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Great news! We’re excited to announce that we’re partnering with Best Buy for the holiday shopping season. You may remember that we did something like this in August for back to school.

Throughout the months of November and December, we’ll be engaging in conversations on Twitter, sharing good deals and ways Best Buy can save you money this holiday season.

As you know by now, we work very hard to find and share with you the very best deals. To do this, we often work with sponsors we think will be valuable to you, our users. We have lots of respect for Best Buy, and admire their social media efforts. We’re very excited to be working with them again.

We want to be clear when we’re engaging in sponsored activities, whether it’s here on the blog or on Twitter. All the tweets that are part of this partnership will be clearly labeled as sponsored – we’ll include the hashtag #BestBuyHoliday so you’ll know something is a sponsored tweet. And we’ll clearly label blog posts, as well. We won’t be posting pre-written marketing messages, but we will be passing along information given to us by Best Buy to help you make informed purchasing decisions and hopefully save you some money on your holiday shopping.

Great news! We’ve got another amazing new CheapTweet Store to announce – Toys R Us!

Toys”R”Us and Babies”R”Us have a wide variety of toys and baby supplies to meet all of your holiday needs. They have huge discounts on everything you could want for your children, from toys and games to furniture, bikes, health supplies, Halloween costumes and so much more. And now, all those deals are just a click away on CheapTweet.com. We’re very excited to bring Toys”R”Us on board just in time to help you save money on gifts this holiday season.

So, head over and check out the Toys”R”Us CheapTweet Store. And while you’re there, take a look at some of our other terrific stores.

We’re very excited to announce our newest CheapTweet Store – Jockey.com!

Jockey was founded in 1876 and they currently offer more than 500 styles and colors of underwear, sportswear, sleepwear and other apparel at great prices. Jockey.com offers free shipping on orders over $75 and free returns on every order.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Jockey’s invention of the men’s brief! To celebrate the brief’s anniversary, Jockey will be featuring a great new deal every day for the next week, starting with savings on briefs for men and women. You can find all these deals in the Jockey CheapTweet Store.

We’re thrilled to have Jockey.com as our newest CheapTweet Store. Go check out all their great deals and take advantage of this week’s big anniversary discounts!

We are very, very excited to announce the newest CheapTweet Store – Barnes & Noble!

Barnes & Noble.com is the internet’s largest bookstore and features an outstanding selection of books, eBooks, CDs, DVDs, and much more. Barnes & Noble Members save up to 40% every day! Plus, everyone gets Fast & Free Delivery on orders of $25 or more. We’re beyond pleased to bring all their great deals on books and more to CheapTweet users.

So go check out the Barnes & Noble CheapTweet Store. And while you’re there, take a look at some of our other great Stores.

We’re very excited to announce the launch of our newest CheapTweet Store – drugstore.com! drugstore.com is the leading online provider of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products and has been selling health and beauty products online for ten years.  This is a great company that sells thousands of products we all use every day, so we’re beyond pleased that CheapTweet users now have access to these savings.

To kick things off, we’ve got a great drugstore.com coupon to share with you:

Save an additional $10 off any Crest Advanced Seal Whitestrips.
Expires 9/27/2009. Limit one redemption per household.

So, head over to the drugstore.com CheapTweet Store and check out all their great deals!

We’re very excited to announce the official launch of our newest CheapTweet Store – PC Universe. PC Universe offers more than 250,000 computer hardware, software and peripheral products from 700 brands. And now, deals on those items will be available directly to CheapTweet’s community of deal-seekers and online shoppers in the PC Universe CheapTweet Store.

We think PC Universe is a great addition to our growing collection of CheapTweet Stores. PC Universe started in 1995 and is now a leading online retailer of electronics. In the PC Universe CheapTweet Store, CheapTweet users will have access to thousands of good deals on electronics from PCUniverse.com, including computers, printers, cell phones, cameras, MP3 players, software and so much more. You can also keep up with the latest news and deals from PC Universe on Twitter.

CheapTweet Stores are a portal for companies and brands who use Twitter to post sales, discounts, coupons and deals. Shoppers can quickly and easily browse through all a company’s tweets and deals, as well as read everything everyone else on Twitter tweets about that company. With CheapTweet Stores, shoppers:

• Never miss a great deal.
• Access special offers and enter contests.
• Discover what other people are saying.
• Find all the deals from a brand in one place.

Contact us to set up your own Store now.

Note: This post is part of our back-to-school partnership with Best Buy. Read about the intro to the partnership and various tweets about #BestBuyBTS. Though this post is part of our sponsor relationship, the following content is 100% ours.

Mobile phones are an incredibly important back-to-school accessory.  And now students have more choices than ever when it comes to new phones. If you’re thinking it’s time to upgrade your student’s (or your own) phone, then you should check out Best Buy’s in-store mobile upgrade check service.  It takes only a minute to run, and allows customers to choose from all the major plans and phones.

Here in the CheapTweet office, we wanted to see how this process works. So we enlisted the help of our friend Erik. Erik has had his current flip phone for two and a half years and he’s in serious need of an upgrade.  We thought Erik would be the perfect candidate to try out Best Buy’s upgrade service.

Here’s what Erik has to say about his current phone.

So, we sent Erik in to get a mobile upgrade check. We couldn’t film his full in-store experience, so here’s what he had to say afterward about the process. (Please excuse the wind noise at the end – things got a bit gusty.)

Overall, Best Buy’s mobile upgrade check was fast and easy; Erik said it took about 30 seconds.  He was asked for his phone number, service provider and billing zip code. From that, he learned his upgrade eligibility status and talked with a Best Buy employee about his new phone options. Erik later told us he didn’t feel pressured to buy anything right then, and that the employee was very honest and straightforward about the different smartphones Erik could buy.  He even got a cost breakdown comparing staying with his current provider versus changing providers.

The Best Buy mobile upgrade check seems like a great way to learn more about your cell phone options. Erik found that he’s been eligible for an upgrade for nine months! Since Best Buy carries phones and plans from all the major cell providers, there are a lot of different options and you’re likely to find the perfect phone and plan for you and your family. To see for yourself, just go into your nearest Best Buy store and ask for a mobile upgrade check or start by looking at your cell phone options at BestBuy.com.

We’re excited to announce the official launch of our newest CheapTweet Store - CouponCabin.com (@couponcabin).

CouponCabin.com monitors more than 1,500 stores for discounts and coupons and updates their site throughout the day. On their @couponcabin Twitter account, they share the best hand-picked deals for their followers. Now, CheapTweet.com users can also take advantage of those deals!  CouponCabin offers coupons on absolutely anything you could want, from the very best brands.

As part of this launch, we’re happy to offer you two limited-time only, CheapTweet-exclusive, CouponCabin.com coupons! The first one is live right now and we’ll reveal the second tomorrow.

Today only (that’s Wednesday, 8/12), save 25% on one item and free shipping from Onlineshoes.com. Onlineshoes.com has more than 33,000 styles, so I’m sure you can find one you like! This coupon expires at midnight, so use it right away.

Check back tomorrow for our next exclusive coupon.

We’re incredibly excited to have this great new Store on our site. So, go and enjoy the money and time-saving deals from the brand new CouponCabin.com CheapTweet Store.

Note: This post is part of our back-to-school partnership with Best Buy. Read about the intro to the partnership and various tweets about #BestBuyBTS. Though this post is part of our sponsor relationship, the following content and research is 100% ours.

We’ve been talking a lot about back-to-school deals recently. It’s hard to believe it’s already August! Lots of college students will soon be heading back to campus for another semester. And that means they’re going to need lots of new stuff. I just read today that average college freshman (and their families) spend more than $800 on back-to-school shopping, while returning students spend $400-500.

New and returning college students need all kinds of things: clothes, dorm room decor, books, school supplies and electronics, like cell phones, MP3 players, TVs, and most importantly, laptops. Okay, maybe the MP3 player and TV aren’t necessities, but a laptop certainly is. College students need portable and powerful computers they can take to class, the library, coffee shops, and of course, trips home. Student laptops need to be:

• Affordable. This is very important – no one wants to spend an amount equal to tuition on a computer. Sure, you could spend $2,000 on a laptop, but why would you when you can spend less than half that?
• Fast. Most students are big multi-taskers and they need computers that can keep up with them. Their ideal laptop is fast and powerful.
• Light. The ideal student laptop needs to be portable and light enough to carry everywhere. Books are heavy enough; their laptops should be as light as possible.
• Cool. College is still all about attitude. The ideal student laptop has to look good.
• Lots of storage. Students will store lots of music and movies, along with all their course documents and project files on their laptops. The ideal laptop needs to have a big hard drive.

We have lots of good laptop deals on CheapTweet all the time. But, it just so happens that we’ve partnered with Best Buy this month for a back-to-school promotion, and they have a line of specially-selected laptops for students called Next Class Laptops. These laptops are from brands like Dell, Sony, HP and Toshiba, have long-lasting batteries (up to 6 hours) and start at only $649. If you’re in the market for a new laptop for your college student (or for yourself), check them out. We think these are quality laptops at reasonable prices; we wouldn’t recommend them if they weren’t.

We’re extremely excited to announce that we’re partnering with Best Buy for the month of August to bring you some of their best back-to-school deals.

We’ll be engaging in sponsored Twitter conversations as part of this partnership, talking with the CheapTweet community about laptops and mobile phones, telling you more about a few of Best Buy’s programs. Most importantly, we want to share some of Best Buy’s best back-to-school deals with you.

Best Buy is a great company and we’re very excited to be working with them. They’ve been doing a lot of interesting things on Twitter and we’re pleased to be a part of their continued exploration of using social media for customer interaction.

At CheapTweet, we try very hard to work with sponsors who provide valuable products that interest our community. We strive to be transparent in these relationships; we will never try to sneak an advertisement past you or disguise an ad as our own thoughts. What we will do, however, is be open and honest when we’re sharing something from a sponsor, and will only share what we think you will find useful and relevant. Our goal is to help save you money on the things you want and need for your family, and we hope we choose sponsors that help us do that. We’re very aware of the complexities of sponsorships and advertising on Twitter. We’ve watched carefully as people like Brian Solis and Melanie Notkin (Savvy Auntie) discuss these issues, and have done of a number of promotions on Twitter with various brand partners, like Overstock.com and Perpetual Kid.

We feel like this current engagement with Best Buy is a good fit, both for us and for you, the CheapTweet community. Best Buy has enlisted us to help spread the word about their back-to-school savings, focusing on the perfect tech and electronic items for students returning to school this month. We will be using Twitter and this blog to interact with our community in conversations, ask questions, listen to your responses, and share deals.

All the tweets that are part of this partnership will be clearly labeled as sponsored. We’ll include the hashtag #BestBuyBTS so you’ll know something is a sponsored tweet. We won’t be tweeting pre-written marketing messages, but we will be passing along information given to us by Best Buy to help you make informed purchasing decisions and hopefully save you some money on your back-to-school electronics shopping.

We look forward to this partnership! Follow along with our conversations on Twitter.