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Old Feb 20, 2015 | 6:07 pm
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Originally Posted by PV_Premier


would be awesome if we could take a community vote on how we want to handle flash sales. this is getting ridiculous. the wiki says new threads, yet community members get PO'd about posts in this thread when a sale is NOT live, and others get PO'd when a new thread is not started.

i don't know if it is possible to set up surveys in existing threads, but if it is, can someone please do it and can we take a democratic vote?
A vote would be a good idea. Meanwhile, I'll lobby for my position.

I support having one thread where people can post current information about a Fast Dash or flash sale, and only that information. It would allow FTers to set up an instant email notification for when that specific thread is updated about a sale. Of course, as Seat 2A pointed out, that would only work if people are smart enough to only post on that thread when a sale goes live or is active ...

Starting a new thread each time does not make sense to me because so many sales are time limited. As it stands, you can set up a daily or a weekly email notification if a forum is updated with a new thread. By the time most folks would find out there's a flash or Fast Dash sale via that method, the sale would be over.

And if there was a way to set up an instant email notification each time a new thread was added to the forum we'd all be inundated with junk mail. As it is, each morning I have dozens of FT emails to sift through.
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