Larry Colen wrote:
There are supposed to be a bunch of awesome deals today on Amazon Prime. Is there any way to find them easily, specifically searching for (for example) Pentax mount lenses, or Pentax hot shoe speedlights?
I won't bore you with details of my travails right now but I got an email notification of a promotion $30 off any order of $150 or more using my Chase amazon rewards card. In the process of shopping I realized that I needed two more large hard drives as both my working drive and my secondary backup were close to full. When the dust settles, we're talking a $600 order, and at checkout, I find out via a terse error message that the discount code has been expired, over 12 hours early, and possibly just a few minutes before I tried to check out.
After spending much time on the phone yesterday with multiple calls to both Chase and Amazon, not even getting any sort of courtesy credit, I cancelled my Amazon rewards card. My new Costco card gives me as much cash back, it doesn't have to be at Amazon, and Costco is much less evil than Amazon. Actually, Costco seems to be pretty darned ethical while Amazon competes with Walmart in levels of evil.
This morning, the order that I had made, using the rewards card one last time to collect $120 in rewards, wouldn't go through. They had not charged the card when I made the order. I have 30 days to collect my rewards after cancelling, but there is no way to collect them. Another call to Amazon, then to Chase, with at least one transfer to someone in the right department, I at least got the $120 applied to my account.
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