Oh PKM...you suck at this rep thing. You really do....
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Oh PKM...you suck at this rep thing. You really do....
You've always been kind of a judgmental piece of ****, even for a Mexi-midget. Just because your genes and that extra 1/2 chromosome don't allow you to apply any sort of fat/muscle/bulk to your frame doesn't mean you're free to stand in judgement of others. Seriously, you speak of diversity in one sentence and then show your full spectrum Napoleon complex in the other. Get bent, Richard.
Not my fault he's scared. (can't say that I blame him)
This. What sucks is that I never realized the complete *** raping I was getting from Harmon's until I was forced to shop elsewhere. Smith's is where it's at, tbpfhwy. Go get a Fresh Values card (even if you don't want to shop there) and go to their gift card section. I am pretty sure thy they always have 2x rewards for gift cards, but a few times a year they will do 4x rewards - but anyhow, buy a $100.00 gas card (Shell Gas station or you can use it at Smiths gas station) and you get 200 points - which is $0.20 cents off per gallon. If it's 4x the points, then you get 400 points, or $0.40 off per gallon. You're going to buy the gas anyhow, so just make an extra step and buy the gas card. We also grocery shop there and you get a point for every dollar you spend. Fill your Rx there and get 50 points per prescription. It's not just gas gift cards; we buy pretty much all of our monthly "expenditures" in a gift card format at Smiths: Target, iTunes, Old Navy, Cabela's, and pretty much any restaurant or fast food chain you can think of. When it's all said and done, we typically have over 2,000 points on our card. Whenever we fill up (my wife drives a worthless gas guzzling Tahoe) we spend 1,000 points and get $1.00 off per gallon. Saves us $35.00 a tank. May not be much to some of you, but $70.00 per month for just shopping at Smiths (their prices are just as good as any) is a no-brainer. And now I'm done with that rant.
UGLI baby
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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?
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)
UGLI baby
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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.
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.
UGLI baby
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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?
Just fill people's cars up for free, build up yer points until you can buy the whole damn store.
UGLI baby
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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.
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.
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.