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Best Buy made $43 million profit in unused gift cards in 2006

In Misc, News on December 18, 2006 at 4:02 pm

Yahoo News reports that the leading retailers are making huge profits on unused gift cards. How much?…for example, Best Buy made $43 million in profit in fiscal year 2006 on unused gift cards. That’s amazing.

Read the full story here.

PS: I have 2 of my Best Buy gift cards sitting on my wallet for a while now. My 2 cents!!!

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Redesigned Digg.com

In Breaking News, News, Web 2.0 on December 18, 2006 at 3:26 pm

Digg.com just unveiled a revamped Digg.com design which among other things makes uses of the screen real estate to deliver more content. They’ve added 3 major Digg categories, News, Videos and Podcasts (which is still in beta as they’ve unrolled). The overall look and feel of the site looks great..

Digg founder Kevin Rose has blogged about this at his Digg The Blog and has posted a short video that summarizes the new design features.

Visit Digg.

Print your sales receipt for Buy.com "Google Checkout" orders

In Deals, Misc, Tips N Tricks on December 18, 2006 at 12:24 pm

If you are using “Google Checkout” to save some money on your online orders at Buy.com this holiday season you might want to use this link to print your Buy.com sales receipts for you to send in those mail-in rebates. Buy.com offers quite a deal on some of their products if you use their Google Checkout service. With the Google Checkout normally the bottom line price becomes so attractive.

Once you navigate to the Buy.com link page you can search your Google order by one of these ways to print your receipt.

Hope it’s useful.

What is Google Checkout?