Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial. Last week, I got a chance to pick out a piece of artwork from FulcrumGallery.com. FulcrumGallery.com is a site that sells framed & canvas prints of artwork, photography and more. They have thousands of prints to choose form, and you can even get your own photo or artwork printed on canvas or as a framed print. I spent a long time browsing the art on their site and still probably only looked at a quarter of it. I ended up being drawing to the vintage movie poster section. They had all sorts of movie posters available for both new and old movies, and even tons of international posters. I started searching from random movies and came across ‘Doctor Who and the Daleks’ staring Peter Cushing. I’m a huge Dr. Who fan and instantly fell in love with the poster. For the print, I got a 1.5” Deep Canvas Wrap that was 11x 17. You can get thinner bars (0.75”), but I like the thick ones best. The canvas shipped within a few days ...
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Product Review – ScoreBig
A few days ago, I was invited to try out ScoreBig. ScoreBig is a site that you can get tickets to concerts, attractions, sporting events and more at a discount. You can get tickets one of two ways. You can buy them at the fixed price or you can make an offer to get the tickets at an even lower price. I’ve browsed ScoreBig once or twice but had never attempted to buy anything. I was very excited because we have wanted to take our daughter to a Rangers game for quite a while now. Now that my husband is back on a regular work schedule, we are able to take her. After browsing the home game listings, I settled on either May 17 or 18. May 17th was my preferred date since it’s an evening game and I figured that it would be cooler. I selected the number of tickets and then the seating area. I placed my offer, filled in my address and billing info, and then submitted it. The great thing about ScoreBig is that they won’t bill you unless you win the offer. My offer didn’t go through because ...
Product Review – Doll Clothes Superstore
A few weeks ago, I got to pick out a set of matching girl and doll dresses from Doll Clothes Superstore. Doll Clothes Superstore makes clothing and accessories for a large number of popular dolls on the market, including American Girl, My Twinn & Barbie. My daughter has several small size baby dolls that she is just now starting to play with a bit, so I figured that she would love to have a matching outfit set. I wasn’t sure at first which size to get for the doll. The rep told me that the ‘baby doll’ size fits most dolls in the 15 inch size range. The ‘Cabbage patch’ size is slightly bigger & will fit dolls in the 15 to 18 size range. After taking a quick measure, I got the ‘baby doll’ size and a size 5 for the matching child dress. When the dresses arrived, we though they were absolutely beautiful. The doll dress fits on my daughter’s dolls perfectly, and she’s found that she can also put it on several of her smaller teddy bears too. The dress for her is a big ...
Product Review – GiveAndSave.com
Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial. Last week, I was asked to take a look at Give And Save. Give And Save connects with local business to offer you products & services at a discounts, then gives 50% the sale to a charity of your choice. They currently have several items, including cell phone arm bands & a $100 Resturant.com gift certificate. There are also several national and local charities, like The American Red Cross, The Humane Society & KASL Academy. You can also search for local deals by entering in your city. The checkout process is quick and easy. Once you pick out your items or items, you will be taken to their checkout page. Once you enter in your information and pick your charity, you will be able to pay with a credit card. Depending on what you are getting, you will be sent a voucher to redeem your item or it will be mailed to you once the offer period is over. I got the $100 Resturant.com gift certificate & received ...
Product Review — Dakwak Translation Service
Last week, I was invited to try out Dakwak Website Translation Service. Dakwak allows you to translate your site into 60 languages so that you will be able to connect easier to a worldwide audience. They have several monthly plans, ranging from free to Unlimited ($500 per month). When your pages are translated, they are stored under temporary domains or can be saved on your domain (premium subscriptions). Signing up is fairly easy. You enter in your info, site URL & pick out your plan. The default translation setting is machine translation. This means that it’s run through a program and has 70% accuracy rating. In order to get better accuracy, you can pay to get it translated by a person. All of the pIans have pageview & translation limits of some degree. If you reach these limits, nothing else will be translated and/or your translated pages will not be viewable. I signed up for the free plan first, and once I got everything set up would upgrade it to Premium ...
National Consumer Panel — Ripoff!
Several years ago, I signed up for National Consumer Panel. NCP sends you a scanner and you scan all your purchases each week for a set number of points. I have one of the older scanners that you held up to the phone to transmit and manually enter the prices. The points can be redeemed for various items and gift cards. They also have quarterly & yearly giveaways as well that you get entered into as long as you scan each week. For the first year and a half, I didn’t have any problems. I transmitted my scans on time and racked up points. After that, however, I started having issues with getting the transmissions to go though. It started taking multiple call backs to get the transmission to go through over the phone. That eventually turned into days, then weeks. I contacted their help panel numerous times, only to either be ignored completely or told to keep trying. I even tried to request a new scanner, but I got no reply. Through this, I kept scanning my purchases ...