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Hot Deals Club - membership renewal
First review the terms of your subscription to the Hot Deals Club, then you will be given the opportunity to renew your existing account. You must know your existing LoginID and Password to renew.
Access to more deals and our complete database of articles.
Some of the deals that members have access to:
Complex long-running hot deals that are very hot, but are not frequently featured on our front page. These deals are hot in that customers can purchase items at very low costs, but the deals never expire. These are not normal hot deals that have expiration dates - these are hot deals that last forever, but are updated constantly with new information.
Instant access to new deals, and future deals. After 8pm (eastern time), members will have the ability to view tomorrow's deals, if any are available by that time. If you are a frequent visitor to this site, you already know that a lot of deals often go online at exactly midnight. Much like how a newspaper works, those deals were actually typed several hours in advanced, and are automatically made available to the public after midnight. Members can see tomorrow's deals as early as 8pm (eastern), if any exist at that time. This allows members to get an early jump on deals, often before they sell out.
Instant access to every hot deal. Non-members will only see updates on the front page a few times each day. Automatic updates are scheduled at around 12am, 9am, 1pm, and 5pm (eastern) each day. Members are not limited to the update schedule, since they see all deals the moment that are added or updated.
Some of the better deals are delayed to non-members by up to 48 hours. As most of you already know, when a great deal is posted, it often expires within the first few hours of being online. By limiting the deal viewers to a smaller set of people (the members), that gives every member the ability to jump on a deal long before it gets posted to the public, and deals often expire quickly after being posted to the public.
Old Deals.
Non-members only have access to deals that were posted (or reposted) over the last 7 to 10 days (depending on the quanitity of deals over that time). Members will have access to the last three years of deals at any time, all searchable and categorized.
Fancy search engine.
Can't find that old deal? Our search engine has indexed all deals and articles posted between now and September 2001. Many people have asked me where the "old pages" have gone to. Don't worry about searching through old pages trying to find a deal, just use our new search engine.
Message boards
, where members can exchange information about each deal. Coming in Jan 2004.
Hot Deals Alert System
. Be notified immediately by email when a hot deal arrises that fits your profile. Are you looking for a hot deal on a LCD Flatpanel Monitor, winter clothes, or a vacation? There are two problems I have found with Hot Deals: 1) the really hot deals are usually sold out shortly after they are posted to the public on my website, and 2) someone who was waiting for a particular item found they missed the boat when it arrived. Customize your account profile of what you are looking for. When a hot deal comes up that fits your profile, you will instantly receive an email alert with its details. That way you find out about deals that are hot to you, long before anyone else knows about them.
Localized Hot Deals.
Based on your profile, we can advise you of specific hot deals that are only available in your area. Our profile is smart enough to give you the localized deals in your region. For example, a southwestern Connecticut member will be made aware of hot deals that are local to CT, NY, and NJ.
Features that are coming very soon to Members:
Message boards. We are getting the bugs out of the system, so it should be done soon.
Ability to access Hot Deals from your web-enabled cell phone or PDA.
Access Hot Deals from an AOL Instant Messanger (tm) session. Possibly will be linked to the Hot Deal Alert System, so you will receive an automatic AIM message to alert you of a hot deal that fits your profile.
Subscribe to receive updates on specific deals. If you are interested in a deal, be notified by email when a deal is updated with new information.
Company profiles. Are you curious of what companies are good and what are not? What companies sell the best quality memory products? What companies have a bad history of fulfilling rebates? What is Amazon.com's customer service phone number? What is the name and direct phone number of the sales manager at Dell? Check our searchable Company Profile database.
Now some background of why we have a Members section.
This website has always been user-supported, and not company supported. We are trying to stay that way, to ensure that we only show the deals that truly are hot. Most other "Hot Deals" websites earn a profit for advertising a deal as Hot. They actually take a percentage of product sales that are generated by users clicking on their links. That's a great business model, but it screws the consumer. Those websites will often feature a deal as "hot" because they earn more money as more people click on them, even though most of those deals really are not good at all. To keep this website full of only truly hot deals, we vow not to accept any commission from our visitors' clicks on links. However, from a business perspective how could we pay for our time to do all this Hot Deals research? The answer for now is to ask our loyal visitors for a nominal yearly fee to join our Hot Deals Club as a member. The only escuse we have is to offer a value-added service for our members. I think these services are well worth the membership costs, and will continue to get better over the next few months. Even if you don't want any of the membership privileges, at least you will be doing your part in supporting this website.
Don't be scared away! If you don't want to sign up, that's okay. You can still enjoy this site the way you always have:
Non-members will still be able to access the site for free, like they always have.
The point here was to add value to the service, by offering membership privileges. Non-members will have access to virtually all of the same deals that members have access to, but members will have access to them first.
Where does my annual fee actually go to?
Every dollar that is collected from our Membership fees will go back into this website. First our server and bandwidth costs will be covered. Every excess dollar will go into enhancing the website and offerings to our members.
Specific things that non-members will not have access to:
"Old Pages". Once a deal disappears from our front page, a non-member may not be able to locate that deal again until it is reposted.
One-time-use coupon codes collected and shared to members only.
All Hot Deals Club members MUST agree to these terms.
Each subscription is licensed to ONE person only. That ONE person may use his/her login at home, at work, in a lab, or anywhere they wish. Families that live in one household may use the single subscription as long as they share the same computer. If a user violates the license, their subscription may be canceled without refund.
All payment transactions are final and are non-refundable.
Our payment processor is
PaySystems
. PaySystems takes full responsibility for the security of your credit card information, and no credit card information is stored on the Hot Deals Club. PaySystems is a major credit card processing center, they know what they're doing when it comes to keeping your card number and personal information secure.
The subscriber understands that whether he/she uses the Hot Deals Club membership features or not, the membership will expire 366 days after the signup date. The term is always 366 days, so the phrase "one year subscription" or "annual" subscription referrs to 366 days, no matter if the term includes a leap year or not.
The subscriber also understands that the Hot Deals Club is not responsible for connectivity and/or computer problems on the subscriber's end that may inhibit the subscriber's ability to access his/her Hot Deals Club membership services.
Problems caused by the Hot Deals Club server can happen, and the Hot Deals Club webmaster will grant members additional days on their membership duration if there is a problem with the Hot Deals Club server or its direct connection to the Internet. Basically, membership makes no guarantees that the site will be available to the member 100% of the time.
The Hot Deals Club website assumes no responsibility for email alerts that were not delivered to your inbox as a result of your mail server rejecting the mail, or your email program identifying the email as spam.
The subscriber understands that Hot Deal alerts are never unsolocited, that the subscriber has the ability to immediately cancel receiving all Hot Deal alerts, and the subscriber will not report Hot Deal alerts as "spam" to the authorities unless the subscriber is unable to cancel Hot Deal alert subscription after 3 attempts.
Even though membership gives subscribers additional resources to see Hot Deals, membership does NOT guarantee that subscribers will see Hot Deals before anyone else. Obviously, there is no way to truly guarantee that. In addition, membership does not give any guarantee that subscribers will successfully achieve all Hot Deals since buyers are always at the mercy of the vendor supplying the deal.
Member agrees: 1) NOT TO directly copy/forward the text from the Hot Deals Club site or text from Hot Deals Club generated emails for personal or financial gain; 2) NOT TO place Hot Deals Club generated text or emails on a webpage or distribution list; and 3) NOT TO share his/her login password with anyone outside of the account holder's household. Basically, you can feel free to tell your friends about any hot deals you find through us, but you cannot start your own site by copying our data. If I send you a Hot Deal email, you cannot copy/paste that email on a public forum and you cannot start a distribution list where my emails get forwarded to lots of people. Feel free to share the deals with your friends, but just don't send out your own mass-mailing nor put my stuff on your own webpage.
If the user fails to receive a login password within 6 hours or the subscriber has problems logging in, then the user MUST contact Hot Deals Club support immediately. If the subscriber does not receive his/her password and the subscriber fails to contact support, then the Hot Deals Club website may be unaware of any login issues and will be unable to provide assistance for any issues that the website is unaware of.
Four weeks before the member's subscription expiration date, the member will receive an email from the Hot Deals Club with instructions on how to renew the subscription. Renewal rates are typically at or near the rate the subscriber originally joined at, however understand that Hot Deals Club membership rates may increase or decrease causing a change in the member's subscription rate. I cannot guarantee your subscription renewal price, but I can tell you that subscribers in 2002 were able to renew in 2003 at their original rate.
The subscriber's home state may charge sales tax to the subscriber for the online transaction. The Hot Deals Club does not make the law, but does follow the law.
This page is for new membership subscriptions only - renewals are not done on this page! If you are a current member and you do subscribe here, then you will have two separate subscriptions.
You should continue to visit the Hot Deals Club website as you normally do, but make sure you are logged in, because logged-in members get access to more deals and can access all deals earlier than non-members can.
Comments:
"Ron" said:
Hey, I just signed up as a Hot Deals member. I got an additional 150 minutes on my SprintPCS as of today, thanks to your advice (that gives me 450 instead of 300 for $30, not too shabby). I figured I would cough up $25 to help support the site since you helped me savea lot of money.
"cwisk" wrote:
I have easily saved many times the $20 in deals initiated on your site. I think it is a relatively small fee even if it just covered the usual content of this page, let alone early/special alerts the membership will provide.
"Blair" said:
I became a member to support a site I visit often, and that has saved me a lot of money! I appreciate the fact that no commission is earned on links, and this gives me confidence in the legitimacy of the deals posted. Truly hot deals do expire or sell out quickly; it's great to be able to get the earliest notification possible. The Email alerts are great!
"Andrew" said:
I think you should charge more. $20 is just too cheap for all the money you've saved all of us! Keep up the awesome work. All my gear at my investment firm is mostly through this website. Most folks can't believe I've set up my company for so cheap.
"Craig" wrote:
Thanks for the heads up on the 120GB 5400rpm external USB2 hard drive for $97. I just got 2 of them plus I was able to use a $30 off Internet coupon in the Staples store making them $82 each. They were listed for $280 each, I saved $396. I also got the Microsoft TV Photo Viewer for $20 from Half.com, and used a $5 coupon. Let's see, that was $159 list and I paid $15 delivered! Gee, I wonder why I spent the $25 member fee?
"Neal L." commented:
Thanks for a great website, you save me $100 every month, more than enough to pay for the subscription!!
"Craig B." had this to say:
You did it again, Thank you! You posted the Sierra Trading Post deal, well I went to their Bargain Barn, where any Hot Deals person would go, and picked up a pair of $75.00 motorcycle gloves for .... get this ... $4.46 delivered. This was less than their standard delivery. The gloves actually are the best I ever owned. I can't believe it.
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