I can’t find anything free at that link, despite this language, "Get our Paper Swatch Decks, Large Format Materials Swatches, and other samples. These are all FREE."
I’m moving this to “Expired Deals”.
On a related note, do you two really just downvote everything the other says? Jeebus!
@mrvietnam So far as I know.
But once CT starts bragging about how much revenue was brought in, who knows? It’s not like Newegg is likely to say, “Well, okay, we screwed over our Connecticut customers, but [insert random state here]? Never!”
@frugalfreak They are. Connecticut has a long history of shenanigans like this. I remember 25 or 30 years ago, they came out with a marijuana tax stamp, hoping that drug dealers would fill out the forms and pay taxes on their weed sales. Really.
But what’s shocking is Newegg’s behavior. They are a California corporation and Connecticut’s Department of Revenue Circuses has no enforcement authority over them whatsoever.
If they decided to start collecting Connecticut sales tax, fine. But to hand over their customer list and sales totals to a government agency for what can only be strong-arm collection and audit purposes? Unbelievable.
And you can bet, every other state (except New Hampshire) will be watching the outcome very carefully. Easy money.
Live in Connecticut? Bought anything from Newegg in the past four years?
Congratulations! You can look forward to a nastygram from the Department of Revenue Services, along with a bill for Sales & Use Tax for all of your Newegg purchases going back to 2014.
Plus interest and penalties, of course.
That’s not a worst-case scenario. They may very well use this information as a starting point…after all, if you bought from Newegg, you probably made other online purchases, too…so the sky’s the limit. They might decide to audit you and demand you bring your credit card statements.
Thanks, Newegg! You’re awesome!
@sekharnet said in Aukey Wall Charger with QC 2.0 from $6 @Amazon:
Any QC charging will kill your battery capacity 50% sooner than the battery life time.
Link please
https://www.amazon.com/Vantrue-Car-Dash-Cam-1920x1080/dp/B01IHLZIU0?tag=phtwllt-20
Well made, solid dashcam with good ergonomics. I have the X3 which is very similar, and the feature set is excellent…sturdy “hot shoe” mount (or you can plug the mini-USB power directly into the cam), good night vision, parking mode, etc. 18 month warranty and guaranteed 24-hour response time to tech support emails.
Hi Melody, thanks for posting. Please add the name of the store/site to the title.
This reminds me, it’s been a long time since I’ve been to Louis Lunch. The “other” home of the original hamburger. The one recognized by the Library of Congress.
Since you’re posting here, I presume you’re looking for exceptional value as well.
Here’s a list of exchange rates with the USD, with a (hopefully) familiar set of green and red indicators to show you where your dollars will go the furthest:
https://tradingeconomics.com/eurusd:cur
I would suggest anywhere in the European Union; Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, or Spain. The Euro seems to be in the toilet at the moment.
Happy Trails!
w00t! Oh, Red and Green, I’ve missed you so.
@vegasvegan said in What’s Best Option for Paying Dental Bill?:
Try to negotiate a cash discount. It would have been nice if you could have gone in this week to get started and then finished after the first of the year. They could have billed you separately and used 2 copays.
https://www.themoneymine.com/you-dont-get-what-you-deserve-you-get-what-you-negotiate/
Great link, thanks for sharing it!
@my4mainecoons said in What’s Best Option for Paying Dental Bill?:
@ctcarl Would there be a financial advantage of doing that? I have the money to pay the bill. I’m just trying to make it cost less.
if eg Staples runs a prepaid Visa offer I could buy $400 in prepaid visas, get the activation fee back as rebate and earn $20 on cc. Repeat x 10 and get $200 on credit card for the $4k. Pay the bill using the prepaid visas. Effectively paying $3800 instead of $4k.
Other than getting a two-year interest-free loan? No, there’s no advantage other than that.
No idea if this would appeal to you at all, but I once used http://www.carecredit.com to pay for dental work, and it was a promotional rate, interest-free for 24 months.
Nice find, OP! Green for you, in a manner of speaking
Great find, OP. Green for you, as it were.
GAH! Late to the party again.
FWIW, if you have Xfinity Internet, you can sign up for Xfinity Mobile and get unlimited voice & text essentially for free (just pay roughly $3/mo in garbage fees). They’re not doing BYOD (yet), but they have reasonable phone costs. You can pick up a very nice LG X Charge for $90 and turn around and eBay it if you don’t need it.
Incidentally, they’re a Verizon MVNO and the service is top-notch.
Well, that’s the thing. The most virulent spam I have ever gotten, across phone/email/junkmail, continues to be from car dealers. And that is without ever letting anyone copy or scan my DL. I can’t even imagine how snowed under with onsolicited crap I would be if they had my DL. And if you don’t give it when they ask, I presume there’s no deal, making it a wasted trip. That’s why I ask.
Took the kids again today, this time to a store which the website confirmed had both the photo booth AND “Holiday Treats”. Waited around almost an hour for the “Holiday Treats”, finally asked an employee who said, “Yeah, he was here yesterday but he’s not coming today.”
In related news, Fark Target
@noahbody Seriously? They don’t even scan your driver’s license?
For anyone planning to take advantage of this, check with your local store before you go. In Connecticut, very few Target stores have “Holiday Treats”. Don’t build it up too much with your kids, or they’ll be disappointed, especially when all your local store has is an upside-down LEGO fireplace where you can take a picture. Yay.
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
Even if I’m wrong and there is, it can’t “phone home”. It can only flail around in a vacuum, so to speak, because I’m running an IPtables-based firewall.
If you’re running that on the tablet, there’s nothing preventing the rootkit from going around iptables.
[shrugs] I guess rooting’s not for everyone.
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
If the spectre of consequences from an unwanted upgrade isn’t enough, I want root to combat what I call “permission bloat”. Too many apps ask for unnecessary rights…to your address book, camera, microphone, and location, to name a few…and I like being able to say, “I don’t think so”. And of course, there are plenty of apps that either require root, or offer limited functionality without it.
Except now you’ve put KingRoot on there, so it’s very likely that all your info is being sent to China.
No chance of that! I immediately replaced Kingoroot with SuperSU, and the tablets were in airplane mode for the five minutes or so it was installed.
Well I remember I had to run some app that removes KingRoot, but in any case, since KingRoot rooted the phone, you never know if it put in some rootkit to keep it from detection. So even if you swap it out with SuperSU, it’s possible that the rootkit is still there.
The only things I may want root for would be backups with titanium and the ability to write to the SD card (I currently cannot figure out a way to do that)
For what it’s worth, I used FingerPower Technology’s Kingoroot and not King Studio’s Kingroot.
I don’t think that there’s any trace of Kingoroot left behind. Even if I’m wrong and there is, it can’t “phone home”. It can only flail around in a vacuum, so to speak, because I’m running an IPtables-based firewall.
If I were worried about a rootkit, I would flash a new ROM. A lot of folks like to do that anyway, for a clean, vanilla-Android experience.
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
If the spectre of consequences from an unwanted upgrade isn’t enough, I want root to combat what I call “permission bloat”. Too many apps ask for unnecessary rights…to your address book, camera, microphone, and location, to name a few…and I like being able to say, “I don’t think so”. And of course, there are plenty of apps that either require root, or offer limited functionality without it.
Except now you’ve put KingRoot on there, so it’s very likely that all your info is being sent to China.
No chance of that! I immediately replaced Kingoroot with SuperSU, and the tablets were in airplane mode for the five minutes or so it was installed.
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl personally, I’m fairly happy with the stock experience and since you can sideload apps, including Google play, I see no reason to root it.
I get that, Russ. I have two gen 5 Fire 7s that are unrootable, but usuable. Now that there is a decent no-root firewall, I’m reasonably happy with them at present.
But I try to keep in mind that Fire OS is a unique product, and Amazon’s grip on it gets tighter and tighter. For example, you’re happy with it because it can sideload apps and support Google Play, but that could change tomorrow.
Fire OS updates without your permission, automatically and silently, and there is absolutely nothing to stop Amazon from removing features (such as the ability to install or run non-amazon apps) in an upgrade. There are only two surefire ways to stop automatic upgrades; don’t connect to the internet, or root your device.
If the spectre of consequences from an unwanted upgrade isn’t enough, I want root to combat what I call “permission bloat”. Too many apps ask for unnecessary rights…to your address book, camera, microphone, and location, to name a few…and I like being able to say, “I don’t think so”. And of course, there are plenty of apps that either require root, or offer limited functionality without it.
Besides, I’m a techie and I appreciate being able to open the hood and watch the belts and pulleys spin.
I know that many, if not most Fire users are happy without root (right now, anyway), but if you want to see how lost some folks are without it, just Google “root fire 5.3.3 (or 5.4.0)” and brace yourself for much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments.
@dangeruss said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
@ctcarl said in Amazon Fire HD10 now at BF price - $99:
Wonder what version of Fire OS they’re shipping with. If it’s 5.3.1.1 or lower, I’d be tempted to grab one.
Why, is it rootable?
It surely is! I scored a couple of “used” HD 8s a few weeks ago from Warehouse Deals, and to my surprise they both came through with 5.3.1. I rooted both with Kingoroot, installed Super SU, and have pretty much a plain vanilla Android experience on a decent tablet at a dirt cheap price.
In fact, prior to 5.3.2.1, you can install Flashfire and change your OS if you like…there are folks running Nougat on Fire tablets.
5.3.2 isn’t rootable, but it can be downgraded to a version that is. As of 5.3.2.1 though, the party’s over. It’s not rootable…it may never be…and the bootloader’s locked.
The HD10 would be a nice upgrade for me, but only if I can root it.
Wonder what version of Fire OS they’re shipping with. If it’s 5.3.1.1 or lower, I’d be tempted to grab one.
Yes, I did that, but unless I’m doing something wrong, all the available spots in my state are already taken, and my registration isn’t even active yet…says it can take up to 48 hours.
“We’re sorry, your email address is not associated with a LEGO VIP account.”