The RedFlagDeals.com Blog

For the first time ever, RedFlagDeals.com t-shirts are available for purchase!  Just head over to the RedFlagDeals.com T-shirt Shop and you can pick up your own official shirt in either red, blue or light grey for guys or in red for girls.  All of the T-shirts are 100% cotton, fitted and pre-shrunk from American Apparel.  The shirts are $12.99 each + $5 shipping (More details are on the shop page).

A couple of notes:

• The male model in the pictures is about 6 feet tall and about 150 pounds.  He is wearing a men’s small.
• The female model is about 5 foot 2 inches and weighs about 100 pounds.  She is wearing a women’s small.
• Stock is not updated in realtime. If you order a shirt that is out of stock, your order will be refunded and you will be notified by email.
• Please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.

Stock is limited!

The winners from our 100,000th Member Contest are:

Winner of the $500 NCIX.com Gift Card:

• 1tym

Winners of the $100 NCIX.com Gift Cards:

• CactusJack
• formalentity
• quikkid
• bert
• lbdwarren

We’d like to thank NCIX.com for sponsoring this awesome contest!  We can’t wait to sign up the next 100,000!

It seems like everyone in Canada is now on Facebook, so we thought it would make sense to create an official RedFlagDeals.com Facebook group that you can join and use as another way to hang out with other RedFlagDeals.com members.

Click here to join the Official RedFlagDeals.com Facebook Group!

We have a couple of other things in the works, so stay tuned for more information!

The RedFlagDeals.com shirts are here and will be on sale next week!

In the mean time, here are some pics!  The men’s shirts come in 3 colours:

The girls shirt comes in red:

We’ve finally heard from all of the winners in our MOMumental Mother’s Day contest!  Here’s the list of winners.  We’d like to thank the contest sponsors CanadaFlowers.ca, LUSH.ca, and Anitec for contributing the great prizes!

The Grand Prize Winner of the Asus Z71VP Intel Pentium M 760 (2.0 GHz) Centrino Notebook from Anitec.ca:

• Marilyn Baker of Nova Scotia

Winners of the “Thanks Mum” gifts from LUSH.ca:

• Muhammad Azhar Karim of Ontario
• Sandy Choi of British Columbia
• Adam Hien Phi Tran of Ontario
• Cindy You of Ontario
• Donna Lyn of Ontario
• Marie Soulsby of Alberta
• Debora Miscione of Ontario
• Carla Cui of Ontario
• Patrick Reilly of Ontario
• Linda Chan of Ontario

Winners of the Designer’s Choice fresh flower bouquet valued at $55 each from CanadaFlowers.ca:

• Tim Wang of Ontario
• Carole Green of Ontario
• Karen Yeung of Alberta
• Dave Rolfson of Alberta
• Tarek Shoukry of British Columbia

We’ve added a new Fitness & Beauty deals category to the site!  Previously these deals were somewhat clumsily assigned to the other categories, but now you will be able to find deals on fitness equipment, spa packages, makeup, et al in one place.  If there are any other category that you think would be helpful, you can make suggestions in the comments for this story or in the Comments & Suggestion forum. 

Hi, I’m Jessica and I’m a deal addict, but as I’ve discovered, when you work at RedFlagDeals.com, that’s a good thing.  I started here about a month ago after responding to a job posting looking for a shop-a-holic and I’ve been posting deals on the site ever since.  I’m RedFlagDeals.com’s first female employee and I was hired because the guys here claim that between the 6 of them, they just couldn’t figure out if something like 50% Off @ La Vie En Rose was a hot deal (it is).  I’m a glutton for freebies and I also spend a ridiculous amount of money on books, travel, and food, so it looks like I’ve found the perfect job to make me go broke.  Every job involves some sacrifice and sometimes you gotta do, what you gotta do.

We’ve heard back from 4 of the 5 Early Bird winners in our MOMumental Mother’s Day Contest! They have won a Designer’s Choice fresh flower bouquet valued at $55 each courtesy of CanadaFlowers.ca!

If you have Hotmail address check your junk folder because the 5th winner only has until the end of tomorrow before their prize is redrawn!

Congrats to our Early Bird winners:

• Tim Wang of Ontario
• Carole Green of Ontario
• Karen Yeung of Alberta
• Dave Rolfson of Alberta

sully from the forums noticed that in March 2007 “redflagdeals” was the 14th top gaining search query on Google Canada!  Very cool!  However, we were once again behind our mortal enemies… the elephants. 

You can check out the list of top gainers here.

We will be doing some back-end software upgrades tomorrow, April 28 at 9 AM EST.  The upgrade is expected to take about an hour, but during that time the forums will be unavailable.  If there are any unexpected delays, we will let you know.

Statistics Canada released their 2006 report on the state of the electronic commerce and technology in Canada last week. You can read all about it here.

Overall public and private sector online sales grew 40% to $49.9 billion. Business-to-business transactions still account for the majority of sales ($31.4 billion) but the business-to-consumer side is also picking up steam with more retailers selling online, up 5% from 10% to 15% in 2006.

That’s definitely good news for everyone. More online stores means more choice, and more choice will drive more competition and innovation. If you haven’t seen it already, Home Depot’s new Auction system is quite a hoot. I bid $11 for a personal putting green last week just to try the auction system but was outbid :( Next time I miss a putt it’s all Home Depot’s fault.

When Derek founded RedFlagDeals.com six and a half years ago, it really was because he loves deals.  In the last few days he taken advantage of Burger King’s Free Coffee promotion and Popeye’s Free Chicken promo.  I fully expect him to get his Free Starbuck’s coffee on Earth Day.  I’ve know Derek since we were kids and since he’s had money to spend, his bedroom/dorm room/apartment has been full of unopened boxes ordered because there was a deal he just couldn’t resist.  Yes, Derek truly is a Deal Addict. 

It’s April already! How time flies! One of our goals for 2007 is to do much more charity work, but we were busier this winter than expected so we’re a bit behind on our planning. 

Last year the RedFlagDeals.com community was able to raise over $5000 for Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank and that was awesome!  This year we’d like to find a charity that has a national focus so we can get more people involved and we’re hoping the RedFlagDeals.com community can help us identify one.  We do have a few things we are looking for in a charity:

• A nation wide presence
• A charity that uses 90% or more of their donations on charitable acts (we’re all about saving money after all )
• A charity that would be willing to form a closer relationship with us and our members

Any suggestions?  You can either post them here or send them to us via the Contact form!

Earlier today, we launched the new design for PriceCanada.com!  Head over and check it out!  There are now over 200,000 computer and electronics products that you can search, compare and buy on PriceCanada.com, so it’s a great site to start with when you are looking for the best deal on a specific product.  Our team has put a lot of time into the project, so we hope you like it.

It literally launched a couple of hours ago, so if you run into any issues, let us know.

We’ve taken some time to update the Link to Us page with our current banners and we also created a new button:

120x60 Button

If you are so inclined, you can put this button or the other banners on your blog or MySpace (Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, whatever) page. 

If you put one of the banners on your webpage, post a link in the comments so everyone can check it out!