storerobber said:
So you open up the present and you get the gift card with message and you get the gift. You are then happy for a brief moment until you found out that the value of such gift card is only a penny? You then reprogram the message and give it back to the person who gave you the gift with the message "thanks uncle cheapo"

wzbus said:
if nothing else, it must cost BBY well over $0.01 to manufacture those cards...and a deal that costs BBY money is a hot deal in my book...

I solved both problems- buy a thousand, write the next great American novel in LEDs, then gift the whole ten dollar stack to someone who wants to watch BB cashiers struggle to cash them for a couple of packs of AA batteries!

It's clever and novel, sort of like the "clapper." Seeing that Halloween is almost here, the merchants will be in full force for Christmas any day now.

Sk8terboy said:And how is a closed store and the corresponding lack of competition good for FWers?

People, BB is a necessary evil. I was sad to see CompUSA close down from across BB, now I can't make their evils fight each other. With BB closing down, then we are down to CC, and that wouldnt be much fun. (Fry's, expand across the country already!!!)

Nothing wrong with bashing BB, they fully deserve it, but I'd rather BB stuck around and give me $55 750GB drives.

WELL SAID!!!

If those who use predatory practices and otherwise are hostile to consumers do not go out of business, what is the incentive for those who have good business practices?

seems a great way to input "I'm a devil customer" and redeem them so best buy people can "GET" the message literally. or go your own route and input "best buy sucks" or whatever.

dealsdyker said:so for $5 I could get five hundred of these and write "Happy Halloween" and hand them out to the kiddies instead of candy?

And they'll mob the local BB, find out that the gift cards only have a one cent balance, and then you'll have five hundred angry, sugar-fueled kids all in one store. Make sure you bring your camcorder to document the mayhem.

I guess they can even afford gift cards that play MP3s and play videos:
Best Buy reports $43M Profit from 'unused' Gift Cards

madshana said:VaporGuy said:dealsdyker said:so for $5 I could get five hundred of these and write "Happy Halloween" and hand them out to the kiddies instead of candy?

And they'll mob the local BB, find out that the gift cards only have a one cent balance, and then you'll have five hundred angry, sugar-fueled kids all in one store. Make sure you bring your camcorder to document the mayhem.

Just put "no value" as part of your message!

I think it would be kinda fun if you didn't

VaporGuy said:dealsdyker said:so for $5 I could get five hundred of these and write "Happy Halloween" and hand them out to the kiddies instead of candy?

And they'll mob the local BB, find out that the gift cards only have a one cent balance, and then you'll have five hundred angry, sugar-fueled kids all in one store. Make sure you bring your camcorder to document the mayhem.

Actualy, I don't think that angry, sugar-fueled kids will leave the store empty-handed. They'll bug the parents (who had to drive them) to buy something: all the more business for worstbuy. Plus, you'll be despised in the neighborhood by five hundred angry kids and five hundred even angrier parents (how would you feel if your kids bugged you to drive them to the store, but then it turns out they don't have money and want you to shell out money and buy something).

Besides, it'll all contribute to global warming.

Thanks OP, in for 25!

Geez, so many questions for something costing $0.01...

Uses single 3V lithium cell battery #2032.
Have not done a run test so I don't know how long it lasts.
The LEDs are arranged in a 7x21 array, overall display size is 15mm x 70mm.
On average it looks like the display fits around 4 characters but it depends on if you are using upper or lower cased characters.
You can store up to 6 different messages (only 1 can display at any one time.) First message can be up to 512 chars, the other 5 can be up to 255 chars.
There is a scrolling speed control (1 slowest - 9 fastest) that can be set.
No flashing setting.
Not sure how readable in sunlight. There is a luminance setting (1 dim - 9 bright).
There are three buttons on the back you use the up/down buttons to choose your character and then the Enter button to accept the character into your message.

calvin888 said:For those bought them, would anyone please share some details.....
Does it use battery or on solar? what kind of battery? last how long?
How many display digits/characters? how many messages? total storage?
runing speed control? flashing? hpw readable under sun light?
how to program/input data? need programming tool?
Thanks!

kimgkimg said:Geez, so many questions for something costing $0.01...

Uses single 3V lithium cell battery #2032.

Oh boy, lifetime supply of 3v lithium CR2032 batteries for .01 each! Even cheaper than DealExtreme.

The store near me never heard of these and there were none on any of the Gift Card racks.

Pic, please.