Aug 1, 2013, 4:54 pm
Last edit by: WhateverDude
Please report any successful debit transactions after 8/1/2013 on the wiki. Currently majority of reports indicate failure after 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Cannot unload at Walmart as of 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Retailers listed
Home Depot Sears Ace True Value Lowes Orchard Supply Menards Northern Tool & Equipment Restoration Hardware Tractor Supply Stores Lumber Liquidators Do It Best 84 Lumber United Hardware Aubuchon Hardware Handy Hardware Harbor Freight Sherwin Williams Kelly Moore Dunn Edwards Benjamin Moore ToolUp.Com
List of retailers that accept HIGC to buy other Gift cards
Home Depot, Lowes, Sears
Cannot unload at Walmart as of 4PM EST on 8/1/13.
Retailers listed
Home Depot Sears Ace True Value Lowes Orchard Supply Menards Northern Tool & Equipment Restoration Hardware Tractor Supply Stores Lumber Liquidators Do It Best 84 Lumber United Hardware Aubuchon Hardware Handy Hardware Harbor Freight Sherwin Williams Kelly Moore Dunn Edwards Benjamin Moore ToolUp.Com
List of retailers that accept HIGC to buy other Gift cards
Home Depot, Lowes, Sears
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Sep 25, 2015, 2:30 pm
#2161
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Sep 26, 2015, 10:03 am
#2162
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Programs: Delta, United, SPG, HHonors, Hyatt
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Sep 26, 2015, 10:57 am
#2163
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No, that's not understanding the difference between causation and correlation. Unless you can prove causation, it is only correlation. The only reason you have is that you want to believe the connection. That's not nearly enough, and the reasoning is no better than that which Salem citizens used to accuse women of being witches.
Sep 26, 2015, 2:56 pm
#2164
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But after those witches in Salem were destroyed, Salem had no further issues with witchcraft. Witches destroyed = witchcraft problem resolved. What more is required to prove causation than the facts speaking for themselves?
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." -- Henry David Thoreau
No, that's not understanding the difference between causation and correlation. Unless you can prove causation, it is only correlation. The only reason you have is that you want to believe the connection. That's not nearly enough, and the reasoning is no better than that which Salem citizens used to accuse women of being witches.
Sep 28, 2015, 12:20 am
#2165
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It's not something I would share in the forum, and it's not something one would or should do regularly for karma purposes - it was more of an accidental thing we discovered while legitimately using the card as part of the flip project. It has no long-term legs, so to speak, but an incidental and very occasional benefit to using the card.
Sep 28, 2015, 10:48 pm
#2167
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It's a prepaid Discover debit card, but the merchants where you can use the card are restricted to home improvement store. For a period of time back in 2013 a certain big box retailer was erroneously classified as a home improvement store.
Sep 29, 2015, 11:37 am
#2168
Join Date: Sep 2009
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It's not something I would share in the forum, and it's not something one would or should do regularly for karma purposes - it was more of an accidental thing we discovered while legitimately using the card as part of the flip project. It has no long-term legs, so to speak, but an incidental and very occasional benefit to using the card.