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Does anyone know if there is a program for the tp2 that will allow you to create digital version of membership cards with bar codes the stores offer. My buddy has one for his i-phone but I am not having any luck finding one for winmo6.
If someone wants to know of what I am talking about there is a website mycardstar.com. any help greatly appreciated.
Those cards are retarded. I prefer not to reward stupid retailers for bad behavior.
godefroi said:
Those cards are retarded. I prefer not to reward stupid retailers for bad behavior.
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Hey mate you don't need to be too harsh...
what150 said:
Hey mate you don't need to be too harsh...
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Every time a cashier asks me if I have a "reward" card or whatever they happen to call them, I want to reach over the counter and throttle them. I clutter my wallet with these cards and sift through/drag out the correct one on demand, and my "reward" is lots of junk mail delivered directly to my house.
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robinakilt said:
Does anyone know if there is a program for the tp2 that will allow you to create digital version of membership cards with bar codes the stores offer. My buddy has one for his i-phone but I am not having any luck finding one for winmo6.
If someone wants to know of what I am talking about there is a website mycardstar.com. any help greatly appreciated.
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here's the app you're looking for: http://www.koushikdutta.com/search/label/Bar Code
however you should know (as your iPhone friend probably knows but may not admit) that the reflective nature of the screens on our phones make these difficult to work. If you have a screen protector that may work. I've tried it on my Fuze without a screen protector and it's simply too reflective. Good luck!
godefroi said:
Every time a cashier asks me if I have a "reward" card or whatever they happen to call them, I want to reach over the counter and throttle them. I clutter my wallet with these cards and sift through/drag out the correct one on demand, and my "reward" is lots of junk mail delivered directly to my house.
Yay. Let's do this some more!
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Don't get mad at the cashier for doing their job. Most places that have those reward cards REQUIRE the cashier to ask for the stupid cards, and most those cashiers DON'T want to ask but they'll get in trouble if they don't.
But really, if all it takes is a few cards to make you want to choke someone, perhaps you have some deeper issues that need sorting.
AstarteSV said:
Don't get mad at the cashier for doing their job. Most places that have those reward cards REQUIRE the cashier to ask for the stupid cards, and most those cashiers DON'T want to ask but they'll get in trouble if they don't.
But really, if all it takes is a few cards to make you want to choke someone, perhaps you have some deeper issues that need sorting.
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And besides that your an idiot if you would rather pay a higher price than play the game of the rewards card. Who goes to the grocery store and pays full price for something when just for having a card they give you a discount?
My grocery cards arent even tied to my name and address.
On that note, I am going to check out the link seems pretty handy if you ask me......
great program too
This is going to come in handy!!
thank you for the link to the program and so far so good. I have entered about 7 of my rewards cards and the bar code is dead on. Next will be to use it later today and I will post how well the scanner reads it.
any luck with the scanner? I never got it to work even though the appearance was right (because of glare).
godefroi said:
Every time a cashier asks me if I have a "reward" card or whatever they happen to call them, I want to reach over the counter and throttle them. I clutter my wallet with these cards and sift through/drag out the correct one on demand, and my "reward" is lots of junk mail delivered directly to my house.
Yay. Let's do this some more!
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thats why you fill out the paperwork with your phone number. instead of having to carry around the card(s), your reward card number is the phone number you used when filling out the paperwork. should be pretty easy to memorize your phone number.
ngravatt said:
thats why you fill out the paperwork with your phone number. instead of having to carry around the card(s), your reward card number is the phone number you used when filling out the paperwork. should be pretty easy to memorize your phone number.
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you took the word right out of my mouth =)
yes i do agree that all the cards take up lots of room in the wallet and being as minimal as i am i mean i dont even carry coins at all.
its funny that the larger corporations dont practice this i mean if our local super markets here in hawaii not to mention the pet shop here are smart enough to tie your reward card to your telephone number i mean come on it cant be that hard!
this program is a good idea but the only thing i have noticed it that a lot of these rewards cards are switching to the mag strips =(
we all just need to get on the europe/asia train where cell phones can pay for things like bus fair, convenience store runs and even vending machines
anywho thanks for the link gonna load this up and give it a try =)
well I tried to buy a Nexus one, Ive now given up, credit and debit card orders refused when there is absolutley nothing wrong with either account, they are business accounts with plenty of funding.
Talk about a tad insulting!
Why on earth dont they take paypal?
pastypacker said:
well I tried to buy a Nexus one, Ive now given up, credit and debit card orders refused when there is absolutley nothing wrong with either account, they are business accounts with plenty of funding.
Talk about a tad insulting!
Why on earth dont they take paypal?
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Cuz it's Google... so they take Google Checkout. Have you tried non-business accounts?
pastypacker said:
well I tried to buy a Nexus one, Ive now given up, credit and debit card orders refused when there is absolutley nothing wrong with either account, they are business accounts with plenty of funding.
Talk about a tad insulting!
Why on earth dont they take paypal?
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For a start, make sure you put the correct details in the from for the card.
Talk to your credit card company/bank and stop complaining that it's Google that are at fault. Your CC/bank company is stopping the transaction not Google.
Phone them up and talk to them. If they tell you Google is blocking it then the CC company/bank is lying to you.
Paypal isn't a bank and isn't subject to the same controls and regulations that a cc company or bank are. You also get zero protection, in law, when using paypal. Personally I'd stay well away from them.
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ScaredyCat said:
For a start, make sure you put the correct details in the from for the card.
Talk to your credit card company/bank and stop complaining that it's Google that are at fault. Your CC/bank company is stopping the transaction not Google.
Phone them up and talk to them. If they tell you Google is blocking it then the CC company/bank is lying to you.
Paypal isn't a bank and isn't subject to the same controls and regulations that a cc company or bank are. You also get zero protection, in law, when using paypal. Personally I'd stay well away from them.
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Exactly where in my post did I blame Google for denied transactions?
I merely stated facts, and I am also quite capable of fillling in a form or I wouldnt have been running my own business for the last 6 years!
The fact is, that it's not as simple as it should be to buy the phone, I buy goods of far greater value than a phone, and never have any problems, so why the problems buying from Google?
I thought this was a dicussion forum, just wonder how many other people have had these problems buying one?
And yes, I have talked to the bank, and its a security check that flagged up, there must be a reason that transactions are blocked and or checked for Google purchases, maybe its because its the States, most of my buying is done in europe.......
Sorry if i seem to come over a little terse, but then there isnt always too much context within written words....
I can tell you that when I bought my phone, my bank held up the transaction until I called them to let them know I was spending over $300 on a phone. You may want to do the same thing.
uansari1 said:
I can tell you that when I bought my phone, my bank held up the transaction until I called them to let them know I was spending over $300 on a phone. You may want to do the same thing.
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Same thing happend to me, except my bank actually phoned me! Shock and awe!
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Exactly where in my post did I blame Google for denied transactions?
I merely stated facts, and I am also quite capable of fillling in a form or I wouldnt have been running my own business for the last 6 years!
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So in your 6 years you've never made a typing mistake?
pastypacker said:
The fact is, that it's not as simple as it should be to buy the phone, I buy goods of far greater value than a phone, and never have any problems, so why the problems buying from Google?
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It is simple to buy, you just have to talk to your bank. Once of the reasons is that Google don't use 3D secure which (somewhat) guarantees that the user of the card is the owner of it. CC/Banks like 3D Secure because it passes blame (liability) to the customer (see T&C's for 3D Secure/VBV signup for your card). 3D Secure/VBV is, in truth, total crap. IIRC this was born out in a recent paper from Cambridge University in the UK that did analysis and testing on it. One card company even asked for a NEW password if you got the old one wrong 3 times!
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I thought this was a dicussion forum, just wonder how many other people have had these problems buying one?
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It is but it's not a problem solely associated with buying a nexus one. It applies to all online purchasing.
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And yes, I have talked to the bank, and its a security check that flagged up, there must be a reason that transactions are blocked and or checked for Google purchases, maybe its because its the States, most of my buying is done in europe.......
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It's highly likely that this is the case. We get horrendous issues with Belgian cc/banks that insist on blocking client orders and then claiming it's us that is doing the blocking.
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Sorry if i seem to come over a little terse, but then there isnt always too much context within written words....
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Maybe I was being over sensitive on the issue, I have to deal with cc/banks lying to their customers all the time at work.
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pastypacker said:
well I tried to buy a Nexus one, Ive now given up, credit and debit card orders refused when there is absolutley nothing wrong with either account, they are business accounts with plenty of funding.
Talk about a tad insulting!
Why on earth dont they take paypal?
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I don't know if it would make a difference, but you can get a debit card for your Paypal account and use it.
Stop using other's people cards. =P
Really though, my order got held up for not having a phone number in the ship to information. Googles checkout/customer service for the nexus has been pretty sub par.
And I've been running a business for 8 years.
eeee by gum chuck, finally managed to get an order sent, checked the shipping info, and they managed to get the postcode totally wrong, with half the address missing.
Phoned DHL, and they were fantastic, changed all the details and made sure they were correct, she told me that they have shed loads of phone calls reference orders from google with incorrect shipping info, even though the correct details were supplied by the customers, so all I will say if you're buying one, is to check and double check every step of the process.
Man I hope the phone is worth it when it comes, i'm sure it will be, quite looking forward to it..........
Sounds to me if it were a "Google" problem, the same bad address info problem would be apparent with FedEx shipments, but only time I've heard/read about shipping issues is regarding international DHL.
Okay, so like most everyone else I've been having Android Market problems. Even on WiFi I've had to hit the "retry" button several times because supposedly there were connection failures. So I was purchasing a $1 app and then I encountered the same "connection failure" problem. So I retried several times (I guess five) and then finally on the fifth time it worked.
Fast forward, and now I have an email in my inbox from Bank of America telling me that I bought that app five times!
Who do I call about this before its "punch a rep day" at T-Mobile.
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Okay, so like most everyone else I've been having Android Market problems. Even on WiFi I've had to hit the "retry" button several times because supposedly there were connection failures. So I was purchasing a $1 app and then I encountered the same "connection failure" problem. So I retried several times (I guess five) and then finally on the fifth time it worked.
Fast forward, and now I have an email in my inbox from Bank of America telling me that I bought that app five times!
Who do I call about this before its "punch a rep day" at T-Mobile.
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Google is who you have to contact about the purchases, as T-Mobile has absolutely no connection to the Android market outside of the free apps the offer.
Honestly, you may want to wait a bit, as the Android Market is supposed to be work to where once you purchase it once on your Google account you have it on all your android devices. My thinking behind that is maybe Google will refund $4 once they find the same app purchased 4 times on one account (By them finding that I mean a computer system detecting it).
In the end if it's a problem with the market you have to somehow get in touch with Google, and if you have specific complains about the phone you need to contact T-Mobile otherwise it's not T-Mobile's fault.
I'm sure if you write to the developer of the app, and state your case he/she will refund you.
Adam5400 said:
Google is who you have to contact about the purchases, as T-Mobile has absolutely no connection to the Android market outside of the free apps the offer.
Honestly, you may want to wait a bit, as the Android Market is supposed to be work to where once you purchase it once on your Google account you have it on all your android devices. My thinking behind that is maybe Google will refund $4 once they find the same app purchased 4 times on one account (By them finding that I mean a computer system detecting it).
In the end if it's a problem with the market you have to somehow get in touch with Google, and if you have specific complains about the phone you need to contact T-Mobile otherwise it's not T-Mobile's fault.
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Google doesn't have a CS department.
WilliamStern said:
I'm sure if you write to the developer of the app, and state your case he/she will refund you.
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Yeah, I thought about that. But I don't want this happening all the time. I really think there is a Market issue with this phone.
WilliamStern said:
I'm sure if you write to the developer of the app, and state your case he/she will refund you.
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This. I accidentally purchased Remote Desktop Client twice and the developer refunded me when I contacted him.
I sell adw themes on the market and have never seen someone get charged for the same app twice. It's pretty common for the market to have the issues, and if I had to guess I would say that Google is simply putting a hold on the funds till your refund period is up. It takes 24 hours for a transaction to be finalized on my end and prior to that o cannot refund anyone, I can only cancel the transaction. I don't think that cancelling the transaction speeds up the process of the held money being returned to you.
lol is it really necessary to blame the phone?
Okay. So I reviewed my Google Checkout tabs today and actually what had happened was there were ~7 $1 charges, probably because I hit the "retry" button ~7 times. BUT, there were only authorization charges and not app purchases. There was only one app purchase of $1.99.
joebobjoe said:
Google doesn't have a CS department.
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http://checkout.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=cm
They don't have phone support but they do have a place to send the checkout people an email (Not sure if they'll actually respond though, hah), but that doesn't matter now as it seems to have worked itself out. (Good for future reference though)
joebobjoe said:
Okay. So I reviewed my Google Checkout tabs today and actually what had happened was there were ~7 $1 charges, probably because I hit the "retry" button ~7 times. BUT, there were only authorization charges and not app purchases. There was only one app purchase of $1.99.
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So basically, it worked perfectly, and charged you only once, despite connection problems. I'd call this a win for the market system.
& agree that this shouldn't be in a phone-specific forum. Your phone had nothing to do with this, for better or ill.
When you make a purchase the bank receives electronic notification and places those funds on hold and reserves them. Google will probably probably only settle one transaction and the other holds will drop off on a few days. It happens all the time.
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Upgrading from iphone 4 to s3 and best buy wanted to do a credit check when I have been at&t customer for 4 years with account in perfect standing. They had the nerves to ask me how much my mortgage was, who my mortgage was with, and several other items pertaining to personal info.... FOR AN UPGRADE.
Best Buy did not get my business and in last 4 years we have bought all our phones at best buy which was 3 iphone 4s, 3gs, and 1 3g, and basic phone all from best buy in which within last month and half we have upgraded one person on the plan to a i4 and another to iphone 4s and did not get asked these questions, but for the S3 best buy needed this info...
Not Pleased. Anyone else gone through the BS?
I got my phone there and it was very quick and easy, no credit check. Sorry man that sucks!
Go straight to the manager... they can't ask you or run your credit for upgrades.. only new line and even that they can't ask you about your mortgage, that's ridiculous.
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Go straight to the manager... they can't ask you or run your credit for upgrades.. only new line and even that they can't ask you about your mortgage, that's ridiculous.
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oh I did, went to best buy mobile manager and then store manager and they said they can't by pass it and that store chooses you at random when upgrading to confirm identity but no way in hell are they getting my mortgage info.
This has nothing to docwith best buy, it's actually an AT&T thing. I work at radioshack and run into this about once a week.
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Vertig0 said:
Go straight to the manager... they can't ask you or run your credit for upgrades.. only new line and even that they can't ask you about your mortgage, that's ridiculous.
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well at&t store manager said they have never done anything like that for an upgrade. and sure as hell ain't telling no employee of best buy or anywhere my personal and mortgage information.
I saw this when I used to sell cellphones for the various providers. It is usually the credit check people who want the info, not (insert carrier and store here). It is a method of identification to make sure you are who you say you are. Cellphone fraud is a very big thing, especially for the super high end android devices, blackberries (well, they were back then...) and iPhones.
Though I never heard mortgage, I did see plenty of car ownership stuff, address, old address, old car, etc etc. Random stuff really.
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Upgrading from iphone 4 to s3 and best buy wanted to do a credit check when I have been at&t customer for 4 years with account in perfect standing. They had the nerves to ask me how much my mortgage was, who my mortgage was with, and several other items pertaining to personal info.... FOR AN UPGRADE.
Best Buy did not get my business and in last 4 years we have bought all our phones at best buy which was 3 iphone 4s, 3gs, and 1 3g, and basic phone all from best buy in which within last month and half we have upgraded one person on the plan to a i4 and another to iphone 4s and did not get asked these questions, but for the S3 best buy needed this info...
Not Pleased. Anyone else gone through the BS?
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I work for BBY service center and even though I don't work in the store, I know that they ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK THAT INFO. The only way they are allowed to even check your credit is if you're apply for a BBY credit card.
I'd call their support and talk to their manager. I'v already heard many stories of BBY support lines bending over backwards to satisfy their customers so you may be able to get a discount on the phone or at least a gift card.
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Though I never heard mortgage, I did see plenty of car ownership stuff, address, old address, old car, etc etc. Random stuff really.
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yeah and i'm talking specifics, who the mortgage is with and what the monthly payment is.
I work for AT&T and haven't heard of this on an upgrade. They are allowed to ask you about mortgage info or ANYTHING pertaining to your credit info so don't think otherwise. But like I mentioned, credit no longer plays a role when you have been an AT&T customer for longer than 6 months, even when adding a line they check account history add only occasionally check credit. Never for an upgrade.
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yeah and i'm talking specifics, who the mortgage is with and what the monthly payment is.
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Crazy. The employee themselves asked you? Not supposed to do that, where I worked we had to call in to the credit people themselves, hand the phone to the customer and let them confirm the information.
Don't shop there bro dump best buy they are going under anyways and they offer crap for customer service I would walk out and go to an att store.
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I've worked for an at&t Authorized retailer for 8 years. at&t has started refreshing credit profiles on customers accounts as a fraud prevention measure. I would say once a week we run into this and these questions that are asked are referred to as OOW questions (Out of Wallet) meaning the customer in the store should be able to answer these without issue. We are instructed to read the questions and then select the answer the customer gives us. At the end if the customer answered everything satisfactorily we can continue. If they don't answer the questions satisfactorily we have to call analyst review and tell them we have the customer in the store and the ID matches the person in the store. We also have to have a secondary ID such as a Credit Card and the name has to match the drivers license. I know this sounds ridiculous but there is so much fraud in this business you have to understand it is for your protection. The extra five minutes this process takes is easier than trying to fight identity theft. Don't blame BestBuy for doing what at&t is requiring.
Had this happen to me when Upgrading my Sprint line. The questions were on their keypad card swipe thing, not an employee asking the questions. I purposely answered incorrectly and then the guy went through the upgrade anyway. Think there are two ways they can do an upgrade, one may be quicker than the other? Quicker maybe asking those questions?
regardless no way in hell i'm telling someone how much i pay for my house every month to qualify me for an upgrade phone when i've been customer for 4 years in perfect standing. in no way shape or form should you ever be asked personal info such as mortgage information for an upgrade, maybe for a new account, MAYBE, but not for an upgrade.
Hey everyone,
I've seen a couple of people mention that if you don't register with Amazon, the lock screen doesn't display ads. I'm wondering if there's a way to remove the ads after registering. Would factory resetting do it? Because I'm willing to do that if it means no more ads.
Thanks for the help.
Pay the $15 to Amazon. They subsidized the tablet because of ad revenue. Don't be cheap.
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Pay the $15 to Amazon. They subsidized the tablet because of ad revenue. Don't be cheap.
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This is a forum for questions. How is this a helpful response? Obviously, I can do that. Clearly, I'd like to find a different way.
Go to Amazon support, like you'd do for a issue with a order, I'd talk to them using the online text chat but you could try calling. Talk to them kindly, mention why you don't want ads and if they give you a hard time ask for a supervisor or a manager to look at it. Try to be as nice as you can possibly be and they might remove the ads for you free of charge. They'll ask for the email attached to the tablet if you had signed on with a amazon account. Your millage may vary so try a few times.
This is what I did twice and they did remove the ads for me. If I wasn't near broke and trying not to be broke at the end of the month I might have payed the 15$ but I could not.
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This is a forum for questions. How is this a helpful response? Obviously, I can do that. Clearly, I'd like to find a different way.
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It is the best solution. Don't be cheap, device already rock bottom price.