McPick 2 for $2.50 - Another McDonald's Trick to Rip You Off.

Well hello friends, thank you for stopping by and reading about the latest and greatest McDonald's trickery to beat you out of your pocket change. 

First of, here is the McDonald's McPick 2 for $2.50 menu that I have taken an actual picture of at the McDonald's location on Judge Ely Blvd in Abilene, TX:

The normal standard fare of slop. But stop, wait a minute. Wasn't the McDouble on the McPick 2 for $2 menu back in January of 2016? Now it is $1.39 ( a dubious 39% increase in eight months!) and even at 2 for $2.50 you are still doling out an extra 25% more (!) for the same wonderful piece of non-meat with a piece of non-cheese slammed in the middle all between your non-bread and doled with condiments that are the only flavor. Yum. 

But that isn't the worst part about this McPick 2 for $2.50 "deal." Look at the price of the McChicken on the base menu. It is $1.19. 

Here it is again, highlighted:

So if you buy 2 via this "deal" then you are actually paying more by 0.11 than by buying each one individually since doing it per the menu board only brings the total to $2.38. 

Only McDonald's comes up with schemes and tricks this flagrant, brass and stupid to fool people that still eat there for some ungodly reason into thinking they are getting a good deal when in reality, they are getting ripped off to no end.

You think eleven cents doesn't matter? Multiply that by millions of customers daily. Eleven cents matters in the world of volume my friends.

Thank you for reading and remember, stay vigilant, as these big box chains will stop at nothing to pad their bottom lines for the 1% that live off of stock profits in America. 

McDonald's has sunk so low that they have resorted to stealing your pocket change and making you believe you are getting a deal as shown here.

We shouldn't be surprised anymore, should we?

 

My eBay Blocked Bidder List - March 2014.

I feel that anyone that sells online should have the right to know what kind of person they are dealing with. In the lack of seller protection (aka none) that eBay has for their sellers no matter how long they have been there, I feel the need to inform and get the word out about buyers. Below is my current eBay blocked bidder list from 2000 - current:

1317gaild, 19baccaro70, 1onnaypapa, 2xxlarge, 304*radcliff, 4296nicholas, 523armystrong, 6392michael, a_pozos123, ably7416, aca_basketball, ahlcardsnmore, ahmai1, amandapoohbear09, andrew2561, anthony_cacciola, april17powell, aroundunitk, astroschica1984, b-rent24, badshaw81, bamacolemsn, barone8765, baseballdsl, belknasm, bkd67, blackwood1980, blessed2givehope, bobbypryer, bondsbondsbonds, booboobooby, bostonsuperfan1974, boutiquebyleah, bpcardsfl, bucktail1928, bz344, cardkid777, cardtrip, ces615, charlesmingill, ckandice, codygavin10, coll003, coondog332013, couponkathleen, dailysales37096, dcruz222, debnturner, desmond201, dojrblu, dougjean1023, dubbledutch81, eaglerock95, emmett825, empstar, evaughn1212, express3430, fabulousfab29, ffadaei, garciaparra517, gholmesjr, gm_mad_man_machine, hammer1175220, helentran408, highsierra98, hoerl69, hops2100, hottie520, howellrgnhw2012, illinitopptrader, imonit3362, incspot, indy183288, is300alex, ishomerfred, j962717, jackbeep, jackydeonburgess, jasconb, jasondavy81, jaytam80, jima4863, jmurphy1976jessica, jnor5431, joc0god, joes865, jon_tamy, jordans-allday-everyday, joshborders54, jsampson123, jwyldz, kcsportsnut, kissmygritsmel, kuponasaj, l.stewart79, lakrby, lapaz7, lcolla2, leomommy31, lillianabella2008, loupalmisano, makeanofferyoucantrefuse, marinerscollector, mart5551, mattginterfan, mbeachcards, mcknight210, meissaprincesss, merk4321, mikes-memorabilia-4u, mildred6421, militry2, morgengreen, mpratt5, my_duster, nilnilnil13, nlanderson, noblebield, nohrmund2012, nowunodogg, nursegash, okbluestarmom, olly610, orihco51, out_of_tw28, ozzie0308, packgraphs, packripper, pecker7700, pmr-md, quig3, r.m.woodcraft617, raiderdave63, ramador49, rashondar2007, rbaklpcd301, rbush025, reegs1958, rilla1008, rodro-sl-wvnm8q, ronald2790, rudybos, russelldink812, ryan3066, sammymarta13, savillesdeals4asteal, seemayer132, shayfann, sheaball, sokahmom, solodolo12, sportking7777, star4life31, straightballa32, superbol, sweetie7542, swg19651965, tamra0124, taurusmay19, teddym_3, texasdogbaseball, texaxes, tgreenlovinlife, the_g428, thepricefamily2011, timetogo83, tudicicero1, turbybug, vegasdiva10, virtualyardsale2013, waldlaw, wallydogger2010, wingalingdingding, winst1025, yaddy80

It seems like I add new ones weekly, especially since most of my eBay sales are for coupons and items under $5.00. And until the USPS First Class Tracer program actually hits the mainstream, who knows when (testing was under way in the Fall of 2013), you ship items on eBay at your own risk using first class postage in a letter format.

All of the buyers and sellers above have met at least one of the criteria over the years. The criteria that I use to block bidders are as follows:

1. Leaving neutral or negative feedback.
2. Stealing my item by claiming it was never received (mostly for coupons and first class-mail related items)
3. Claiming the item was damaged when in fact, it never was.
4. Slow shipping.
5. Bad communication.
6. Filing an eBay protection case.
7. Ignorance and failure to read listings in their entirety.

Since no one on eBay is doing anything to protect sellers from this garden variety of fools, I feel this is one of the only ways to stop others from suffering the same fate I have with the eBay ID's above.

This list will be updated monthly.

If anyone has any other members they would like to add, feel free to mention the eBay ID and the category of sale below.

Thank you for reading.