Anybody remember Value America..

[zoiks]

Werent those the good old days....i got myself so much free money from them. Hell there were people opening multiple accounts there and got the free dollars multiple times.
Once i got free money deposited in my account when i logged on one day. No wonder they went down.

 

[NFS4]

Ahhh, those were the days Got a 27GB hard drive, two DVD's, an Intellimouse Explorer, and a Natural Keyboard Pro from those kind folks

 

[kranky]

I got enough from Value America (thanks to Anandtech Hot Deals) to pay for a subscription here for a very, very long time.

I still have family members asking me to find them more deals like that, and when I tell them nobody is crazy enough to repeat that kind of wacky business model they think I'm just holding out on them.

 

[Pliablemoose]

They will be missed <<wipes away a tear>

I almost feel guilty when I use my air cleaner, food processor, espresso machine, FRS radios, wish I'd bought a damn tux...

Even by dot-com standards, however, Value America comes across as something of a mirage. By Kuo's account, it was little more than a barely functioning mail-order-catalog outfit. About 70% of sales were made by telephone--when the telephone was actually answered. Toward the end of 1999, an internal study showed that hapless customers waited an average of nearly an hour to get through to Value America's customer-service desk. During one quarter in 1999, the company spent $20 million on newspaper ads that only brought in slightly more than $6 million in sales from new customers.

My wife's wedding ring came from VA

 

[RossMAN]

Ah Value Bucks those were the days, 50% off, additional % off with eBates, free shipping promo's + rebates = Ferengi orgasm

 

[NFS4]

<< My wife's wedding ring came from VA >>


SPEECHLESS:Q

 

[LaBang]

yeah, VA rocked. I feel really lucky that I was on the internet getting hotdeals in those good ol' days.

 

[jadinolf]

I am now drinking espresso from a Du Longhi espresso maker which I got from VA.

I bought $900 worth of stuff from them.

Half price is great but VA was doomed from the start because of it.

Hangs head in shame.

 

[vi edit]

VA Ruled!

$100 free for signing up...buy any item with a value dollar by it and get an equal amount of dollars for free.


So lets see here....$100 for signing up, buy a thing of Revere cookware for $100 and get $100 for free. Free cookware, plus free $100 woooo!

I have no idea how many $70 Optiquest 17" monitors I stole from them