+ Add A Deal Alert Deal Alerts

Your Deal Alert is a combination of the following parameters:

• Target forum (where to look)
• Keyword phrase (what to look for)
• Thread rating (minimum rating before alert is sent out)
• Notification method for sending you an alert
  • Email (sent to address in your account)
  • Private Message
  • Email and Private Message
• Notification frequency
  • Instant (within minutes of thread creation)
  • Daily (summary of your daily Deal Alerts for the day at midnight, PST)
  • Both Instant and Daily
• Expiration. Alerts automatically expire after a certain number of days, and are deleted if not renewed within grace period (7 days)
  • To renew the alert, either edit and save it, or mark it and use "Renew" option
  • When one or more of your alerts expire, you will receive a notification each day until it's renewed or removed by you or the system

Deal Alerts should comform to the following rules:

• Your maximum number of alerts is listed in the upper right corner. When you reach your maximum, you will need to remove existing alerts to add a new one
• A single alert can be in a single forum
• Ratings and alerts are tracked within 24 hours from thread creation time
• Keyword should be between 3 and 64 characters
• Keywords are case insensitive (LaPtop is considered the same as laptop)
• Keyword phrase may be left blank, if you also choose a Thread Rating not marked with an asterisk (*), effectily creating an alert which will notify you about any thread reaching your selected rating level within 24 hours.
• "Ignore rating" will alert you about any threads matching your criteria, and "Front page" will notify you about threads matching your criteria reaching the Front Page, with everything else in between

More information can be found in the Deal Alerts FAQ