FatWallet has sent out an e-mail to members announcing that the site will be closed on Monday, October 9th.
According to Tim Storm (founder of FatWallet) the FatWallet forums (and I assume FatWallet as a whole) are closing down. It’s not clear what will happen or when it will happen. They migrated the shopping portal to Ebates last year, so I guess this change was somewhat inevitable.
This is a pretty sad day for me personally, FatWallet is a real OG and without those forums it’s unlikely this site would exist in the same capacity. FatWallet is one of the places that really got me interested in bank account bonuses and more specifically collating data points regarding direct deposits. You can find some discussion about the forums closure here, as well as some alternatives that users are putting together. I wish the FW team and community all the best!
I prefer Will & Chuck have discretion over what gets posted here.
Fatwallet is dead but has risen like the phoenix ad morphed into (https://phatwalletforums.com/) with a lot of the same players. check it out.
Where is the Los Angeles radio code forum???
Thank you Fatwallet for the great times and the 32″ LCD TV that I won a few years ago during their Christmas giveaways
Officially dead as of lunchtime today.
So stupid, can’t believe they just shut everything down completely. No back up nothing ;\.
Hopefully they’ll archive all the threads instead of deleting them from the Internet.
Yeah, like imdb did. 🙄
this doesnt even make sense. where do they explain their decision in detail? I dont get why a company like Ebates cant keep the entire DB forum in archive mode with no new activity. that should be very easy and no maintenance overhead. can u imagine FT just being deleted? yeah right. thats a digital nuke rocket boy NK would be very proud of. very sad.
Yeah who knows what they mean when they say it’ll stop working.
Just curious: How much work would it be to set up forums on DoC? While I’m extremely grateful for all the work put into the posts here, I’ve had quite a few questions that I wish I could toss out to the great hordes of DoC readers. And obviously I can’t hijack a thread about a Navy Federal card to ask for advice on student loan refinancing…
The problem isn’t so much setting the forums up as it is moderating them. I have some ideas for other stuff I want to get live before we look at having a forum element.
I think I found FW back in 1999 around the time of the legendary ValueAmerica deal (half price Dreamcasts and many other deals). Inspired by FW and others, 5 years later GottaDeal.com was born and I’m still running it nearly 14 years later despite several negotiations to sell the site over the years. We still have our forums which are less busy these days but always come alive as Black Friday gets closer each year. Still very sad to see FW close.
good news! LMAO!
Tim,
If you have spare time and the terms of the sale allow it, just build a new Fatwallet 2.0