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Author Topic: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?  (Read 30410 times)

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2014, 01:09:43 PM »
Free Google processing was nice.

Think Amazon payments with no set limits.
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2014, 01:18:33 PM »
If the ones I can recall that I've taken advantage of...

$17 LGB-SFO on B6
Delta glitch
Plan B (not really a deal but still)

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2014, 01:20:35 PM »
Next month will mark the 10th anniversary of ctownbochur/dansdeals.

Rank your 10 favorite deals from the past 10 years here!

Is this for a post?
  Might be interesting if we write favorite deals and then some personal details about the exp.

One of my favorite deals was the Delta deal and getting to treat my mother to her 2nd trip to Hawaii. Somewhere she'd never thought she'd ever get to once let alone twice.

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #23 on: October 07, 2014, 01:27:26 PM »
Probably will inspire a post, so feel free to share details if you'd like.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #24 on: October 07, 2014, 01:28:47 PM »
Delta glitch for sure

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2014, 01:34:11 PM »
I was making a joke that I was the perp...
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2014, 01:35:18 PM »
Elal $350 to Israel.
My parents finally came after not being here for over 30 years!

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2014, 01:37:00 PM »
I recall flying to Israel on British and booking through LAN website for under $700 when flights were double that.

Found it:
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2014, 01:41:59 PM »
I'm not putting the Mint.

Not because it wasn't a great deal, but I still have back problems from lugging those around.

Was a bit difficult to unload at times too and I broke a suitcase because of the weight.
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2014, 02:03:42 PM »
Google wallet by far, It has been more beneficial to me than any other signup bonus or glitch

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2014, 02:08:42 PM »
1) BA free points, over two days opened up 145 accounts, and combined them together for a total of 145k free ba points!!!
2) Free LV deal from expedia. Flying with my brother who has status and we got upgraded to first class.
3) Amazon payments was great for a long time.
4) $30 free from groupon referring, bought a bunch of $2 deals, and made lots of groupon money.
5) The ebay groupon deal, bought multiple of them and got a nice ebay discount after it was combined.

All the great signup offers that i took got to take advantage of and more.

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2014, 02:13:30 PM »
My favorite deal:

Snagging my honeymoon to OGG at a whopping $62 per person :)

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #34 on: October 07, 2014, 02:16:43 PM »
Free BMI silver (when silver was worth something :P) - and then matching around
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #35 on: October 07, 2014, 02:24:15 PM »
In the past year in a half..

1) Delta glitch (missed it, was picking up boss from Airport  >:( )
2) Wideroe, booked 9 tickets for an epic swiss family vacation


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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #36 on: October 07, 2014, 02:40:54 PM »
I guess the pampers on Amazon for 9-12$ a case!

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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #37 on: October 07, 2014, 02:43:17 PM »
I guess the pampers on Amazon for 9-12$ a case!
+1

Many great diaper deals.
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #38 on: October 07, 2014, 02:53:10 PM »
Elal $350 to Israel.
My parents finally came after not being here for over 30 years!

Love those stories. :)
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Re: 10 Years Of DD, What Were Your 10 Favorite Deals?
« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2014, 03:10:12 PM »
-Amazon payments
-Free Sprint Galaxy phones - I think I got 8-10 phones, resold on eBay  ;)
-And all other free trips, including
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