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What is your deal-hunting origin story?
January 2, 2014 at
03:37 PM
Hello, I hope you are doing well.
What is your origin story? Sure, we may not have superpowers or are superheroes or supervillains, but what many of us do here is pretty super.
Were there events in your childhood that led you to your life of deal-hunting? Did you perhaps come from certain circumstances that changed you into a person who hates retail prices? Or perhaps this is all a new development and you're just doing it for fun, or out of necessity. (Oh, you may also be a person who does deal-hunting on the side and is mainly in these forums for The Lounge.)
Curious,
Tofu Vic, Price Slasher
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In comic book terminology, an origin story is an account or back-story revealing how a character or team gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains.
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Were there events in your childhood that led you to your life of deal-hunting? Did you perhaps come from certain circumstances that changed you into a person who hates retail prices? Or perhaps this is all a new development and you're just doing it for fun, or out of necessity. (Oh, you may also be a person who does deal-hunting on the side and is mainly in these forums for The Lounge.)
Curious,
Tofu Vic, Price Slasher
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Tofu Vic
Then I got diarrhea from eating a hot dog at home depot.
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I forget exactly how I stumbled on it (and this site) but I got well over 200 cans of soup out of it
I forget exactly how I stumbled on it (and this site) but I got well over 200 cans of soup out of it
I think I had about $1200 in EB Games credit at one point just from doing that.
But it definitely started out with the Kmart clearance for me.
I came to SD looking for a color laser printer, and stayed for the debauchery.
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I was quickly disappointed as I often realized that the items with these magical discounts hardly ever seemed to match up with the things I wanted to purchase. The solution to that presented itself when I discovered that the stickers would peel off in one piece if you were very careful. They then could be applied to the items that I found more appealing.
I would then take my prize to the checkout and pay with my hard-earned allowance money. My cleverness allowed me to stretch my funds much further and I would leave the store thinking to myself, "Now that was a Slickdeal!"
I was quickly disappointed as I often realized that the items with these magical discounts hardly ever seemed to match up with the things I wanted to purchase. The solution to that presented itself when I discovered that the stickers would peel off in one piece if you were very careful. They then could be applied to the items that I found more appealing.
I would then take my prize to the checkout and pay with my hard-earned allowance money. My cleverness allowed me to stretch my funds much further and I would leave the store thinking to myself, "Now that was a Slickdeal!"