Exploit Gift-Card loophole? - Page 4

I was on the Macys site earlier. I think you should just use the card as you find deals on stuff, not all their prices are crazy. Nothing says you can't take 6 months to use it up.

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Originally Posted by reefraff 

I was on the Macys site earlier. I think you should just use the card as you find deals on stuff, not all their prices are crazy. Nothing says you can't take 6 months to use it up.

 TOO LATE!!!    He cashed them in

He missed out on buying that marked down Christmas Negligee for Jenna.

A negligee is like Christmas wrapping. Pointless....looks nice, but in the end you just rip it off discarding it immediately. Never to be thought of again. All you truly care about is what is inside anyway.

What has me completely perplexed is the number of people railing on Nick. The guy broke no law. Spared his grandmothers feelings and put the money to better use. Oh, I suppose it is better to keep a hideous or useless gift and waste the money spent. That makes about as much sense as putting 101 Octane fuel in a model T.

Darth (The support group) Tang

I love grammies..... mine almost burnt the home down by sticking tissues in a radiator.... gotta love 'em.

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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW 

A negligee is like Christmas wrapping. Pointless....looks nice, but in the end you just rip it off discarding it immediately. Never to be thought of again. All you truly care about is what is inside anyway.

 

What has me completely perplexed is the number of people railing on Nick. The guy broke no law. Spared his grandmothers feelings and put the money to better use. Oh, I suppose it is better to keep a hideous or useless gift and waste the money spent. That makes about as much sense as putting 101 Octane fuel in a model T.

 

Darth (The support group) Tang

It's called arousal.  But I guess if you have a bottle of Viagra, who needs negligee's?

I'm not necessarily railing on Nick.  I understand now the reason behind his approach to put his gift card to a more viable use.  But at the same time, he makes it sound like Macy's is this "nouveau riche' store that only the elite shop at.  Macy's has some nice things, but I've found stuff there that was cheaper than Walmart and Target.  Guess it all depends on your preferential taste.  As far as keeping hideous gifts?  I have a 33 gallon plastic tub filled with those types of gifts that my now deceased mother-in-law gave me over the years.  I guess I could try and sell them or re-gift them, but it never really crossed my mind to do so.  It was the thought that counted, and I figured that one day, some of those items may come to good use.

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Originally Posted by bionicarm 

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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW 

A negligee is like Christmas wrapping. Pointless....looks nice, but in the end you just rip it off discarding it immediately. Never to be thought of again. All you truly care about is what is inside anyway.

 

What has me completely perplexed is the number of people railing on Nick. The guy broke no law. Spared his grandmothers feelings and put the money to better use. Oh, I suppose it is better to keep a hideous or useless gift and waste the money spent. That makes about as much sense as putting 101 Octane fuel in a model T.

 

Darth (The support group) Tang

It's called arousal.  But I guess if you have a bottle of Viagra, who needs negligee's?

 

 

If you need to dress your wife up in a negligee to get aroused maybe you need the Viagra.

Darth (when the wind blows) Tang

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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW 

A negligee is like Christmas wrapping. Pointless....looks nice, but in the end you just rip it off discarding it immediately. Never to be thought of again. All you truly care about is what is inside anyway.

 

What has me completely perplexed is the number of people railing on Nick. The guy broke no law. Spared his grandmothers feelings and put the money to better use. Oh, I suppose it is better to keep a hideous or useless gift and waste the money spent. That makes about as much sense as putting 101 Octane fuel in a model T.

 

Darth (The support group) Tang

That is because the minimalist is a mac fan boy.  Which means I can make fun of him for 2 reasons, calling himself a minimalist 1, owning a fishtank 2, owning a mac 3, and living in Cali 4.  (none of that is minimalist)

2 he owns a mac.

3 he spend what kind of time and money trying to get out of shopping at Macy's because of money. 

There is just soo much to make fun of here...
 

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Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick 

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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW 

A negligee is like Christmas wrapping. Pointless....looks nice, but in the end you just rip it off discarding it immediately. Never to be thought of again. All you truly care about is what is inside anyway.

 

What has me completely perplexed is the number of people railing on Nick. The guy broke no law. Spared his grandmothers feelings and put the money to better use. Oh, I suppose it is better to keep a hideous or useless gift and waste the money spent. That makes about as much sense as putting 101 Octane fuel in a model T.

 

Darth (The support group) Tang

Thanks bro.  We both know a lot of people on this site just like to argue for the sake of arguing.  Plus, we have to be honest and admit that we've contributed to similar banter upon others in the past.

 

YearOf (forgive me Father for I have sinned) TheNick

You know that Macy's is an authorised retailer of Macintosh...:)

Move to San Antonio, and you can live in a mansion compared to a small 2 bedroom house in Cali.  I watch these 'Flip My House' shows, and I see these people in the LA area by these crackerbox outdated pieces of junk for $350,000.  Fot that kind of money you could by a 3000 sq. ft, 4 bedroom, 2 bath on a 1/2 acre of land in a gated community in San Antonio.

Don't rely on your statistics about viruses on Mac's.  We've recently seen a variety of attacks on Mac's where I work.  The virus-makers are realizing the new popularity of the Mac, specifically the notebooks, so they're are starting to target those devices.

Mac's. If they lived up to the hype I'd think about it. Not to say they aren't nice but for the money I'll stick to my PC. I ain't spending an extra few hundred just to be cool.

Macs....grrr.

You could spend $1000 and build a MONSTER gaming PC. Even if your not looking for hardcore gaming you can still achieve a multitasking PRO PC for MUCH MUCH less then that.

My first build took me about a days worth of reading and $500 and I can record most games at 200+ frames per second.

Someone mentioned that 8gigs of ram in a pc is the equivalent of 4 gigs in a MAC....well 8 gigs of ram in most PC's is just plain overkill....4gigs seems to be the standard today, its what I have in both my laptop and PC, and payed a fraction of the cost I would if it were a mac. For $500 I could've done SO much better, but its still an awesome first build.

You want bells and whistles? Get a liquid cooled hardware, towers overload with LED's, 23" monitors....hell, get a good quality graphics card with an HDMI port and hook it up to your big screen and sound system.

The whole 'macs dont get viruses' is a joke.

Every guy here should know that computers don't just get viruses out of the blue, we know where they come from....I'm just surprised most women haven't caught on yet.

That last statement was more of a joke, of course you CAN get viruses almost anywhere, but there are good free software that can prevent that. AVAST is an excellent program, completely free, and is better then just about any other 'pay to use' security software.

And the large majority of viruses are caused by kids on computers....facebook links, free game sites, you just need a little know how and it truely isn't that difficult. If somethink looks shady then you find someone else who can help you.

I know for a fact that everytime I have ever gotten a virus, I was somewhere I probably shouldn't have been, and have always told my parents that it came out of nowhere. With all the hype about viruses, they were inclined to believe me (at least they didn't let on that they knew I was lying)

I'm not trying to make fun of, or annoy you, but the general MAC fan base and their righteous "I am better then you because I use a mac" has made me a bitter person on that subject. I know apple does have some good quality products. I loved my ipod before it got ran over, and I would never buy a zune, sony, etc.
I am not at all accusing you of being like that though =P

Back on topic though, I am glad you went through with that cards. I would've done the same thing, I would REALLY hate to upset my grandmother in that condition...if it means anything, I think you did the right thing.

Of course Mac's are easier to work on.  There's nothing in them.   Sorry, but pretty much every PC manufacturer has 'Restore' disks now that you can refresh a PC back to it's original state when you bought it.  My daughter's Sony laptop had a hard drive failure and all I did was do a low-level reformat, stick the restore disk in, and her laptop was back to the same state it was in when we bought it.  Took less than an hour to do. 

Won't argue that Vista was a Microsoft nightmare.  It's the Windows ME of the late 2000's.  Windows 7 is a lot more stable, and offers some of the same functionality you get with these overpriced Mac's.  Do Mac's even offer or support the new Intel Quad-Core processors?  Extra memory is overkill?  Depends on what apps you run.  Run some of these media design packages like Photoshop, or CAD software like AutoCAD and tell me that too much memory is overkill.  I run Windows 7 Premium 64-bit on my machine, and with 16GB of memory, I can as many apps I want with little or no lag.

Dont worry Year of the Nick,

I am an Apple user too, and none of these people will listen.  I can run windows programs on my Apple but they cant run Apple programs on their window based PC's.  It so stupid to argue about this back and forth.  Its like Ford and Chevy.  There is always going to be a competing market in everything. Thats why I ALSO own a HP Pavilion so that no matter what is said, Im always on both sides of the fence!

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Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick 

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Originally Posted by stdreb27 

That is because the minimalist is a mac fan boy.  Which means I can make fun of him for 2 reasons, calling himself a minimalist 1, owning a fishtank 2, owning a mac 3, and living in Cali 4.  (none of that is minimalist)

2 he owns a mac.

3 he spend what kind of time and money trying to get out of shopping at Macy's because of money. 

 

There is just soo much to make fun of here...

Minimalist DEOS NOT mean cheap.  In fact, if you actually googled minimalism before you came out guns blazing, you'd find that it's kind of an expensive lifestyle to live. Minimalist really just means taking away the non-essentials and focusing on functionality.  For example, I don't need 4 TV's in the house.  I have one TV... BUT it's a Samsung internet-enabled TV with lots of bells and whistles... a very nice TV.  We don't have cable because we don't need it (internet tv = hulu and netflix).  We don't have all kinds of knick-knack crap in our house because it's meaningless.  We have a lot of books and much of our furniture is functional, symmetrical and modern.  You won't find any big, gawdy, ornate victorian furniture here, or 80's oak furniture.  Been inside a Mac store? Of course not, you would have melted like the witch in the Wizard of Oz.  Well, they adopt a minimalist design.  Simple tables, beautiful clean designs.  I would say minimalism lends itself BETTER to someone with a mac, if you were to focus solely on aesthetics.

 

As for making fun of me for owning a fish tank, I don't even know where to begin.  The fact that you'd bring that up means you're just desperate to poke fun.  This is a saltwater fish site.  Almost everyone on here has a fish tank.  I only have a 10g right now and I'm trying to get rid of it.  

 

As for the mac vs PC game you like to play, we have differing opinions.  Not sure why you like to play that game... don't you own an iPhone?  I have a DroidX because I don't like playing in Apple's mobile "walled garden."  I like the mac because I don't have to worry about the countless PC-based viruses that exist out there with new ones created every day.  10% market share means no one's interested in messing with you and I'm ok with that.

 

Yes, I live in Cali, but that may soon change.  I'm hoping to get a job in San Antonio, TX.

 

 

 

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Originally Posted by stdreb27 

You know that Macy's is an authorised retailer of Macintosh...:)

They sell iPods. In vending machines. Not computers.

(really?  I was just teasing you, I had no idea Macy's sold anything electronic? not that I've been in a Macy's in years lol :)  )  (oh and I know what the "minimalist" style is.)  However, I strongly think it is a misnomer...  IMO a minimalist should be the country folk in east texas that do everything cash still own their first car, couch, bed, and rifle...  And never bought a second...  But that is just me...

 They have iPod vending machines? (you can  tell I'm almost never in major shopping areas.  I literally buy all my clothes at the local sporting good store and the westen wear store. (much to my wife's chagrine.)  And  I'm still impressed by the ice cream vending machines they have at the mall.  Where the little arm opens a freezer and suctions out a drumstick.  It is like always winning at the claw game....

But keep in mind, I was just teasing you.  Because well, (see previous post)...

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Originally Posted by bionicarm 

Move to San Antonio, and you can live in a mansion compared to a small 2 bedroom house in Cali.  I watch these 'Flip My House' shows, and I see these people in the LA area by these crackerbox outdated pieces of junk for $350,000.  Fot that kind of money you could by a 3000 sq. ft, 4 bedroom, 2 bath on a 1/2 acre of land in a gated community in San Antonio.

 

Don't rely on your statistics about viruses on Mac's.  We've recently seen a variety of attacks on Mac's where I work.  The virus-makers are realizing the new popularity of the Mac, specifically the notebooks, so they're are starting to target those devices.

Yeah dude, the difference in real estate is rediculous.   

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Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick 

 

Also, I don't listen to stdreb27 about his "experience" with mac's either.  He thinks because he had an issue with ONE old plastic entry-level fisher-price macbook, that he has all the know-how he needs to be a scholar at this stuff.  I have taken apart about a dozen mac's over the last 5 years.  I've been the go-to guy for mac questions amongst my whole family and many of my friends, not to mention that I also manage all the mac's where I work.  They're JUST easier.  

(hey I thought all macs were perfect.)   I also thought an alarm clock was relatively simple code. 

(btw in a moment of honesty) My main problem with macs isn't nessessarily the product, because it is an average product in the computer world.  The problem is that they tout it as god's gift to man.  And it is misleading.  Second, I don't like their historic stranglehold on software.  (that has significantly loosened although the remnants of that logic remains.)  I also malign  them because their the hipster thing to own...  And third, and probably most significantly I HATE the Mac's are more secure argument.  They aren't, just no one thinks they're worth writing virus's for...