please help Quick! how to drive traffic to a deal site in 24 hrs! please help me turn this around!

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I've worked with about half a dozen deal sites before. Our sales are always good at about 200-500 units per hour. Never any problems selling out.

We were contacted by one of the largest deal companies in our niche to do a deal with them. They get 3 times the traffic of the largest site we've worked with so far, so we cut a deal to set aside twice as much as we normally sell. I actually over extended my biz for this - I really need the money at the moment. By all accounts we should sell out in a few hours and I'll have my money back and a good profit just like every other time.

Long story short - the main difference between this deal site and every other we've worked with is their lack of social media. I didn't realize how bad it was until they were deleting comments I was making on their facebook page (customer service type comments) when I spoke to them about keeping an open dialogue in social media to help sell my products they said that it was up to customers to find my facebook page on their own and they can contact me there. There was a further lecture on how they're the biggest company so therefore they must know what they're doing and I'm wrong. They also refused to put a link to my website on the deal page - I had to explain to them why that was a bad idea, which they thought was an interesting point to make but they are not going to change it.

Anyway, instead of selling a few hundred sales per hour, it was more like a few hundred sales for the day. They also used a different photo than what I supplied them for our products (one they took, which looks professional but very blah - disappears into the background) which has been getting a very low click rate (the ratio of clicks to buys is very good) so I think there's not enough people clicking through to the deal from the front page. Theres over a million unique website visits per day and only about 2,000 people clicked on my company's deal in one day. I asked them to change the photo. No response.

I've never had this happen before - seriously I don't need any lectures. I understand my mistakes. I thought this was going to be like every other successful time just bigger and I thought they would have their s*it together because they're so large. my deal will be up for another couple of days so I've been working my butt off to post links to my products on the deal site.

Is there any way to drive more traffic? I've noticed a good return when I've posted links on forums, but I'm running out of places to post.

I need some good ideas to turn this around or I'm seriously in trouble. I don't want to upset my retailers by doing 2 deal sites in a row to get rid of all this excess stock (the stock is semi-perishable, so I really need to move it). I'm on the hook for whatever doesn't sell which is ALOT of money.
please please if you can help me or have any ideas I'm very open

If I can drive more targeted traffic specifically for my products I'll be in good shape since the click to buy ratio has been decent.
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