Suggestion Box: Post ideas you would like to see at HCW here.

queenofthehivemomof5 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 05:33:58 PM

Do you have an idea, feature, or forum you would like to see possibly implemented here at Hot Coupon World? Please feel free to post your board suggestions here and HCW staff will reveiw and see if it is something we are interested in implementing.

If we use your idea/s we will send you a RAOK of coupons as our way of saying thanks for contributing.

Please remember the following though:

If you know of a feature that you like at another forum please do not post the link to the other forum, instead post a description and if you wish you may PM an administrator the link.
Please do not use this thread for reporting problems with the forum or its software. Technical problems should be sent via either the contact us link or send a PM to Mark.
All suggestions made here are just that, suggestions. Staff will review suggestions and decide if we want that feature and if we can implement it. If we do not accept your suggestion do not take it personally.
If another member makes a suggestion that you like, feel free to say so, so that we know that other members think that would be a cool feature too.
Please remember that we at HCW have real lives outside of the site (jobs, kids, families, ect) and that we work on new stuff when we have some spare time. So it might be a while before some suggestions are actually implemented.

Thank you for your help and contributions to Hot Coupon World. We couldn't do this without you!

queenofthehivemomof5 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 08:26:39 PM

we could make a sticky in the winter forum for holiday deals 2006. Would that work?

mctrness · #3 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 09:46:33 PM

I think it would be awesome to have a DB for the weekly sales in addition to the coupons. That way they would all be in a standard format. Once that is in place, cross reference with the coupons already in the Coupon DB. This would allow the users to search for a specific item on sale throughout all stores. Since that would be a lot of stores, I would also suggest that the user can select which stores they want a search for a specific item, ex: Swiffer dusters. If the store has an EDLP that is stored, those results could come up as well.

Lastly, once all the info from the weekly ad is entered into the DB a new thread would be started and all that information would then be dumped on to that thread with the matching coupons, much like people do today.

Hope that all makes sense!

Keep up the great work! I love this site!!

shrup · #4 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 10:38:35 PM

Yes. I totally miss Cairo. It was such a great help. You just click in a word or two and all the stores in your area with the sales description would pop up.

queenofthehivemomof5 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 10:47:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mctrness

I think it would be awesome to have a DB for the weekly sales in addition to the coupons. That way they would all be in a standard format. Once that is in place, cross reference with the coupons already in the Coupon DB. This would allow the users to search for a specific item on sale throughout all stores. Since that would be a lot of stores, I would also suggest that the user can select which stores they want a search for a specific item, ex: Swiffer dusters. If the store has an EDLP that is stored, those results could come up as well.

Lastly, once all the info from the weekly ad is entered into the DB a new thread would be started and all that information would then be dumped on to that thread with the matching coupons, much like people do today.

Hope that all makes sense!

Keep up the great work! I love this site!!

Something along those lines have been discussed.

TheWoman · #6 (**permalink**) 11-26-2006, 11:05:59 PM

I don't know if this is practical, but it would be really nice to have some sort of credit system for coupon trading.
Frequently I have something someone else wants, but they don't have anything I want or vice versa. If there were some sort of "coupon currency" we could work out a deal where I would send you something for a certain number of points, and later I could use those points to get something from someone else who could use them to get from someone else.
Not only would it help with the "but they don't have anything I want", but it would make trades faster--because a pm back and forth a few times trying to match up wants and haves can take a couple of days if one of the people only checks once a day--and if time is of the essence that can be a day too long.

For example, if one point were worth aprox 10 cents, and assuming a value of 10 cents on the dollar for most coupons, you would trade a $1 coupon for 1 point plus 4 for the stamp=5 points. (10) 50 cent coupons would be 5 points plus 4 for the stamp=9 points. Of course, higher or lower values could be negotiated depending on how hot the coupon is.

It could also make money for the site--have everyone who wants to participate send in $5 for their first 50 points to get everyone started. Buying and selling of points would have to be allowed, but people could buy a whole bunch at a time from someone with lots, rather than sending paypal for 60 cents.

berlinsmommy · #7 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 02:20:13 AM

How about some sort of address tag or address book to be used with trading. Instead of wading thru old PMs to find someones addy, we could have a searchable address book (of addresses we input, our addresses would NOT automatically be available to everyone), then we could eliminate almost all old PMs since we generally only keep them for addresses only.

OR, we could each have our own address input in our personal settings and then have a sort of "buddy list" and choose who has our address available to them.

queenofthehivemomof5 · #8 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 02:25:31 AM

both of those last two ideas are interesting. I think berlinsmommy's idea is more feasable to do sooner. We would just have to figure out a way to keep addresses private from prying eyes. Lets thinks about that some....

sbp · #9 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 02:36:30 AM

I LOVE that address book idea... Depending on how and if it would work, it'd be great so that if someone moves - they'd only have to update their address once and not have to worry about sending it to all their usual traders and also super for sending surprise raoks to people you haven't traded with before.

Kristen.C · #10 (**permalink**) 11-28-2006, 02:51:15 AM

I think the address idea is really great also.

It should be possible to have a tech person set up a permissions based database for the addresses. Users could have the option to use an allow/ignore list for address availability almost like a lot of the instant messenger programs have, and have the option to show to everyone/noone.