<p>I am on the road today and just got on line from the hotel room. Upon opening my e-mail, I found an e-mail from ebay with a 10% + 30% off coupon for 12/1/2008 only. </p>
<p>After call DW, I am sitting here frustrated because I could not think of any thing to buy. There are many things I want but none of them I need. </p>
<p>BTW, has any used the microsoft’s live dot com’s cashback coupon yet? What kind of questions do they ask when you set up your cashback account?</p>
<p>what’s wrong with me?? I bought something from ebay and didnt think to use the coupon!! :(</p>
<p>I don’t know… I never buy anything I don’t need no matter how great the “bargain”. On the other hand – I have a coupon from Amazon and I will definitely use it, though I don’t know on what or how – but I’m a big buyer of books and have a very, very long wish list to choose from. </p>
<p>I’d suggest that you make a list of things you want on your computer, and then the next time you get a coupon check your list first. For example, I have a mental list of various things I need around the house for whenever I get around to it – if I wanted to use a coupon, I’d go back to that – at least I know those are things I would be likely to buy anyway. Spending money on things you don’t want or need is just silly – and it is exactly why the businesses offer coupons in the first place.</p>
<p>I don’t get it. How can eBay offer coupons? Since the people selling stuff on eBay are private individuals, who probably don’t want to knock off 30% off their sale/auction prices, then how can they offer that?
There’s probably a simple answer to this—</p>
<p>^The seller receives the full amount of money. eBay will pay the discount you receive to the seller from their own $$$$.</p>
<p>I’ve used the live.com cashback - I’ve gotten some payouts from it. Two things to note are that you have to click through their site to get to the site that you want to buy from, and then once you make your purchase, it takes about 60 days to actually get paid (I think they want to make sure you don’t return it or something). I have mine set to pay out to my Paypal account, so I don’t think I had to give them really any personal info, but I don’t remember for sure.</p>
<p>I see…</p>
<p>DadII, It’s people like you that are destroying our economy! Don’t think about what you “need” or even what you “want” , just buy something for America!</p>
<p>I sometimes think–Wow! I can save 30% if I buy a fleece jacket from Lands End today. Then I think–Wait a minute, I can save 100% if I don’t buy it at all. </p>
<p>I am definitely what is wrong with America!</p>
<p>^^^ That’s me. I am amazed at how little I spend.</p>
<p>LOL. I saw the “buy 4 Coke glasses for $10, get a $5 gift card” at Blockbuster and thought the same thing. For a split second I thought, hmm, free $5, then the rational part of me remembered I can save $10if I don’t buy them at all!</p>
<p>Aww, you guys sound like my H. According to him, you can never save if you are spending.</p>
<p>Got myself a SB-800 around 11:30, had been always wanted one.</p>
<p>40% off is just too good to pass.</p>
<p>I recycle coupons daily- I have eliminated half my emails so longer get notices about sales or special " deals" & it is great- we really don’t need so much crap & spending time worrying about " what I should buy" seems really odd, when there are so many other things to think about and do.</p>
<p>This reminds me of an article I was reading in my favorite trashy magazine * Vanity Fair*, about the debts of Veronica Hearst, widow of Randy Hearst. ( she is $45 million in debt)</p>
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:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Another example of Veronica Hearsts’, egocentrism, follows- you will love this.</p>
<p>So apparently , she had a feud with her first husband, in where their children would go for Christmas ( according to her ex,- Venezuelan banking heir Alfredo Beracasa).
No S—
It’s all about perspective.</p>