Anyone miss http://www.valueamerica.com...

[Zim Hosein]

W/ the holidays fast approaching, am I the only one who misses http://www.valueamerica.com

Those were the good old days!

 

[Tetsuo]

Never heard of it Zim

 

[Francodman]

oh man i raped valueamerica. Value dollars, honestly what were they thinking?

 

[vegetation]

Good deals! Four years ago now, I'm feeling old. The 30gig hard drive I bought for like 10 dollars at that time still running in my other system..

Here's some other stuff I got that I still use:

Breadmaker
Paper shredder
Various kitchen wares
Boxes of ballpoint pens (used as filler items)

 

[IBuyUFO]

I miss them. I still have their value america credit card ready to charge.

 

[OS]

I LOVE VALUE AMERICA!!!

VALUE DOLLARS ARE INSANE!!

 

[beer]

Oh great masters of yesteryear, doest thou desire to explain ValueAmerica?

 

[iwearnosox]

I do miss them. I've found something that eclipses VA, though, if it works right. While I can't share what it is I'll be happy to brag about it in a couple months after I've tapped it for about 4k or so.

 

[Lager]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
I do miss them. I've found something that eclipses VA, though, if it works right. While I can't share what it is I'll be happy to brag about it in a couple months after I've tapped it for about 4k or so.

PM me and I'll tell you who the spoon ran away with.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: lager

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
I do miss them. I've found something that eclipses VA, though, if it works right. While I can't share what it is I'll be happy to brag about it in a couple months after I've tapped it for about 4k or so.

PM me and I'll tell you who the spoon ran away with.

Spooon ran away with Jezo? Oh noooesss!

Sorry, I'd love to share, but I suspect it's a loophole that would be closed if discovered, like so many hot deals.

 

[Entity]

Yup, I miss them. Loopholes are so much harder to find now.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

must be linked to amazon or half.com

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

btw... value america was crazy.. bunch of genius venture capitalists wasted lots of money on this

 

[T2T III]

[wishful voice]

Hopefully, once the economy gets kicking along, there might be some venture capitalists who will put some more money into new E-tailers - which could result in more future hot deals.

[/wishful voice]

I do miss V.A. Man, I picked up some great deals there.

 

[helpme]

Originally posted by: OS
I LOVE VALUE AMERICA!!!

VALUE DOLLARS ARE INSANE!!

I got a monitor got cheap from them

 

[morkinva]

I especially miss the rebates I never got when they folded

 

[conjur]

Got me some cheaply-priced merchandise from them! Tons of DVDs for well under $10, too


And wasn't there a mobshop.com for group-buying discounts? Got a Toshiba Dolby Digital receiver/DVD player really cheaply that way once.

And the DVD deals/coupons from places like reel.com, bigstar.com, cdnow.com (always had coupons/certificates floating around).

Ah...those were the days!

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
Never heard of it Zim

ditto

 

[Pliablemoose]

Every time I see Value America, I have this mental image of jackals bringing down an elephant, and we were the jackals

I even bought my wife's wedding ring from them

 

[dc]

they still owe me a rebate for my tnt2 ultra. heh.

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: conjur
Got me some cheaply-priced merchandise from them! Tons of DVDs for well under $10, too


And wasn't there a mobshop.com for group-buying discounts? Got a Toshiba Dolby Digital receiver/DVD player really cheaply that way once.

Yea they were first accompany.com then changed to mobshop and pretty much committed suicide shortly thereafter. Still use my Nikon 950 camera all the time that I got from them at an amazingly cheap price. Bought a few more just to sell off on ebay at $150-200 profit each, and none of that ridiculous rebate stuff either.

 

[0roo0roo]

ah, the hotdeals of the dotcoms, so sweet. stupid companies desperate to attract shoppers literally giving sh*t away thinking we'd come back now all the hotdeals pale in comparison

 

[vegetation]

Here's some others that pop in my mind for boneheaded dot com failures:

Original Pets.com -- could buy two cases of cat food shipped to me for like $5 shipped or some crazy low amount. Occasionally one could get it even cheaper. Also ordered huge bags of dry cat food -- 20 pound bags - that they shipped to me for about $5. The shipping alone far exceeded what I paid!

Vitamins.com -- got tons of vitamins that I couldn't possibly use for only a few bucks.

Planetrx.com -- All I remember during Christmas was massive raping going on with their 15 off 20 with free shipping offers.

Flooz.com -- Anyone remember Whoopie? Huge loophole on there allowed people to cash in big time and they didn't even pull the plug for a long time.

More.com -- What store would actually pay you to buy things? I remember buying all these mach 3 razors and being offered a bonus credit on my credit card because that's how the deal was. I still have enough mach3 razors to last me a few more years.

Webcertificates.com -- Free online credit card, $20 I think?

I'm sure there's a lot more that I missed.

 

[dc]

what was the store that had the rolex's priced at $0.00? lol, that was a fun price mistake.

 

[dabuddha]

I kinda like Staples selling items for 1 cent deals. Picked up so many it's not even funny. or buy.com's $10 off 10 and 15 off 15 coupons.