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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #120 on: April 13, 2021, 10:18:18 AM »
Very interesting thread..

I wonder if it was the most utilized and longest lasting pricing error ever. And it didn't even make it to DDMS!
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #121 on: April 13, 2021, 10:26:08 AM »
I wonder if it was the most utilized and longest lasting pricing error ever. And it didn't even make it to DDMS!
How long did it last?

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #122 on: April 13, 2021, 10:32:30 AM »
How long did it last?
Check the thread for the end date which was sometime in January 2016 IIRC. Check the first post of the thread to see approximate time when it began catching on in the Yiddishe communities.
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #123 on: April 13, 2021, 11:15:13 AM »
How long did it last?
45 Days on DDF

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #124 on: April 13, 2021, 11:24:07 AM »
45 Days on DDF

It was going on in the Yiddishe communities since October and ended in January. It was likely around for a long time (likely more than a year) before it started spreading in the Yiddishe communities.

There were probably thousands of policies purchased.
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #125 on: April 13, 2021, 08:37:54 PM »
Since you asked, I came here when all the local blogs were deep in covid denial but at the same time people were dropping like flies r"l. I'm not so good at cognitive dissonance and I thought I lost my mind until I discovered here that there a few others who understood the danger of covid and were still frum practicing Jews.

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #126 on: April 13, 2021, 11:46:32 PM »
Since you asked, I came here when all the local blogs were deep in covid denial but at the same time people were dropping like flies r"l. I'm not so good at cognitive dissonance and I thought I lost my mind until I discovered here that there a few others who understood the danger of covid and were still frum practicing Jews.
You had COVID in 2013 already?🤔

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #127 on: April 14, 2021, 12:29:44 AM »
You had COVID in 2013 already?🤔

Maybe it was MERS and they misdiagnosed him :P
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #128 on: April 14, 2021, 12:39:34 AM »
After a long time reading DDMS, I finally joined to find out about the Le Meridien Dead Sea.
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #129 on: April 14, 2021, 08:55:21 AM »
I joined after someone told my husband he went to Israel on AMEX points accrued from his business. I think (not 100% sure) Google got me here.

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #130 on: April 14, 2021, 09:28:26 AM »
Heard about it from a friend, who heard about it from a friend, who heard about it from a friend. Can't remember how many there were.  :)
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #131 on: April 14, 2021, 10:07:59 AM »
#UPSMethod

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #132 on: April 14, 2021, 11:12:58 AM »
#UPSMethod

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #133 on: April 14, 2021, 11:31:28 AM »
#UPSMethod

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So UPS delivered you to DDF? Was it next-day air? second-day? 3 day? or ground?

Paging @YitzyS, this could be a major news item. Where the UPS method finally slipped out of someone's keyboard!
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #134 on: April 14, 2021, 11:48:33 AM »
So UPS delivered you to DDF? Was it next-day air? second-day? 3 day? or ground?

Paging @YitzyS, this could be a major news item. Where the UPS method finally slipped out of someone's keyboard!
My editors don't let me write about this.

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #135 on: April 14, 2021, 12:13:32 PM »
My editors don't let me write about this.

Fire them.
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #136 on: April 14, 2021, 12:17:40 PM »
You had COVID in 2013 already?🤔

OOh good catch! Good thing i'm not running for public office.
Inactive after one comment in 2013 till 2020. Should have said that I rediscovered DDF...

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #137 on: April 14, 2021, 12:20:08 PM »
Fire them.
The mods would delete it anyways. I once wrote that the UPS method {censored} but it was removed by the mods.

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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #138 on: April 14, 2021, 01:04:24 PM »
The mods would delete it anyways. I once wrote that the UPS method {censored} but it was removed by the mods.

Just post it in the sooper seekrit forums or on WA.
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Re: What brought you to DDF?
« Reply #139 on: April 14, 2021, 01:09:09 PM »
Just post it in the sooper seekrit forums or on WA.

He can't get likes on WA