Saturday, July 21, 2007
...and I'm back.
hey. short break. had to think outside the world wibe web (I know there's a typo buy I hit b instead of p and I kinda like it that way, so it's gonna stay).
we're one week from departing for Haiti. In fact, this time next week I just might be there. had to take my first Malaria pill today. I'm all typhoid-ed up, and my shots are in order. things are looking good. which reminds me, Monday I HAVE to call Blue Cross to try and get them to pay for all that stuff.
Anyways, one of the last things I need to purchase are a good pair of sandals. I'm talking Teva, son. Went over to City Sports on Thayer to check out their stock. And $80 bucks sure seemed like a steep price to pay for sandals. Sure enough, I come home and pull up the same sandals on Amazon and they are retailing for $39. That means that City Sports had a 50% markup on price. Good thing I didn't buy!
But what intrigued me almost as much as the markup was this:
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
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What kind of people are Teva people? Men who enjoy discourses and lengthy ramblings about physics and musicals of the 1960's. And their wives. (well okay maybe it's the wives that enjoy My Fair Lady) So, pretty much the East Side of Providence. (rimshot)
¶ 7/21/2007 02:57:00 PM
we're one week from departing for Haiti. In fact, this time next week I just might be there. had to take my first Malaria pill today. I'm all typhoid-ed up, and my shots are in order. things are looking good. which reminds me, Monday I HAVE to call Blue Cross to try and get them to pay for all that stuff.
Anyways, one of the last things I need to purchase are a good pair of sandals. I'm talking Teva, son. Went over to City Sports on Thayer to check out their stock. And $80 bucks sure seemed like a steep price to pay for sandals. Sure enough, I come home and pull up the same sandals on Amazon and they are retailing for $39. That means that City Sports had a 50% markup on price. Good thing I didn't buy!
But what intrigued me almost as much as the markup was this:
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
 |  Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson  (40) $12.83 |  My Fair Lady DVD ~ Audrey Hepburn (226) $14.49 |
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What kind of people are Teva people? Men who enjoy discourses and lengthy ramblings about physics and musicals of the 1960's. And their wives. (well okay maybe it's the wives that enjoy My Fair Lady) So, pretty much the East Side of Providence. (rimshot)
¶ 7/21/2007 02:57:00 PM
