Advertising I would actually USE

After listening to Bombcast the other night, I got to thinking about how Jeff was discussing advertising on the site, and how it sounds like nothing's been really hammered down for sure with the exception of "yes, ads are coming".  Seeing as (amazingly, and thankfully) this site is trying to be as user-driven as possible, I wanted to throw out this idea in a place where the community AND the mods/site owners could see it...

Anyway -- with how the site is incredibly wiki-fied, and a place where I can get literally more than the amount of information I need about a game... the last thing i'd need to make Giant Bomb LITERALLY a one-stop-shop is to add simple "click here to purchase this game" links.  I'd be totally cool with them being large, on the main wiki page on the review space too.  That gives me more than one opportunity to purchase a game, and shoud make the selling company happy because of a larger ad (rather than say something on the side of GS that I really don't even think about).  Add in bonus codes for a percentage or a few dollars off 1 or 2 games by typing in "LUCHADEER" at my checkout and i'm set!  Yes, I know some other sites already use these, but they always seem tacked on and not incorporated into the actual site.  Maybe you could even have stats that say how many Giant Bomb users recommend the purchase (or have purchased X item through Giant Bomb), and if Jeff/Ryan/Vinny/Brad really reccommend a game -- they completely have the space to show it!

Even better though -- and I don't know if something like this even really exists -- but maybe there could be some sort of eBay partnership or something for old games that you can't find on store shelves anymore?  I know that once the database fills up I could totally lose DAYS browsing this site looking up random information on old obscure NES games or something, and if I had a spot to purchase them, that would be awesome.

The really cool thing about this place is it totally has the opportunity to be the ONLY site I go to for all my game related needs and info, and something like that would totally finish the whole deal.  Plus, how sweet would it be to enter "LUCHADEER" as a coupon code?

I like your second idea for old games on ebay. The first could be a bit intrusive though if on every wiki page there was a huge BUY HERE link. Although the coupon code sounds pretty nice :)

Anything under the nerd culture umbrella is probably going to be okay with me. Music, movies, anime, comic books, DVDs, sci-fi, etc.

I've a really good feeling that we're going to get a few energy drinks adverts too, but I could be wrong.