Should I use nodindex, follow or rel canonical?

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I have a site that lists offers, promotions from other websites.

Since the offers expire rather quickly I don't save them into my database. I see no point in having a page from 2010 about 30% discount on a certain brand of shoes which isn't availabe anymore.

A visitor enters my website;
He clicks on the "shoes" category; http://www.mysite.com/shoes/ Here he sees 20 available promotions from different online stores.
He clicks on a promotion and gets to a page like this: http://www.mysite.com/shoes/promotions/prada

Questions:

I use the template promotions.php and list all the promotions.

/promotions/prada/ /promotions/otherbrand/ ....

What I do is use "noindex, follow" for the links.

Is that a good idea? Or should I use rel="canonical" for the promotion page?

How do you advise me to handle this from the SEO point of view?

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