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Got my Mac Mini!

// February 27th, 2008 // 6 Comments » // Deals, Great Deals, Mac

They laughed. They said it couldn’t be done. It was a waste of time. A rip-off. I was screwed. But I did it. And 5 weeks, $54, and 3 hours of work later….. I have a Mac Mini.

Thanks for the heads up Justin and Brett! Hope you’re enjoying your MacBook Pro and Toshiba Tablet PC.

Full write-up to come. Leave a comment if you want in on the next opportunity, as this one has closed.

FusionCash = PAID.

// February 6th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Brad's Life, Deals, Great Deals

Seriously, what are you waiting on? Click here to get started. Do a few while you watch Lost or sit there each night mind-numbingly bored.

I posted about this 3 weeks ago, and had some skeptics. I was told that I wasted 2 hours of my life. I was told it was ridiculous. And today, I’m cashing my Paypal account out for $45 smackaroos. Give it a try today!

And since this went well, I tried one of those ‘Free Mac’ deals where you have to do a certain amount of offers.  I did my 8 offers, spent $47, and got confirmation today that my Mac Mini will be shipping in 6-8 weeks.  Once it’s here, I’ll post up some pictures, along with a playbook on how you can get in the game.  I don’t want to before then, in case something falls through.  If that happens, I’m just the schmuck who made $45 at FusionCash and lost $47 on facial and weight loss pill samples.  $-2 isn’t too expensive to learn a lesson, though.

Just DON’T forget to set up a email to catch all the spam. I’m over 6,000 spam messages in the gmail account I set up, which is about 1 every 5.4 minutes for the past 3 weeks. It’s unreal.

Funny side story – Brian thought it’d be funny to use his old work phone number and address on everything, and now Nathan, the new guy, gets about 6 calls a day from mortgage and insurance companies. Me? I used a McDonalds in Gulfport, MS.

FusionCash Update

// January 18th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Brad's Life, Deals

I said I’d give you an update, so here it is. I just cashed out $45, and was told to expect it in my Paypal account on February 20th. Pretty sweet. I know Brian also signed up and is cashing out today with about $30 or so.
If you are going to do it, it’s better to cash out before the 20th of the month, because that’s the cutoff to get paid for the next month. Example: Cashout on Jan 18th, get paid on Feb. 20th. But if you cashout on Jan 21st, then it gets processed Feb. 2 and you get it March 20th. Either way, it’s any awesome deal that doesn’t take much time. You could start today and cash out on the 20th easily.

So, FusionCash.net = success for me. Hope you can make some side cash with it as well.

Funny story though… Brian used his old work # at Butler for all the offers, so Nathan, the new guy, has been getting 6+ calls a day for health insurance, car insurance, mortgage quotes, etc. (Note: no social security or credit card needed, so no ramifications on that end). It’s been hilarious to hear the names Brian has been making up and these telemarketers call for.

And as a reminder, PLEASE be smart enough to set up your secondary spam email at Gmail or wherever.  Look at my account after 2 days:

Shameless Referral Plug for FusionCash

// January 16th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Brad's Life, Deals

So I was at small group on Monday and a couple of guys were talking about a conga line they joined for one of those “Free Macbook Pro” sites where you do the offers and refer someone who does them, etc…. and they actually got the laptops, spending a total of about $86 to get it. Of course, this peaked my interest. Since that time, the conga line method has been shut down by the company, so we’re all just waiting for a new offer to come out. I’m kinda keeping my eyes out for a Macbook Air offer.

In the mean time, we’re trying a different site called FusionCash that the same people who set up the conga line have said works well for some quick cash. I signed up last night and have already accumulated $9 for a measly 15 minutes of filling out free offers (note: no credit card or ss# needed, and set up a new email so you don’t get bombarded with spam in your inbox). The nice thing is that you can cash out at $25 to Paypal, so that’s what I’m going to do. There are currently 55 ‘free offers’ that you can do, so I’m going to slowly chip away.

And as always, please click this link to FusionCash to sign up so that I can get some referral points. Good luck! I’ll keep you updated.

*UPDATE*

Thanks, Skybus!

// January 10th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Deals, Facebook, Travel

I’ve never flown Skybus, but I like them already. Back in October (my birthday, actually) I got the email saying that the $10 flights were available for Spring 2008. $10 flights?! That’s right. Every flight has ten $10 seats, but they only fly from Columbus, OH to 10 or so destinations and back. Luckily, we’re about 3 hrs from Columbus. As I rolled out of bed and picked up my iPhone, it was the first email sitting in my inbox. (Note: at this point, I think I mumbled something like “Look at the money we’re gonna save Jen, it’s basically paying for itself.” So we pulled out her calendar and booked some tickets for her Spring Break. The problem: the only $10 flights left to Fort Myers, FL at the time were Tuesday and Thursday. So we booked.

Now, here are the options we had:
1) Go to Florida Tuesday-Thursday. Brad works Monday, leaves for 3 days, comes back Friday. Weird workweek.
2) Go somewhere else. Pizza Convention in Las Vegas with parents the weekend before, then fly to Florida from there, and end up back in Indy. Let 1 way of $10 tickets to go waste.
3) Pony up and pay the extra for an extended trip.

So we pondered for awhile over break (deciding how long to stay in Florida while sitting in 86 degree weather in Florida could possibly be construed as an ‘impulse decision), and decided it would be best to just wait and see how things pan out, especially with house closing in less than a week at the time ($$).

So yesterday I get an email from Skybus:

You are receiving this email because the Skybus flight time(s) for your upcoming trip have changed. Because your new flight time(s) is more than 3 hours later than your original flight, you have several options from which to choose. (1) Stay on My Current Flight. (2)Choose Different Flight,  No Charge. You may change the date(s) of your flight as long as it is to the same destination within 5 days of your original your flight. There is no change fee for this option. (3) Cancel & Request A Refund.

LOOPHOLE! They gave us the option to pick a new flight within 5 days (all the way back to the Friday before). Being March/April, this is prime Spring Break season, and here they are offering us our choice. They understand it. They get it, and other big airlines don’t.  Giving us a $200 seat for our original $10 is still going to make them $10 more than an empty seat, and it’s going to give us a positive impression for future business. Well played, Skybus.

Long story short: We’re flying out on a Saturday and coming back on a Thursday. 6 days in FL, $70 total for 2 roundtrip tickets.  Booyah.