forum:

     

    http://forums.gottadeal.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13

     

    You can also get to it by clicking on the Offline Deals board and then the link at the top of the page. We'll re-open the forum sometime this fall once Black Friday 2005 gets closer. If you need to continue any discussion from that forum, please use one of the other forums.

     

    Let us know if you have any questions.

     

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    Tagging a dead deal

    in Discuss GottaDEAL

    Posted

    Something like that would be nearly impossible to do, both for time and coding reasons.

     

    First of all, we have way too many deals to constantly check them all to see if they are still valid. We could post a deal for an MP3 player at Amazon for $99 on Monday, on Wednesday Amazon could raise the price to $119, and then drop it back to $99 on Friday. Unless we check every deal every day, something like that is impossible.

     

    And as for having it automated, very few retailers provide updated pricing in a format that is easy to use (such as Amazon's AWS XML system) so it would again be virtually impossible to do it without coming up with screen-scraping scripts for every retailer we post deals for, and then having to update them everytime a retailer makes a change to how they display items. Plus there are always coupons and rebates that can affect a deal, all with different expiration dates. We do display "Coupon Expired" instead of the coupon link for a deal that had used an expired coupon, but that's the best we can do for now.

     

    So basically it is not possible. If a deal goes dead the same day we post it, we can make the change and update it, but otherwise it is just too hard.

     

    Another option is to have a way for visitors to mark a deal as dead, and then have it display that note if enough people mark it dead, but that could easily be abused by our jealous competitors, so we don't want to do that.

     

    So if you have any other suggestions as to how we could do it without spending hours every day going through hundreds of deals, please let us know.

    Upcoming Dell Coupons

    in Deal Finder & Deal Discussion

    Posted

    We just got this e-mail from the Dell Affiliate team:

     

    "Dear Valued Affilaites:

     

    We just wanted to give you a heads up that we will be having some great system offers that will run Thursday 1/6/05 6:00am through Monday 1/10/05 5:59am.

     

    We will send more details as soon as we have them. Be assured that these offers will be much richer than our standard site promotions, and better than our most recent affiliate coupons."

     

    Of course we'll post the coupons as soon as we get them. :yelclap:

    What to do with this particular forum?

    in 2004

    Posted

    leave it open until the After Christmas sales die out then close it until the hype for Black Friday 2005 starts

    That sounds like the best idea. We'll leave it open a little bit longer and then close it until October. We'll probably make it a sub-forum of the "Offline Deals" board so it doesn't show up on the main forum page, but that way you can still view the old threads.

    What to do with this particular forum?

    in 2004

    Posted

    Anyone have any suggestions as to what we should do with this particular "holiday shopping" forum with the holidays now over?

     

    Some ideas:

     

    - leave it open

    - close it until the hype for Black Friday 2005 starts

    - merge it with one of the other forums

    - make it a sub-forum of one of the other forums

    - ????

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