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Originally Posted by dkperez
it's caveat 1-clicker all the way
I don't know what this means???
Yes, I understand that things a month or even a week old are likely to expire, but there appear to be offers that were good earlier yesterday that weren't good when I checked yesterday afternoon. I can see it being tedious to kill off the dead offers. But, it's got to be rather annoying to have hundreds or thousands of people going to B&N or wherever, only to find that the offer that was there 3 minutes ago, isn't there any more.
I was hoping the forum software was smart enough to have some expiration that could be set when the topic was created so after <pick your favorite time period> hours/days it would be shown as expired so as to minimize the waste of time.. |
If you find a dead one - report it to a moderator and ask for it to be closed.
If I find a deal, I post it. I'm definitely not going to go back and check on it, over and over, until it's dead and then ask a mod. I have a lot of other things I can be doing.
No one posting these deals is connected with them in any way other than finding them. Some deals last for, literally, minutes. Others a few hours, some a few days and some for months (or forever).
At least one on Monday was gone by late afternoon (I've seen them disappear before noon). The only way I know they are gone, though, is if someone else goes to get the deal, finds it is gone and comes back here and posts .... if that person were to alert a moderator, it would no doubt save latecomers from wasting the 10 seconds or so they spend clicking and checking if it is still valid.
Threads on the forum are also not connected to the deals in any way. They get pushed to the back as more current threads are created or commented upon. Unless someone resurrects a zombie post from years past, the least likely to be valid are well to the back.
If you check daily and log in, you'll easily see which threads are new or still getting new comments.
As for "caveat 1-clicker all the way" - a play on words, invoking a more modern image than caveat emptor (Latin for "Let the buyer beware", but universal enough that anyone should recognize this dead language's most famous phrase).