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UGLI baby said:
How do the points things work? I've been Fresh Values'ing since birth, didn't even know about the gas thing.

Could I go get free gas for a year or do the points expire?
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They just started expiring a few months ago. It was awesome when they didn't expire, but I can see why they do it now. You accumulate for a calendar month and you have two months to spend them. However, if you call them at the end of the month, they will extend a month for you. (We bought all of our Disneyland passes, etc as gift cards there and had like 5k points. We couldn't spend them all and they moved them over for us no problem)
 
E.J. Wells said:
They just started expiring a few months ago. It was awesome when they didn't expire, but I can see why they do it now. You accumulate for a calendar month and you have two months to spend them. However, if you call them at the end of the month, they will extend a month for you. (We bought all of our Disneyland passes, etc as gift cards there and had like 5k points. We couldn't spend them all and they moved them over for us no problem)
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So basically its all a convoluted puzzle that none of us will ever understand.

Oh well.

Srsly doe, bet I had a **** load of points before they expired them. I've been using my same FV card since the 90's
 
It's really as simple as walking into Smiths, buying a gas card, driving across the parking lot to the Smiths gas pumps, swipe your card or put in your phone number, save money.

I can see how that might be just a bit above your pay grade, but I have a feeling most people can pull it off.
 
E.J. Wells said:
It's really as simple as walking into Smiths, buying a gas card, driving across the parking lot to the Smiths gas pumps, swipe your card or put in your phone number, save money.

I can see how that might be just a bit above your pay grade, but I have a feeling most people can pull it off.
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Um, if I walk to Smiths I'm not going to have a car with me to fill up or do I get a ride from someone and fill up their car and they owe me?
 
UGLI baby said:
Um, if I walk to Smiths I'm not going to have a car with me to fill up or do I get a ride from someone and fill up their car and they owe me?
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Just fill people's cars up for free, build up yer points until you can buy the whole damn store.
 
Gameface said:
Just fill people's cars up for free, build up yer points until you can buy the whole damn store.
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Would that make sense from a cost/benefit standpoint Trout?

My instinct says no, but if I got the gift card on a 4x point day and also got above the 1k threshold for the month would the bonus points on groceries even out?
 
I hate the whole reward card stuff. Hate it hate it hate it. Obviously you've got to give in if you shop there or else you don't get the good prices on anything but I wish people were more resistant to this whole card for every store garbage and nipped it in the bud early on. But in reality people just love it. They want a special customer info tracking card for every ****ing place they shop.

tinfoil hat time: Y'all know they are collecting customer shopping behavior info so they can manipulate us, right? They're just going to get better and better at it until we don't even know why were shelling out our money to them, and best of all we'll feel good about it.
 
UGLI baby said:
Um, if I walk to Smiths I'm not going to have a car with me to fill up or do I get a ride from someone and fill up their car and they owe me?
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I said walk into Smith's, Mr. G.E.D.

Gameface said:
I hate the whole reward card stuff. Hate it hate it hate it. Obviously you've got to give in if you shop there or else you don't get the good prices on anything but I wish people were more resistant to this whole card for every store garbage and nipped it in the bud early on. But in reality people just love it. They want a special customer info tracking card for every ****ing place they shop.

tinfoil hat time: Y'all know they are collecting customer shopping behavior info so they can manipulate us, right? They're just going to get better and better at it until we don't even know why were shelling out our money to them, and best of all we'll feel good about it.
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I agree to some extent, but all you have to do for a Smiths card is fill out a small application with bogus info, like I did. Even if they were tracking me, I have no problem if they know what my buying habits are and they want to send me coupons based on the stuff I already buy. Sounds like a win to me, but whatever. Stacks of worthless ads and coupons might be your thing.
 
franklin said:
French dip and swiss is an easy favorite but might not be the best to serve formally to in-laws.
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This.
French dips are one of my favorite meals
 
UGLI baby said:
Dunno what either of those are but I beat my History teacher in chess a couple times and completed both homework assignments I had during my 2 yrs there.


dat jazzfanz.com mobile app doe
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Seminary pres for 3 out of 4 years tbh. We did alot of business with Burger King...
 
E.J. Wells said:
I said walk into Smith's, Mr. G.E.D.



I agree to some extent, but all you have to do for a Smiths card is fill out a small application with bogus info, like I did. Even if they were tracking me, I have no problem if they know what my buying habits are and they want to send me coupons based on the stuff I already buy. Sounds like a win to me, but whatever. Stacks of worthless ads and coupons might be your thing.
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It's not that they are tracking me personally. That's not what it's about, It's customer number 56734 buys chocolate bars at 3am on Tuesdays and condoms at 6pm on Saturdays and does his shopping every other Wednesday. As statistical analysis progresses they will be able to strategically place and price items on the fly. I see them going with electronic price-tags soon and having a computer tell the store manager to place such-and-such an item in the back of the store in the mornings then that same item near the entrancement in the afternoon then take it off the floor completely by the evening. Meanwhile you'll get your special deals texted to you giving you 0.50 off the condoms value pack when you buy a chocolate bar at the same time.

Not saying it's going to hurt anybody, but the possibility of them playing on subconscious triggers is there.
 
Ohh, but my really real issue is that I hate adding more crap to my wallet. I use a front-pocket wallet and I want it to be thin. I don't want to tote around a Smith's card, a subway card, a cafe rio punch card, a great clips card, a beans and brew card, a koles card, a target card, a every place I shop at a card. I want to carry my DL and debit card
 
I love having a credit card from target, hotel chains, mechanic shops, Amazon, toys r us, best buy, rc willey, and about 25 from the mega-banks. If I ever flip out having a mid-life crisis then I'm going to divorce my wife and blow through $250k on cards like a king, then walk away leaving a bankruptcy court to sort through the mess.
 
franklin said:
I love having a credit card from target, hotel chains, mechanic shops, Amazon, toys r us, best buy, rc willey, and about 25 from the mega-banks. If I ever flip out having a mid-life crisis then I'm going to divorce my wife and blow through $250k on cards like a king, then walk away leaving a bankruptcy court to sort through the mess.
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No joke but I know a guy that completely emptied his joint bank accounts except for like one months bills, called his wife and said "I'm moving to Brazil to marry a girl I met online. I emptied the bank accounts, everything else is yours. Have a nice life." Left like four kids at home.
 
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