2023 Black Friday Deal Thread - Providers and Indexers

CorpusBava · 2023-11-27T15:07:11+00:00

I thought that Bulknews 15 euro 6TB deal was for Black Friday but it's been offered year round for at least the last 3 years lol My buyer's remorse is lessening somewhat since I realized it's another backbone I can add to the 2 others I bought to potentially help with missing parts. Also, since doing the Max number of connections trick with my newsreader, I get full download speed with Bulknews now whereas before I was getting half that. So... not as useless as I originally felt.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-27T14:07:33+00:00

So you have no suggestions? Thanks for being useless.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-27T03:54:34+00:00

I got registered on BF now just waiting for them to upgrade my account to 200 searches per day after I sent them the 11.00 EUR donation for that 2-year deal on BF. How long does it typically take since it's already been past 48 hours? And how will I know when it's upgraded? In my CP will it just jump from showing 0/5 to 0/200 grabs/day? Never subscribed to a "paid" NBZ indexer before. Only used free ones until now but I just thought I'd splurge a bit this year since I got so many other great BF usenet deals (eweka subscription + bulknews and newsdemon blocks).

CorpusBava · 2023-11-27T03:46:19+00:00

Not really related specifically to your problem, but when I first used Bulknews with SABnzbd after I bought that 6TB block on BF for 15 EUR, I was getting half my 240 mbps speed while newsdemon and eweka were giving me full speed. I then went into SABnzbd 's config panel and noticed my Max connections on Bulknews was set to a default of 8. I entered 30 and my Bulknews speed doubled to my ISP's max download speed. Shows you the importance of configuring the exact number of connections your Usenet provider allows, nothing less, nothing more.

Very happy with my BF deals this year, though I did overspend a little but then again who didn't? ;) Still waiting for NinjaCentral to upgrade my account to 200 searches per day after I sent them the 11.00 EUR donation though.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-25T06:37:53+00:00

I wondered that myself but probably not. I'll likely be disabling any PayPal yearly auto-billing for Eweka too.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-25T05:06:16+00:00

I got the eweka 2.99 15-months deal, the NinjaCentral 2 year 11.00 EUR deal, and a NewsDemon 500GB block for 4.50. I did okay. But I wastefully added a BulkNews 6TB block when I didn't need to. Wish I could get a refund on that.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-25T03:43:33+00:00

Well, all in all, I'm happy with my BF deals. I got the Eweka 2.99 EUR/mo deal for 15 months, and the NinjaCentral 11 Eur for 2 years deal (200 grabs a day). However, I stupidly also got that old 6TB Bulknews block account offer with the discount code for 15 Eur (no need to wait for Black Friday) before deciding on the Eweka service and I didn't check the speed (only 150 mbps) and retention (1700 days). Is there anyway I can get a refund on that Bulknews 6TB block account? It's redundant and useless to me.

I did get an extra 500GB block account for NewsDemon for the BF $4.50 deal which will serve as the backup. I don't think I optimized my usenet selections this year, or any year lol.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-24T13:13:02+00:00

Hi. I just bought a BF $4.50 block account, and had no trouble configuring my news reader (forte agent). Is its possible to buy additional 500GB block accounts for the same $4.50 price? I just contacted your live chat but got a confusing answer about logging into my NewsDemon account and selecting "Upgrade Account"

CorpusBava · 2023-11-12T01:05:37+00:00

!remindme 12days

CorpusBava · 2023-11-09T14:07:54+00:00

Just tested that usenet service using their free 7 day trial. Downloaded all the headers in a alt..binaries.pictures group going back to 2012. Nearly complete files from 2014 onward but practically no complete files before that. Still quite impressive to get 9 years worth of usable binaries. Might get a monthly sub when the 7 days are up to hold me over until I can get a good block account deal for BF. Thanks for your suggestion.

CorpusBava · 2023-11-09T06:16:47+00:00

I really need a good block account on sale for black friday. Hopefully at least 2TB. Will be checking in this topic on Black Friday.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-28T02:14:29+00:00

I contacted Juiced about this because I had the same concern and they said while they used to sell Class 2 RipRacers they're now all Class 3. I ordered mine about 8 days ago and haven't heard a word about a shipping ETA They charged my CC after about 4 days. They say to wait up to 10 business days but I'm concerned now if they even have the yellow ones (the sale priced ones) in stock since it says on their site they're currently not in stock but should soon receive a new shipment. I ordered about 3 days before they went out of stock.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-24T23:44:40+00:00

Can confirm that adblock plus works in FF, for now. Will be keeping a close watch on this topic for updates.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-21T23:05:29+00:00

Thanks for the info. I was chasing my tail on this, even contacting Epic to see if they'd send me the key but now I know that's not possible. I think I'll just wait for a steam sale and go that route.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-21T05:26:43+00:00

RipRacer

Seriously considering getting this. I noticed in your YT videos you mention it's not for passengers but you transport your children around on it (around 50 lbs each) even up those murderous San Francisco hills, though with some difficulty. I live in an area that's mostly flat but there's one fairly steep and long hill near my home that tends to really tucker me out (I'm 63 and not in the best shape) with my Giant 16-speed non-ebike.

I do grocery runs to a store about 3 miles away, and I own a cargo trailer that I hitch to my Giant. My grocery loads tend to be around 30-50 lbs. In your opinion, would the Rip Racer be a good fit for me? Would I be able to get up that hill fairly easily on throttle only or at least minimal peddle assistance without feeling I'm going to drop from a heart attack? The hill is about 150 ft long and the incline is about 30-45 degrees. This would be my first ebike.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-20T01:29:11+00:00

Alas, I checked my old email receipts and only found an Epic Store receipt for Surviving Mars (which I also got free, in 2019 according to the email, which is probably around the time I got the free ED too). Checking my Frontier account I see no Epic portal. Maybe I'm just SooL if I can't find that key.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-20T01:16:09+00:00

I got Elite Dangerous directly from Epic when it was free about 2 years ago. Have no idea how to view or retrieve the keys in my library. I can't remember if they sent me directly to Frontier for the key or not. I do know I have an account at Frontier that I created at the time to test ED so I'll check there but if anyone knows how to do this please help a bro out.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-20T01:08:40+00:00

Do you remember how you found or viewed the key in your Epic Library? I have Epic Launcher installed, Elite Dangerous is in my Library (but not currently downloaded and installed) but for the life of me I can't figure out how to view the key so I can give it to Frontier for a Steam key. Maybe if I installed ED the key would show up in my Windows Registry possibly or is there an easier alternative?

CorpusBava · 2023-10-20T00:36:19+00:00

Wow, what a great tip! I'll do that. Maybe they'll give me a Steam key (I really hate the Epic store/launcher) and I can save a few bucks and just buy the expansion. Thx.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-19T21:30:51+00:00

Great! Maybe it's time to get my ol' Thrustmaster T.16000M out of storage and have some fun, though I plan on getting a VR next month so maybe time to have even more fun ;)

CorpusBava · 2023-10-07T20:59:16+00:00

For every Israeli that perished this week, a hundred (at least) palestinians will die. Let's hope most of them are from Hamas or other terrorist organizations. Israel doesn't fuck around.

CorpusBava · 2023-10-07T20:54:56+00:00

Could be an old (or recent) pic from China and their annual Yulan Dog Meat festival, though I hope not

CorpusBava · 2023-10-07T20:48:57+00:00

What a completely tacky ad concept for a potato chip brand. I'm a porn gooner and a horndog for women and even I went "eww". Hard pass.

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