It’s that time of year again.  Remember last year how you vowed not to wait to the last minute for Gift Shopping? Well, you are in luck, as we have taken some time to put together a short list of unique and thoughtful gifts to get you started.

You may find exactly what you need for that certain someone special, or perhaps take these ideas as inspiration and find something even better.

Check out our ideas below and get inspired to give this Holiday Season!

Gift For Him #1: The Boxee Box

Let’s face it, the world is going digital. In your living room is a clutter of DVDs, CDs, and all kinds of other media. Now your worries are over. You can take all those DVDs, slap them on your computer, and the boxy box will read the entire library and present it to you on your television the beautiful on-screen display.

This tool beats the heck out of Apple TV, Google TV, or any of the competition coming out. The hardware is for $99, you can’t beat it and it’s a sure hit with the family. Heck, this thing will keep them busy for hours on end as something the entire family can enjoy.

Gift For Him #2: Magic Wand Portable Scanner

Hard drives are the new file cabinets.  For the compulsively neat or the organizationally-challenged this nifty tool is for him!   Go desk-less and paper-less with the Magic Wand Scanner.

This nifty gadget lets you scan items quickly and efficiently, right out of the envelope.  The scans go onto a memory card, that can be loaded into your computer and filed away.

Click here for Magic Wand Portable Scanner

Gift For Him #3: Sons of Anarchy T-Shirt

Not-Your-Average-Chick-Flick-Man.  He’s a man’s man, for sure. Let the world know. Get him a Sons of Anarchy T-shirt and check local listings to program the DVR. That way he can watch it after your tear-jerker is over…..

Sons of Anarchy is a TV show about the lives of a motorcycle club.

Sons of Anarchy Tshirt – Click here!

Gift For Him #4:  Cookbook – How To Cook Everything (Mark Bittman)

Perfect for The Single Ingredient Cooker. (For him it’s green beans, not green bean casserole. It’s mashed not double-baked potatoes.)

This book, written by a well-known columnist is encouraging, patient, and fun.  Granted not a traditional gift for this half of the population…but a must to start him on his way to culinary excellence.

Click here to read more about How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food

Gift for Him #5: The Propeller Hat

For the guy who thinks he has everything, try the Umbrella Hat. Because you can TRUST us, he doesn’t have this yet. The gift that he/you will love to hate!

Click here to see the amazing Propller Hat!

Now time to get serious – shopping for Her!

Gift for Her #1:  Fresh Balsam Wreath

For any woman, any here. Give her a beautiful freshly made Balsam Fir  wreath, straight from the forests of Minnesota.

With several styles to choose from this company will hand-craft a beautiful wreath for her to enjoy for months. Can be hung inside or out – truly a gift to be appreciated over the holiday season and beyond!

Click here to see a selection of beautiful Balsam Wreaths

Gift for Her #2: Victoria’s Secret Secret Collegiate

The un-sexy Victoria Secret that is safe  for gift-giving of all ages.  We are not talking lingerie here – check out Victoria Secret Pink Collegiate Line at Victoria’s Secret. They carry some great clothing to help her cheer  on  her favorite team during Game Day. You can get pink paper and fancy bags all women know and love, yet still give a gift safe to be opened in front of future in-laws.

Go to Victoria’s Secret

Gift for Her #3: The Roomba

Clean is as clean does. In case you are confused this is not a dance, but a handy little robot vacuum give her the clean house she wants but doesn’t want to clean.

Click here to see the Roomba

Gift for Her #4: HomeGrown Cookbooks

So she’s not Julia Childs?  Introduce her to recipes from the heart – the cookbooks published by local organizations, churches and schools.

These 
collections of treasured recipes from a community that people share with love to support a cause. Recipes that have been perfected in home-grown
kitchens like only a mother can.

Search your local cities, schools and churches for some great cookbooks !

Gift #5 for Her. Kids Artwork - Publish it at Zazzle.com

The Art-Aficionado. Forever enshrine her children’s art in wonderful pieces to frame, wear and more. Check out Zazzle.com and upload those precious pieces that really only a mother can love…

Click here to examples at Zazzle.com

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In other words, this was not a system error — but a human error. Generally When we make these, we are able to patch them in time before anyone notices. Again, we apologize for any surprise or confusion. All snipes are being placed at this time.

Here is our annual “Holiday Offers” mailing, with four ways to earn more free snipes, t-shirts, and more!

Reward 1:  Free Snipe Day

On Friday, November 27 all snipes added for all users will have a green “freebie” snipe icon.

Reward 2: $20 or $50 bonus bucks

With purchases of $50 or more on your personal “Extend Service” tab in your BidSlammer account. Please note we have discontinued “double bucks” programs and replaced them with reduced costs and massively-enhanced service and never-expiring free bucks. In the last year there are too many improvements to mention, but if we have earned your trust, we would like you to consider going long-term to save money. Remember, all payments never expire, not even the bonus portions. We will keep adding features.

Reward: 3 Free T-shirt

Post a story about an item you won using BidSlammer and get a Free T-shirt. Details in “Super Slams” category on the forum.

Reward 4: Free Long-sleeve T-shirt plus $10 site credit

Post a link to us in your blog or website with a short blurb about an item you won using BidSlammer and get a Free Long-sleeve T-shirt (a $30 value) plus an additional $10 site credit. Send a message to the helpdesk to claim your reward.

We really believe that we have the best service, and we want to tell everyone we can, and we want you to tell everyone you can. No fake reviews please – you must be an existing user of BidSlammer to give credibility to your review. (If there is something we can improve, tell us ASAP!)

http://forum.bidslammer.com/index.php?showtopic=137

The newsletter explaining the perfect value” will be out in a few days.

You know what we are talking about too! “Hmmm… I’ll set a snipe for 67.60 on this item. Wait! Maybe I should bid 67.65. Or should I bid 67.67?”

Is this you? You are not alone, as it has been debated since eBay’s inception: What is the best value of pennies (1¢ through 99¢) to use for a snipe bid on an eBay auction? The answer would give you a tremendous edge over other snipers who bid manually or with a sniping service like BidSlammer.

And what an interesting answer we found! BidSlammer has discovered the PERFECT pennies value! Take your guess in your BidSlammer Preferences - and learn the winners first week of October!

Hey … even if you can’t figure it out, you at least will have a 1 in 100 chance of guessing right  We doubt very many people will guess correctly so we will judge free shirts based on who is NEAREST the value.

Put your guess in your user preferences, click on Preferences in your BidSlammer account.

New customers can even join and import and track existing bids for Free.

Never be outbid again!  You can talk to your BidSlammer account using any mobile phone or device that has e-mail or SMS capability.  We have added more features to this service, which we introduced last November.

No downloads or installations are necessary.  Our product simply uses e-mail or SMS capabilities already available on your phone.

Here’s how it works:

1. Specify a mobile e-mail SMS address in your Preferences.
2. Click the STAR image next to your most important snipes.
3. Read the alerts on your cell phone wnd reply to them using one of the available commands.

You can use commands to change bids, get a status on an auction, or ask for help.  Click here for the detailed list of commands you can use with SnipeWire.

MobileSnipe is 100% free (included) with the service.  You may toggle alerts for each snipe individually, or set thresholds.

Update your Preferences for text messaging right now!

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We have re-released Auction Tribune, our auction search service that searches eBay and alerts you via e-mail when new items are available.  See the image below to see an example of how the service looks when seen through my G-Mail account.

Here’s how our service improves on eBay’s own search service:

• Easier to set up and manage
• Results for all searches combined into one e-mail
• Can accept broader searches without spamming you to death
• Will keep a list of notification items for 30 days.

It’s Free!

The service is totally FREE if you extended your free trial.  All eligible accounts receive 3 search terms free.  The more snipes that you execute with our service, the more search terms are enabled in your account for a maximum up to 20.

Please offer us suggestions for improvements in our Forum.

Enjoy!

We are happy to introduce our new site look!  You can tour the new site here.

We also launched our new community forum.  All active BidSlammer accounts have been copied over to the forum, so you should not have to register – just log in!  It will take a while for the forum to populate, but we are redirecting all our customer service there.

We will be announcing some of the newer features in the blog in upcoming weeks … so make sure and stay tuned.

‘Nuff said!

We are releasing our new site look this weekend.  And we totally love it — the red and black are “the colors of sniping”, that is, sniping guns are black and targets are always red.  We are getting rid of our current “soft blue,” because 1992 called — they wanted their web designer back!  Blech.

Keep an eye out for the matching red & black website coming soon.  We just wanted to formally establish our new mark — and whet your whistle for some more neat things coming down the line this month.