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luckbox
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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Some point cards are better than others. No one forces you to have one. Free digital cameras and external harddrives are always nice. If you don't want one, fine. Simple. Continue to be annoyed at them. Simple.  |
Canuck, don't you have something more pressing to do... like policing the forum, scolding newbies who fail to use search function... or something like that ?? Sheesh 
PS: JIM, thanks for the voice of reason amid this sea of point card fetishism. |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:52 am Post subject: |
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You've been universally lambasted by "all my aliases" and yet you feel wronged? Don't you have something better to do that start t-shirt threads? Thread over. |
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luckbox
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| You've been universally lambasted by all my aliases and yet you feel wronged? |
A rare admission of honesty from the great canuck himself.
Wronged?? Hell no. I've laughed all the way thru this thread. This is a joke thread. You have, quite obviously, taken it way too seriously. I think it's time for you to give your search function policing duties on Daves a nice rest, put down your cherished point cards, and go have a nice relaxing walk in the mountain... a chance to reflect on your priorities.....
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| luckbox wrote: |
| I concede defeat. Point cards win. I lose. |
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Sour Grape
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: |
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This thread is funny. Flip side to it is that I have seen on other forums posts by angry gaijins that they weren't asked for their points card. Instead of producing it when it was time to pay, they deliberately kept it back, just to see if the shop assistant asked them (a gaijin) for it, and then spluttered "Racism" when they weren't.
Poor shop assistants - damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Anyway, points cards are great. |
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luckbox
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| luckbox wrote: |
| I concede defeat. Point cards win. I lose. |
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Ok canuck, defender of truth and righteousness on the forum, now that you've thumped your chest a few times and exposed me as the point card fraud that I am, isn't it really time you took that long walk in the mountain?? I mean really, has this really been worth getting all cooked up about?
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6810
Joined: 16 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| luckbox wrote: |
| 6810 wrote: |
| canuck's right. |
Lemme guess, another one of canuck's many aliases? |
last time I checked, canuck is neither a skater nor a phd candidate.
so, err...
<does that mean they cancel out, or does it suggest some kind of high irony...> |
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bornslippy1981
Joined: 02 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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A few weeks ago I paid 100 Yen for a point card at the supermarket around the corner. At least, I think it's a point card.
Tonight I thought I'd cash out on it. Let those 210 points count for something. The only problem was, they wouldn't do it?
I'm thinking of getting rid of my point cards now. I'll keep Bic Camera and Yodabashi because I always seem to have a lot of points. I'm not sure how it works.
The 10-minute neck massage point card can go. Looking at it, it seems I need to go for 600 minutes, and I might get a free massage. They aren't very good anyway. Same with the yaki-tori restaurant that I don't like, but I want an extra stamp or two.
This reminds me of Seinfeld, when Elaine loses her stamp card for a sandwich shop. She kept going, despite the sandwiches being awful, because she knew after 10, she'd get a free one. In uni, there was a sandwich shop I'd always go to, and it was always terrible. I suppose I had some hope that one time it would be good. It never was.
Anyway, that's my 2 Yen about the point cards. |
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Perpetual Traveller
Joined: 29 Aug 2005
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Location: In the Kak, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have any points cards but I do have two(ish) other cards in my wallet that I like, one is from the supermarket and every time I don't use a plastic bag I get a stamp on it, the main reason I like this one is not for the 100 yen discount that I will get after 20 bag free visits but rather for the convenience of being able to just hand it over and know they won't try to give me a bag for my one carton of milk or bag of chips or whatever. The other card(s) is Mister Donut, you get them every time you spend over 300 yen and when you have 8 you get free stuff, I love donuts so they mount up pretty quickly! Donuts and stuff for free, can't go wrong with that!
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Hoser
Joined: 19 Mar 2005
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| I bought a Nikkon D70s for my friend back home in Canada. I think the point value (at Bic Camera) was something ridiculous like 13% or something like that. I ended up getting something like 16,000 yen worth of points on that one purchase. Who in their right mind would say 'no thank you I don't want 16,000 yen. You probably need it more than I do.' |
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luckyloser700
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| I bought a Nikkon D70s for my friend back home in Canada. I think the point value (at Bic Camera) was something ridiculous like 13% or something like that. I ended up getting something like 16,000 yen worth of points on that one purchase. Who in their right mind would say 'no thank you I don't want 16,000 yen. You probably need it more than I do.' |
That's right! I bought a laptop at Yodobashi and got about 20000 Yen worth of points (about 13%). The best thing was that the laptop was already on sale for about 20000 Yen less than anywhere else I'd looked. The point were the icing on an already delicious cake. |
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canuck
Joined: 11 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| Hoser wrote: |
| I bought a Nikkon D70s for my friend back home in Canada. I think the point value (at Bic Camera) was something ridiculous like 13% or something like that. I ended up getting something like 16,000 yen worth of points on that one purchase. Who in their right mind would say 'no thank you I don't want 16,000 yen. You probably need it more than I do.' |
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| That's right! I bought a laptop at Yodobashi and got about 20000 Yen worth of points (about 13%). The best thing was that the laptop was already on sale for about 20000 Yen less than anywhere else I'd looked. The point were the icing on an already delicious cake. |
More aliases, right luckbox? How's the t-shirt business going? |
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ironopolis
Joined: 01 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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I have a Yodobashi card and now and again I can do pretty well out of it. They certainly give more points on purchases than any of the other big electronics chains I use, but sometimes it's definitely worth doing all your calculations first before you get seduced into buying at Yodobashi by the points they're offering.
A few times I've found stuff I was after at Yodobashi quite a bit more expensive than my local Kojima or Yamada to an extent that the Yodobashi points didn't make up for. There again, where I live, Yodobashi staff tend to have a little bit more idea of what they're talking about than the others. |
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luckbox
Joined: 18 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| How's the t-shirt business going? |
Business is brisk!!!, since I've fine tuned my no point card t-shirt market to supermarket and massage parlor shoppers! Tell me your shirt size, I'll send you a feeebie! On the house! Because I adore you. You and your aliases can fight over it |
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SeasonedVet
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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I have cautiously decided to step into these murky waters and wade in them.
I usually do not comment on these threads where people are going at each other and it goes on for pages and the messages spiral into something completely different from the original topic.
Nevertheless I have been wanting to comment since page 1 but it quickly moved on to page 3 before I could. Anyway here goes:
I have always found luckbox to be fair in his/her arguments and comments always interesting to read. This post is a little different and luckbox has said that it is satirical so I'll take it that way but at the same time there is a hint of seriousness and everyone has been discussing it seriously.
I would like to say that I understand luckbox's comment
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Here's the thing... I've been going to the same neighbnourhood grocery store for months, 3-5 times per week, and seeing the same 1 or 2 cashiers. Each time they ask the same annoying question. Each time, I give the same reply. Hello? Is there an echo in here?????
Otherwise, take my beef as a bit of "bad hair day" venting. Is that allowed here? |
I understood this from the beginning. I went to the same supermarket for three years and got the same question everytime too. I just went along with it and I used to say it to myself before the assistant would. I guess it can be annoying to some. It does seem like a waste of time if you go to the same supermarket everyday and you see the same cashier everyday. But they are just doing their jobs.
I never took the point cards because I didn't know much about them and I always feared not being able to understand the explanation. After a year or so I started thinking that I was missing out by not having one. But I used to shop at 2 other supermarkets too so I just didn't get one.
As far as this comment is concerned:
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| Lemme guess, another one of canuck's many aliases? |
if indeed they were his/her aliases it seems that they all like point cards. Luckbox if it is indeed you who is the alias well you are then one alias that doesn't like point cards.
If indeed you are the alias well I find your comments interesting nonetheles alias or not.
People seem to be enjoying their point cards. I don't have any but my friends sometimes use theirs when we are together and I find it refreshing to get a few hundred yen off of something. It makes for a light moment. |
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