March 31st, 2008 by admin

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The Sharp PW-E250 Pocket Oxford Spanish English Dictionary & Thesaurus
usually sells for $60 retail.  It is on sale for $44.24.  But that’s not a truly hot deal, is it?  So what if there is a $40 rebate thrown into the mix?  (and free shipping)  Your final price is $4.24!!!  That is a 92% savings on the retail price.  That is a pretty hot deal!!!  This is especially helpful if your taking a Spanish class in school or if you’re traveling somewhere where you need to know some Spanish.

March 25th, 2008 by admin

Here’s the scoop, Megabus is coming over to serve the East Coast.  As a promotion they are offering free tickets for a 5 day travel period, from May 30th to June 5th.  Go here: http://megabus.com/us/index.php

Select your tickets from NYC to any of the destinations mentioned above for the valid travel dates and your tickets are F-R-E-E!  I just booked two tickets from NYC to Washington DC for a total of $0.50!!!  (ok, so they weren’t F-R-E-E but fifty cents is pretty darn close).  Take advantage of these while they last, they are on a first come first serve basis!

March 25th, 2008 by admin

To get this deal you need to go HERE.  In the search bar, search for: Norton Antivirus 2008.

Here’s what you’re getting: Norton Antivirus 2008 - 3 User Norton AntiVirus 2008 protects your PC against spyware, viruses, and other Internet threats. It works automatically to block harmful software before it penetrates your system. It scans and cleans email and instant messaging attachments and Internet downloads, and includes automatic updates to keep you protected against newly discovered threats throughout your service subscription. This new version will replace Norton AntiVirus 2007.

Kingston 1GB Data Traveler Flash Drive DataTraveler USB Flash drive is ideal for home office, small business, schools and promotions. It is affordable and puts mobile storage in nearly anyone’s hands. Now you can store, carry and transfer files quickly in an affordable, convenient device. The DataTraveler from Kingston helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing you to easily store and move files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. As easy as click and drag, the DataTraveler can hold just about any file you can think of - reports pictures, spreadsheets or other important documents. It works with virtually any device with a USB port - even cross-platform from Macintosh to PC and vice versa. The DataTraveler also makes a great promotional item for your organization; it’s simple to add your logo to increase brand-recognition. Backed by a five-year warranty and Kingston’s legendary service and support, the DataTraveler is a reliable, inexpensive solution for carrying files or your next promotion.

Please note: There are 2 rebates on this deal which will result in the $2.99 final price.  There is also the option to use Google checkout and get $10 off your order (which means you’ll be making a profit in the end).  Enjoy!

March 21st, 2008 by admin

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If you want a great deal on some Blu Ray DVDs then here you go!  These are mostly guy movies, Saw, Rambo, Terminator, House of 1000 Corpses, etc…  but at $7.99 you won’t find a lower price.  I jumped on a few and I don’t have a Blu Ray player (yet), lol!  I suppose I’ll spring for a Blu Ray/HD DVD dual player when I find one on sale so if you know of any good sales on one let me know!!!  Enjoy!

March 20th, 2008 by admin

If you haven’t been checking out the Forums then you’ve probably missed out on some good deals recently.  I’ll recap a few of them and if anything strikes your fancy you can check out the Forum section to find additional info on them:

Calvary 1TB Internal Sata drive for $189.99 + Free shipping

Sketchers Mandalay Shoes for $6.50 +  $0.99 shipping

Free $50 GIft Card from Best Buy if you purchased a HD DVD player there

Huge list of dresses from Wet Seal for $14.99 each

Craftsman 17 inch Handbox $1.97 (free in-store pickup)

Flip Video Camcorder $99.99 + Free Ship

Free Subscription to Oprah’s “O” Magazine

Free Movie Ticket from Fandango

Free Package for Bachelorette Parties

And coupons and coupon codes for a multitide of places such as: Footlocker, Office Depot, Sketchers, Kohls, Victoria’s Secret, GoDaddy, and more…

March 18th, 2008 by admin

I’m entering week 3 of my 4 week free subscription to Blockbuster online (promo code was posted in the freebies section).  I get three movies at a time and this past week I received The Kingdom, Halloween (the Rob Zombie version), and The Family Guy Blue Harvest. 

I really enjoyed The Kingdom.  Hollywood is Hollywood so you never know how much realism is put into a movie, but if The Kingdom is somewhat accurate then it gives some good insight into the Middle East and how people live there.  It was as much entertaining as it was educational for me.  It is hard to step outside of your daily life and really get a feel for how different it is in other parts of the world, and this movie does a good job of that while keeping the viewer entertained.  The three main actors in the movie are Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman.  I think Jamie Foxx gave a good performance, his character changed from the beginning to the end and I think he did a good job of following the transition.  Jennifer Garner was OK in the movie.  Nothing really stood out about her acting to me.  If you’re going to pay a big name actor the big bucks to be in your movie, then their acting job should stand out.  Jason Bateman did a good job.  His character was pretty consistent throughout the majority of the movie, it wasn’t until the end when we got to see him display some acting skills, and I think he did a good job when called upon.  All in all, I’d give the movie a B.

Halloween (the Rob Zombie version) was…well…directed by Rob Zombie.  Like “A House of 1,000 Corpses” (another Zombie directed movie) I was entertained, but it felt like something was missing.  There was never that character that you could connect with or develop a relationship with during the movie (unless you can relate to Michael Myers which would be a little scary).  I also think the use of profanity and nudity in the movie doesn’t add anything more then a cheap thrill or two, and the time would have been more well spent developing the main character more.  As far as a horrow flick goes, it does not scare you out of your seat at all, so it lacks in that respect.  I’d give the movie a C.

The Family Guy - Blue Harvest was the first episode of a new Family Guy season and is a recreation of Star Wars IV (I think… I’m not up to date with my Star Wars trivia).  Classic Family Guy stuff in here, maybe lacking some Stewie airtime, and Meg only gets a brief cameo, but they threw in a Grey Poupon spoof and that was unexpected but great!  I’d give this a B.

Just a note on the Blockbuster service, I have received my new movies pretty quickly after returning the old batch so Blockbuster is doing a good job on the turnaround time in my opinion.

March 17th, 2008 by admin

If you’re excited about March Madness and you want to watch all the games you can do so here;

http://ncaasports.com/mmod

Here’s the details from the site:

NCAA March Madness® on Demand allows you to watch LIVE game broadcasts of CBS Sports television coverage of the NCAA Championship on your computer for FREE! This year, for the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch every game* of the NCAA Championship live online for free. All 63 games, from the First Round through the Final Four including the Championship Game, will be available with NCAA March Madness on Demand — so you’ll never have to miss a single shot.

NCAA March Madness on Demand is 100% free

Live games streaming on your broadband-connected computer

Enjoy Championship highlights, recaps, and archived video

640×360 widescreen video player

Exclusive halftime show

Includes The NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show

March 12th, 2008 by admin

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Arrested Development has to be one of the best series I have watched EVER!  I purchased it around Christmas time and I proceeded to watch the entire 3 seasons within a month.  The show has it all, great acting, unique characters, great scripts, it is witty and funny, and you will not want to stop watching it!  I never saw it when it was on TV, I took a stab in the dark when I purchased it based on very positive reviews by people and I was not disappointed.  It has to be my best DVD purchase of all time.  I’ve loaned my DVD sets to family members who all love the show too.  There are such unique things in the show such as the “never nude” (LOL, you must watch the show to understand).  The family is so dysfunctional yet they strive to stay together and they entertain you with how unique each character is.   I didn’t have one favorite person, I had three!  If you haven’t watched the show and I would give this a huge recommendation, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

March 10th, 2008 by admin

If you have some Cookie Monster in your blood you may want to check out This Deal where you can grab 25 packages of cookies for $6. I picked these cookies up about a month ago (though the price I paid was nowheres near this good) and the cookies are pretty good. They are different from your traditional Chips Ahoy and have a more bisquit type quality to them.

I signed up for a free month of Blockbuster online rentals (deal is posted in the Forums section) and I watched two movies over the weekend.  The first one was Saw part IV.  I enjoy the Saw series but they are not just redoing the same type of thing over and over.  I was entertained, but felt like if I had anything significant to do for that two hours it would have taken precendence over watching this movie.  The 2nd movie I watched was American Gangster.  This movie stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.  Denzel gives a great performance as he usually does.  I think he is one of the top (if not the top) quality actor out there.  Russell Crowe… well, I’m not sure how this guy is an actor (and a name actor at that).  In the movie he is a cop, yet he doesn’t act like a cop, he doesn’t talk like a cop, and it was funny but I even said to myself he doesn’t walk like a cop.  Here’s a tip Russell, instead of throwing phones at people spend some time researching the role you are going to play.  I was disappointed with the movie.  They clearly stole the scene from Scarface where Tony kills someone in broad daylight in the middle of a crowded street.  I know this movie is supposed to be based on a true story but it felt like they were mimicing the Scarface scene.  The secondary actors that they selected were laughable.  The guy who is Russell’s first partner looked like a beauty salon owner with his hairstyle instead of a cop.  And the crew that later becomes Russell’s possee was a joke.  I was mildly entertained at most, but if I paused the movie at any point and walked away for two weeks, not one part of me would have wondered what happened.  The ending scene is also cheesy IMO (in my opinion) and you are left saying to yourself “ummm, that’s the ending?”.  But I got to see them for free so I shouldn’t be complaining, right?  We’ll see what the next few rentals will bring…

March 6th, 2008 by admin

In one of the Forum threads the topic of hiding things in a store came up.  If you’ve done this before raise your hand?  Disclaimer: I’ve done it before two or three times.  Here’s the scenario: something is going on clearance in a day or two (or maybe Black Friday is in a day or two).  The price drop is significant so you know the item is going to move like hotcakes the day of the sale.  For some reason you can’t get to the store at the crack of dawn the day of the sale but you really want this item at the reduced price.  As a result, you devise a simple yet effective plan.  You go to the store a day or two before the sale and hide the item you want in the store in a place where you don’t expect anyone would look.  The day of the sale you stroll into the store, go to the hiding place, uncover the item, stroll to the cash register and receive looks of wonder from the cashier as they are wondering how you managed to find the item you are buying since it has been sold out since 5 hours ago. 

So here’s my two cents: I think the concept of hiding something to save yourself money is smart.  It shows you are thinking, it shows that you are cost conscious, and if someone else didn’t think of this idea then that is their problem.  I also think this idea is funny.  The idea of sneaking around a store to find a good hiding place is amusing.  Do people try to act nonchalant because they are worried the security cameras will see them?  Or I wonder if people go through a whole act of pretending they are interested in something, so they put down the item they are carrying and then “accidentally” that item gets hidden behind some things.  The topic of immorality is a little tricky.  I don’t think you are being immoral towards the store (because you are not stealing the product, the product was going to sell at this reduced price whether you bought it or Joe Schmo bought it), but it gets into a gray area if it is immoral towards someone else who may have come to the store at opening and didn’t get one because you hid one.  I guess the old saying ‘the early bird gets the worm’ comes to mind, that person came early on the day of the sale, but maybe that doesn’t constitute ‘early’ when the possibility of coming in a dhiding the item exists.  And also, I know this happens though a lot of people aren’t aware of it, but employees hide items in the backroom for themselves to purchase or their friends/family to purchase when things go on megaclearance.  So I think hiding things levels out the playing field a little bit for the consumer.  In summation, I think it is smart, pretty funny, and… nah, not immoral.  Keep saving those dollars!

March 3rd, 2008 by admin

I had some free movie tickets and I decided to see Vantage Point this weekend.  The Spiderwick Chronicles also looked interesting, but I got a free ticket (deal was posted in the freebies section, but it is now dead) and I needed to use my generic free passes before they expired.  Vantage Point has a few name actors in it, Dennis Quaid, Forrest Whittaker, Matthew Fox (of Lost fame) to name a few.  The movie is mainly about a 20 minute sequence in time.  You get to relive the same 20 minutes about 5 or 6 times, each time from the viewpoint of a different person and then everything rolls up into the final 20 minutes.  I was entertained, so the movie did it’s basic purpose.  But I left the theater unfulfilled.  The plot was thin and lacking.  Things were left unexplained.  And there really was no ‘grand point’ to the movie.  I think Matthew Fox should stick to making TV shows (I am a huge Lost fan so just keep making Lost).  Forrest Whittaker is a great actor, but his liveliness seemed out of place in this movie.  I would not recommend paying to see this in the theater, I’d probably wait until you can borrow it from someone or if you sign up for a free Netflix or Blockbuster trial.  We’ll see this weekend if the Spiderwick Chronicles is any better…