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what hot deal sites do you check?

ingear

ingear

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or that you should or would recommend checking?

for both tech and not tech deals?

thank you ...

I will add my contribution later
 
Slickdeals.net

It's the only one you need. Don't bother adding your contribution. It is the only one. Period.

😛
 
ImpulsE69 said:
slickdeals or techbargains

at one time, i checked here! 😛
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That's what attracted me to this site, way back when...during the WMC debacle. As I remember, the WMC crap is initially why the Hot Deals section was created...to give the WMC's a place to cry separate from OT.
 
TwiceOver said:
Wounded Monitor Children.
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Yeah, I should have explained that. My bad. The WMC's, as noted, were the Wounded Monitor Children. This came out of a hot deal about, if I remember correctly, a Hitachi computer monitor that was exceptionally well priced...damned good deal, actually, and many, many jumped on the deal...I forget the online seller that had the deal. Maybe Value America. Maybe someone else.

Anyway, the buyers' credit cards were charged before the monitors shipped....waaay before the monitors shipped. In fact, while everyone that placed an order was charged, the seller didn't have enough stock to supply the demand, but still took orders for said monitor and charged the CC's. It took some legal wrangling and months to get their money back and/or alternative product.

Meantime, OT began to be clogged to the point of being overrun with threads decrying the fraud being perpetuated upon the buyers of said monitor...so Hot Deals was born to spare OT the daily angst of the WMC's.

At least that's my rememberance of the WMC's.
 
eBay daily deals is the only one I look at now. I don't find meh or woot really worth the hassle anymore.
 
Meghan54 said:
Yeah, I should have explained that. My bad. The WMC's, as noted, were the Wounded Monitor Children. This came out of a hot deal about, if I remember correctly, a Hitachi computer monitor that was exceptionally well priced...damned good deal, actually, and many, many jumped on the deal...I forget the online seller that had the deal. Maybe Value America. Maybe someone else.

Anyway, the buyers' credit cards were charged before the monitors shipped....waaay before the monitors shipped. In fact, while everyone that placed an order was charged, the seller didn't have enough stock to supply the demand, but still took orders for said monitor and charged the CC's. It took some legal wrangling and months to get their money back and/or alternative product.

Meantime, OT began to be clogged to the point of being overrun with threads decrying the fraud being perpetuated upon the buyers of said monitor...so Hot Deals was born to spare OT the daily angst of the WMC's.

At least that's my rememberance of the WMC's.
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Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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ElFenix said:
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1. Lost my login ID when the board changed format at the end of 1999...was here then, but had left AT/OT for a few months and came back to find my login didn't work any longer, so new ID.

2. I moved twice and had a computer crash during those moves...lost my password to the email acct. (a Yahoo acct. that is lost forever, unfortunately) as well as here (sucks to leave for months and forget password), so no way to retrieve my old login/password set. So, new ID...again. Hate it because I lost more posts than I have right now, but c'est la vie.

So, I've actually been here since well before 1999....found this place via Sharky's Machine and another website that I now forget and is no longer with us. Think AT drove it out of "business".
 
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