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AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



I've decided. I need to start making pilgrimages to this holy place of Hot Dogs and 20 oz. Sodas for $1.50

There's one in town. How do I start this quest? Do I just go up like a dipshit and ask to give them $60 to let me in? Is there a password?

Also with the plague happening, are there like, occupancy limits? Will I have to wait 2 hours?

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AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



Schadenboner posted:

Someone report this rear end in a top hat's tail number to Member Services. He's ruining it for the rest of us by letting in heathens. For all you know AlphariusOmegon might be a :nws::nms:Sams Club:nms::nws: member!

I have shopped at dyers and sundry purveyors of grocery and goods, but I have only in times of great distress given my work tokens to the Wal family, and never engaged them in any manner of contract for membership in any of their houses of ill repute.

Though I be not a member of the Cost Company, this accusation is a slight upon my honor and I demand retraction or satisfaction upon the field of honor.

AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



Alright, it's official, my Roommate and I are going to Costco this weekend, I'm going to walk around first but if it's half as good as y'all are saying I'll probably walk out with a Membership and at least like $100 in Booze, plus a lot of frozen veggies and all our other staples, except fresh produce unless the stuff at my local location is better than the people in this thread seem to imply.

At at the end, I gotta admit, despite not having once since I was a kid living with my Grandma back when Bush was president....

I might be thinkin' about that dog.

AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



I can't believe the SomethingAwful forums tricked me into a Costco membership and I spent $520 today.

They talked me into the fancy black card, and honestly other than the potential hassle of need to go there to get the rebate if I get less than $60 back, I don't see why the other type even exists? There's no risk, really, just a higher upfront cost.

Anyway these Jeans are really really comfortable and my freezer is now literally full to the point that it can accept no more frozen veggies. Also like $100 of that was on loving wine because I didn't realize their selection was that legit, and I found a wine there that I haven't seen in years but I remember it being the best cab I ever spent less than $100 on.

Oh and it was like $10 cheaper than I paid last time.

Anyway here's pictures because that's a thing humans do I guess. Had to take the dog out and eat it on my car because of COVID.

Ok I didn't have to do that but I chose to and it was a good choice.



AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



Xaris posted:

you have to spend $3,000 a year to break-even on it, which, for a suburban tract-house family of 4 is not a high of a bar, but an apartment/condo of just 1-2 people may be a bit of a stretch without a whole lot of Big Purchases in the works. and that's just break-even, for a noticeable refund you'll have to spend more than that. lets just put it this way, there's a reason why they're very very pushy and car salesmany about pushing the executive memberships and have been for the last 4 years or whenever the amex change swapped over. they aren't pushing executive cards constantly just to save people money.

also in order to get refunded for the executive card you can only officially do it once, have to stand in customer service line (which can take 10-20 minutes), and then you get downgraded to gold membership and the executive +$60 refunded. that said individual costcos may handle it differently and may let you get refunded $60 while keeping it but it may be a one-off thing and official policy is that to get your <$60 rebate you have to be cancelled or downgraded to gold

but if you do constantly make Very Big Purchases like fridges or furnitute and laptops or you have a big ol mormon quiverful family, yeah it's absolutely worth it. for us as a household of 2 in a 1-br apartment, it's not. we spend about $2k a year at most.

I mean yeah, all that tracks and I can foresee a future wherein I just get downgraded to gold this time next year, but to be honest the place where I'm living now the grocery stores suck rear end enough that between gas, groceries, and booze I can see myself (and my roommate) spending over 3k. I'll report back in 2021 and let you know how it worked out.

And for what it's worth I totally anticipate having to make furniture and electronics purchases soon.

AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



Just go back from the 'co with 2 packs of Kirkland Signature Flavored Sparkling Water, 2 packs of dogs, and 2 packs of the muffins.

Whycome nobody is talking about the wine selection? It literally beats my local liquor stores, I would have to drive twice as far to a wine-only store to get a better selection. Also I got a bottle of 2013 Italian wine which I can't wait to bust open.

And yes I did get a Hot Dog (1/4 pound PLUS, all beef) with drink (WITH REFILL) for $1.50 but alas only yellow mustard cuz of the plague.

AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



DeadFatDuckFat posted:

Thats like a newborn baby's weight in hotdogs

Well, at 14 packs of 1/4+ each (I know it's PLUS, but we'll go with easy math) that's about 3.5 pounds of dog per pack, so 7 pounds of dogs....

Yeah. Yeah it is.

AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



Anybody use the car buying program before? Im looking to trade my Subaru for a Wrangler.

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AlphariusOmegon
May 11, 2020



I wish I could buy weed from Costco

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