"Smart" Rewards - not so Smart I think

So I get the Email, and sign up. My Verizon Smart Rewards You have 33,050 points waiting for you.
Cool. lets go take a look at what I can get. Unfortunately, it seems Verizon caps you on how many points you can use per item.
For example:
Beats Studio Over-Ear Headphone (More Colors Available)
Retail Price:
$269.95
Points:
–5,400
You Pay:
$215.95
(20% Savings)
I have 33,050 points here to use, what gives? From what I can tell 5400 points above equals $54.00
So every 1000 points should equal $100 of actual "credit". I guess Verizon is not giving me a $3300 shopping spree after all.
Goodbye Verizon, just waiting for the next iPhone to come out so we can switch to T-Mobile.

I've been a Verizon customer for 12 years. I too just started the "Smart" rewards. What a crock! I can buy most of this stuff cheaper off Amazon.com and don't need any points to do it. Verizon is just trying to scam us another way. Guess they haven't had as much luck screwing over people with the "Edge" scam yet. I remember when this company actually cared about making it customers happy but when they forced me off my unlimited data to fund their corporate greed, I lost my "Loyalty" to them. I like you am just waiting to Switch to another carrier.

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Hi,
How do I cancel or opt out of smart rewards? There is a link here:
My Verizon Online Sign In - Verizon Wireless
How do I opt out of Verizon Smart Rewards?Verizon Smart Rewards is a free savings program offered to Verizon Wireless customers. Participation is voluntary and your Points will be available to you as long as you're an active Verizon Wireless customer.
To opt out of Verizon Selects, please visit www.vzw.com/verizonselects.
to here:
https://rewards.verizonwireless.com/www.vzw.com/verizonselects
but it is broken
Our website is currently unavailable due to system maintenance.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.

I get the same message - however you can go to your rewards.verizonwireless.com profile, and edit your email preferences so you no longer get points summaries or offers. Simply do nothing with the points that you earn, let them sit there.

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Smart Rewards Auctions are the Most FRUSTRATING thing. The people who created it, needs to be a customer & try it themselves.
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I never had a problem/attitude against Verizon till now

Yeah, I have pretty much given up on it and I am one who has always loved online auction sites. Generally if you are smart enough to walk away when some over-eager bidder takes the bidding way too high, you can get some good deals.
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C, sorry…I read your posts out of order. I see that you have links to your smart groups after all. My apologies.
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Verizon Smart Rewards-Don't fall for it, it's just another way for them to....

let other companies view your usage and demographic information. I have over 12,000 points which are virtually useless because all of the offers shown are for what basically amounts to coupons for a percentage off. 30% off Shoes, a Kate Spade bag, regularly $1 billion dollars, save $1 million, Buy a $100 gift card for $90, etc. What kind of Smart Reward is that? To me a smart reward for my YEARS of loyal patronage would be $1 for every point earned redeemable in a gift card like my credit card company does. In my eyes Verizon owes me a $120 gift card for something fabulous. These Smart Rewards are really nothing more than a slap in the face, while you allow another company to steal my info. And how much did they pay YOU for the privilege????

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Imran

Imran--
c- TechTool Pro DOES show bad blocks in a surface
scan, but I believe that utility shows what is on the
physical drive, and not what the OS makes available
for use. In other words, TechTools will probably
always tell that Bad Blocks Exist.
Actually, from reading around, and from experience, I think this is not such a good sign. On the PowerBook I had, once I reformatted and wrote zeros, neither TechTool Pro nor smartmontools showed any bad blocks any more. smartmontools just showed the previously re-allocated sectors in its report. So I think that the fact that TechTool Pro still shows bad blocks is a sign it's still shedding magnetic media.
The reallocated sector information is actually stored in the drive's firmware, so any attempt to read or write to the bad sector just sends the drive's head to the spare sector. So, if it was able to remap all the bad sectors, a surface scan shouldn't show any bad blocks.
d- I slowly started moving my data back to the
PowerBook and am backing up everything, everyday. So
far, no problems, except the dreaded nightmare of mds
spotlight process having taken over the machine for
24 HOURS. Even looking for a specific file by
specific name in Finder that I typed in 4 HOURS ago
is still spinning. I HATE MDS and I hope the creator
of the obnoxious behavior of mds/spotlight suffers
pain of some sort or the other... curses on them...
note to self, buy voodoo dolls and pins.
Ah, but if your drive isn't healthy, then that could explain the Spotlight problem. My PowerBook doesn't stall out and get taken over by Spotlight's indexing. I don't remember it taking more than an hour or so to index my drive. I frankly never notice it except when I attach an external FireWire drive that's never been attached before.
f- I am comfortable compiling stuff, though never had
the opportunity to do that on Mac OS X.
Well, if you have Xcode installed, if I remember correctly, it's just the usual download the source, unpack the archive, then ./configure, and make steps. I don't remember anything unusual about it, anyway.
SHOULD have bought 10000 Apple shares at
$7 back then
Heh, heh, yep. I remember saying almost exactly the same thing.
h- I would love to try to compile this smartmontools
app, but would it give me any more info/utility than
I already see in TechTools?
I don't remember what TechTool shows, but this page has an example report (with a drive failing because of a reallocated sector count).
charlie

Smart object not opening?

I am using CS3 and I have been having issues with my smart objects from camera raw, I given me an error, "could not edit smart object because disk not available". I have read a similar post, although they where not talking about camera raw smart objects and it was referring to people working over a network which I am not doing. In the past I have found that if I make sure that I open Bridge first, the smart objects will then work. I keep all of my raw images and my working files on the same disk and right now even if I open bridge first, I can not get the smart object to work. Any ideas?

Glad to see some interest. Thanks!
I've had it on both my old system and my new one, the old was a Dual 2.5 G5, the new one is a Dual 2.8 Quad. Both machines are kept fully up to date. The new ones system was created by updating off of the old one.
PS 10.0.1.
It's happened with both files from illustrator and from files created within photoshop - both those created by 'convert to smart object' and 'convert to smart filters'.
I can't remember if I've ever seen the error on either my laptop (macBook) or the mac I use at work (Quad 2.7 G5), if it happens on either I'll mention it here.
Some things about my system that might be part of the cause:
I have four external drives, three firewire, one USB.
I have four internal drives.
I use a wacom.
I'm always connected to a network of at least one other mac (g4 733), two if my laptop is on.
I also get the error where I can't save the file (disk not available?), and have to save out to a different drive, and then restart Photoshop.
I use spaces and sometimes get the flashing cursor error, and have to restart photoshop.
That's all I can think of.
Thanks for the interest.

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