Decent deal if you still have about 20 va dollars left...

[elunico]

If you can't find anything decent to buy get the microsoft sidewinder freestyle pro for $44.99 + $3 (s&h) - $30 (rebate) - $20 (va dollars) ;
you get paid $2.01 for the gamepad.

 

[Richard Berg]

Thanks for the deal! VA$ work wonders with rebates...

 

[Jaboo]

Really dumb question, what are VA$???

 

[megan]

VA$$ are Value America Dollars. If u are a new customer signing up with them they have these deals sometime where they give u some money that u can spend on their site. Here is the site
http:// www.valueamerica.com

 

[Richard Berg]

I'm not exactly in a position to lay the smack down on junior members who post OT , so here goes:

"Back in the day," www.valueamerica.com had some of the best promotional deals ever. They all work through their "ValueDollars" system. Generally, you get 1% of your purchases back in VA$ - these can be applied to account for up to half of an order. Ie, you order something for $200, it subtracts 100 VA$ from your VA account and you only have to pay $100 in cash/check/credit/whatever.

The kicker was that there were a few promotions where, for example, if you signed up with a Visa card you got 100 ValueBucks!! There was also the $20 "birthday" deal, and the $50 WWII deal - end result, a helluva lot of people have several accounts with $170 to burn. I myself bought 2 Maxtor 7200rpm 27GB drives, back when they first came out and were the best ones on the market, for about $240 total.

The VA$ from Visa were supposed to expire Jan 31 of this year; the "birthday" VA$ expired in December I believe. Turns out the Visa$$ are still in all of my remaining accounts, as are the WWII$$ - but according to the salespeople I've talked to recently, all VA$ will definitely expire in September. Most people who got in on the deals spent all their VA$ a long time ago, but I was out of the country for most of this year so I have quite a few left.

Obviously, they work best when combined with rebates, as you can take 50% off the original price without reducing the rebate amount. Thanks to rebates, I recently bought six sticks of 64MB PC100, lifetime warranty, for a total of $60 (That was before I returned to Anandtech; search Ars Technica for the deal if you care, although it expired at the end of June).

Damn, I type too much; should put this in a FAQ or something.

 

[Richard Berg]

<< Value Dollar Notice

Beginning midnight on July 8, 2000, Value America will no longer award ValueDollars. Be sure to
redeem all of your accumulated ValueDollars by midnight on September 15, 2000. Any ValueDollars not
redeemed by that date will be forfeited.

Summary of Value Dollars

With each purchase you make at Value America, you earn 1% of the total purchase price in
ValueDollars. ValueDollars may be applied towards up to 50% of a product's purchase price, resulting in
considerable savings to you. In addition to your earned ValueDollars, you may also receive bonus
ValueDollars on certain products, and an occasional member reward. For an explanation of the different
types of ValueDollars, please click here.

ValueDollars awarded through special bonus programs and promotions may have expiration dates. Be
sure to use your ValueDollars before they expire. When an expiration date passes, any unused balance of
awarded ValueDollars is automatically debited from your account. >>

 

[elunico]

If you don't have any va dollars left, checkout buy.com. It's got the sidewinder freestyle pro for $40.94 + ~$6 (s&amp;h) - $30 (rebate) - 10 off 30 coupon (there are 2, your pick) = ~$6.94

There is also free shipping going on @ buy.com but i don't think they let you combine 2 coupons with the same order (i tried didn't work out).

 

[Richard Berg]

Note that if you have enough VA$, there are other GREAT deals on MS input devices. For example, Force Feedback Pro = $32.50 shipped after rebate.

These are also great because the rebates are straight from MS; God knows if I'll ever get the rebates VA owes me...

 

[Central Scutinizer]

I just posted the details on the Voodoo thread, but if you do have $20 of Va dollars left, you can pick up a Voodoo 2000 card for $20 shipped after rebates (always us citiplaza.com as portal for Va.com)

 

[TXHokie]

VA$$$??? these guys are still kicking around on the net???

 

[S]

I applied for a va.com rebate and got them. They do send out rebates.