I’ve read horror stories of people buying gift cards that had been tampered with, and surprisingly, it has never happened to me before…well until today. I went to Safeway in a pretty well off suburb of Seattle. Went up to the gift card rack; tried to remember which Amazon gift cards had the easy peel […]
A reader suggested I buy a Meural art frame last year just because, why not? I never liked the old school digital frames because they were very pixel-y, but he assured me the Meural was legit. I think I got a used one from Adorama, but when it arrived, it was basically in new condition. […]
Earlier this year, I planted a passion fruit plant. I had little hopes for it since a) I was late in getting started, b) I was growing it in a pot and c) winter was coming. Eventually though, the plant grew pretty vigorously. I had to re-pot it into a bigger container. Then it started to […]
A while back, I used to care about Ebay TOP RATED SELLER STATUS, but after they started to require you to take returns for 30 days, I gave up on it. Back then also, they wanted you to do FREE SHIPPING, so I had been in a habit of always doing free shipping on my […]
Last week, I wrote about how Amazon closed my account w/o any notice due to my high gift card balance. I hadn’t taken any action on it yet, but replied to the email asking what was in that order number they gave me. Last night, I got 2 shipment emails from orders I had placed […]