The love / hate relationship with newbs

Introduction

You all should already be subscribed to FM’s lab.   If you’re not, you may be missing out on some nuggets.  It’s like subscribing to Best Buy promotional emails; you’ll delete the majority of the emails, but once in a blue moon, they’ll send you a free $5 or free $10 for no reason.  And so this was posted on the FM lab yesterday:

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The nugget

I’m not going to type out the deal because I don’t want it to be searchable, but whoa, that’s a nugget there.  I don’t recall ever seeing that egc on Staples, so I’m guessing it’s new and hasn’t been coded to be excluded yet.  This also happened when the $300 VGC debuted on the site.  Anyhow, I don’t even know if you can GC to GC at the store, but earning 5X + portal is a pretty nice discount if you shop there.

 

Love the newbs

The point of this post is not about that deal, but the love hate relationship with newbs.  Now I don’t know if Jack is a newb or not, but I have a feeling he is.  The reason for that is because the oldies would never post that in such a public place.  It’s clearly a glitch and will probably die soon now.  The great thing about newbs is that they will try new things and will post stuff that maybe they wouldn’t post if they have been in the game for a long time.  So that’s why we all love Jack’s post – I wasn’t aware of the deal and while I don’t plan on hitting it, it’s good to know such ‘glitches’ still exist these days.

 

Hate the newbs

Now if you already knew about the deal, and found some way to scale it, you probably want to grab the pitchfork and head toward’s Jack’s house right about now.  Imagine if that was a VGC instead of a store GC… can you imagine the death threats he’d get right about now?  Oh man, Jack would have to take his UR and move to the Park Hyatt Maldives!

 

Conclusion

A newb is your friend when he finds a deal you didn’t know about.  If you knew about the deal, DEATH TO ALL NEWBS!

By the way, replace ‘newb’ with ‘blogger’ in this post and you’ll come to the same conclusion.  BOOM!

8 comments on “The love / hate relationship with newbs

  1. The FMLab is blowing up with “subscribe” comments this morning. Could these all be from this post? If so, dang, Miles per Day, when you tell your readers to do something, they listen!

  2. Remember when it was like cool to share and to work on things together as a community with shared goals to travel and make a bit of $$$ maybe and it wasn’t US against US but if anything it was US against the Banks?

    1. Yeah unfortunately that world doesn’t exist anymore. The economy improved and the banks stopped wanting to give out free money. Now we’re all wild African dogs roaming the world for scraps.

      1. “Now we’re all wild African dogs roaming the world for scraps.” – That is a classic statement!

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