Tarps99
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Saints  |
| Location: | Lafourche Parish |
| Biography: | SLHS/Nicholls grad |
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| Number of Posts: | 12014 |
| Registered on: | 4/29/2017 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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Maybe if they lowered the prices, they’d quit losing money by people pausing their subscriptions
I made a similar post on this yesterday or the day before about how wildly different one person pays for one service while another person is paying the full rate. That is true for cable, newspaper subscriptions, websites and apps, medical care, car prices, insurance, and others.
My hall of shame of bait and switch has to be the Advocate. Full rate is something like 20 bucks a for 4 weeks. But you could sometimes subscribe for 9.99 for some periods or as low as 6.99. Not sure if it is locked in for a year and resets to the full rate after a few billing cycles. Other times you get offered a dollar for 5 months and you pay 20 dollar or more after the introductory rate.
USA Today and the hundreds of other local newspapers run the same scam. Maybe they could combine and form one newspaper subscription login to unlock all the USA Today local papers and create one price instead of having to subscribe to the multiple USA Today owned papers near you especially since some of them are void of local content and feature more regional content.
My favorite was our local paper in the Bayou Region, they had an article a few weeks ago about the best king cakes and it was all about Shreveport bakeries not a single one featured was from the Houma-Thibodaux area. No wonder no one is subscribing to the paper.
The physical copy of Newspapers had some value after they were published, delivered to your house, and read. They could be used for Crawfish boils, bird liners, and if your kid was featured or was in a picture it would be archived. Now all that is lost. Now photos and videos once posted online stay for a few months or years but eventually they will get purged and will be gone forever.
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re: Saks Fifth Avenue at New Orleans’ Canal Place since the 1980s, to close for good
Posted by Tarps99 on 2/10/26 at 10:12 pm to The Pickwick
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A few grand?? Mine never leaves that Chanel store without spending at least $15k
That is a lot of Chanel No. 5.
My reaction if I saw that on my credit card bill.
I know some men will be relieved when their potential girlfriend doesn’t have the opportunity to visit this store downtown to extort a purchase for a Saks purse for a few grand.
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Press would bury it with a shovel and then bury the shovel.
I don't know about this. You have one of the main anchors on a major network who is involved with this.
I doubt they would bury it so quickly. You might actually have some that may change their tune.
I guess he is not going because Trump is not serving Big Macs, Chick Fil A and Wendys.
re: Anyone ever cross the Causeway?
Posted by Tarps99 on 2/10/26 at 12:53 pm to DomincDecoco
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Carlton Dufreshore
He always seemed to be a slimy person on the take whether it was for the non profit to clean the lake or now running the biggest toll scam east of the Mississippi.
Don’t forget the Shreveport in NW Louisiana that even Epstein’s attorney called a s—hole.
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It was always working. The deal was she didn't have a subscription, so they assumed the video was never saved. Sounds like the FBI worked with NEST on the back end and were able to pull it even though there was no subscription to save.
Some of these devices have SD slots or local memory to store data.
I think my new bird feeder cam works that way. If I want to archive the video beyond its local storage capacity, I have to pay for it.
re: Does EVERYONE get a ride on Kim Kardashian?Lewis Hamilton taking a turn
Posted by Tarps99 on 2/10/26 at 12:25 pm to Covingtontiger77
The Band Live has a music video of KK’s sex life.
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How are people supposed to get their mail if residential delivery is stopped?
The same way, or more efficiently, than they do now.
Name a "more efficient" way.
The Sheriff's Office with a Summons to appear in court for not paying your bills. LOL
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Jim, You seem shocked at a $82 registration fee, so maybe you are mixing up registration and inspection. We're talking about the annual registration that gets you the registration paperwork and the tiny sticker for your license plate. The registration fee is based on the value of the car.
We're not talking about the $10 (or $20 for two years) inspection sticker.
I bet the legislature rolls that 10 or 20 dollar fee into your registration.
Although that is better than the inconvenience of finding an inspection place and getting it done there.
The legislature should also ban municpalities from issuing their own. I think the City of Kenner and New Orleans have their own inspection gestapo.
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It's like we're all haggling at a third world marketplace.
Have you seen health care and its complicated set of Billed price, insurance discount, copays, deductibles, coinsurance, in network, out of network, etc?
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Superdome, SMG/ASM or whatever they are called now runs that facility.
I think it is called Legends Global. Jerry Jones is a big investor. They manage several arenas and facilities around the world.
Crazy that SMG started in New Orleans as Superdome Management Group and grew into its own international company providing support services to other facilities before becoming a part of ASM that is now part of Legends Global.
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no idea on that, never heard of a Pontartrain before.
Maybe that was going on in the Pontalba apartment with Latoya and Vappie.
Vappie was pontratrain’ing Latoya on the city’s clock.
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I opened the app and saw it charged a $23 service fee.
Fees like this grind my gears.
I kid you not but Hollywood Casino in Bay St. Louis installed a kiosk to pay for your own buffet and handle your own cashless transaction, but the kiosk charges an extra 15 dollars to use it. It is called premium so you can skip the line.
At first, it was free, but for some reason the kiosk insisted you pay sales tax on a comped buffet while the cashier would zero the balance.
So there are scams and fees all around us.
There are others like using 3rd party shopping or restaurant apps, the item mark up plus the delivery fees and tipping make a trip to the place sound better. The crazy thing about the markup is that it is not the same for all users of the apps. The 3rd party shopping apps are using data to dynamically control prices to entice you to buy some items and mark up others to increase profits.
Then you have subscription fees for newspapers, satellite radio, and cable that come with these limited time offers for x amount of time and then they go up to the standard rate if you don’t threaten cancel again and get the same similar rates.
There should be a published rate and that is what you pay, If no one is buying your product at full price maybe it is time to reduce rates or come up with less complicated subscription models.
The Advocate is one. Base rate is something like 19-25 dollars a month, but you can do a year at times for 99 dollars, 6.99 every 4 weeks, 9.99 every 4 weeks, or 1 dollar 5 months and then 18.99 every 4 weeks. That every 4 weeks is even more slimy because over time they get you for an additional month and your payment will never be on the same day, good luck balancing a check book with a random extra charge.
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d) He's covering his arse
Why would he cover his arse if he was a flamer?
re: Jonbenet Ramsey father
Posted by Tarps99 on 2/9/26 at 8:17 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I'm holding out for Kato Kaelin.
I still think it was Professor with the lead pipe in the hall.
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I have an idea. Why not an all AI 3D hologram show of all our favorite singers of the past. That way no one can get their panties in wad.
No dancing queens on the sidelines. Just one monolithic stage and a hologram appears of the artist. The artist would then fade into another artist as it transitions into another song.
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Sorry this wasn’t for a Super Bowl.
It was for a regular season Thanksgiving Day Game.
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Hell yeah, flag football
I like to mispronounce flag football a time or two. I drop the l in flag so it better represents the sport.
re: Anybody ever heard of a 20 minute Mardi Gras parade?
Posted by Tarps99 on 2/8/26 at 9:40 am to Shreve Perry
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Shouldn't you staunch Catholics be prepping for Mass and resting on this fine Sunday?
I went to Sam’s at 7 am this morning in Houma for gas. I could hear music coming from the Mall Parking lot. When I left, I could see people already at their spots for a parade that starts at 12:30.
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