Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/19/buried-in-the-tos-free-starbu.html
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There’s signs in the Starbucks near me for this, unless I’ve missed something about the article. (The link doesn’t work, btw, just redirects to ‘free’)
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You can also get a free refill after 2:00PM with your Starbucks card if you bought a coffee in the morning.
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Yeah this is pretty common knowledge.
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Pretty common knowledge, but always good to share.
Honestly, I’m shocked there isn’t a RomCom where someone doesn’t leave a 24hr Starbucks in order to keep getting coffee.
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I had four hours between appointments today and with a heat-index of around 40ºC (like 170ºF for you normal Americans), I decided to sit in Starbucks, raid the Pokémon Gym there (my first Meetoo [and an armored one at that]), and quaff down 6 iced teas - all but the first being free.
Other tricks: if you get a “fancy drink” like a latte, you can get a refill of normal coffee if you need more of a caffeine fix.
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Are there romantic comedies about homeless people staying up all night because they’ve got nowhere else to go? Characters like that aren’t usually presented as relationship material in fiction 
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A cup of Fizbin please.
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This would be useful to me if only I had any desire to use the Starbucks app, sign up for a Starbucks card, or drink Starbucks coffee.
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The article seems to imply that this applies to cold brew coffee, but I’m not seeing that in the TOS:
Free refill(s) of hot or iced brewed coffee and tea
Someone at Lifehacker needs to understand that iced brewed coffee and cold brew coffee are very different things.
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is it this?
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There’s the one with a homeless Tom Hanks and that volleyball…
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What is Starbucks again? Wasn’t he a character on Battlestar Galactica?
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their coffee is actually quite good, assuming you have plenty of money to waste and don’t want to buy local. Me, it’s Cafe Bustelo brewed at home and I’m happy.
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And they cribbed him from Moby Dick.
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It’s tolerable, but way overpriced, typically burnt and loaded up with so much cream and sugar you can’t taste it anyway.
In Austin alone, there’s over a dozen good local coffee shops and roasters where a cuppa can be had for the same or less, and without the interminable lines.
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That’s true, Mr. Naugatuck. Mr. Nibblekeg. Mr Queequeg.
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no, its burned
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It’s good for any kind of brewed coffee refill, including cold brew. My Starbucks is actually pretty liberal with refills; you can come back in any time the same day and get a free refill with the Starbucks card. I got a brewed coffee this morning, came back after lunch for a venti cold brew for free.
You can’t really condemn Starbucks coffees for being too sugary; just buy coffee that doesn’t have any sweetening in it. Easy peasy.
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