Melinda L.

I have only been a member of ThriveMarket.com for less than a month, but rarely have I seen a more conscious website. You DO have to purchase a membership after your first free month, but Thrive donates as much money possible to feed the poorest parts of our country. For instance, I was educated on an Indian population (I think Lakota-Sioux) 98% of these people live SO FAR below the poverty line that they can't even get a vehicle to get them out of there for essentials like medicine and food.

My dollars spent and your dollars spent FEED this indigenous population. AND! OMGosh... thy have wonderful food and even better customer service. If you don't live in a place that has a Whole Foods, ThriveMarket.com offers an inexpensive and delicious way to eat organic, raw and super-foods.

It's fantastic, and needs our attention and support.

I like to use Yelp for finding good restaurants and other local businesses. I have posted photos (they make it super easy) and it's handy when traveling. I am shocked that people here, on SiteJabber would give it a one star rating. That doesn't make any sense to me. At least they aren't begging for reviews the way AngiesList.com does... (I get tired of that)

Either way, thumbs up from me.

Basically, I overbought certificates that have too short a life span and businesses won't work with you once it's expired. I love to save money, but they give you such a hard sell and say they only have a limited amount... I got suckered into buying more than i wanted.

I have been so happy with Chewey.com. If you have a pet, be sure to check it out. Their prices are great, they often have sales and the shipping is free if a certain amount is ordered. It's way easier shopping than going around to the different pet stores.

My cats are both on grain free diets, and the big chains like PetSmart just never have what I am looking for. Chewey has a money back guarantee, but I see no point since my cats rarely, if ever, need a new type of food.

I am just shocked by my situation: Washington State did not accept Obamacare, so we are one of (I think) 13 states who get the privlide of having to accept our stupid health care plan... Last year they dropped me for NO reason and my insurance company, Premera accepted all of my insurance claims, no problem and I had to have expensive surgery that I thought was paid for. Not true... At the beginning of this year, I discovered this and it is probably going to force me into bankruptcy. So at the beginning of THIS year, I made a new application and some bright spark at WA State Health Finder got my email wrong by one letter, so I am delinquent in giving them some information that they required of me 90 days ago, and because I was not notified, the have dropped me again.

I spent over an hour on hold with them and they kept interrupting the charming hold music (and we all know how delightful the hold music is... repetitive and musak-like) telling me how important my call was to them. My call isn't important to them at all... they enjoy wasting my time.

Contemplating a move to WA state... beware the "health coverage" here.

TimeShares are typically the scum of the earth. This one is BELOW the scum bottom feeders. All they do is lie and charge your credit card for a million stupid fees. I know that I already sat through their insipid 90 minute presentation, but upon arrival we have to sit through ANOTHER 90 minute presentation. OMG! I just detest these people so much! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

I read a lot of books, but get tired of spending money on hard copies or audio versions... And today, quite by accident, I stumbled across this little gem (or perhaps a vast gem!).

Did someone you know recommend a book? Wanna really check it out besides the tidbits Amazon or Audible offer without any sales pitch? Go to this site. I got lost in it for a long time. What a great place. The site offers free books to read on your computer. While I doubt they have whatever was released this week, their choice of titles was completely satisfying to me. Yeah... There are advertisements, but free is free (because it is being paid for by ad revenues).

While I probably won't get into reading books in this manner (uncomfortable on the eyes) it's a great place to get a flavor of a book to see if it suits you.

Highly recommended!

These are the biggest slime-balls, most horrible, unprofessional people I have ever had the displeasure to do business with in the Seattle Area.

They took advantage of the fact that my husband and myself were divorcing and sold us a bill of goods.

We purchased our home 7 years prior and it basically had a few ugly plants that were unestablished in the front of a 10,000 square foot lot and I transformed it into a paradise, with 7 mature fruit trees, astounding flowers and all the veggies one could ever want (including asparagus!)

We paid $800K for the house, and immediately did $30,000 worth of work both on the interior and the exterior.

Karen and Tom teamed up with my former husband and BULLIED me into listing it for $750K at the top of a HUGE sellers market with no inventory in the Seattle area, when I knew that they could have easily listed it for $900K OR MORE and done some negotiating.

But NOOOO! Tom insisted that we would get many offers and we could sort through them later. I said "This house listed at this price will sell to the first people who see it"... and Tom and Karen insisted that this was the correct price. My stupid ex husband of Paneless Window Cleaning, David Lucas insisted that we list it at that price. The 3 of them ganged up on me and bullied me into signing the papers.

Guess what? The very first people to see it on opening weekend whipped out their check book and wrote a check for $750K. Just like I predicted.

Aside from paperwork, Tom did exactly 10 minutes of showing it. What a lazy, lazy, stupid man. And his anorexic, neurotic wife is just as much to blame. David and I could have EASILY cleared an extra $50,000 each.

BEWARE OF THESE TWO... They are just the most unethical people I have ever had the displeasure of doing business with, and they know it.

I recently purchased 2 pair of glasses from Zenni Optical. I would give them 5 stars, if it weren't for the AWFUL and poorly designed cases they came in (I basically threw them away) but the glasses were just great.

The only creepy thing (I guess this is a trend, now) is that everywhere I go on the internet Zenni is stalking me. I don't like it, but I guess that is just the way of the world... although I must say they have been the most aggressive.

I adore Zappos. Free shipping when you become a VIP member, and free returns for everyone. This is a company I love to support. The CEO is a nice man, and the employees have FUN while working. I read a long article about the owner, and he sounds like a great guy... If you have never been there, I would say GO! It's fun and they make it easy to find what you need. I have a pair of New Balance shoes on their way as I write this!

STAY AWAY! RED ALERT! Don't get sucked in by this marvelous offer of free Netflix for 1 year... If you have received an email that looks something like this... DO NOT RESPOND!

Hello *******@aol.com,

"We messed up. We owe everyone an explanation.

It is clear from the feedback over the last few months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes."

If you'd like Netflix for free for a year, simply give us your feedback on our short survey.

Thank you and we appreciate our public.

If you would simply rather not hear from us again, we respect that too.

Let us know at Worldwide Commerce Associates, 7251 West Lake Boulevard, Suite 300, Las Vegas, NV *******

OK... It me again. I gave them my business email that I rarely use anymore (it's really just a repository for junque) and once I answered their 4 question survey and gave them my husband's name (that and the email address were the 2 most "personal" questions I answered before I sniffed a scam) since I already have a Netflix account, and I could find nothing in the fine print before answering the 4 questions about that disqualifying me since I am already a NetFlix customer, I decided to test the waters.

I'm glad I didn't go too deep. I came to SiteJabber and put out the question if someone had heard of this and what exactly was SmashBox Productions (that you have to agree to receive their emails) but the SmashBox Productions bot thinks that I forgot to go and get my credit card, and we have been receiving spam from them all day. We have asked to be unsubscribed twice and twice we have been ignored.

If you ADORE getting spam, then I would say go for the free Netflix trial! (have fun!) if you can't afford it and want to have it and don't mind getting all of their offers. I am about 80% happy with NetFlix as an internet company (about 50% on Hulu) but I wonder why they want to be associated with this SmashBox Productions? Aren't they a big company?

Now this makes me want to call NetFlix and see if they know... more later? We'll see.