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jasonnaper 02-09-04 09:16 PM

Dont waist your money on this... Its much cheaper doing it the hard way... Just put on some clean socks, run around the room rubbing your feet on the carpet to build up a static electric charge then simply put the DVD on your little finger and rewind...???

DUH!

Why spend a dollar??? I just dont get it?

vivarey 02-09-04 09:19 PM


Originally posted by jasonnaper
Dont waist your money on this... Its much cheaper doing it the hard way... Just put on some clean socks, run around the room rubbing your feet on the carpet to build up a static electric charge then simply put the DVD on your little finger and rewind...???
Ah, yes. The good old-fashioned static electricity trick. Works every time!

jasonnaper 02-09-04 09:23 PM

And just my opinion... jough... Why must people take everything to court? You must have a head ack most of the time?

Pay Pal me $99.99 and I will guarentee a solution to your head ack problem.

vivarey 02-09-04 09:25 PM


Originally posted by jasonnaper
And just my opinion... jough... Why must people take everything to court?
Because that's the American way. :rolleyes:

benjsimpson 02-09-04 09:44 PM

Now why wasnt this technology around when I had a large vinyl collection...all those wasted hours rewinding...not to mention the damage to the record from dragging the needle backwards over it to get it back to the start...

jough 02-09-04 09:48 PM

I was joking about suing them. However, when they take real money from people for a service they do/can not provide, that is fraud. It's highly highly illegal.

Dammit 02-09-04 10:04 PM


Originally posted by jough
I was joking about suing them. However, when they take real money from people for a service they do/can not provide, that is fraud. It's highly highly illegal.
Dude... it's a joke. Are there people out there dumb enough to think it's real? Maybe. But that doesn't mean the guy was trying to do something malicious.

Tarantino 02-09-04 10:17 PM

Can I pay all at once or do I have to pay after each DVD? I'm a third of the way through my collection, but it's working great!

n0fear88 02-10-04 05:25 AM


Originally posted by DavidH
n0fear88,

If you do decide to rewind your DVDs, I suggest buying a separate "DVD rewinder" so you don't wear out your DVD player's laser.

ok thanx but WHY rewind em? wats the benefit from it? :(

sorry if i sound like an idiot, but i really dont understand why u would want to?!

does it make the picture clearer or sumthing?!

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLP! lol

talemyn 02-10-04 08:46 AM


Originally posted by n0fear88
ok thanx but WHY rewind em? wats the benefit from it? :(

sorry if i sound like an idiot, but i really dont understand why u would want to?!

does it make the picture clearer or sumthing?!

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLP! lol

:lol:

You guys are mean . . . ;)

jough 02-10-04 11:15 AM


Originally posted by Dammit
Dude... it's a joke. Are there people out there dumb enough to think it's real? Maybe. But that doesn't mean the guy was trying to do something malicious.
As I said, regardless of whether it was intended as a joke or not, they're accepting real money, not joke money - that means that they have to deliver on their end. They have to "rewind" the DVD. Since it's impossible to rewind a DVD (or make the DVD player run backwards via a web app, even) they're committing fraud.

The law is pretty specific about these things, and Uncle Sam has like, NO sense of humour whatsoever.

Pants 02-10-04 01:55 PM

Joke? No

Fraud? Yes

Roy Batty 02-10-04 02:31 PM

Kinda reminds me of when, while in the Navy, we'd send recruits out looking for left handed monkey wrenches and buckets of compressed air. We never ran short of guys who would go look.

El-Kabong 02-10-04 03:08 PM


Originally posted by Roy Batty
Kinda reminds me of when, while in the Navy, we'd send recruits out looking for left handed monkey wrenches and buckets of compressed air. We never ran short of guys who would go look.
Or when I worked at McDonalds, we'd always send the n00bs into the back room - "We're out of hot dog buns! Quick! Go get me some!"

And the poor bastards would be in the back for an hour looking for the hot dog buns. Great way to get them out from underfoot during lunch rush.

Yakuza Bengoshi 02-10-04 03:15 PM


Originally posted by El-Kabong
Or when I worked at McDonalds, we'd always send the n00bs into the back room - "We're out of hot dog buns! Quick! Go get me some!"

And the poor bastards would be in the back for an hour looking for the hot dog buns. Great way to get them out from underfoot during lunch rush.

I think it I had somehow found myself working at McDonalds, I'd be happy to humor my supervisor by hanging out in the back during the lunch rush "looking for hotdog buns" too.

berg0449 02-10-04 03:19 PM

Probably taking advantage of the stickers I see on some of the dvd's at blockbusters asking to "Please re-wind"

Yakuza Bengoshi 02-10-04 03:20 PM


Originally posted by Roy Batty
Kinda reminds me of when, while in the Navy, we'd send recruits out looking for left handed monkey wrenches and buckets of compressed air. We never ran short of guys who would go look.
Well I can't think of a self-selection process that would yield a more gullible group of people than to ask for volunteers to give up most of their civil liberties in exchange for very little money and the reward of serving their country. This isn't to say that I'm not extremely glad that people volunteer for the enlisted ranks of the US military; I'm just astonished they do.

vivarey 02-10-04 04:05 PM

The site is full of spoofs and jokes. Yes, it's a joke. Yes, they are accepting real money. But for all we know, the guy is refunding people.

Email him and find out:

[email protected]

Or, have fun with it and pose as a person who wants to get a "bulk" discount.

Neeb 02-10-04 06:09 PM


Originally posted by steebo777
Capitalism at its best :)
PT Barnum would be proud.

Neeb 02-10-04 06:10 PM


Originally posted by El-Kabong
Or when I worked at McDonalds, we'd always send the n00bs into the back room - "We're out of hot dog buns! Quick! Go get me some!"

And the poor bastards would be in the back for an hour looking for the hot dog buns. Great way to get them out from underfoot during lunch rush.

One question. What if they found some hot dog buns?

millafan 02-12-04 03:40 PM

if ur employees actualy asked you "will we lose our jobs if we dont find any?" what would be your reply, pretty damn funny if you said yes

jough 02-12-04 04:17 PM

Nah, you'd just have employees going to the 7-11 next door to buy some.

bboisvert 02-12-04 04:28 PM

In a related story, Comcast is considering acquisition of Applied Gravitronics, Ltd.

weargle 02-12-04 04:35 PM

I need to market my idiot detector that has been in years of R&D.

Roy Batty 02-12-04 04:40 PM


In a related story, Comcast is considering acquisition of Applied Gravitronics, Ltd.
Which means that Disney will now have to include this feature with all their discs, should Comcast's buyout succeed.

nodeerforamonth 02-12-04 05:34 PM


Originally posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
Well I can't think of a self-selection process that would yield a more gullible group of people than to ask for volunteers to give up most of their civil liberties in exchange for very little money and the reward of serving their country. This isn't to say that I'm not extremely glad that people volunteer for the enlisted ranks of the US military; I'm just astonished they do.
Just be thankful that those "gullible group of people" are giving up most of their civil liberties so that YOU can have your civil liberties.

JoeDeM 02-12-04 05:52 PM

I tried it, but it doesn't work with Macs, I guess I'll have to play them backwards.

garolo 02-12-04 06:02 PM


Originally posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
I think it I had somehow found myself working at McDonalds, I'd be happy to humor my supervisor by hanging out in the back during the lunch rush "looking for hotdog buns" too.
Ah, it warms my heart to find another slacker in the neighborhood.

:)

Seantn 02-12-04 06:23 PM


I was joking about suing them. However, when they take real money from people for a service they do/can not provide, that is fraud. It's highly highly illegal.
You...are...an idiot! It's a joke! That money was probably donated by their friends or other people JUST LIKE YOU who donated as a gag.

jough 02-12-04 07:42 PM

Whether or not someone paid them as a joke (I don't think that a joke is worth a dollar to me) it's still fraud. As I said, the U.S. legal system has no sense of humour about these things.

Gallant Pig 02-12-04 10:18 PM


Originally posted by Seantn
You...are...an idiot! It's a joke! That money was probably donated by their friends or other people JUST LIKE YOU who donated as a gag.
Seantn: personal insults are not tolerated around here. Being a senior member you should realize that. Please make sure it doesn't happen again.

asperdank 02-12-04 11:14 PM


Originally posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
Well I can't think of a self-selection process that would yield a more gullible group of people than to ask for volunteers to give up most of their civil liberties in exchange for very little money and the reward of serving their country. This isn't to say that I'm not extremely glad that people volunteer for the enlisted ranks of the US military; I'm just astonished they do.
Well, as a former enlisted man in the US Navy I never felt like I, or any of my fellow enlisted, were gullible in making our decision to serve our country. Besides, the pay isn't all that bad. I'm not sure how many civil liberties I gave up either, unless you want to count the forced hair style. Once boot camp was over I pretty much lived my life the same way I do now, without the trips overseas. I also got to travel all over Europe and got paid to do it, so I feel I got the good end of the deal.

Anyway, back on topic, I thought it was a pretty funny joke.

ChrisHicks 06-18-04 01:59 PM

you know if you get a big plastic bag and a stick and go stand in the middle of a large field and start beating the bag while yelling "SNIPE, SNIPE, SNIPE" ...uh, never mind.

jough 06-21-04 11:05 AM

WAY TO RESURRECT A DEAD THREAD

ChrisHicks 06-21-04 12:21 PM

I thought I was posting in the newer thread exactly like this. oh well.

Rival11 06-21-04 12:33 PM

This is just simply amazing, god bless the interweb.

DouglasRobert 06-21-04 01:34 PM

Maybe this is targeted to people who think that when you put a DVD in the machine that the laser melts away the plastic covering and the metal containing the movie unspools in the machine like a tape and that it's required to rewind the DVD to pack the movie back onto the DVD and to put the plastic covering back onto the DVD.

There are probably some consumers so stupid to actually think that.


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