Free After Rebate FAR Arctic Cooling MX-2 thermal compound thermal paste for CPU and GPU and other computer and electronic components Free Shipping better than Arctic Silver 5 TIM

So am I supposed to read the Diablotek thread and by that I mean every single post to find out MX-2 is free? What kind of logic is this? Maybe Slickdeals should switch to one single giant deal post?

No, Im not saying that at all. But when similar tech-related items (for building a PC) are all Free After Rebate, from the same merchant, during the same time period, its a lot easier to consolidate everything into one thread.

Considering someone already posted this thermal paste almost three hours ago in that thread, creating a new thread, and not crediting the original poster in the process, is overkill.

Imagine if instead of consolidating all of the Free After Rebate Software Titles at Newegg, that mods or SDers starting posting them each individually. You would have to page through countless pages of software titles alone before you got to something interesting.

I already mod-alerted the other thread about the thermal paste about an hour or so ago, giving credit to Atachi. Odds are the Diablotek Case thread will go front page, so this will likely be added to it, along with a discuss option for the thermal paste, linking to this thread.

Or, they may chose to leave this out entirely... who knows. The title on the Diablotek Thread is already insanely long.

Thermal paste is different than ATX cases, this way people who are interested in thermal paste will see it. I have posted deals that then repeated like 3 days later and they considered it a non-repost. Atachi isn't the only one who knows the prediction loophole via rebate sites (there are several such sites), by the way, many of us know about it but are more discreet about pre-posting non-live deals. If he was so confident about it he could have posted it. Fact was, nobody was confident about it, not even me. I only posted it when it went live on the site. Of all the things to get hung up on, honestly, don't you have anything better to do with your time? Chill out. I hope lots of people get in on free thermal paste thanks to this alert.

I have to disagree with you, I have missed several deals because they were hidden inside threads/too long thread titles

the SD forum can easily handle 3 threads instead of just 1, and at some point it just becomes too much information for 1 thread

+ it completely messes up deal alerts if FAR items aren't even listed in the thread title

some exceptions might be FAReward promotions, or a merchant selling multiple software titles FAR

Yeah, on second thought, this probably does deserve its own thread. Sorry for being a nag blastingcap! Just had a rather rough night.

The ATX thread already has an insanely long title, so I guess this might trigger some other people's alerts.

I was confident about it, I already had the PDF with the rebate instructions before it updated on the site. The same delay happened with the ATX case rebates and power supply ... it only took about 15 to 20 min more for the thermal paste to show up properly.

Yes, Atachi may not be the only one who knows how to get through to view rebates before they update... however, he clearly posted that first... in that thread. Considering you were clearly active in that thread, since I saw you posting things to the Wiki, all I'm saying is it would have been nice to include a thanks to him for sharing it originally. I would be saying the same thing if it was you or him who first posted in that thread about it.

I agree thermal paste is a little different than ATX cases, and I hope your thread triggers people interested in it as well.

Are we cool?

it triggered my free after rebate alert, although I already saw the deal in the case thread since I picked that up as well

but for most people, separate is probably better, at least if they are different items like case/psu/thermal compound

Other people know the trick as well, and you should not ass*u*me. After I was puzzled at Wookie's pre-live rebate thread the other night, I decided to look into how he did it and came away with some interesting info including a boatload of Cooler Master pre-live rebates and the Egg. I don't feel comfortable publicly posting non-live deals, but if the mods would like to credit this thread to Atachi I'm okay with that since he was first to publicly talk about it, and can understand the rationale. I wonder if we're going to start seeing a lot of jousting to post not-yet-live deals and if that hurts more than it helps the average SDer.