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Old Refunder
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 "Getting Lists Together"
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| lookatme2 wrote: | Ok, do you ladies type ALL those coupons in or is there a database somewhere where you can check off what you have and copy/paste into your post. I have a bunch coupons from the Sunday paper that I throw away and would love to start trading but typing all this up SCARES me. Plus, I don't have a lot of time on my hands. Any suggestions? 
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Hi and welcome Lucy 
Yep, all the long lists are typed out   Copy and paste would probably take just as much time and there'd be some details you'd probably have to change anyway. Coupons can vary slightly in value or expiration date from one city/state to another. Many are the same though.
My best suggestion is to use Excel instead of Word (no page breaks) and save as you go. Add a few at a time so you can post them and update your list as you have more listed. Or, just start with listing the higher value and/or multiples that you have.
Don't forget a wishlist (WL) or in search of (ISO) list... makes trading easier 
Hope that helps
| susieinwv wrote: | I still consider myself a newbie, but have a suggestion.
I trade a lot & always have requests for my ISO (Wish List). Rather than typing (YUCK) or cutting & pasting, I've used the magic of technology & created a blog!
I've rec'd sooo many positive compliments on it. It's nothing special just my wish list that anyone can get to by clicking a link under my name.I
t's a "living" list & I keep it updated so the link will always lead to my current ISO!!
Maybe this will make someone else's life easier, too!!
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| MissSammy wrote: | | I find my freewebs site the easiest way for me to stay organized. I like to save a copy to my computer as well. Dont want all of that typing to go to waste if the site goes down god forbid LOL |
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| ergillmore wrote: | | PrincessRobin wrote: | | potato_moose wrote: | | Does "IP" stand for "Internet Printed?" |
yes it does but it can also stand for IP address |
Your Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned when you connect to the internet. If you have a broadband (fast internet) connection, your address probably doesn't change very much. If you use a dial-up connection, it's probably different each time you connect.
It's a lot of information. Just think of it as your street address on the "Information Super Highway." |
All of this is true. However, for the purposes of using and trading coupons, "IP" does indeed mean "Internet Printed"
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| PrincessRobin wrote: | | Kffreedom wrote: | | Could anyone explain how to use the Quote feature? Just can't seem to figure it out! |
click on the quote button once (the quote button is at the top of this screen) - then put what you want to quote in it then press the quote button again...try it out in the test area. |
You can also hold your left mouse button down while dragging it across what you want in quotes so that text is highlighted in red... then, with that text highlighted, click the "Quote" button in the compose window only once. It will drop the needed [ quote] and [/quote] on either side of the highlighted text.
A 3rd way is to press and hold "Alt" then "q" where you want the quote to begin and then again where you want it to end.
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New Topic (and good food for thought for us all )
THE CORE RULES OF NETIQUETTE
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Published by Albion.com.
| Quote: | Introduction
by Virginia Shea
What is Netiquette? Simply stated, it's network etiquette -- that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online.
When you enter any new culture -- and cyberspace has its own culture -- you're liable to commit a few social blunders. You might offend people without meaning to. Or you might misunderstand what others say and take offense when it's not intended. To make matters worse, something about cyberspace makes it easy to forget that you're interacting with other real people -- not just ASCII characters on a screen, but live human characters.
So, partly as a result of forgetting that people online are still real, and partly because they don't know the conventions, well-meaning cybernauts, especially new ones, make all kinds of mistakes.
The book Netiquette has a dual purpose: to help net newbies minimize their mistakes, and to help experienced cyberspace travelers help the newbies. The premise of the book is that most people would rather make friends than enemies, and that if you follow a few basic rules, you're less likely to make the kind of mistakes that will prevent you from making friends.
The list of core rules below, and the explanations that follow, are excerpted from the book. They are offered here as a set of general guidelines for cyberspace behavior. They won't answer all your Netiquette questions. But they should give you some basic principles to use in solving your own Netiquette dilemmas. |
* Rule 1: Remember the Human
| Quote: | The golden rule your parents and your kindergarten teacher taught you was pretty simple: Do unto others as you'd have others do unto you. Imagine how you'd feel if you were in the other person's shoes. Stand up for yourself, but try not to hurt people's feelings.
In cyberspace, we state this in an even more basic manner: Remember the human.
When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don't have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to communicate your meaning; words -- lonely written words -- are all you've got. And that goes for your correspondent as well.
When you're holding a conversation online -- whether it's an email exchange or a response to a discussion group posting -- it's easy to misinterpret your correspondent's meaning. And it's frighteningly easy to forget that your correspondent is a person with feelings more or less like your own.
It's ironic, really. Computer networks bring people together who'd otherwise never meet. But the impersonality of the medium changes that meeting to something less -- well, less personal. Humans exchanging email often behave the way some people behind the wheel of a car do: They curse at other drivers, make obscene gestures, and generally behave like savages. Most of them would never act that way at work or at home. But the interposition of the machine seems to make it acceptable.
The message of Netiquette is that it's not acceptable. Yes, use your network connections to express yourself freely, explore strange new worlds, and boldly go where you've never gone before. But remember the Prime Directive of Netiquette: Those are real people out there. |
* Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life
| Quote: | In real life, most people are fairly law-abiding, either by disposition or because we're afraid of getting caught. In cyberspace, the chances of getting caught sometimes seem slim. And, perhaps because people sometimes forget that there's a human being on the other side of the computer, some people think that a lower standard of ethics or personal behavior is acceptable in cyberspace.
The confusion may be understandable, but these people are mistaken. Standards of behavior may be different in some areas of cyberspace, but they are not lower than in real life.
Be ethical |
* Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace
| Quote: | Netiquette varies from domain to domain
What's perfectly acceptable in one area may be dreadfully rude in another. For example, in most TV discussion groups, passing on idle gossip is perfectly permissible. But throwing around unsubstantiated rumors in a journalists' mailing list will make you very unpopular there.
And because Netiquette is different in different places, it's important to know where you are. Thus the next corollary:
Lurk before you leap
When you enter a domain of cyberspace that's new to you, take a look around. Spend a while listening to the chat or reading the archives. Get a sense of how the people who are already there act. Then go ahead and participate. |
* Rule 4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth
| Quote: | It's a cliché that people today seem to have less time than ever before, even though (or perhaps because) we sleep less and have more labor-saving devices than our grandparents did. When you send email or post to a discussion group, you're taking up other people's time (or hoping to). It's your responsibility to ensure that the time they spend reading your posting isn't wasted.
The word "bandwidth" is sometimes used synonymously with time, but it's really a different thing. Bandwidth is the information-carrying capacity of the wires and channels that connect everyone in cyberspace. There's a limit to the amount of data that any piece of wiring can carry at any given moment -- even a state-of-the-art fiber-optic cable. The word "bandwidth" is also sometimes used to refer to the storage capacity of a host system. When you accidentally post the same note to the same newsgroup five times, you are wasting both time (of the people who check all five copies of the posting) and bandwidth (by sending repetitive information over the wires and requiring it to be stored somewhere). |
* Rule 5: Make yourself look good online
| Quote: | Take advantage of your anonymity
I don't want to give the impression that the net is a cold, cruel place full of people who just can't wait to insult each other. As in the world at large, most people who communicate online just want to be liked. Networks -- particularly discussion groups -- let you reach out to people you'd otherwise never meet. And none of them can see you. You won't be judged by the color of your skin, eyes, or hair, your weight, your age, or your clothing.
You will, however, be judged by the quality of your writing. For most people who choose to communicate online, this is an advantage; if they didn't enjoy using the written word, they wouldn't be there. So spelling and grammar do count. |
* Rule 6: Share expert knowledge
| Quote: | Finally, after all that negativity, some positive advice.
The strength of cyberspace is in its numbers. The reason asking questions online works is that a lot of knowledgeable people are reading the questions. And if even a few of them offer intelligent answers, the sum total of world knowledge increases. The Internet itself was founded and grew because scientists wanted to share information. Gradually, the rest of us got in on the act.
So do your part. Despite the long lists of no-no's in this book, you do have something to offer. Don't be afraid to share what you know. |
* Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control
| Quote: | "Flaming" is what people do when they express a strongly held opinion without holding back any emotion. It's the kind of message that makes people respond, "Oh come on, tell us how you really feel." Tact is not its objective.
Does Netiquette forbid flaming? Not at all. Flaming is a long-standing network tradition (and Netiquette never messes with tradition). Flames can be lots of fun, both to write and to read. And the recipients of flames sometimes deserve the heat.
But Netiquette does forbid the perpetuation of flame wars -- series of angry letters, most of them from two or three people directed toward each other, that can dominate the tone and destroy the camaraderie of a discussion group. It's unfair to the other members of the group. And while flame wars can initially be amusing, they get boring very quickly to people who aren't involved in them. They're an unfair monopolization of bandwidth. |
* Rule 8: Respect other people's privacy
| Quote: | Of course, you'd never dream of going through your colleagues' desk drawers. So naturally you wouldn't read their email either.
Unfortunately, a lot of people would. This topic actually rates a separate section. For now, here's a cautionary tale. I call it
The case of the snoopy foreign correspondent
In 1993, a highly regarded foreign correspondent in the Moscow bureau of the Los Angeles Times was caught reading his coworkers' email. His colleagues became suspicious when system records showed that someone had logged in to check their email at times when they knew they hadn't been near the computer. So they set up a sting operation. They planted false information in messages from another one of the paper's foreign bureaus. The reporter read the notes and later asked colleagues about the false information. Bingo! As a disciplinary measure, he was immediately reassigned to another position at the paper's Los Angeles bureau.
The moral: Failing to respect other people's privacy is not just bad Netiquette. It could also cost you your job. |
* Rule 9: Don't abuse your power
| Quote: | Some people in cyberspace have more power than others. There are wizards in MUDs (multi-user dungeons), experts in every office, and system administrators in every system.
Knowing more than others, or having more power than they do, does not give you the right to take advantage of them. For example, sysadmins should never read private email. |
* Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes
| Quote: | Everyone was a network newbie once. And not everyone has had the benefit of reading this book. So when someone makes a mistake -- whether it's a spelling error or a spelling flame, a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer -- be kind about it. If it's a minor error, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before reacting. Having good manners yourself doesn't give you license to correct everyone else.
If you do decide to inform someone of a mistake, point it out politely, and preferably by private email rather than in public. Give people the benefit of the doubt; assume they just don't know any better. And never be arrogant or self-righteous about it. Just as it's a law of nature that spelling flames always contain spelling errors, notes pointing out Netiquette violations are often examples of poor Netiquette. |
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NEW TOPIC
Not Responding to PMs
As you can tell from the thread discussion list below, this topic often produces a lot of discussion. Unfortunately, not all of it entirely productive. For "Newbies" and existing members alike, please remember that your time is no more and no less valuable than another members.
* If you receive a PM (Private Message) offering to trade, or in response to your offer on the Coupon Trading Post and decide it is NOT one you'd like to pursue, please answer the PM with a polite "no thank you, maybe next time". Ignoring PMs only causes hurt feelings and unnecessary drama and venting on the board.
* If you are gathering PMs in response to an offer you've posted to choose the "best" one of the bunch, please post this information on your thread in question so others know you're doing this. It's not always clear to those who PM you. Please, don't do this over an extended period of time without answering PMs or posting on your thread in question that your still taking offers or that you've accepted a trade. Your intent may not be to ignore others PMs but this is the only conclusion they can come to if you don't respond in any way. Again, it only causes hurt feelings and unnecessary drama and venting on the board.
* If you decide to enter into or accept an offer to trade, please make your PMs as concise as possible. Too many back and forth PMs can become confusing.
* When PMing back and forth, please use the  button and add your comments either to the top or bottom of the discussion. It's much easier to respond to something when the others comments are in front of you and mistakes in communication are less likely when the conversation is kept together. Doing this is also a way to cut down on the amount of PMs in both your inbox and sentbox.
Please, be patient with one another. Your PM might have been read but the reader may not be able to respond to you in that moment. They could be at work or somewhere other than where their coupons for trade are. Life can also get in the way... a phone call, the doorbell, tending to children and family, a power outage, bedtime, etc....
If everyone will respond to one another as timely as possible, trading will go smoother and be more pleasant for everyone.
Discussion threads on the topic:
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-48570.html
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-47714.html
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-47578.html
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-45682.html
http://www.couponforum.com/chit-chat-46533.html
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-46434.html
http://www.couponforum.com/discuss-coupons-43391.html
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NEW TOPIC
Using your personal photographs online
Q: How do I add a personal photo to my posts?
A: To post personal photos online, first - you need to upload them to an online photo album.
There are MANY to choose from
These are a few popular ones:
www.photobucket.com
** www.flickr.com
www.myphotoalbum.com
www.picturetrail.com
www.snapfish.com
These 2 do not allow linking (posting the url on another site) -
** www.shutterfly.com
| Shutterfly.com wrote: | | ** Linking directly to images on Shutterfly’s servers from external sites is expressly prohibited. |
** www.kodakgallery.com
| kodakgallery.com - Terms of Service wrote: | ** Conduct
You agree not to use the Service:
8. to make images hosted by Kodak Imaging Network available for viewing
by the general public through a publicly posted link to the image or otherwise
(other than through the public gallery you create using the Premier Service) |
**Yahoo! Photos only allow you to share the link to an album, not individual photos. You can use your Yahoo ID to set up an account on www.flickr.com that will allow you to post individual photo urls
Once you have an online album, and have a URL link, you post that link with [img] [/img] on either side of it as shown in the green code below.
(Some online albums will add this code to the link so you don't have to)
| Code: | | [IMG]http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g165/Old_Refunder/cb5b706e.gif[/IMG] |
Editing: Not quite me, but thanks for the wave back Kris Isn't she wonderful!
Want to make an image a clickable link?
See this thread: http://www.couponforum.com/chit-chat-143169.html
ETA: Please limit your pictures to no wider than 600px. Anything larger than that throws the page too wide and makes the text in the thread difficult to read. Larger pictures also make page loading difficult for our members on dial-up.
ALSO, Any photos used for signatures MUST conform to CF's signature size limit of 600px wide by 100px tall. http://www.couponforum.com/announce-34915.html
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krispsmith
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| <waves back> Nice to finally see a picture of you, Laurie! |
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Janetlydia
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| What do all the abbreviated terms such as ISO mean? |
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MrsBPS
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| Janetlydia wrote: | | What do all the abbreviated terms such as ISO mean? |
ISO
In SEARCH OF |
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| Janetlydia wrote: | | What do all the abbreviated terms such as ISO mean? |
Please see the 1st post on this thread. 3 Abbreviations lists are included
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: Huggies Holograms? |
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| I'm not sure if this is where I ask, but on the trading borads I keep seeing Huggies Hologram posted. What is a Huggies Hologram? |
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| A Huggies Hologram is a coupon sent from the manufacturer (Kimberly-Clark, they make Huggies). I think they're made as Holograms to distinguish them from fakes that may be made. They're very easy to spot, due to the Hologram. |
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Cupones Españolas
If you have a coupon that has all or part of it written in Spanish and can't find someone to translate you can get some help with Google's Language Tool http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
dreaded typo edit
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New Topic - How to hyperlink
POSTING LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG URL LINKS (like Ebay)
Long urls are not forum friendly. 
They throw the window far too wide and cause everyone to scroll side to side to read every post on the thread.
The better way to post links to Ebay, Yahoo and some coupon and manufacturer websites is to use the [url][/url] feature in your compose window.
To do that:
* First - right click and choose Copy on a link you'd like to post
* In your compose window here, click the URL button (the last one just below the end of the Subject line) You will see [url]
* Type a short description of the link - example News, Ebay, Print coupon here, etc...
* Click the URL button again. You will see [/url] added
* Here's the tricky part - Between the l and the ] of the first [url] on your screen, type the equal sign = then right click and choose Paste to add the link.
Below (in green) is what you will see. I have used a smaller link to not throw this page too wide
| Code: | | [url=http://www.couponforum.com/index.php]CouponForum Homepage[/url] |
What your post will look like is this
CouponForum Homepage
* Preview your post before clicking Submit. You should be able to click on the blue text and have the link open in another window. If not , try again. (make sure the equal sign = and link, with no spaces, are between the l and the ] of the first [url] )
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shastasother
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Do PMs expire?
I PMed someone who didn't keep up their end of a deal. The message is gone from my outbox (sent less than a week ago). Can I be sure they picked it up or did it expire? Just wondering. Thank you. |
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| shastasother wrote: | Do PMs expire?
I PMed someone who didn't keep up their end of a deal. The message is gone from my outbox (sent less than a week ago). Can I be sure they picked it up or did it expire? Just wondering. Thank you. |
If a PM you sent is not in your Outbox or your Sentbox, only 1 of 3 things happened:
* The person you sent it to deleted it without reading it (which could have been an accident so you should resend it)
* You could have accidentally deleted it from your Outbox (resend here too)
* You've had so many messages in your Sentbox since she read it that it was dropped off the bottom (you can copy and paste PMs to an email you send yourself if your boxes are always too full)
PMs (Private Messages) stay in your Outbox until they've been read by who you sent them to (unless 1 of the 3 above occurred). Once read, they move to your Sentbox automatically. They do not expire.
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New Topic:
The Freebies board, duplicating offers, using the Search  feature, bumping with "offer still valid", and Newbies
To avoid much too much unfortunate drama and aggravation on the Freebies board because of duplicating offers, before posting Freebies (or Printables on the Printable Coupons board), please read the following thread:
"PLEASE READ RE: FREEBIES"
http://www.couponforum.com/freebies-59700.html
Using the Search feature to search for offers before posting is very easy and much appreciated by the other members.
The more specific you are, or unique the product(s) name, the more likely you will find the offer listed if it has been previously.
 Example 1: Free Yogi Tea sample
Using Search - enter the following:
Keyword: Yogi Tea
Forum: Freebies
Click Search
Results (to date) are - Search found 64 matches with the Keywords "Yogi" and "Tea"
OR
Keyword: Yogi
Forum: Freebies
Click Search
Results (to date) are - Search found 11 matches with the Keyword "Yogi"
Example 2:
Using Search - enter the following:
Keyword: Dove
Forum: Freebies
Click Search
Results (to date) are - Search found 70 matches with the Keyword "Dove"
OR
Keyword: Dove Calming
Forum: Freebies
Click Search
Results (to date) are - Search found 75 matches with the Keywords "Dove" and "Calming"
OR
Keyword: Calming Glow (as in: Dove Energy Glow samples and Dove Calming Nights samples)
Forum: Freebies
Click Search
Results (to date) are - Search found 31 matches with the Keywords "Calming" and "Glow"
It's all in how you use what Keyword(s) that determines what the Search feature will find. Using the Search feature gets easier the more often you do... so practice, play and enjoy this great help tool... and lets all help each other get FREE stuff!
 IF you've posted a number of duplicate Freebies or Printable Coupon offers and are asked to use Search before posting or informed the offer(s) are already posted, please know it is NOT personal or intended to "pick on" anyone. Duplications are a waste of bandwith, and time, and they clutter up the boards. This is what the posted reminders and suggestions are addressing.
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New Topic
Cross posting an excellent Newbie Q about "Fakes"
Q:
| scorpiohoney wrote: | | I have several coupons that I recently aquired in a trade that I am uncertain of. Could someone on here give me some tips on how to tell if a coupon may be fake. |
A: Sometimes, it's really hard to tell. They're getting that good at it! 
The general rule is:
If it's a printable and with an incredibility long expiration date...
If the expiration date and/or code is fuzzy or the print doesn't match the rest of the coupon...
If it looks like a real manufacturer coupon (based on the paper quality) but the ink smears....
Printable frees should always be suspect...
Usually, any printable that you can print more than one or two of, from other that the manufacturer's website (Bricks, Smartsource, etc., limit the number of coupons you can print. If there is no limit and it's not from the manufacture's website it's probably captured... not "fake" but it is fraud)
Adding the thread "Are these fakes?" (thanks to Amy030504 for asking) for the excellent Q & A!
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potatocake
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| Old Refunder wrote: | Printable frees should always be suspect...
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what are "frees"? Ive tried looking it up but must be missing the definition. |
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buziak203
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Nana2
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: OYNO |
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| I'm sure when someone says what this means I'll go DUH but for the life of me I can't figure it out. TIA for any help. Sharon |
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Old Refunder
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: OYNO |
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| Nana2 wrote: | | I'm sure when someone says what this means I'll go DUH but for the life of me I can't figure it out. TIA for any help. Sharon |
OYNO = on your next order |
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andamooka
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: Help? |
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| I am still trying to figure out how to put my feedback link on my signiture. People have already left me feedback. Please can someone help me. Thank you |
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scottzbabiedoll
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| Old Refunder wrote: | | A small inexpensive kitchen scale that dieters use will pay for itself in saved postage and you're less likely to mail something to another "Postage Due". If you're on the line, add a 17¢ |
What kind of kitchen scale... how much do they cost... and where can I get one? |
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Old Refunder
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| scottzbabiedoll wrote: | | Old Refunder wrote: |
A small inexpensive kitchen scale that dieters use will pay for itself in saved postage and you're less likely to mail something to another "Postage Due". If you're on the line, add a 17¢ |
What kind of kitchen scale... how much do they cost... and where can I get one? |
The one I use is very much like this one... very small, no frills
Check anywhere that kitchen gadgets are sold They're usually not very expensive. Even if all you can find is a bit more than you want to pay, the money it will save you in wasted postage will be worth it in the long run
Edited for postage rate increase
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