Yes that is what has worried me as well that not even one page shows up or has ever showed up in google for bargaincat.com although it has shown pages for bargaincat.net

I also have a few other sites on the same IP that are indexed by google, in fact even the old domain Discountsaver.net is on this ip.

It looks like Google is removing the Discountsaver.net pages each day as there were 9,000, then 3,000 a few days ago and now 1850 pages as you pointed out.

So just to clarify my answer to your question, No, none of the bargaincat.com pages have ever shown up in the google index.

What are my options now then... Should I contact Google and ask for reinclusion? Maybe they will just be not interested in my type of site anyway?

Maybe I could use bargaincat.net as the main domain name and 301 everything to that until bargaincat.com comes out of the sandbox?

I also see my domain was ran before as an affiliate site back in 2004 by someone else - it was online from 2002 until 2005 from looking at http://web.archive.org