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alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 9:53a

Any pictures of this thing?


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 9:59a

I might pick up 50 of these to decorate my Christmas tree !


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 10:10a

Can you program this message? "$1,000,000.00"


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 10:27a

mdaily said:Can you program this message? "$1,000,000.00"
I wish I had thought of that. I laughed so hard I choked.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 10:55a

SJester said:mdaily said:Can you program this message? "$1,000,000.00"
I wish I had thought of that. I laughed so hard I choked.

Yes you can program that. I don't get the joke (was this a Deal or No Deal reference?)


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 11:38a

Bmr4life said:This belongs in FREE STUFF. Definately not a hot deal.

Definately not a positive thinker.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 11:40a

nm


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 11:48a

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?

Good luck programming 500 of these!

By the way - they come with the battery installed. I can't predict the battery life. The cards are pretty plain and white color - they are attached to a cardboard hang tag. Check out the customer service area if you don't see them with the other GCs.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 11:53a

headusher said:Bmr4life said:This belongs in FREE STUFF. Definately not a hot deal.

Definately not a positive thinker.

Definately not a creative retort.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 3:16p

madshana said:Best Buy has gift cards with a scrolling LED banner that you can program with a message. I asked what the minimum was for a gift card and was told .01 (1 cent). Since you can spend the penny it make these free - and great gifts to give along with another gift. I had seen these several months ago at the Discovery store for about $10 - I think. I bought 22 of them to give out - so no apparent limits.

Strange. Best Buy terms and conditions for gift cards say minimum is $5, and only allow whole dollar amounts from there up to the max. And no sign of any such scrolling LED cards.

sdb


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 3:36p

I bought two dozen of them for $0.25, total (a penny for the state). The young lady at the checkout was vastly amused, even though it took ten minutes to scan and activate them.

With an Arduino microcontroller and a cheap GPS module from fleabay, I foresee some mighty fancy clocks coming down the pike at the Make magazine website.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 3:50p

If you have negative opinions of BB, why not program "BB Sux" on the gift cards on the rack?


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 3:56p

DrKlahn said:I bought two dozen of them for $0.25, total (a penny for the state). The young lady at the checkout was vastly amused, even though it took ten minutes to scan and activate them.

With an Arduino microcontroller and a cheap GPS module from fleabay, I foresee some mighty fancy clocks coming down the pike at the Make magazine website.

Why would you pay "a penny for the state"? Gift cards are not taxable, one pays tax when they are redeemed.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 3:59p

Anyone got a hidden video camera? Program $497.50 or something on the display, glue it to a sidewalk, enjoy.

EDIT: don't actually do this


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 4:03p

bor said:If you have negative opinions of BB, why not program "BB Sux" on the gift cards on the rack?

Not possible, sorry. They're encased in a blister pack and you have to pull a plastic tab on the battery compartment in order to have it function.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 4:12p

Ok, so how long before we see "skins" posted? Artwork that can be printed on stickers and pasted over the face of this thing?


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 5:04p

I got one and went thru checkout with it. They added $0.01 to it and all I had was a $20, so the BB dude said he would pay it.

The programming instructions are on the big packaging and not on the card itself.

The packaging says "THIS IS NOT A TOY."


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 5:35p

titewad said:Ok, so how long before we see "skins" posted? Artwork that can be printed on stickers and pasted over the face of this thing?

I disassembled one (easy to do, just undo the 8 small screws on the back) and sanded down the front bezel to make it a flat white. Would be kinda cool to hand paint it.


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 6:03p

It is possible, because on the back of the package it tells you how to do it. After all, you want to put your message on it before you give it to them. On the front of the package is the To: From: Amount: fields.

kimgkimg said:bor said:If you have negative opinions of BB, why not program "BB Sux" on the gift cards on the rack?

Not possible, sorry. They're encased in a blister pack and you have to pull a plastic tab on the battery compartment in order to have it function.


The first cashier called the manager and they told me $5 minimum also, but the next cashier over didn't care and rang up a penny on each one for me. I got 10 and left 15 for my fellow fatwaller(s).

"Strange. Best Buy terms and conditions for gift cards say minimum is $5, and only allow whole dollar amounts from there up to the max. And no sign of any such scrolling LED cards."


alert mods    
   posted: Oct. 30, 2007 @ 6:14p

riocopa said:It is possible, because on the back of the package it tells you how to do it. After all, you want to put your message on it before you give it to them. On the front of the package is the To: From: Amount: fields.

kimgkimg said:bor said:If you have negative opinions of BB, why not program "BB Sux" on the gift cards on the rack?

Not possible, sorry. They're encased in a blister pack and you have to pull a plastic tab on the battery compartment in order to have it function.

No, the original poster was talking about programming the message so that it would show that way on the Bestbuy racks without opening the packaging. Sure you could probably program the thing thru the packaging, but how are you going to pull the battery protection tab without affecting the packaging?


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