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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #200 on: March 19, 2016, 10:01:17 pm »
You can flip a $3 credit into a $5 credit and then buy something in the next couple of weeks...

http://slickdeals.net/f/8588382-5-amazon-credit-for-3-app-purchase-net-2-amazon-credit-and-free-app-money-maker?src=catpagev2

Verified working.  Plan on getting Ride, Peggle 2, and mercenary kings from the PSN flash sale when I can be bothered to waddle to my wallet.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #201 on: March 21, 2016, 10:13:59 am »
Added the following to the dust collector pile:

Digital:
Mercenary Kings
Ride

Physical:
Little Big Planet 3

Waddle, waddle...


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #202 on: March 31, 2016, 04:31:07 pm »
Amazon has some pretty good deals on Dremel tools today.

Not free of course, but they are certainly deals.
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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #203 on: March 31, 2016, 09:41:24 pm »
Waddle, waddle...

Does your wife body shame you?

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #204 on: March 31, 2016, 10:35:27 pm »
Yes.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #205 on: April 08, 2016, 09:14:24 am »
Needed a free game this week, so got in on this deal....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16879261635&cm_re=star_Wars_Classics_-_PlayStation_4-_-79-261-635-_-Product

Promo code EMCETEM56

Maybe I'll pull the shrink wrap off the soccer game some day....


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #206 on: April 11, 2016, 07:22:01 pm »


At last.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #207 on: April 11, 2016, 07:31:52 pm »
Been playing that one while the kids are up.  Pretty fun, can be difficult in spots. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #208 on: April 12, 2016, 07:22:06 pm »
More free games for the shoe box...



Mystery of how a voucher gets a UPC has been solved.  They print a sticker and slap it on...

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #209 on: April 12, 2016, 08:55:14 pm »
You know, some of those digital download cards expire.  I'm just sayin'. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #210 on: April 12, 2016, 10:36:37 pm »
Yeah, I redeemed the voucher. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #211 on: April 13, 2016, 03:49:09 am »
Cool beans man.  I just didn't want you to make the mistake I made a couple of years back.  By the time I got around to activating one of these it had expired.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #212 on: May 13, 2016, 09:36:18 am »
This forum is such a pain in the ass these days.

Anyway, here's the latest pile of loot:

Cards Against Humanity
Crabs Adjust Humidity Omniclaw Edition - bought two sets, gave one as a present
Headphones

Today, because I've waddled so much, had blood drawn, and clambered onto a scale I was awarded another $90 in gift cards.



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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #213 on: June 07, 2016, 11:43:17 am »


More games for the shoebox.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #214 on: June 13, 2016, 02:36:45 pm »


The copy of Alien Isolation I ordered a month ago for $4.88 may finally be in Houston. 

Let's see if they can lose this one, too....


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #215 on: June 13, 2016, 02:47:07 pm »
There's a country song in that somewhere.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #216 on: June 14, 2016, 10:04:37 pm »
One month later, it's here.  They just handed it to me, free of charge.

So, I flipped those coke points -> Walmart gift card -> brisket on sale.



Yes...... Yyyeeesssssssss.......

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #217 on: June 27, 2016, 01:18:48 pm »
We finally finished up most of that brisket on our camping trip.  Make sure those baggies are sealed tight, it's an ant magnet.

Anyway, Amazon price matched Sony on their Flash Sale.  Used a couple of no rush credits and some survey money and picked up Tales from the Borderlands.



Falling behind on one free game a week but still maintaining a steady pace.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #218 on: July 08, 2016, 09:57:06 am »


So, if you sign up for an Audible trial right now, you get a $10 credit towards anything sold by Amazon. 

Between that and grinding out some surveys, I present my free PS4 game of the week.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #219 on: July 18, 2016, 04:20:24 pm »
So, my "like new, factory sealed" copy of Until Dawn showed up in a beat up case plastered with huge 'inspected by amazon!!" stickers, it was sealed shut with scotch tape, and then RIGHT AFTER those Audible vouchers expired, they dropped the price.

It took considerable moaning, but they did a price adjustment and then comped me the $10 promotion credit back as a "courtesy credit."

I soaked the case in lighter fluid and got all the stickers and tape off.  The disc itself was pristine.  For ultimately what was ~$5 in gift cards, I'm satisfied.  The game itself is amazing.  I'm not sure on the replay value but this is one of those "next gen" experiences I feel has been in short supply.  Everyone with a PS4 needs to play it.

Stock hard drive is full, but I've got a 1GB 3.5" in an enclosure laying around.  I purchased a SATA extension cable and I'll see if I can rig it up.

Here's the game of the week...



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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #220 on: July 18, 2016, 09:53:08 pm »
Earth defense force is supposed to be really fun. 

I think I'm down to 1.75 credit on amazon.... end of an era....  but now coke rewards allows you to buy amazon gift cards with your credits.... here we go again.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #221 on: July 18, 2016, 10:11:01 pm »
You can use the coke points for Walmart gift cards, too.  Sadly you can only punch in 75 points a week now.

Other thing you need to do is wander Walmart parking lots, pick up receipts , and scan them into their Savings Catcher app.  I wouldn't make any special trips but I've made a couple bucks doing it when I was there anyway.

Ripped open my 1TB trash can find external hard drive.  Kludging this thing to a PS4 is going to be too stupid to be worth the trouble.  Guess I'll grind a few hundred surveys and buy a 2.5" drive.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #222 on: July 18, 2016, 11:17:37 pm »
Yeah.... I've got like 12,000 or so though. 

I stupidly got a gamestop gift card.... they are charging 5 bucks "handling" on any order under 25 bucks now and that doesn't include shipping.  I don't need you to feel up my copy of Transformers:  Devastation, thank you... just put it in the mail.   

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #223 on: July 27, 2016, 11:06:36 am »
Well, didn't get it free, but squeezed it down pretty cheap.

Here's the victim:

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-g-technology-portable-external-hard-drive

Sign up with a throwaway account and use the code SAVE40 to knock it down to $30.

Sign up for an account at ebates, click through them to Groupon, and allegedly get a $10 Wal-Mart gift card some day.

Inside that enclosure is a Hitachi HTS541010A9E680.  Nothing fancy but it'll add ~440GB of available space to my PS4.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #224 on: July 27, 2016, 01:18:16 pm »
That's not bad.  :)  I've always been kind of scared to get a refurbished HDD though.... it seems like the only reason someone would return one is if it's failing.  Man for 30 bucks though I might have to risk it. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #225 on: July 27, 2016, 04:50:27 pm »
They're formatted for use with Macintosh systems, so I'm hopeful these are open box returns that PC users didn't know how to reformat.

$30, though, I think it'll be fine in my PS4 for a long time.  Gets 4-5 hours a week tops of run time.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #226 on: July 28, 2016, 09:57:28 am »
That's not bad.  :)  I've always been kind of scared to get a refurbished HDD though.... it seems like the only reason someone would return one is if it's failing.  Man for 30 bucks though I might have to risk it.


A lot of them fail for repairable reasons.  An electronic failure can be fixed.  A manufacturing issue outside of the mechanics can be fixed.  I have a hard time thinking they're going to send units out that have an actual platter problem.  That's just not worth doing.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #227 on: July 28, 2016, 03:10:40 pm »
SAVE40 isn't working for me.  The only coupon I could find that worked was "WELCOME" which knocked it down to 40.  Did I miss the sale?

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #228 on: July 28, 2016, 03:32:02 pm »
Who knows... see if the code JUNGLE works for you. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #229 on: July 28, 2016, 04:10:49 pm »
I got bored/hungry and decided to check the boxes of stuff hurriedly cleaned out of fired employees desks the day before their replacements start.
My desk is now stocked and it strangely feels like I got an amazon deal on nutri-grain bars.




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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #230 on: July 28, 2016, 05:02:46 pm »
I got bored/hungry and decided to check the boxes of stuff hurriedly cleaned out of fired employees desks the day before their replacements start.
My desk is now stocked and it strangely feels like I got an amazon deal on nutri-grain bars.

Man, that's horrible.  Bad karma

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #231 on: July 28, 2016, 09:09:40 pm »
Who knows... see if the code JUNGLE works for you.

Eh.... you wouldn't think 10 bucks would make a difference but apparently it does as I'm no longer interested #FirstWorldProblems

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #232 on: July 28, 2016, 09:47:12 pm »
I got bored/hungry and decided to check the boxes of stuff hurriedly cleaned out of fired employees desks the day before their replacements start.
My desk is now stocked and it strangely feels like I got an amazon deal on nutri-grain bars.
That's some PBJ-level ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- right there, bro. He may shed a tear when he reads this. Kudos!
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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #233 on: July 29, 2016, 12:02:32 am »
He may shed a tear that he missed out on some free nutra-grain bars.  :D


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #234 on: July 29, 2016, 10:35:12 am »



At a large company the moment someone walks out of their cube with stuff boxed up the people around them raid their cube.  Anything left behind is taken.  Monitor, keyboard, food, office supplies, anything.  That is just what happens.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #235 on: July 29, 2016, 10:46:17 am »
Best thing you can do with a stash of free Nutri-grain bars is distribute those evenly to the women in your office that occasionally bring in food.  Consider it an investment in better food.  They pretend those things aren't candy bars and you'll bump yourself up to the top of the list for the next six months every time they have of those, "I can't fall asleep so I stayed up all night making tamales with my grandmother" mornings.

 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #236 on: July 29, 2016, 12:13:01 pm »



I have never even seen a tamale. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #237 on: July 29, 2016, 12:19:10 pm »
Kinda feel sorry for you, Chad...
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« Reply #238 on: July 29, 2016, 12:21:17 pm »



Nah, there is pretty much zero Mexican food in this region.  It's all good.  I can only think of one Mexican restaurant in this area and nobody likes the food there.  They have cheap margaritas.

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« Reply #239 on: July 29, 2016, 12:45:50 pm »



I have never even seen a tamale.

Around here you go to pretty much any Walmart parking lot and there's someone walking around selling them out of a cooler in the back of their car !!