I had to wait until closing because customer had first choice but no one picked it up. There were four computers and the first three were snatched up. All were different models, and I got the "worst" one but still it was a great deal and I still have it after four years.
This is so true! I worked at Office Depot and I had a chance to buy a computer worth around $500 for only $79 plus tax. It was a discontinued model that was used as a display and they wanted to get rid of the inventory. That was a bargain of a lifetime! Come early since they put it out before opening.
Was wondering if anyone could help me out... i have a few australlian dvds but have a english dvd player. was just wondering if anyone knows the unlock code??? chees guys :D
I love Netflix and I tend to watch most of my movies and television that way. There are a few things that I watch on Hulu or from YouTube Channels as well. I also use the library or borrow from friends. I rarely go to the theaters anymore.
My family gets our movies from Netflix! It is a very awesome company. I get two movies at a time for a very low price. I save lots of money because I don't have to pay late fees. I can also watch them on my own time. Sometimes buy used movies from a recycled dvd store. Pretty neat can get a new release for 1/2 the price! :D
In a sense, it's true that you get to choose—but so many of the key choices are made so early in life. I worry that a seventeen-year-old who has never worked a full-time is simply not well positioned to make an informed decision about whether or not to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to go to an expensive college. What sort of choice is it when parents, teachers, and guidance counselors simply present it as a natural thing that everyone should do—taking out huge loans and going to college?
I think a real free choice would include an option for an eighteen-year-old (or even a nineteen-through-twenty-one year old) to say, "Wait a minute! This was dumb! I want to spend the next ten years doing interesting, exciting, useful, and important stuff, not working at a some drudge job to make enough money to pay off all this debt!" But that's not the way society is structured right now. Your seventeen-year-old self can make borrowing decisions that lock you into the wage-slave/debt-slave track.
Granted, the decision to borrow isn't the only decision that's similarly hard to change course from. (The decision to have children or the decision to commit a serious crime can lock your future into a course that has even less flexibility.) But there aren't many other things I can think of where people's earliest choices are so fraught with the opportunity to be a huge mistake that colors the whole rest of their life.
I'd like young people to be able to ease into choices like that a bit more gradually. I think we'd all be better off if more people had the flexibility to start down one path and then change their mind and choose a different one, if a little experience and maturity showed them that they'd made a mistake.
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You make your own opportunities. Raised a military brat and knew growing up nothing is handed to you. With four kids and a Captain’s salary… my mom was very aware of lay-away. So any education beyond high school was our responsibility.
I don't know how long ago you were looking into school, but after 24 years-old, they have adult education grants to help pay for school. It won't pay for it all. So you have to be smart and see what you can transfer from a community college and start there. Also stay in-state. Have those tax dollars you've been paying work a little for you.
If you choose a science degree and have a strong GPA, you can transfer to a school that will not only pay tuition but also pay you to go to grad school. In exchange you conduct research and publish it. If that was not in place, I would have obtained by MS by Pay Check University (my science degree is very applied so did not have to get a MS to get a good job.) There is a better career outlook with a MS, however it’s not necessary.
You could have gone to college with some sacrifice. You will have debt. But it’s still possible to go if you are willing to accept it as the “cost of doing business.”
With this is mind, do I feel everyone should go to college? No. Especially right out of high school! It’s not for everyone and can cause a LOT of debt if the student does not keep it in check. (Out of state school with little less reason than to get away from the parents, keep changing majors, flunking classes to just have to re-take them.) It is my firm belief that more kids should have to pay for the class they like to sleep through.
I am no expert myself about money laundering. All I know is that the rich somehow find crazy loopholes to launder their money and all the rest of us work 9-5. I read a book not to long ago of an expert in the fiend about how do those guys actually do that.... he actually shows you things and break them down into steps.
Love this--my dream life! Work 6 hours and actually be productive, get my workout in without having to wake up at 5am, and spend some time learning or contributing to society in another way. Perfect.
THIS IS AMERICA. BUYING AND RESALING ITEMS IS THE WAY OUR ECONOMY WORKS. PLEASE STOP HATING ON THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FRUGAL AND CAN TURN A LEGITIMATE PROFIT. IF YOU WANT THE SAME DEALS THEN I SUGGEST YOU GET UP EARLY AND SHOP THERE YOURSELF. IF THE DEALS ARE ALL BOUGHT UP, OH WELL MAYBE NEXT TIME. THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM.
I find it odd that some find this offensive. The manager likely doesn't care if a reseller buys it, they want to get the stuff off their shelves.
FYI: Scalping is making a profit on a scarce item, such as concert tickets since they are available in limited numbers. A Garmin or voice recorder isn't scarce. A Wii or 'toy of the year' at Christmas time is scarce, so it could be considered scalping.
Profiteering is making a profit unethically. How is purchasing goods LEGALLY, then reselling them at the price the market bears, unethical? Because a few people may have missed out on a deal? Sounds like sour grapes to me. How is this really any different than if someone swoops in and buys the last four $5 TVs and gives them away as Christmas gifts?No one else gets a chance to buy them then, either.
I always figured these deals at office depot were specifically to attract resellers. O.D. goes to great lengths to attract the home business owner, and a large amount of these business owners sell goods online.
But the choice to live as you want, poor, somewhere in the middle, or rich is exactly what Capitalism offers over all other forms of economic systems. All systems will give you the option of poor or somewhere in the middle but Capitalism allows for you to make as much as you see fit. Even if that means you want to be a wage slave. The choice is yours to make, nobody makes it for you.
If someone who is under the age of 18 tries to activate the card it will not go through. I have a NetSpend card for my now 17 year old which I opened for her when she was 16 so that she wouldn't have to "ask mom" for money all the time. Each month I put a set amount on her card and she has the freedom to drive around town and buy the things she wants to but has to keep in mind her budget. When I opened this account for her; I still had to prove that she was my daughter with providing NetSpend with her information. Even if she had tried to open it on her own she wouldn't have been able to because I had to provide documentation that she was my child and that I approved her having this account. I actually love the instant message notifications I get on my phone when she uses her card. I've had her return items before she left the parking lot because I didn't agree with her purchase.
By comparision; I received a "pre-approved" credit card application in the mail for at the time my daughter was 12 years old. I spent 20 minutes waiting on hold to talk to the credit card company that had sent it (a company that I wasn't even a member of nor had ever been a member of) and they kept asking me for my account information. I kept telling them that I had never had an account with them and quite frankly never will if they send random "pre-approved" notifications to 12 year olds. I told them to remove my daughters name from their target list but 3 months later we received another "pre-approved" notice. That one I just shredded.
At least NetSpend isn't offering "pre-approved" credit to people and then charging huge interest rates!
I love that you are putting your heart out there young jedi's, however you must walk the path (it holds many secrets learned only through individual perspective) to be taken seriously at any level genius or idiot, second pleas understand this above all thinking and logic ,take this in and hold it in your minds eye forever and share this knowledge with wise people and you will ether be cast out or lavishly adored fore being in the know fashionable or not, again perspective is key:The integrity of your government has been compromised again and again over hundred’s of years and re-tooled fore nothing but control of the worker bees , they don’t give one sh!t if women and children die from lack of money, we are her to support the royal elite and not take up any real money,how it will stay until WE do something. the royal elite has its own children to take there roles as the future leaders in the US we are not allowed in ever , you are sadly just a slave in every sense you cannot do anything without (there)money or say so you will be tax’d fined jail d killd before you get (there)money or what they think is theres,or stand up to them.the fine fore denying your health claim for a pre-existing condition is only $100,The new bill is worthless and insulting!, so eat the food you are provided with, watch the T.V. shows you are provided with, believe what you are told directly or indirectly (it is all controlled and don't think it ain't) or you will be punished in any of a thousand ways my friends, we have been easily conditioned to be stupid followers, sorry thats what I have found in years of research and interviews and logical conjecture. we’r screwed until all the "masters" are removed from power and the example be made by capital treason laws! To stop later tempts to re-creat this madness. Now about guns that is part of the freedom process without guns we will be screwed much much sooner by the masters you think care about you , never will we have a 100% perfect society but guns play a big big part of this life and should NEVER be villainizd by citizens as this may one day be all the say so you really have or ever will have for that matter as voting is one thing we are conditioned to think makes a sh!t’n bit of dif, it dos not the proof. IF IT DID WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS they place figure heads as temps. The guns no matter any ones opinion about them they are too important to get rid of without them your great grandparents would of been enslaved by whomever ruled over them in there time with great eas and you would be eating cardboard and working 16 hours fore nothing like your great grandchildren will be if we get rid of guns just look ate China thats the template of total control people.Back in great grand parent times the elite still had much to learn but today have mastered there dark craft and guns are the big hiccup in all that, love em or hate em we need em.And this thing has been going on way before electricity,every wants to be the expert and that arogant stupidity clouds the real info that people need to here, this info Im sharing is how it REALLY is! Fore a brief period America was in good shape but at certain points in the development the masters must and have act to keep the machine in there control and get whatever money n power they can fore the next step.See what Michael Moore has on the burner these days. builder bergs, trilateral comity, Illuminati. google them and after about a year you may have something real to say keep it up though and do some math how long you live, how much you earn how much gos into some kind or another tax and interest medical expense gas, living, legal fees IRS and also the federal reserve is a private company just calling itself Fedrall, not much money in our pocket is there ,life suck because thats a slaves life , we work our lives away and b!tch about a five cent tax hike ! wow, If the gov took only what is required to function we would need only work 4 thats 4 hours a day 5 days a week!!!! with free health care ta boot! the rest is stolen and legally plundered from us my fellow slaves. good luck and keep thinking outside the box…ps this beast of burden life style we live, is the “mark of the beast” its on our head and on our hand and you cannot purchase anything without it….Revalations.
Have recently moved, we tried to save as much money as we could. In the event that you need to hire movers, I strongly encourage you to shop around. We were amazed on the different quotes that we got. All in all, I'm sure we saved several hundred (possibly a grand) just on the moving expense alone.
I heard that one works in one's own neighberhood, which can cover a few square miles. Is it mandatory that one must work any neighborhood outside of your own no matter what the safety concerns are? For instance a high crime area that has implications that outsiders are not welcome.
If you complete the training do you have a choice to work closer to your own home?
Hmm. Sounds a lot like the justification people make when they buy concert or theater tickets and then resell them. It's called scalping and basically, it's what you are doing too.
FYI: Any money you make above what you paid is profit and is taxable income, though I doubt people who are doing what you are doing are reporting it as such.
Here's what really bothers me about this: Regular customers frequently can't take advantage of any sale items because these resellers swoop in and buy up a lot of stuff. (Cashiers could care less how much you buy. ONly an alert manager should be smart enough to set limits on amount you can buy of these sale items to prevent resellers from swooping in.) Customers who spend plenty at a store like Office Depot end up losing out to people who probably ONLY shop there for such sales.
You have a right to resell, but frankly if you're not buying something wholesale, it's just plain old profitering and buying up merchandise that others could buy at those prices. I don't have to like it, and I don't.
FYI: I have no problem with people reselling what they pick up at yard and garage sales and estate sales. Those are not retail stores and it's clearly first come, first served.
I had to wait until closing because customer had first choice but no one picked it up. There were four computers and the first three were snatched up. All were different models, and I got the "worst" one but still it was a great deal and I still have it after four years.
This is so true! I worked at Office Depot and I had a chance to buy a computer worth around $500 for only $79 plus tax. It was a discontinued model that was used as a display and they wanted to get rid of the inventory. That was a bargain of a lifetime! Come early since they put it out before opening.
I watch my movies with Comcast's OnDemand feature, it's great!
Was wondering if anyone could help me out... i have a few australlian dvds but have a english dvd player. was just wondering if anyone knows the unlock code??? chees guys :D
I love Netflix and I tend to watch most of my movies and television that way. There are a few things that I watch on Hulu or from YouTube Channels as well. I also use the library or borrow from friends. I rarely go to the theaters anymore.
My family gets our movies from Netflix! It is a very awesome company. I get two movies at a time for a very low price. I save lots of money because I don't have to pay late fees. I can also watch them on my own time. Sometimes buy used movies from a recycled dvd store. Pretty neat can get a new release for 1/2 the price! :D
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In a sense, it's true that you get to choose—but so many of the key choices are made so early in life. I worry that a seventeen-year-old who has never worked a full-time is simply not well positioned to make an informed decision about whether or not to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to go to an expensive college. What sort of choice is it when parents, teachers, and guidance counselors simply present it as a natural thing that everyone should do—taking out huge loans and going to college?
I think a real free choice would include an option for an eighteen-year-old (or even a nineteen-through-twenty-one year old) to say, "Wait a minute! This was dumb! I want to spend the next ten years doing interesting, exciting, useful, and important stuff, not working at a some drudge job to make enough money to pay off all this debt!" But that's not the way society is structured right now. Your seventeen-year-old self can make borrowing decisions that lock you into the wage-slave/debt-slave track.
Granted, the decision to borrow isn't the only decision that's similarly hard to change course from. (The decision to have children or the decision to commit a serious crime can lock your future into a course that has even less flexibility.) But there aren't many other things I can think of where people's earliest choices are so fraught with the opportunity to be a huge mistake that colors the whole rest of their life.
I'd like young people to be able to ease into choices like that a bit more gradually. I think we'd all be better off if more people had the flexibility to start down one path and then change their mind and choose a different one, if a little experience and maturity showed them that they'd made a mistake.
I really agree with this because I have been using witch hazel for two weeks now and it has worked wonders on my acne
I really agree with this because I have been using witch hazel for two weeks now and it has worked wonders on my acne
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You make your own opportunities. Raised a military brat and knew growing up nothing is handed to you. With four kids and a Captain’s salary… my mom was very aware of lay-away. So any education beyond high school was our responsibility.
I don't know how long ago you were looking into school, but after 24 years-old, they have adult education grants to help pay for school. It won't pay for it all. So you have to be smart and see what you can transfer from a community college and start there. Also stay in-state. Have those tax dollars you've been paying work a little for you.
If you choose a science degree and have a strong GPA, you can transfer to a school that will not only pay tuition but also pay you to go to grad school. In exchange you conduct research and publish it. If that was not in place, I would have obtained by MS by Pay Check University (my science degree is very applied so did not have to get a MS to get a good job.) There is a better career outlook with a MS, however it’s not necessary.
You could have gone to college with some sacrifice. You will have debt. But it’s still possible to go if you are willing to accept it as the “cost of doing business.”
With this is mind, do I feel everyone should go to college? No. Especially right out of high school! It’s not for everyone and can cause a LOT of debt if the student does not keep it in check. (Out of state school with little less reason than to get away from the parents, keep changing majors, flunking classes to just have to re-take them.) It is my firm belief that more kids should have to pay for the class they like to sleep through.
I am no expert myself about money laundering. All I know is that the rich somehow find crazy loopholes to launder their money and all the rest of us work 9-5. I read a book not to long ago of an expert in the fiend about how do those guys actually do that.... he actually shows you things and break them down into steps.
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Love this--my dream life! Work 6 hours and actually be productive, get my workout in without having to wake up at 5am, and spend some time learning or contributing to society in another way. Perfect.
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REPLY TO THE ABOVE COMMENT,
THIS IS AMERICA. BUYING AND RESALING ITEMS IS THE WAY OUR ECONOMY WORKS. PLEASE STOP HATING ON THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FRUGAL AND CAN TURN A LEGITIMATE PROFIT. IF YOU WANT THE SAME DEALS THEN I SUGGEST YOU GET UP EARLY AND SHOP THERE YOURSELF. IF THE DEALS ARE ALL BOUGHT UP, OH WELL MAYBE NEXT TIME. THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM.
GOOD DAY.
I find it odd that some find this offensive. The manager likely doesn't care if a reseller buys it, they want to get the stuff off their shelves.
FYI: Scalping is making a profit on a scarce item, such as concert tickets since they are available in limited numbers. A Garmin or voice recorder isn't scarce. A Wii or 'toy of the year' at Christmas time is scarce, so it could be considered scalping.
Profiteering is making a profit unethically. How is purchasing goods LEGALLY, then reselling them at the price the market bears, unethical? Because a few people may have missed out on a deal? Sounds like sour grapes to me. How is this really any different than if someone swoops in and buys the last four $5 TVs and gives them away as Christmas gifts?No one else gets a chance to buy them then, either.
I always figured these deals at office depot were specifically to attract resellers. O.D. goes to great lengths to attract the home business owner, and a large amount of these business owners sell goods online.
But the choice to live as you want, poor, somewhere in the middle, or rich is exactly what Capitalism offers over all other forms of economic systems. All systems will give you the option of poor or somewhere in the middle but Capitalism allows for you to make as much as you see fit. Even if that means you want to be a wage slave. The choice is yours to make, nobody makes it for you.
Nice one,man! Welcome to the club. If you you can restrain yourself from drinking it all at once, run it through again; it'll taste GREAT!! Cheers!
If someone who is under the age of 18 tries to activate the card it will not go through. I have a NetSpend card for my now 17 year old which I opened for her when she was 16 so that she wouldn't have to "ask mom" for money all the time. Each month I put a set amount on her card and she has the freedom to drive around town and buy the things she wants to but has to keep in mind her budget. When I opened this account for her; I still had to prove that she was my daughter with providing NetSpend with her information. Even if she had tried to open it on her own she wouldn't have been able to because I had to provide documentation that she was my child and that I approved her having this account. I actually love the instant message notifications I get on my phone when she uses her card. I've had her return items before she left the parking lot because I didn't agree with her purchase.
By comparision; I received a "pre-approved" credit card application in the mail for at the time my daughter was 12 years old. I spent 20 minutes waiting on hold to talk to the credit card company that had sent it (a company that I wasn't even a member of nor had ever been a member of) and they kept asking me for my account information. I kept telling them that I had never had an account with them and quite frankly never will if they send random "pre-approved" notifications to 12 year olds. I told them to remove my daughters name from their target list but 3 months later we received another "pre-approved" notice. That one I just shredded.
At least NetSpend isn't offering "pre-approved" credit to people and then charging huge interest rates!
I love that you are putting your heart out there young jedi's, however you must walk the path (it holds many secrets learned only through individual perspective) to be taken seriously at any level genius or idiot, second pleas understand this above all thinking and logic ,take this in and hold it in your minds eye forever and share this knowledge with wise people and you will ether be cast out or lavishly adored fore being in the know fashionable or not, again perspective is key:The integrity of your government has been compromised again and again over hundred’s of years and re-tooled fore nothing but control of the worker bees , they don’t give one sh!t if women and children die from lack of money, we are her to support the royal elite and not take up any real money,how it will stay until WE do something. the royal elite has its own children to take there roles as the future leaders in the US we are not allowed in ever , you are sadly just a slave in every sense you cannot do anything without (there)money or say so you will be tax’d fined jail d killd before you get (there)money or what they think is theres,or stand up to them.the fine fore denying your health claim for a pre-existing condition is only $100,The new bill is worthless and insulting!, so eat the food you are provided with, watch the T.V. shows you are provided with, believe what you are told directly or indirectly (it is all controlled and don't think it ain't) or you will be punished in any of a thousand ways my friends, we have been easily conditioned to be stupid followers, sorry thats what I have found in years of research and interviews and logical conjecture. we’r screwed until all the "masters" are removed from power and the example be made by capital treason laws! To stop later tempts to re-creat this madness. Now about guns that is part of the freedom process without guns we will be screwed much much sooner by the masters you think care about you , never will we have a 100% perfect society but guns play a big big part of this life and should NEVER be villainizd by citizens as this may one day be all the say so you really have or ever will have for that matter as voting is one thing we are conditioned to think makes a sh!t’n bit of dif, it dos not the proof. IF IT DID WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS they place figure heads as temps. The guns no matter any ones opinion about them they are too important to get rid of without them your great grandparents would of been enslaved by whomever ruled over them in there time with great eas and you would be eating cardboard and working 16 hours fore nothing like your great grandchildren will be if we get rid of guns just look ate China thats the template of total control people.Back in great grand parent times the elite still had much to learn but today have mastered there dark craft and guns are the big hiccup in all that, love em or hate em we need em.And this thing has been going on way before electricity,every wants to be the expert and that arogant stupidity clouds the real info that people need to here, this info Im sharing is how it REALLY is! Fore a brief period America was in good shape but at certain points in the development the masters must and have act to keep the machine in there control and get whatever money n power they can fore the next step.See what Michael Moore has on the burner these days. builder bergs, trilateral comity, Illuminati. google them and after about a year you may have something real to say keep it up though and do some math how long you live, how much you earn how much gos into some kind or another tax and interest medical expense gas, living, legal fees IRS and also the federal reserve is a private company just calling itself Fedrall, not much money in our pocket is there ,life suck because thats a slaves life , we work our lives away and b!tch about a five cent tax hike ! wow, If the gov took only what is required to function we would need only work 4 thats 4 hours a day 5 days a week!!!! with free health care ta boot! the rest is stolen and legally plundered from us my fellow slaves. good luck and keep thinking outside the box…ps this beast of burden life style we live, is the “mark of the beast” its on our head and on our hand and you cannot purchase anything without it….Revalations.
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Have recently moved, we tried to save as much money as we could. In the event that you need to hire movers, I strongly encourage you to shop around. We were amazed on the different quotes that we got. All in all, I'm sure we saved several hundred (possibly a grand) just on the moving expense alone.
I heard that one works in one's own neighberhood, which can cover a few square miles. Is it mandatory that one must work any neighborhood outside of your own no matter what the safety concerns are? For instance a high crime area that has implications that outsiders are not welcome.
If you complete the training do you have a choice to work closer to your own home?
Hmm. Sounds a lot like the justification people make when they buy concert or theater tickets and then resell them. It's called scalping and basically, it's what you are doing too.
FYI: Any money you make above what you paid is profit and is taxable income, though I doubt people who are doing what you are doing are reporting it as such.
Here's what really bothers me about this: Regular customers frequently can't take advantage of any sale items because these resellers swoop in and buy up a lot of stuff. (Cashiers could care less how much you buy. ONly an alert manager should be smart enough to set limits on amount you can buy of these sale items to prevent resellers from swooping in.) Customers who spend plenty at a store like Office Depot end up losing out to people who probably ONLY shop there for such sales.
You have a right to resell, but frankly if you're not buying something wholesale, it's just plain old profitering and buying up merchandise that others could buy at those prices. I don't have to like it, and I don't.
FYI: I have no problem with people reselling what they pick up at yard and garage sales and estate sales. Those are not retail stores and it's clearly first come, first served.