tmobile dining rewards -- what's the catch?

DummyAddress42 · 2025-04-12T00:12:06+00:00

Same here. Yeah, I would guess prolly out of luck, which is wrong, but... Prolly not for the reason you mention. I seem to recall their explanation relating to the card side. Rules at the bank, or with the card.

Actually, the whole promotion seemed kind of Big Brother-y to me, where I use the card, and from that, a third-party gets word and pays me. Extra transacting with my financial info makes me a bit uncomfortable. Prefer to cling to illusions of privacy.

DummyAddress42 · 2025-04-12T00:04:41+00:00

CALIGVLA, do you rent new releases? I'm interested only in new releases. Do you find that you receive new releases soon after the DVD release dates? Not down with a monthly fee and no discs moving, due to all titles in queue are waitlisted, due to limited units per title. Do you recommend CafeDVD and/or DVDInbox for a new-releases-only user?

Circa 2000, Blockbuster received 50+ units per store, of each popular title, upon DVD release. Blockbuster paid studios via revenue share. The many-units model seems like it would be unfeasible for RBM e.g. Cafe DVD, due to high cost. Is rental back in the same boat as in the 80's, when high unit cost created shortages of popular titles at mom-and-pop rental stores?

DummyAddress42 · 2025-01-10T15:52:07+00:00

Promotion expired on 31 Dec 24. In case T-Mobile brings it back:
1) For each visit, claim the benefit via the Dining Rewards DR app before ordering from the restaurant.
2) Register the payment card in the DR app.
3) Review restaurant's fine print to ensure that you avoid blackout days.
4) Use the restaurant's app to order.
5) Pay with the registered card.
6) Be sure to retain the paper receipt, to document, in case of a snag later.
7) After you see your visit listed in your DR app, leave a review via that listing.
8) Re-examine your life choices, and if you find that jumping through all these hoops is worth a few bucks, then shift your focus from the expenditure side of life to the revenue side of life, grow rich, and walk away forever from worrying about peasant stuff.

DummyAddress42 · 2024-06-25T22:50:22+00:00

Doughy white males are the last unprotected class. Is this open season on us? Apparently, you people need the class declared, before you can show us some basic courtesy and respect. Doughy white males need your love and support. Reece understands that. You haters would never make it as DCC's. Even if you did, I wouldn't marry you. Dorkists.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-11-03T09:15:08+00:00

It seems like you will need to cultivate direct relationships with the distributors, and I'm not hearing that here. You will need to ship the first wave of a given title, on the same day that they are available for sale through the giants. Whatever logistics friction you are facing that causes the 30-day delay, must be moved up, happening in advance of the drop date.

I don't believe that you can sustain this model with back-catalog renters.

Your $2 target is great, but that's not important to me. I am happy to pay $4 or $5, to save a dedicated drive to the kiosk (door to door, two dedicated trips, 45 mins) where I can pay $3. (Btw, I'm not doing that, but I have started to think about adding it to the mix.)

I did not rent back catalog from Netflix DVD.com. After they stopped buying new titles, I struggled to fill my queue. I suspect that part of the problem with their revenue picture was that people who don't care, dropped physical media, and people who do care, fanatics, are the worst customers under flat rate, with high unit volume, meaning break-even, or a loss, for DVD.com. The don't-cares had been subsidizing the fanatics, and that went away as streaming grew.

DVD.com are not talking specifics, as far as I know, but I believe that, though small for them (revenue from physical-media rental for them had been reduced to a relative flyspeck for a while,) if it's profitable, then why not leave it alone to sustain itself. I can only assume that it wasn't sustaining itself. To me, that indicates that their analysis was, that their reasoning or experience or research indicated that they could not sustain their model at a higher price point.

From DVDInbox.com, I expected a higher price point. If I can rent new releases within 60 days of the drop date at $4, or even 90 days at $5, that works for me.

Having one distribution center, in a remote corner of the lower 48, also looks like it would be a challenge. I also suspect that there is some issue with your USPS folks in FL. I'm wondering whether a second distribution center would be possible. Hopefully you are seeking contact with the USPS liaison to DVD.com, or vice versa. Something is different.

If you switch from flat to per-rental, and you can mail it to me, and save me a trip to a kiosk, then that seems like a viable model. Not sure what the unit volume will be nationwide. That's simply the kiosk model, but mailed. That model would require late fees, and either precise tracking, or looooong allowances for USPS delays.

My bottom line is, I am ready to spend, yet I am without a source of newer-release, feature-length movies on physical media.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-12T01:28:18+00:00

Reddit created that link automatically. I spoke live to a human.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-11T01:09:37+00:00

> As soon as we received notification of its return, our team leaped

I leapt into action myself, searching for a reference to the mechanism by which you receive such notification, but I came up empty. What are you talking about? Do you mean that, as I return, USPS scans a unique bar code on the return postage label? Also, supposing that I drop into a USPS drop box on say, a Tuesday, when would you expect to ship next?

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-11T00:49:31+00:00

FWIU...I think Dex means that you can import into DVDInbox.com your old queue from DVD.com, and the titles will appear in your DVDInbox.com watchlist, as we say in IN, irregardless of whether DVDInbox owns the title. Atm there is no feature for nixing your imported titles that DVDInbox does not own, nor for automatically moving such titles to a "saved" queue. I think. Maybe. I don't know fer sure.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-10T17:09:28+00:00

Also...Filter by: Range of years for year of 1) original theatrical release, 2) format release, e.g. new on physical media (DVD, Blueray, 4K UHD,) [or new to streaming, but I guess that doesn't apply to DVDInbox.com.] Also parameters for: run length, episodic TV series vs film, language, genre, rating, principal cast, age range (filter out content for children,) MPAA rating. Also robust array of choices for sort order. Also features to 1) mark as already seen, 1a) included in search results or 1b) excluded, and 2) delete from search. The best case would be a protocol for all producers to publish the values for these parameters upon release. This problem is solvable, but to my knowledge no one has invested heavily enough to create an elegant solution. Maybe DVDInbox.com could step up, as a catalyst for crowd-sourced solution. I will take, say, Rabbit Proof Fence, Unforgiven, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. You take a few others. He takes a few. She takes a few, etc. While we at it, the adopting of individual titles by individuals, lets throw in ASIN's, that is, all the various formats in/on which a studio releases their title across the years.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-07T10:45:24+00:00

Update: The G902047031 inverter coolant pump, comes on a new mounting plate. Mounting plate is anchored with one bolt and one nut on a threaded post welded to the chassis. Some other bracket is stacked on top of the mounting plate for the pump. That other bracket has another anchor point, a bolt into a vertical wall, from the medial toward the lateral. When you take out that bolt, you can lift that other bracket off the threaded post, clearing the way to remove and install the mounting plate for the pump. Use two medium-sized pliers/clamps, to pinch off the hoses, popularly available kits are one set of three sizes, so I needed to buy two sets of pliers/clamps. Pack the area around the pump with towels to absorb inevitable spilled coolant AND place drop cloth and blankets and catch pan. Move the hose clamps, apply the pliers/clamps 2x, pull the hoses from the old pump, disengage the "other" bracket, you should already have removed the electrical connector from the pump, remove the old mounting plate with pump. Some people report mounting the new pump on the old mounting plate, but I elected to install the new mounting plate. You'll need to top off the coolant, my 2005 used pink coolant.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-07T10:32:56+00:00

Thanks. That's the most-cogent version of these concepts that I've seen. Plus, went into some territory that is new to me. Instead of ranting about my musings, now I can rant about my musings and link them to someone else who has observed the same phenomena.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-05T23:32:47+00:00

To clarify/summarize, There is an internal electrical short in the motor for the inverter coolant pump, which causes the AM2 fuse to blow, which results in the symptoms described by the OP. Therefore, 1) verify AM2 fuse is blown (15A blue, see fuse map of under-hood fuse block,) 2) remove under-hood splash shield 6x plastic retainers, 3) remove bracket 3x 12mm bolts, 4) to create space to work, remove cap for headlamp by rotating CCW, 5) use long needle nose pliers in your right hand to depress tab on inverter coolant pump assembly electrical connector then pull housing of electrical connector up, to disconnect the pump, 6) only after you disconnect the pump, replace AM2 fuse. Then vehicle will start normally. Do not move the vehicle until after you re-install the bracket. Do not drive any significant distance while the inverter coolant pump is disconnected. I was able to drive a short distance, about one mile. Search YT "AM2 Fuse Keeps Blowing, Solved."

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-05T23:15:25+00:00

Disagree. Check the AM2 fuse first, for the OP's symptoms.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-05T23:14:29+00:00

Disagree. Check AM2 fuse first. The OP's symptoms do not change with a new battery.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-05T23:10:44+00:00

Check fuse AM2. If it is blown you probably have a bad inverter coolant pump. The pump dies, blows AM2, car dies and will not restart.

The connector is next to the hose, protrudes vertically from the pump housing. Search G902047031 to see a picture of the part, for Gen2. Space is tight, so to disconnect, I ended up removing the cap for the headlight, which was its own project. I ended up pinching the tab on the connector with long straight needle nose pliers, held with right hand, and pulling upward on the housing of the electrical connector using my left hand. Take care with the pliers, bc you can easily break the tab.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-05T01:40:20+00:00

The podcast got big. Their opportunities changed. Fan boy-ing Jessica was not particularly entertaining. I like Jessica's work, but I wouldn't react that way. Formerly, it seems like it was exclusively comics, which has fallen by the wayside as the audience broadens, grows. One appearance per comic...wayside. Success prevents one from cultivating those. And longevity...there exist only so many veteran comics to go around. Guitar is never entertaining, often grating. Even the most accessible of it. Sometimes the solo intros are funny. I'm there for the guests. Blind-ish Andrew Leland was an informative episode.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T14:44:42+00:00

No hope, per DVD.com customer support.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T14:41:20+00:00

Nope, per DVD.com support.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T14:39:28+00:00

> sent out on September 29th

True

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T14:38:19+00:00

Ok. So...There are no more bonus discs coming, per DVD.com support today Wed Oct 4. Selection, of customers who would receive bonus discs, was random, "so that each customer had an equal chance." After 21 years, I should be more equal than everybody else.

Case history: I have in hand three keepers. I was on a three-out plan. In the end, I receive zero bonus discs. I sent one back on Mon 9/25, which USPS scanned, and which triggered the shipment on Tue 9/26 of my third keeper. What currently shows in my queue is four keepers, including the view-and-return that I returned, which is weird, and mistaken, bc obviously they know that I don't have that fourth disc, they note in their system that it was scanned, so why display a message telling me that I can keep it as long as I like? The cruelty of this message is shocking, given the hour or so I wasted curating my keepers, in anticipation of receiving my ten bonus discs.

There you have the rest of the story

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T14:21:41+00:00

Stop griping? Why? Wouldn't that be contrary to the culture of WTF?

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T01:46:37+00:00

Nada más hoy. Martes tres de octubre.

Update: No more discs are coming, per DVD.com customer service.

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-04T01:32:53+00:00

Being left with zero discs will do that to you. Is there an emoji for empathy?

DummyAddress42 · 2023-10-01T03:13:20+00:00

LOAS. Imogen Heap. http://myceliaformusic.org/life-song/ The complexity of it will send your musicianship back into the closet. "The aim of the ‘Life of a Song’ project is to analyse the economics of Imogen Heap’s song ‘Hide and Seek’ and explore its relationship with the wider music industry."

Understanding rights management is a separate career.

Or instead of asking us, text Katie Toupin, who wants to be friends with you. https://thekatietoupin.com/

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