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06-03-16, 09:56 AM
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06-03-16, 10:12 AM
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We'll see if it holds up. Reviewing the seller's feedback, it looks like they have messed up pricing before and canceled orders.
06-03-16, 10:25 AM
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Yeah, I've had that happen to me several times with third party sellers on Amazon. Also eBay. Probem is you can't force them to honor the price, just slam them with bad feedback. Like my momma used to say, "If it's too good to be true, then it ain't true."
06-03-16, 01:15 PM
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Sometimes they honor a pricing mistake. I've had it go both ways in the past.
The issue that comes up is you have forums like Slickdeals and others that immediately post any pricing mistakes...and the members are absolute vultures. It could be some product they don't even have use for...like a company accidentally mis-prices a baby stroller for $20 instead of $200. These members will try and order 20 of them just to turn around and flip. In the past I've seen companies honor orders when it's someone just purchasing one....but when you have people buying dozens, it kind of makes the company say FU to everyone. That forums/greed has ruined so many good deals.
I once did score a Dell IPS monitor for $20 about 10 years ago. All of the people that tried ordering 5+ had their orders cancelled. haha
The issue that comes up is you have forums like Slickdeals and others that immediately post any pricing mistakes...and the members are absolute vultures. It could be some product they don't even have use for...like a company accidentally mis-prices a baby stroller for $20 instead of $200. These members will try and order 20 of them just to turn around and flip. In the past I've seen companies honor orders when it's someone just purchasing one....but when you have people buying dozens, it kind of makes the company say FU to everyone. That forums/greed has ruined so many good deals.
I once did score a Dell IPS monitor for $20 about 10 years ago. All of the people that tried ordering 5+ had their orders cancelled. haha
06-03-16, 05:45 PM
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True. A friend of mine knew somebody on a deal hunting forum who ordered 10 $450/ea high-end enthusiast grade motherboards with all the bells and whistles at $40 a piece and he actually received every single one of them.
06-03-16, 10:51 PM
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Had to return a bottom bracket to a local shop. The ended up having these on sale. So after the exchange, I paid $60 for it.
06-03-16, 11:00 PM
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I recently picked up some cork handlebar tape.
This is the first time I've used the stuff and I like how it feels.
This is the first time I've used the stuff and I like how it feels.
06-04-16, 07:34 PM
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Came home to my parents house for the weekend. Found a set of Nitto B123AA NJS drops in the garage. Super pumped, forgot all about these.
06-10-16, 08:59 PM
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Also picked up some Untapped Maple Waffles to try and a Sugino Pterosaur mount for my Magellan
06-13-16, 10:34 AM
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06-13-16, 01:43 PM
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Just bought one of these that are rated at 35 lumens to see they are worth the increased cost over the cheap 10 lumen tail lights I just purchased. Also want to see if the quality is better, since the cheap ones are pretty junky. If I like it, I'll get some more.
06-13-16, 01:52 PM
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should be getting my eai superstar cog, eai lock ring, and selle italia flite 1990 today to hopefully finally finish my thunderdome off after like 3 months.
06-13-16, 02:29 PM
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New Sheriff SL hubs to Archetypes with dt revolution spokes.
Wrapped in GP 4000 S II with conti race tubes and velo plugs.
Wheels manufacturing gxp bb, omniums with a AC Pursuit special chain ring.
Sp-6800 pedals.
Chris king headset.
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Fizik 2 mm tape.
kmc x101 chain.
06-13-16, 04:00 PM
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Word on the street is that Trader Joe's makes a smaller, cheaper version, but I've never bothered to look whenever I'm in one.
06-13-16, 04:09 PM
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tjs has regular honey stroops in mini style, target also sells bags of mini and box of full size stroops as well
all delicious but the maple kicks it up a notch
honey stinger chocolate or strawberry ones are also pretty ridiculous
all delicious but the maple kicks it up a notch
honey stinger chocolate or strawberry ones are also pretty ridiculous
06-13-16, 04:21 PM
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I've never had the maple, only the honey stinger strawberry, caramel, and vanilla varieties.
All of them are dang tasty tho.
All of them are dang tasty tho.