How can Old Navy explain this dramatic price point move?
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Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.31.06
• Today’s Woot! is the Infocus Screenplay 4805 DLP Home Theater Projector for $805. A decent, but far from spectacular price. For a few hundred more, you could move into the 720p native displays and be set for HD content for the next few years.
eBay Auction: $51 for $50 McDonald’s Coupon Book
By 3.31.06
You know, we’ve always gotten the feeling that things purchased on eBay actually cost more than if you bought them locally. But to what degree exactly do you need to slope your head to have your liquified gray matter start slopping out of your ear to purchase a McDonald’s coupon book (value: fifty dollars) for fifty-one dollars off of eBay? That’s not including shipping and handling.
Wal-Mart Spring Break! WOOOOO!
By 3.30.06
(D’oh! Brownlee is an idiot. This is one of our few duplicate stories, the unfortunate consequence of having two writers working thousands of miles away from one another. But we’re going to leave it up as it gives us another ace-in-the-hole for when Brownlee greedily starts slobbering for an undeserved raise.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.29.06
• Today’s Woot! is a cheapo mouse and it’s already gone. We’re of the ‘quality mice are worth money’ school, so we’re not too upset about the whole thing.
Mankind Tapes Itself Shopping
By 3.28.06
We went YouTube cruising for shopping videos. In this one, an African-American girl goes shopping for Saturday night clothes while her male co-workers tapes and his friends make slightly derogatory comments.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.28.06
• Woot!‘s Twofor Tuesday are those damn EA Sports Hockey and Football TV game pack for $10. We think EA is a pox on the videogame industry, so we say pass. Plus, we’re getting tired of seeing the same things show up on Woot month after month without any price decrease.
Inventions Can Always Be Improved: Nose-Pouch Handkerchief
By 3.28.06
Over at Strange New Products we saw this amazing handkerchief with a built-in nose pocket for catching and collecting expelled mucus. But the other alternatives are so much more amazing. Dye it black, blow your nose, then let go. Now you’ve got the perfect ninja mask. Fold one corner into the pocket and balance it upon the crown of your head — a respectable yarmulke. Turn it upside down and it fills the function of collecting unwanted post-coital drippings.
BUY: Cheap Man Shoes
By 3.27.06
Get some new kicks this Spring. You don’t want to be stuffing your foot up The Man’s ass with those boring old Keds, do you?
Ask Consumerist: Amazon Prime Throttling?
By 3.27.06
Teresa loves Amazon.com, but never became a member of Amazon Prime. In that service, you pay a flat rate and gets free two-day shipping on many Amazon.com items, upgrades to overnight shipping for just $3.99 an item. There’s also no minimum purchases required and a “members-only” one-click button on product pages.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.27.06
• Today’s Woot! is a pair of fancy-schmancy Bluetooth phones for $65, which integrate with your PC, PDA, or cellphone to do…things. Marvelous things, like unto a regular cell phone. In fact, why do you still have a landline?
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.24.06
• Today’s Woot! is a Fellows 5 Sheet Confetti Cut Paper Shredder for $25. We don’t know if that’s an awesome deal or not—we seem to recall seeing nearly-free deals on shredders in the past—but how can a site like The Consumerist not recommend you pick one up? Protect your girlfriend’s high school yearbook with the picture of that asshole ‘poet’ who wrote her that short story that “meant so much” that you have to hear about every god damn time you forget her birthday. Protect it to confetti.
Conquer Amazon.com Pricenoia
By 3.23.06
Michelle Slatalla suffers from a shopping disease. It’s called pricenoia. The characteristic symptom is a pang of doubt every time she’s about to press Click-to-Buy on Amazon.com:
BUY: Pre-Pixelated Threads
By 3.23.06
Buy some sweet pre-pixelated shirts and caps. Standard Cafepress rates apply ($19.99-$29.99).
Alma Beats Omaha’s Meat
By 3.23.06
Yesterday, Danilo wrote to say how pleased he was with the meat he ordered from Omaha Steaks per our Morning Deals recommendation. Today, Lara writes that even tastier than Omaha Steaks is Alma Meats.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 3.23.06
— Today’s Woot! is actually a pretty awesome deal—we may just pick one up ourselves. It’s the Voq Professional Unlocked GSM Smartphone for $85. Now we’re not saying the Voq is going to out-Treo your Blackberry or anything, but having an unlocked GSM phone around is great for those who use T-Mobile or Cingular. Swap SIM cards are go. Plus, it’s not like Windows Mobile 2003 is bad or anything. This is a great entry-level smartphone for a very fair price.
