Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Rebates

Today I finally received my last rebate from last year's Black Friday mad shopping spree. It took this Canadian company 7 freaking months (Black Friday fell on Nov 25 last year) to send me the measly $10 check; I actually wrote off any thoughts of getting this but what a surprise. This made last year's Black Friday a complete success as I managed to get back all the rebates, totalling $423. Hahaha, yeah, I spent a bomb on electronic toys... but quite a few were FAR (Free after rebates), so what the heck.

The rebate bought back memories of the fun times spent coordinating the spree. 5 of us met a few times to find the best bargains and coordinate activities at my place a few days before the event. The basic idea was each went to a particular store and grab the stuff for everyone based on the list we made up. This way, we managed to get over 90% of the stuff we wanted ( most of the really good stuff were extremely limited in numbers). Oh, the good old times:D We were actually lining up at 2am waiting for the stores to open at 6am in the freaking cold....and it even drizzled a bit...

My haul: lots of FAR stuff. The receipts are in the front. :D


The crowd at Fry's Electronics @ 5-6am Nov 25 2005. And more were coming by the minute.

2 comments:

Nee Shen said...

dude,
i noticed you had a pair of walkie talkies.. what? you want to open pDVD shop after you come back izzit?

Maybe moonlighting as a tonto? or perhaps a pirate DVD lookout? I heard they pay well

eyedeers said...

Those are super handy when you're travelling with 2 cars or if you have 2 groups in theme parks, etc. Great way to communicate without killing your handphone bill IF you even bought one along.

Plus, I'm now "qualified" to moonlight for a night-time job :P