This info is for those of you that come right to the forum and skip the home page:

The Alert System is an automated notification system. We'll drop you a daily/weekly email for any new reviews, DVD releases, coupons/sales or price drops you're interested in. There are five general types of alerts: review related alerts, new DVD releases, store related alerts, price alerts and coupon notifications.

Review alerts:
You can choose to receive email alerts when there is a new review of a particular title, a new review from a particular studio, and/or a new review within the categorie(s) of your choosing. For instance you can choose to be alerted of new anime reviews from NuTech or all new reviews of Private DVDs and Evil Angel DVDs or all new reviews of couples movies. Add studio and category alerts by logging into your alert account. If you want to be alerted to new reviews of specific DVDs, go to the price search results for the item and click the Review Alert icon on the right side of the page.

Some of the most popular review alert configurations will be for new reviews of DVDs from a specific studio. If you're one of the studio reps that provides ADT with screeners you should sign up for the alert system to be automatically notified when your reviews are posted. I already see a few people have set up review alerts for Anabolic/Diabolic/Private DVDs.

DVD Alerts
Want to know when your favorite VHS titles hit DVD? Set up a DVD Alert for all new DVDs from that particular studio.

Store Alerts
What if there's a new DVD out but your favorite retailer doesn't have it listed on their site yet? The alert system can drop you a note when they have it for sale. Just find the DVD in our price search and go to the Store Alert section at the bottom of the page. Select the store your interested in and we'll drop you a note when they have it.

Price Alerts
Want to know if a DVD drops in price? The alert system will do that too. At the bottom of every price search page there's a Price Alert section. Select the retailer(s) you're interested in buying it from and enter the price point we should monitor. If it ever becomes available for less than your price you'll get an email.

The alert system can also let you know when any retailers offer new specials, promotions or coupons.

You have complete control over which alerts you receive. You can enable/disable or delete all alerts you configure easily through the web site. You can even delete your alert profile if you no longer wish to receive any emails.

Here's a sample email:

If you have any questions about setting up alerts please post them here.

Edited by - Drew Black on Jan 28 2002

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The alert system is a more than just a notification mechanism. It's also a type of data collection tool for us to use in managing ADT.

Review alerts will be used to help prioritize which DVDs we get reviewed. If we see a few people requesting review alerts for a specific DVD, we'll try to get it reviewed. With this type of input we'll know what people are interested in seeing.

The store alerts will be quite handy tools too. There's a lot of work in mantaining our price search data. If we see people looking to be notified when a particular DVD is available from their favorite store we'll keep an eye out for it and be sure it's linked up and ready the day it's available.

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Edited by - YogaGrrl on Jan 30 2002

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