This page is a collection of tips and hints about ChoiceCheapies. Please see Getting Started for more detailed information about discovering, sharing, voting for, and discussing the latest deals, promotions and freebies. There's also a page for Frequently Asked Questions.

Sometimes you will see these icons next to a user's name:

• – user voted positive for the deal
• – user voted negative for the deal
• – first deal posted by the user
• – began posting 6 weeks ago or less
• – the user is a representative for this store
• – the user is associated with the business (employee, some relationship with store)
• – the user has posted a referral link in the description
• – moderator

Hover the cursor over a symbol to see what it means.

The following graphics appear on each deal page:

• – allows you to quickly send the deal via email, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and a host of other options.
• – tags associated with the deal
• – appears if the deal is a freebie
• – the expiry date (unless expired)
• – appears if the deal has expired
• – allows you to report the deal to the moderators
• – subscribe to the current thread.

ChoiceCheapies has a search box at the top right of every page. Add sort:created to sort the results in date order. For example:

camera sort:created

Advanced search options are available on the search page.

Note: The search box on Wiki pages will only search the ChoiceCheapies Wiki. Return to the main page to search the rest of ChoiceCheapies.

Comments in ChoiceCheapies support bold, italic and hyperlinked text. Of course you can combine all of these.

Other web addresses are automatically converted into links (e.g. http://www.choicecheapies.co.nz or www.choicecheapies.co.nz).

Comments in ChoiceCheapies support **bold**, *italic* and [hyperlinked text](http://www.choicecheapies.co.nz).
Of course you can ***[combine](http://www.choicecheapies.co.nz)*** all of these.

Other web addresses are automatically converted into links (e.g. http://www.choicecheapies.co.nz or www.choicecheapies.co.nz).

For more information please see this Ozbargain tutorial post.

If you see comments that are offensive, inappropriate, is a personal attack etc please click on the Report button under the comment

It can also be used to let the moderators know if you detect sock puppeting, suspicious looking deals, duplicates and suspicious looking activity.

Click Subscribe to receive email notifications when new comments are added to the thread. This way, you can keep up with the thread and see if someone replies to your comment. By default you will be subsribed to deals and threads that you create, and there is also an Autosubscribe option in the user settings.

Admittedly you'll also get the rest of the communications too, so that is something to consider before subscribing.

Equally, you can Unsubscribe from threads that you have subscribed to.

Subscriptions can be managed in your user settings.