Welcome to Operation:Slickdeal
We're proud to announce that we're teaming up with Operation Homefront from July 15th - August 7th for Operation: Slickdeal! Operation Homefront provides services to American soldiers and their families and we can help. The idea is simple - use your couponing expertise to buy non-perishable food and toiletries and donate them to your local Operation Homefront chapter. If you do not have a local Operation Homefront chapter, we will do our best to accommodate you by providing a drop off point. If we can't, you can still be eligible for an OP:SD t-shirt by donating to your local food bank. Anything bought between now and August 7th counts and we have some pretty amazing prizes for the people who donate the most. We are encouraging novices and experts to join in, and we will be providing step-by-step guides for the first-timers.
Participate and Win Awesome Prizes!
Participate in Operation:Slickdeal and have a chance to win an amazing prize! Prizes include a 64" Plasma 3D TV, a Klipsch home theater system, gift cards and more!
Coupon Guides & How To Save $$$
Video Guide Details
Shopping Guide for Video- Receipts & totals for our Shopping Guide Video (Coming Soon)
New User Guides
Updates
Donation period is over!
Posted, Monday, August 8, 2011
The donation period is officially over! We hope everyone got their stuff in to their local Operation Homefront chapter. In the coming weeks we will be totalling all the donations and determining the winners. For those of you who registered, but did not participate, we have another option to donate coming up. The chapter you donated to should have taken your donation form, but we've received word from a few people that some did not. In case your chapter signed off on your form and gave it back to you, please forward it to us at opsd@slickdeals.net. We will verify the donation with the chapter and get the form to the right people. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements!
The last of the shopping guides!Posted Thursday, July 28, 2011
Our moderator, Nuffsaid has written the final Walgreens and Rite Aid guides for the upcoming week. We can't thank her enough for writing these. If you have been following them, you should surpass the $100 mark for your donations. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to let us know in the official support thread.
New Walgreens GuidePosted Friday, July 22, 2011
We've just released a new guide for Walgreens for the upcoming week. For those following the guides, you should be very close to $100 value to donate for very little out of pocket!
Time to donate!Posted Thursday, July 14, 2011
OK Everyone, it is on! We have the paperwork ready, some extra drop-off points set up, and some flexible contingency plans in case something goes wrong.
For starters, make sure you download our official record keeping sheet here. If you need more than one, print as many as you need, but make sure to give each of them a unique page number. Then, simply enter the required information and take the sheet (and all appropriate receipts) with you on your donation run. When you actually drop your stuff off, an OH representative will be verifying that your haul matches your receipts and will be collecting the worksheet. You will retain your receipts (DO NOT LOSE THEM); once the donation period ends, we will be contacting those of you who are in line for a prize and asking you to send the receipts directly to us.
Look on the PDF linked above (you'll need to be registered to see it) for the closest contact point to you. Just contact the person via email or phone using the information provided to coordinate the drop off. We want to make things as easy as we can for you guys and there's a lot of options, so it's best to coordinate directly with the chapters. If it's within reasonable driving distance, then you can deliver whenever they're ready for you. And if you're not in the area, the chapters can coordinate intermediary drop off points that will work for you. If that doesn't work out, we have options!
- Deliver the donations to the chapter yourself.
- Ship your donation to the chapter.
- The chapters may be willing to travel to your area to pick up the donations, especially in the case of larger donations. Please ask the chapters regarding this option.
- If none of the above 3 options work, participants can ship their donations to Operation Homefront's National Warehouse in San Antonio. Operation Homefront will pay for the shipping.
- If all else fails, you can donate to another local charity and still be eligible for the t-shirt.
- Grand Prize: Samsung 64" Series 8 Plasma 3D 1080p HDTV from US Appliance (details here)
- 2nd-5th place: Bowflex Xtreme SE Home Gym from Bowflex (details here)
- 6th-15th place: $200 gift certificate for Dell.com
- 16th-55th place: $50 gift certificate for Tanga.com
- One year magazine subscription from Discount Mags and an Operation:Slickdeal t-shirt to all participants that donate over $100 retail value.
Please contact the chapters for the first 3 options. If nothing works out, or if for some reason you have trouble reaching someone, please contact us at opsd@slickdeals.net or Marco Impeduglia at 240-403-7294 or Marco.Impeduglia@operationhomefront.net. We want to work with everyone to make sure you can all participate!
More couponing guides!
Posted Thursday, July 14, 2011
It is tough to shop in these summer months! But we're here to help. While the deals are a little slimmer this time of year, we've culled some of the best deals out there for this coming week at Walgreens and Rite Aid. If you can learn the ropes while the deals are not smoking hot, when Fall rolls around and the deals come back in force, you will be ready to go. As always, keep reading, ask questions on our forums and happy shopping! And like last time, nuffsaid wrote these guides, so if these guides helped you feel free to heap praise on her!
New couponing guides postedPosted: Friday, July 8, 2011
We've posted two new beginner couponing guides for this week covering Walgreens and Rite Aid. These guides will be good from July 10-16 with the coupons from your local Sunday paper (from July 10th). If you follow both of them, you will pay $21.42 for $48.42 AND have $14 worth of register rewards to use for next week's deals. Our moderator extraordinaire nuffsaid wrote them. Thanks nuffsaid! As always, if you have any questions about the guides or need any help, feel free to post in the Official Discussion Thread.
Lowes joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Lowes will be matching (up to $2,000) the largest retail value donation to Operation Homefront with a monetary donation. Thanks Lowes!
Donation datesPosted: Friday, June 30, 2011
Response so far has been amazing, with over 1200 registered users already shopping and aiming for huge hauls, and some users bringing up storage issues, we've decided to allow donations starting on July 15th. This will allow participants to make multiple drop offs as they make their shopping runs without the need to store their hauls as long. We will be posting a huge list of the drop off points before then.
Prize structure announced!Posted: Friday, June 30, 2011
We've got all of our sponsors locked in, and we're happy to announce the prize structure for Operation: Slickdeal. As you know, we will be awarding prizes in two categories: highest retail value donated, and highest amount saved. We have 55 total prizes for the highest retail value donated, and one special grand prize for the person who saves the most money. For highest retail value donated, the prizes are as follows:
And to the person who saves the most money, a Klipsch Gallery G-28 5.1 Home Theater System from Acoustic Sound Design
Tanga joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Thursday, June 30, 2011
Unfortunately, 24 Hour Fitness is no longer participating in Operation: Slickdeal, but Tanga has stepped up and donated forty $50 gift cards! Thanks Tanga!
First couponing video is out!Posted: Friday, June 24, 2011
We just posted our first couponing tutorial video starring Jen Freeman from season 1 of TLC's Extreme Couponing. And our new moderator, nuffsaid, was kind enough to write us a guide! The guide explains how this run was done, although it does expire tomorrow. So if you can get out to a Walgreens by Saturday, you could attempt this run for yourself and get some cool stuff to donate! We will have more guides coming soon that will cover a longer period of time, this one was written specifically for the video.
Bowflex joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Bowflex has donated four Bowflex Xtreme SE Home Gyms. A few months with one of these and you won't even need a shopping cart!
US Appliance joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Monday, June 20, 2011
US Appliance has donated our grand prize! The person who donates the highest retail value to Operation Homefront will receive a Samsung 64" Series 8 Plasma 3D 1080p HDTV (details here) valued at over $3,000! Thanks US Appliance!
One more prize announcement today!Posted: Friday, June 17, 2011
Acoustic Sound Design has donated a Klipsch Gallery G-28 5.1 Home Theater System (retail value $2,095)! Thanks guys!
First batch of prizes announcedPosted: Friday, June 17, 2011
OK, folks! Here are the first round of prizes - these fall into the "runner-up" category. Anyone who donates $100 or more (retail value) will get an Operation: Slickdeal t-shirt (design will be posted soon) and a free 1 year magazine subscription of their choice from DiscountMags.com. Additionally, five people in each category (highest retail value donated and most money saved) will receive a $200 gift certificate for Dell.com and a Bodybugg from 24 Hour Fitness. More prizes coming soon!
DiscountMags.com joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Friday, June 17, 2011
We are happy to announce that DiscountMags.com has generously donated 1,000 magazine subscriptions for our participants. We thank them for their generosity.
Dell.com joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Friday, June 17, 2011
Dell.com has signed on to support Operation: Slickdeal by donating $2,000 in gift cards to be used as prizes. Thanks Dell!
24 Hour Fitness joins Operation: Slickdeal as a sponsorPosted: Friday, June 17, 2011
24 Hour Fitness has donated 10 of their awesome Bodybugg systems as runner-up prizes in Operation: Slickdeal. We appreciate their help and sponsorship!
Registrations are live!Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2011
Registrations are good to go, so sign up now! Check back often as we will be updating this page regularly (as well as the forum threads) with exciting news about the prizes, how to videos, and guides.
