Supermarket: Sadness.

Omelet wrote:










That can be true. I've bought both T-Mobile and Tracfone
prepaids... I think it worked out that so long as you at some
point in the first year plan to use 500 minutes or so, the
T-Mobile will be cheaper. Also getting the lowest cost on the
Tracfone seemed way too dependent on sifting through coupons and
discounts, and I ended up having to reload it for small amounts
more often. So it seemed more of a hassle than T-Mobile.

Also the T-Mobile prepaid is set up to send/receive email
(10 cents/message), and at the time Tracfone was not, although
they may have fixed this by now.

According to Wikipedia, the Tracfone handsets are locked down
in an unusual manner, making them more difficult to unlock and
also preventing things like moving photos off the phone with a USB
cable. T-Mobile handsets are easy to free up. I never tried
to unlock the Tracfone handset.

Steve
 
Omelet wrote:




That's most convenitent, but Tracfone does charge something (maybe
10 cents) for each photo that is emailed. With a USB cable it is free.
That's why they disable it.

Steve
 
On 1/30/2011 2:28 PM, Omelet wrote:

Same here. I just use my cell phone for emergency calls, or to tell
someone I'm running late. Tracfone all the way. So what I can't get a
cool phone. I don't need all that. Plus, if you buy a phone that has
double minutes for life, ever time you add minutes, they will double.
 
"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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Our space is limited and some of the books that come in are in bad shape
or older and have been "read out" as our supervisor calls them. Meaning
that our patrons have already read them.....Sharon
 
notbob wrote:

The worst part is that they have successfully sold the bill of goods that
says it is a convenience and a benefit to be able to be located and
contacted any time, any place.
 
Default User wrote:


Despite the fact that I love libraries, I never managed to check
out the main branch in my town until just a few years ago ... like
4 years. I was astonished at how nice it is (built with a lot of
donations) and all the many services it offers. Then I got a load
of the online catalog function, things have sure changed since I
was a page. All for the better.

I'd still love to own one of those old wood card catalog cases.

nancy
 
"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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Likely not. That's what the term refers to in our system. Our
patrons mostly like the best sellers and don't reread them. At any rate,
that's the criteria we follow....works for us. We don't have the space to
shelve books that are not likely to be taken out again. We have books for
sale also and some of the patrons that buy them donate them back. We use
those funds to buy the new best sellers. We are a volunteer deposit and
only partly supplied with books from the municipal library system. We can
order in any book that is available in the municipal system, but if we can
get the newest releases on our own, our patrons don't have to wait in the
request que. ........... Sharon
 
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