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Buying a Car Online

January 29th, 2008 ·

This isn’t a post on how to buy a car online - maybe I’ll write that one later.  I need a new car.  I’m not a car guy and really don’t enjoy shopping for cars.  My wife and I decided on the car we want, the options we want (thankfully this model has limited options […]

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Tags: web · shopping

Customer Service - why bother

January 3rd, 2008 ·

I could make this a long story but I’ll try to keep it short. It starts off with me buying something from Verizon Wireless so you can guess where this is going.
I’m finally ready to give up on my Treo 700p. I’ve been using a Treo for years now. It seemed so […]

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Tags: business · shopping

$1.01

September 28th, 2007 ·

I was at Target the other day and bought my daughter some animal crackers when we got their to keep her busy while we shopped.  After tax the crackers cost me $1.01.  What’s up with that?  Can’t someone, somewhere, knock a penny off that price and make everyone’s life a lot easier?

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Tags: shopping

4 Out of 5 Stars

August 24th, 2007 ·

To continue with my theme of shopping at Amazon here is a shot of some feedback ratings in their Used and New Merchants area.

Read the second rating. The user, dixit_sanjeev, gives glowing feedback and provides actual information (as opposed to bmckeer’s “Great product!” - which doesn’t really tell us much). But the merchant […]

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Tags: retail · shopping

Technical Details

August 23rd, 2007 ·

I was shopping over on Amazon the other day for a Cisco router. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Amazon and you can get all kinds of great things there for good prices. Amazon Prime rocks the house too. But sometimes they lack technical details on some of their higher tech […]

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Tags: retail · shopping

Which one should I click?

August 12th, 2007 ·

I’m sure I’m not the only person who uses Google search even though there’s a 99% chance that you could guess the right URL. For example, this morning I was trying to find the PetSmart site. Sure, it’s almost certainly www.petsmart.com but it’s almost as easy to just punch petsmart into the Google […]

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Tags: web · retail · shopping