Comments on: Roboshop Gift Cards

By: jred

jred — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:57:42 +0000

I lost my instructions :(

Could someone email me & tell me how to reprogram the message??

Thanks!

By: Christopher H

Christopher H — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:26:24 +0000

I did put at least a dollar, sometimes five, on each card. I didn’t think BB would be too happy if I got all those for a penny each. I then used the cards on their website to purchase some ink cartridges and DVDs, which I picked up at the store. That way the poor cashier wouldn’t be ringing up 40 1 dollar cards.
Also, I tried to synch 3 cards- it will work for a while, but their scroll rate isn’t consistent, so the message “drifts”.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:46:33 +0000

That’s fun Chris. I think you’re in violation of my “PS” statement above though. 47!?! As a random side note, I was looking at my referrer logs yesterday and saw that someone came to this page via BestBuy’s Microsoft exchange mail server. So, Shhhh Big Brother is watching. :) Just kidding, and welcome to my site Best Buy person, whoever you are.

By: Christopher H

Christopher H — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:45:59 +0000

I took the guts out of one (I’ve purchased 47 so far), spraypainted the case black, reassembled it, put Velcro on the back, and stuck it to the front of a top hat for New Year’s. I have PLANS for the others…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:33:56 +0000

That is pretty sweet. With retailers cashing in SOOOOO much on unredeemed giftcards its nice to see them putting in a little back to us, the consumer. I wrote a piece that looks at how much retailers are making off gift cards. Check it out and let me know what you think.

http://councilofnicea.blogspot.com/2007/08/billions-in-unredeemed-gift-cards.html

By: Darragh G (Seachmall)

Darragh G (Seachmall) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:33:54 +0000

Wish we had your American stores in Ireland, I can’t even get a decent deck of cards without going to a card/poker shop and ye get scrolling LEDs for 1c?!? I might be going over for Christmas though :).

By: Brian Artka

Brian Artka — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:45:58 +0000

btw. fatwallet rocks! I’ve been using it for years now.

By: Brian Artka

Brian Artka — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:44:53 +0000

nicee…..!

I think I am going to best buy during lunch now and I will buy many of them to use here at work for status messages on what project our designers are working on and place the card on the door to alert project managers of what we are doing… very cool. I like your ideas too Jason. I just might buy these things out this afternoon at the best buy. LOL.

Brian

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:38:13 +0000

Very cool. I need to convince my wife that we need to go to Best Buy this weekend and get some of these. I dunno if she’ll bite, but we’ll see.

By: Ken Seals

Ken Seals — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:36:15 +0000

twitter for the real world!