I’ve been using Open Shell for years. I started off with Classic Shell then in 2017 the developer of that one said he had decided to stop maintaining it and proceeded to release the source code. Open Shell has been the most popular spin off I think. I’ve been happy enough all of these years to not look for anything else that would do the same thing.

@mistercheap said

You already get free shipping with the red card, so not sure what real benefit paying $50-100 a year for their version of Walmart+ will get you.

So this paid version is what they’ve been teasing on their website and emails. If they try to take away free shipping with the Red Card in a way to Kohl’s tanking their Kohl’s Card benefits I’ll stop shopping there too.

I had a good bit of points on this app and lost them all due to not making a purchase within three months I think it their dormant limit. I was pretty sick so I wasn’t doing much of my shopping and didn’t think to use the app for over three months. I forgot about being able to submit e-receipts.

I guess I got “spoiled” with Ibotta’s 6 months before they start to charge the $3,99. When I felt well enough to think about these apps my earnings were still there in my Ibotta account. Fetch Rewards not so much.

@my4mainecoons said in FDA may begin a process that removes phenylephrine from the market, which would force manufacturers to pull cough and cold medications from store shelves.:
I’ve called Phenylephrine fake Sudafed ever since it was the one that became the easier of the real and fake to purchase. It’s never done anything for me besides making my throat slightly sore.

I’m in MS so real Sudafed has needed a Dr’s script for a long time so on the rare occasion I get one of those to go along with treatment for a sinus infection I get to feel great sinus wise for a short while. I use Flonase but it doesn’t really clear out the sinuses. I was given Astelin to use in addition with it to try and help the sinus thing. Only thing I got out of that was a bad taste that lasts for hours and awful nausea to boot.

All I’ve wanted for years is enough real Sudafed to be able to take it every so often when my sinuses get to where they’re hard to take.

@mistercheap said in Kohl's Cash Gotcha:

Also, Kohls Rewards is NOT the same as Kohls Cash, it’s a distinct program from Kohls Cash. It’s paid out in $5 increments on the 1st of the month after you hit the levels. There’s no way a return is credited back to your rewards account at Kohls.

I didn’t say the two were the same. I know they are not. Returns can be deducted from a Kohl’s Rewards account as someone a few posts above this one also mentioned. It’s still going on. Someone mentioned it happening recently to them in the Kohl’s thread on SD.

I got out of the Kohl’s KC and Rewards game for the most part early last year. It’s curbed a lot of my purchases from there while also making my relationship with Kohl’s more mentally healthy . Now I only order something if I really want it and the price is actually good after discounts without factoring in KC. I’ve been sent small KC amounts out of the blue every so often to get me to purchase something since getting out which I’ll usually add to a purchase I don’t think I’ll want to return.

It’s easy to get wrapped up in it all trying to center purchases around getting KC, planning how to spend it before expiration after it’s issued, doing whatever to extend the expiration if no good sales or going on and then the returns stuff that get posted about in many places online.

There was a post on SD about Kohl’s returns recently. The person made a return and didn’t get the entire amount back because Kohl’s took the earned rewards point amount from the purchase out of the refund.

The original post said…

“I made a return today and they took $8.07 off my refund. Curious as to why I looked up my online receipt and saw $8.07 was what they had given to me as rewards. So instead of taking it off your rewards account, they take it off your refund? That’s pretty terrible.”

When asked if they had used the rewards or spent KC they said this…

“I didn’t use any kohls cash or redeem any rewards. My current Kohl’s rewards has a balance of $15.49 and says: “$15 will be issued in Kohl’s Cash® on the first of next month.” $8.07 of that is apparently from my return. So instead of deducting it from my rewards, they make me pay for it. So my $8 is replaced with store credit that expires. This is really shady business.”

I’m sure I’ll just get another sorry-sounding reply back, but I’m getting my two bits in. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be done with them after many years of satisfaction. And I will follow through and actively bad mouth them going forward.

These issues have made me really frustrated and sad as I said in a previous post after not having trouble with them for years. I had seen others complaining about TCB during that time and just thought “Oh it must be user error…”. Now I’m feeling bad for writing all of those complaints off for that reason when some of them could have been going through what some of us are now.

@dangeruss I always keep my adblocker turned off on the CB sites and whatever site I’m purchasing from which usually results in no issues with whichever one I use.