Free coupons for helping GOAT Store Beta Test!

[goatdan]

I don't know if this is the "right" place to put this, but I wanted to give everyone the chance to help us out... and get a free 5% off coupon and maybe more

The GOAT Store, LLC has been working on a new site, and we would like to give YOU a sneak preview!

The new version of the site can be found at http://www.goatstore.com/site4/

In order for us to make the new site the best it can be when we open it, we ask you to try out some of our features:

- Sign up for a new member account
- View product listings, item pages for both hardware and software
- Try out the Search Engine
- Place a test order using the shopping cart feature. Please only pick ONE ITEM to get, and DO NOT PAY FOR IT.
- Check out what your order looks like in the Order Section of your account.
- Try out the new wish list feature
- Try out the support tickets in your member account. Please write all of the comments that you have about the site here. Be critical! If you don't like something as small as the color on a page, tell us! If you found something that was wrong, please make sure to tell us!

Everyone that helps us will be given a one-time use 5% off coupon that you will be able to use anytime after the new Web site opens on your entire order. On top of that, we will randomly select three support tickets and send them a $10.00 gift certificate.

Thanks for the help fellow DPers! If you don't want to send in a support ticket, but still want to make comments feel free to do so here!

[Starcade]

I'll register and help out in a little later on tonight.

[Sakara]

I'll test around too for sure, now I'll see if I remember something from my usability course. And I'm not one to pass up on free goodies

[Half Japanese]

I'm looking around the site, and damn it's nice! I'll bookmark it for later use!

[goatdan]

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone

I actually got my bachelors in usability design (in a roundabout way) but there are always things to improve on. We work very hard on the Web site, so we're trying to make it the best we can. There is some more stuff coming (biggest thing will be the GOAT Store Publishing area that will discuss a bunch of new Dreamcast projects... )

One burning question. We're not overly happy with the color scheme. We want something in-between the lots of color of the current site (http://www.goatstore.com/) and the kind of bland gray of this site (http://www.goatstore.com/site4/) Anyone have any ideas, or is it great how it is and we're just goofy?

Also, thanks everyone! As a lot of you know, this is just something that Gary and I do for fun. We want to provide everyone with the best experience on this Web site, and your help will really be a big part of that

[goatdan]

Last call everyone!

We'll be closing the beta test pretty soon. If you are interested in receiving the 5% off coupon and/or winning the $10.00 Gift Certificates, we need you to write us a support ticket -- that's the entry. The chances of winning the gift certificates are really good, as we have not posted this to too many places

Thanks again for everyone's help!