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Member since: October 2007
I grew up in Texas and now reside in sunny California. Working at a dot com like everyone else here
82 Reviews by Todd
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Gotta love playing the old school games! Bring back memories just thinking about tempest 2000. My big fear about sites like this is that while they do probably have some great emulators, how do I know I am also not downloading a virus? Scares the crap outta me downloading from random sites. There are ways to scan for viruses but I'm not sure they always pick up embedded ones especially if you install them on your PC. Maybe do it on an old laptop if you go this route.
I saw my DPM and he was trying to sell me custom insoles for $300. I do not have $300 for insoles that are going to need to be replaced every so often and for every pair of shoes I own. That is absurd I told him and said that is just what it costs. I found this website by a podiatrist and was able to speak to a doctor online by phone which I thought was pretty frigging amazing. I am used to getting customer support from India, and to speak to a real doctor who answered my questions was golden. He only charges $89 per custom insole and I just take the impression of my feet at home.
Metropark does it right when they spam you non stop with great deals and coupons for their clothing sales for both their online store as well as their retail location. I find it hard to resist the urge to check out what they have on sale and will occassionally buy from their online store or print out the coupon and bring it to the B&M store. Their spam is the few that I welcome in my inbox so I think that is worthy of a full heart rating for them.
Great concept of a website that allows people to create quizzes and flash cards and share them. If it catches on students studying similar subjects could combine their efforts to make flash cards and share them online.
Found this site thanks to sitejabber members and have been reading it ever since. Very good articles and they do a wonderful job of keeping up to date on the latest news. Always gets me revved up to ride by bike after I read this site!
Hulu plus finally launched and for $7.99 it is a really good deal IF you like the tv shows they currently have in their line up. If you ever wanted to watch a series from beginning to end, buying a boxed set is very inconvenient and this way you can watch all of their shows for cheap and then continue to watch the current season as well. I am giving this a full heart for the cheapness of the package. Video quality is also excellent
I am going to give any free dating site a Meh rating...here is why. Do you really want to date someone who takes dating so casually they are not simply willing to pay the twenty bucks it costs to join say match or one of those other sites? Girls, really? If I guy can't shell out a few bucks to join a dating site do you really want to date him?
Yes, Todd, I do. I am frugal myself and appreciate it in others. When I read a New York Times article on modern dating, i picked OK out of about five sites listed. Why would I pay for something when it's available free? I wear jeans and a tee all day but when i go out i dress in thrift shop/consignment name brands and look pretty good for an old 'girl.' Frugality is coming back in style, as we old folks knew it would.
I found a guy who lives just an hour away who is about as perfect a man as I could ask for. Treats me well, does chores around the house, thinks I am beautiful, and we get along well as long as we stay away from politics.
I have no TV in the house and he doesn't mind. We listen to beautiful music and practice our dance steps together. If he had shelled out 20 bucks we never would have met and found love.....16 months and counting....and dancing every Saturday night......
I know from research that OK is collecting data while the questions are being answered. And saw that some questions were offensive or no one's business to ask..... I saw some players and some totally unsuitable men, but I also had my doubts about many of the men i saw on the paid sites i didn't sign up for.....one tip, women, look for photos showing family members (good) and think twice about photos of guys with their motorcycles/cars/cats/dogs/wives. Unless those turn you on....one never knows.....
What if I'd not posted that one full-length shot of me outdoors looking happy......??????
my answer is yes, yes, i would. i'd rather that than one who puts his credit card up at the mere suggestion of pootie tang.
Right shell out 30 bucks to get computer bot messages, or scammers and on this site ok cupid a bunch of stuck up women if they are real. I find the women less then friendly
Well said, Will S. :) Paying for a drink at the bar is one thing, but pay for being scammed is totally different, yes? And because these paying dating sites make money with membership only, there is a HUGE chance that you will be paying for one of their bots to love you. Sorry, but this is a real world of paid online dating.
me, I'm no big fan of high pressure pay sites....
Judging by your picture you're one of those guy who thinks that a flash sports car will pull.
Andrew, good comment. Any woman who decides by the kind of car a guy drives might not be the kind of woman a guy......oh wait, maybe that's just the kind of gal he's looking for!
And maybe that's one of the model cars my boys used to play with! Can't tell a guy by his choice of avatars..... maybe he actually gets around on a bicycle!!!
Flickr is free but smugmug is worth the price of admission. I am not a pro photographer but I like my photos printed out on quality paper and I want my family to have access to my photos and to be able to print them out as well. I want to control who can view my photos and I definitely don't want my photos tagged all over the internet. For these reasons I am willing to pay the yearly fee for smugmug. Worth it in my book.
yet one of the 1000s of penny auction sites that now exist in the world. Someone wanted a review of this site so I decided to put my 2 pennies in :P All penny auction sites are very similar to slot machines...not a scam, but not really going to get you the item you are dreaming of. Just becareful and know what you are getting into....I do think these sites can be fun but just be wary of what you are doing. I like to play slot machines too...same thing.
read what rich johnson wrote
http://www.sitejabber.com/blog/2010/09/16/further-explaining-penny-auctions/
Fancystuff is a scam----they took my money and didn't credit me with the
points. They steal your money!!!!!!!! And, if you do win a bid on something
incredible you would like, like a Lois Vuitton handbag, they take forever to ship it, offer you a $25.00 gift card to Tiffany's, then don't send you the gift card. Their pricing is higher than Louis Vuitton for the same merchandise!!!!! Believe me, just go to an authentic Louis Vuitton store and buy the authertic LV handbag or wallet! You'll save money! And, won't get ripped off!
thank you for pointing out this scam site and reviewing it. now the world can know that this site is selling fake ed hardy clothing.
Probably my number one recommendation for anyone looking for a new pet. There are so many pets in need of a home and people should at least look here first before they go to their local breeder or pet store.
I love yahoo answers as a pure entertainment source. Looks like I wasn't alone...read this if you have ever used yahoo answers...funny stuff
http://www.cracked.com/funny-2663-yahoo21-answers/?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=topic&wa_user3=topic&wa_user4=flashback
That is awesome.. I think I may have keep an favourite it.. just to keep me laughing.
I read cracked as a comic book growing up in elementary school (yes that dates me) and now have found this website thanks to other members here. Very funny site. They also have a quite impressive social network thing going on. I have seen some sites get say 100 likes from facebook and I would be impressed. They get thousands of likes on FB for their articles. It also appears some get hundreds of diggs because they are really that funny. Check out this one with 1800 FB likes, though only read if you are one of the 12 million people that play WOW
http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-questions-every-wow-fan-apparently-needs-answered/
oh look you've been spammed :)
PS you're already dated - anyone who uses a yellow sports car as an avatar is in their second childhood ;-)
The other review here states paypal is safe and secure...yes it is safe to use paypal and secure. but I would say a HUGE percentage of the scams on the internet use paypal to get you to buy from them because there is no real fraud protection the same way if you only use a major credit card (using a CC through paypal is not the same protection). Any site that only offers paypal....I'm wondering why a major electronic store only offers paypal...makes me very suspicious.
Absolutely. I am considering dipping a toe in the water of SJ and seeing if anyone is interested in taking the fight to PayPal. What do you say?
It's not particularly this one I'm interested in, my field is in trademark counterfeiting and the way PayPal is supporting that - against their own terms and conditions. But you're right, support from PayPal at sites other than Ebay is limited, including this one. Safe and secure, as you point out, is not the same as being protected from fraud. It's a safe and secure transaction, only.
What makes you think this is a major electronics store, BTW? Doesn't look major to me ...
I couldn't help but review this website. Take a look at these reviews and you will notice all of the positive reviews were written almost all on the same day literally within minutes of each other. Coincidence? I don't think so. You the reader be the judge on what reviews are REAL and which ones may have been written by friends or by the website owner himself. Maybe the next time someone decides to write fake reviews about themselves they Might consider spreading out the positive reviews a little more than 2 minutes apart... On the 19th I noticed like 3 reviews straight in a row all glowing reviews of this site. hmmm....
Yep but the weird thing is, even though I've also commented in public about this, whoever is doing the spamming is too dumb to notice, and knows so little about this site that they think nobody's going to notice 40+ new reviews in two days.
They're shooting themselves in the foot with every further phony review they post. Even the Chinese aren't that careless.
No it's because we asked our tens of thousands of happy customers to come here and post feedback.
Only "victims", people with nothing better to do with their time and energy will spend hours and hours on end whining about how poorly they are treated. Happy and successful people don't have time to waste lashing out at people.
If you are a customer and have an issue I ask that you call us and we will take care of it immediately.
Todd L: have you purchased any items from us? Do you receive our free email newsletter?
If you are a customer, do you have an issue that was not taken care of?
If not, who are you to post here if you have no experience with us or our website?
As I've stated in other replies, all of the posts on one day are because we asked our customers to post feedback... and yes, we have many happy customers who came to share their experience.
Jesse Cannone
Healthy Back Institute
All on the same day....really?
Yes, we sent an email to all of the customers on the same day... what is so strange about that?
Please, do not even bother commenting unless you have done business with us. We have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and have over 100,000 happy customers.
Now this is an interesting concept. The online gambling industry is actually run and audited in part by large software companies that in the end really control the online gambling industry. It seems as this could also be done to the penny auction industry. If a software company could somehow become audited and partnered with a government regulated agency they could really clean up and become the standard in the penny auction world. Can't say if this website will do that but if one of them can they would be very successful. Love their tag line too.
Anyone considering groupon should read these two articles that were written up by sitejabber
http://www.sitejabber.com/blog/2010/10/03/the-pros-and-cons-of-daily-deals/
and
http://www.sitejabber.com/blog/2010/10/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-daily-deals-further-explained/
then make the decision for yourself being fully informed of what you are getting. I got a decent deal for myself, but I have a friend who just got screwed over by groupon.
couldn't agree more. The Groupon site has been down for hours this afternoon with no way to print coupons that you have already purchased... Bah humbub
Even i agree.. Groupon HAS A VERY BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE. They don't value their customers.
I recently had a communication with their support team and they try to play around putting us on hold for hours and ultimately not solving our problems
DO NOT BUY VOUCHERS.
or watch this video first. and then decide if you want to buy vouchers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2011/04/groupon_deals.html
Lucky to have "SiteJabber" so folks can get a good idea how bad many of these "On-Line" sites are - many do NOT have real people to handle complaints / problems - just about all (including very large firms) LOVE to hide behind the "E-Mail" system to blow away customer service inquiries.
everyone keeps bashin poor digg for their design change but I think it is better now that the power doesn't seem to rest in the hands of a few powerful elite digg members. Now we all can more or less contribute to the site and hope to get our content seen on the homepage.
This is my go to reference when people ask me about how to start a home business. There are so many scams on the internet these days and it just sickens me to read about how they suck people in to paying big $$$ for the next big MLM scam or internet riches or buying real estate with no money down. If you are looking to make some money in your own business, read this online website instead...
I was wondering if entrepreneur was on here. hands down best site for start up, small business, big business, tips, warnings, market insight, online culture it's a valuable site to have.
Chris, you are right...a shoe store to claim a PC mag award is hilarious. I think almost any store advertising uggs and airjordans in the same line is sure to be a scam.
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