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It cannot just be me

May 1, 2008 | Retail gone wrong

I’m sorry for sharing this, truly, but… um… does anyone else see something really, really wrong with this?

It’s something about the whole stance/position of it. It just makes me wonder what, exactly, is in that there sno-cone, y’know?

In the immortal words of my beloved husband: That’s just very wrong.

Posted by Mir @ 12:02 pm | 19 Comments  

No, I say

April 29, 2008 | Retail gone wrong

Listen, I don’t care if it is 35% off. I don’t even care that you can get another $5 off on top of that. I am taking a stand here, because it’s important.

The words “kangaroo” and “jerky” do not belong adjacent to one another. Ever.

That is all.

Posted by Mir @ 11:59 am | 10 Comments  

If I can’t have one, I get to poke fun

April 16, 2008 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk, Retail gone wrong

Hey, I think it’s been a few hours since I last mentioned that we don’t have a Nintendo wii, hasn’t it?

Well, the good news is that right now you can pre-order the Wii Fit from Amazon for $89.99, and if the price decreases before release you’ll get the lowest possible price.

The bad news is that if you want one, you have to watch this, first:


(If that didn’t make you laugh, you have no sense of humor and should immediately send your wii to my house. That is all.)

Posted by Mir @ 11:40 am | 12 Comments  

So clever! So dainty!

March 31, 2008 | Retail gone wrong, Pets

Tired of taking your dog for regular walks? Unable to look up every now and then to see if Fido is standing by the door, whining and crossing his legs?

Well, my friend, clearly you’re in need of a Tell Bell, so that your darling doggie can simply ring a bell whenever he needs to go outside.

(I don’t know why I find this so hilarious and unnecessary. Perhaps because it comes in four different colors, and dogs are colorblind.)

Should you now decide that your life is incomplete without a Tell Bell, you can use coupon code Promo670 to take 20% off the price.

But I reserve the right to mock you if you buy one.

Posted by Mir @ 8:27 am | 10 Comments  

So wrong, and yet so right

February 14, 2008 | Hot Hot Hot!, Retail gone wrong

Imagine my delight and surprise to get back to the computer and decide to check out today’s Amazon deals… only to discover this awesome Valentine’s Day Gold Box deal.

I first saw those sets a year or so ago and I still love them entirely too much.

Posted by Mir @ 2:31 pm | 6 Comments  

I almost forgot

January 30, 2008 | Hot Hot Hot!, Retail gone wrong

Don’t forget to check out the JC Penney Wednesday Deals today.

Especially if you need the world’s largest remote. Yikes. That thing scares me.

Posted by Mir @ 12:40 pm | 4 Comments  

Sometimes words fail me

January 17, 2008 | Retail gone wrong

Because, really, how am I supposed to know what to say about something like this?

Do I harp on the fact that it’s 27 inches long, or the fact that you can buy a 20 pound box of ‘em?

People, some days my job is hard.

Posted by Mir @ 8:43 am | 9 Comments  

I think they have a secret camera here

December 20, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

So, I know I’ve been highlighting a ton of deals at Amazon lately; after the holidays I assume they’ll stop with the crazy markdowns, and things will resume being a bit more balanced around here.

I may not have mentioned, but I have a horrible cold right now, and I am slow and sluggish and miserable (yet I continue with the deal-finding! for you, my beloveds!) and just not entirely on my game.

Still, it was a little unnerving when I hopped on Amazon this morning and this was one of my recommended products. How did they know? (Also: No. I’ll need to be a lot sicker to try that.)

Posted by Mir @ 8:55 am | 19 Comments  

Ummmmm. . .

December 17, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Words fail me.

Because, you know, I saw the title of this and thought maybe it was going to be for teens, but everything is pink and plastic (ice cream cone shaped containers!) and the target age is 6-10.

Because your six-year-old needs shimmer body powder.

Posted by Mir @ 10:45 am | 9 Comments  

Amazon cannot possibly be making any money

December 12, 2007 | Retail gone wrong, Bragging on a deal

I have to share this because it’s too funny to keep to myself.

So you know how a few days ago one of the gazillion Amazon deals I shared was deeply discounted cookie sheets on the 4-for-3 deal?

If you know me, you know I likes me some cookies. You may or may not also know that I’ve been baking on some cookie sheets that were a wedding gift… from my first wedding. (Let’s do the math: Hello, 14-year-old cookie sheets!) So I went ahead and picked up 4 new cookie sheets for a grand total of $18.

The first funny thing is that I didn’t pay much attention to the sheet size, and each sheet is easily the size of two of my old sheets. So I now have enough cookie sheets to bake for the entire eastern seaboard.

The second funny thing is that Amazon sent each sheet in a separate box. This is one of the things that drive me insane about Amazon, all the boxes. But recall what I said above—the sheets are really large. And boxes are huge (easily large enough for 8 sheets apiece). So I opened the door for my kids this afternoon and there was a stack of boxes there taller than they are. And the kids got very excited, and were crushed to discover the tower of boxes was… really only four cookie sheets.

Posted by Mir @ 3:27 pm | 11 Comments  

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