Inspired by our post “HOW TO: Buy A Car Without Putting A Shotgun In Your Mouth,” M. writes in a story about navigating the tricky world of car financing.
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Our Threadless Tshirts Arrive
By 5.3.06
Huzzah, our Threadless tshirts came in the mail today. Both beautiful packages were delivered at the same time. Here’s our catwalk. Click on a photo to start the fashion slideshow. The code is a little buggy, if the photo dissapears, refresh or go backwards.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 5.3.06
• Today’s Woot! is a $55 Seiko’s Woman’s Watch, perfect for the mother who only deserves a token gesture.
Morning Deals Round-Up
By 5.2.06
• Woot!‘s Two-for Tuesday is a pack of Arkon SF100 Wireless FM Transmitters for $13, shipped. They work with any device with a miniJack outlet—iPod, CD player, Nintendo DS, whatever.
UPDATE: Soho Store a Scam?
By 5.1.06
Last Friday, we wrote about the online “Soho Store” offering some obscene discounts on iPods (10 60gb video iPods for $2699!, an over $1000 discount off MSRP). We just thought it was too good a deal to be true.
The Coffee Wars Have Begun
By 5.1.06
The price of another kind of sweet, life-nurturing crude is set to spike: thanks to a bad year in Brazil and growing consumer demand in Eastern Europe and Asia, there may not be enough coffee to meet demand over the next two years. Prices will be going up. A global coffee crisis may well be imminent.
The Oozinator Delights Children
By 5.1.06
Hasbro Marketing Executive, a glowing light bulb bouncing merrily above his skull: “I’ve got it! First, we’ll design our new Supersoaker water gun with the shape and hue of a grotesque alien phallus. Then, instead of water, we’ll make it squirt ropes of thick, opalescent ooze! Finally, we’ll market it with a television spot in which a pan-ethnic rainbow of small children are the gleeful recipients to load after hot, sticky load shot all over their chests and faces! It’s a win!”
Morning Deals Round Up
By 5.1.06
• Today’s Woot! is the Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 Player for $175, shipped. That’s a solid but hardly amazing price for a player with its fair share of quirks. Be sure to do some reading up before you purchase.
Soho Store a Scam?
By 4.28.06
Ten 60 gb iPods for $2699? Why that’s over a grand in savings from the retail price. How do they do it? Well, we have no conclusive proof but we’re pretty sure the “Soho Store” website is a total fraud.
50% Off Dell Desktops!
By 4.28.06
Dell’s cleaning out the second quarter closet and we find not cobwebs, skeletons or Tom Cruises, but a bundle of savings.
Shopping in the Valley of the Amazons
By 4.28.06
Amazon Marketplace is awesome but perils lurk among the shadows of the the merchant’s stalls…
Great Moments in Corporate Web Presence: Samsonite
By 4.27.06
After hours of pixel scraping and vector mapping, it seems some web developers of online shopping sites get a bit of a hardon. Wally writes:
Morning Deals Round Up
By 4.27.06
• Today’s Woot! is some 4 x 6 inch HP photo paper—5 packages for $25. We haven’t used a printer since the Reagan administration, so we have no idea if that’s a good deal or not.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 4.26.06
• Are you a silver-haired male who ponderously lords over your peers like a aged mountain gorilla? Clothier Jos. A Bank wants to sell you some duds for 50% to 70% off.
Who Sucks the Most: Best Buy, CompUSA, Frys, or Circuit City?
By 4.25.06
[H]Consumer bought 4 computers from 4 different retailers and compared and contrasted the experiences. Then he made a diorama using this week’s vocab words.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 4.25.06
• Today’s Woot! was some hammock swingy chairs, but they’s gone now.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 4.24.06
• We weren’t quite sure what a deck box was, exactly. Turns out it’s a big plastic box for putting crap in that lives, presumably, on one’s deck. We’re told the $40 price for this one on Amazon is a good deal, but the fact that it ships from Target and not Big A might screw up the value. [via SlickDeals]
