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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #240 on: July 29, 2016, 02:25:58 pm »
They sell nuts and kettle corn around here. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #241 on: July 29, 2016, 02:45:26 pm »



Nobody sells anything around here like that.  Hot dogs, maybe, but even those are few and far between.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #242 on: July 29, 2016, 09:22:09 pm »



I have never even seen a tamale.
That explains a hell of a whole lot. :cheers:
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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #243 on: August 01, 2016, 10:40:38 am »



This is New England.  It's hard to make money selling anything outside for most of the year.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #244 on: August 01, 2016, 10:25:46 pm »
Clearly someone just hasn't figured out they should be selling hot coco.  ;)

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #245 on: August 02, 2016, 09:34:52 am »



Some kids have tried it but it's just too hard to keep anything warm outside in winter here.  You'd have to have a coleman stove or something and obviously you can't have a kid doing that.  And there's a store on every other block selling .99 coffee/hot chocolate. 




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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #246 on: August 05, 2016, 12:36:03 am »
Drive arrived today.  Passed all the checks, enclosure easily opened without breaking anything, and this was inside it:

https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Travelstar-2-5-Inch-Internal-0J22423/dp/B00B4QESVQ/

$32 shipped, enclosure can be reused, and $10 Walmart gift card on its way.  ~440gb of space added.

Don't think anyone is squeezing it any cheaper right now.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #247 on: August 05, 2016, 09:02:56 am »
Here's a pic of the drive and enclosure:




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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #248 on: August 05, 2016, 08:48:02 pm »
Picked me up a Laser Printer for 25 bucks today.  I've been stalking those Newegg sales for a couple of months now and I was always busy or away from home when they put 'em on sale.  The best part is, when you run out of ink... buy a new printer!  Then you've got free stepper motors for projects. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #249 on: September 25, 2016, 02:34:10 pm »
The $10 Walmart gift card arrived last week.  Made that drive effectively $22.

Not free but did substantially subsidize a new mattress.  Hooray for memory foam.

Also "bought" Life is Strange for PS4.... At full retail.   :embarassed:

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #250 on: September 26, 2016, 10:26:10 am »
Picked me up a Laser Printer for 25 bucks today.  I've been stalking those Newegg sales for a couple of months now and I was always busy or away from home when they put 'em on sale.  The best part is, when you run out of ink... buy a new printer!  Then you've got free stepper motors for projects.

I got a brother laser printer and used the rebate card to buy an XL toner cartridge.
Two years or so later and I'm still on the same underfilled cartridge that came with the printer.



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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #251 on: October 07, 2016, 09:40:03 am »
If you do mycokerewards, get in here quick:

https://www.mycokerewards.com/rewards/$5_Carrabba's__E-Gift_Card/54203


200+ and counting....

EDIT: Got 252 before they sold out.  Who wants to buy some gift cards?

:cheers:
« Last Edit: November 29, 2016, 10:01:35 am by pbj »

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #252 on: November 29, 2016, 10:01:24 am »

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #253 on: November 29, 2016, 01:31:52 pm »
Did the coke rewards stuff years ago back when my company bought Powerade and Minute Maid juice for it's employees. New company took over, new policy, no more coke points. But ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---... I wish there was decent crap like this when I was doing it...
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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #254 on: November 30, 2016, 08:25:40 am »
Thanks for the tip. I signed up this morning.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #255 on: November 30, 2016, 09:42:30 am »
Amazon's doing 25% off video games bought from 'Amazon Warehouse Deals' so I stacked that with this gift card and ended up with a copy of No Man's Sky for a couple of bucks.

I've gotten a ton of stuff from the Coke rewards program.... right now, I have a pair of Spurs tickets sitting on my coffee table I need to do something with.... and still another $900ish of Outback Steakhouse gift cards.  :P


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #256 on: November 30, 2016, 10:27:00 am »
and still another $900ish of Outback Steakhouse gift cards.  :P

I received a brand new sealed Horipad FPS Plus for PS4 instead of the $12 Bluetooth controller I ordered.
https://www.amazon.com/Horipad-FPS-Plus/dp/B0106XFCPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480519411&sr=8-1&keywords=hori+fps+plus
I have no use for it.

I was gonna flip it on ebay, but would trade for $60 worth of outback cards if you're interested.
(yeah I only paid $12, but shipping is probably going to be another $15 and the gift cards didn't cost you anything)

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #257 on: November 30, 2016, 02:34:12 pm »
Sold.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #258 on: December 01, 2016, 09:01:24 pm »
Not free but grabbed some Transformers game for all of two dollars at a Red Box.  Looks fun.  Might be worth looking at those kiosks if you see one.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #259 on: December 02, 2016, 01:10:47 am »
Drive arrived today.  Passed all the checks, enclosure easily opened without breaking anything, and this was inside it:

https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Travelstar-2-5-Inch-Internal-0J22423/dp/B00B4QESVQ/

$32 shipped, enclosure can be reused, and $10 Walmart gift card on its way.  ~440gb of space added.

Don't think anyone is squeezing it any cheaper right now.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #260 on: December 02, 2016, 08:51:01 am »
I bought 4 of Walmart's 4K Smart TV's for about $330 after tax and resold them for $400 each :D

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #261 on: December 02, 2016, 09:32:33 am »
Yeah, I picked one of those up at the metropolis of Aransas Pass on Black Friday.  Everyone was friendly and I was in and out of the store in 5 minutes.  Netflix HD rules.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #262 on: December 07, 2016, 10:33:03 am »
On my way to fame and fortune. Thanks pbj.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #263 on: December 07, 2016, 10:47:43 am »
Soon you'll be crawling into dumpsters.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #264 on: December 07, 2016, 11:00:02 am »
I made a few thousand dollars in cash back credit card rewards when the US mint was direct shipping dollar coins at face value with free shipping. I wept the day that got shut down.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #265 on: December 07, 2016, 11:24:56 am »
Never met anyone that actually did that.  I guess that was the modern version of getting hundreds of dollars worth of quarters from the bank and culling out the silver ones.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #266 on: December 07, 2016, 11:46:21 am »
I did business with a guy who had an angle for everything. Some of his angles got him in trouble with the law. I am not as brave as him, but any legal stuff he would pass on to me. He said I was too much of a boy scout. Last I heard he was shuttling cosmetic surgery patients between the US and Costa Rica.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #267 on: December 08, 2016, 09:06:01 pm »


Works awesome with the Pi.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #268 on: December 09, 2016, 12:01:56 am »
Wow.  Hori fixed the god awful psx gamepad layout and dpad.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #269 on: December 09, 2016, 09:56:15 am »
It's a nice game pad.  Plays excellently with Doom. 


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #270 on: December 09, 2016, 10:13:47 am »
Works awesome with the Pi.

 :cheers:

You'll be playing Doom.  I'll be eating steak.
It's all good.

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I was going to return it to the vendor that accidentally shipped it to me, but their return policy said if they reshipped me the correct $12 item which I ordered and the $50 item didn't make it back to them, that I agreed to be charged for both.  Yeah, no thanks for being on the hook for another $50 if the thing gets lost.
Enjoy your inventory shrinkage.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #271 on: December 11, 2016, 10:35:42 pm »
Coke has reactivated the Amazon cards. 

Amazon price matching GameStop on the PS4 Batman game = free Batman.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #272 on: December 11, 2016, 10:46:19 pm »
Coke has reactivated the Amazon cards. 

THanks for the heads up - just got one the other day after seeing this thread and was able to get another tonight !!  :cheers:

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #273 on: December 13, 2016, 02:04:39 pm »
Coke Points -> GameStop gift card



Gamestop gift card + 81 cents = almost free game


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #274 on: December 15, 2016, 06:50:44 pm »
Amazon is back to throwing packages over my fence... Must be Christmas time again.



Another sealed one to put in the shoebox.

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #275 on: December 29, 2016, 12:15:04 pm »
So, Outback is catering my New Year's Eve party and they just don't realize it yet. 

Here's what I turned $1,270 of Outback gift cards into:

$250 of food provided all those wings are ready for pickup this evening.
$430 iTunes credits.  $200+ of that was given away to various people as xmas gifts.  (Nintendo probably sold 5 copies of Super Mario Run thanks to me)
$40 Amazon gift card
PS4 controller

$65 of Outback gift cards remaining.  If you want in on this, speak up quick.

:cheers:



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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #276 on: December 30, 2016, 12:50:55 am »
Pictured, $140 of medium wings from Outback, Coke is catering New Years.


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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #277 on: December 30, 2016, 05:00:35 pm »
That's $140 in wings???

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #278 on: December 30, 2016, 05:36:47 pm »
I wasn't going to say anything, but yeah, they ripped you off.  I know a place down the road that'll give you that many for about 20 bucks. 

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Re: 2016 Amazon free crap thread
« Reply #279 on: December 30, 2016, 06:06:26 pm »
That's $140 in wings???
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.
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