July 23, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

One of the sites with whom I’m an affiliate sent me a “this weeks deals” sort of email, and that’s fine because most of the sites I work with send me various sorts of deal alerts.

The problem I’m having is that this particular site (which shall remain nameless) headlined this edition as BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS and then the next thing I see is a special deal on on a Sony Playstation.

Because when it’s time to head back to the classroom, you need your pencils, your notebooks, a ruler, some crayons, and a $300 gaming console.

June 20, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

I know that this site is located in a non-English-speaking country, but I cannot decide which I find more giggle-worthy, the product itself or the copy describing it.

But in case you need a 14k gold thumb drive, you’re welcome. (It’s only $2000… why not get two?)

May 30, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

I can’t decide what freaks me out more about this product: That someone thought to make it, or that people are apparently buying it.

(Would it be more or less gross to have Diet Beefy Dr. Pepper instead? Discuss.)

May 24, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Listen, you know that I take my shoes very seriously, and so it is with utter earnestness that I feel the need to tell you that these shoes right here actually make the Baby Jesus cry. (The fact that they come in three different colors has rendered me completely speechless. I am just pointing and gesticulating now.)

April 26, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Call me crazy, but I really never thought they were supposed to be invisible.

April 12, 2007 | Product Talk, Retail gone wrong

Lovely and alert reader Jodi wrote in after yesterday’s post about the fish tank toilet to let me know that tricking out your toilet could, in fact, be environmentally friendly.

Check out these Japanese commodes. My favorite is the first one, with water being recycled from hand-washing to use as flushing water. Jodi favors the toilet with alternate flushing modes.

Neither of them involve aquariums, though. Sorry.

April 11, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

This is so many different kinds of wrong, I’m not even sure where to begin. But I’ll start here: It costs $300 in addition to being horrifying.

March 8, 2007 | Retail gone wrong

Remember this? (The infamous post where apparently a reader thought I’d turned to peddling unmentionables, because that’s the sort of strumpet I am.) Did you feel left out, ladies? Never fear!

Now you can play, too!

(Thanks, Ben. You guys are wacky.)

Hot Hot Hot!, Retail gone wrong

I have to say that, in general, I really like the stuff offered at the Improvements Deal of the Day. They have some great bargains in there.

But go check out today’s offerings, and look closely at that toilet tissue canister that’s on special today.

Is it just me, or does that look exactly like the sort of canister one would have on the kitchen counter, filled with coffee or tea or sugar? Because… ewwww.

February 27, 2007 | Hot Hot Hot!, Retail gone wrong

I don’t care how much you like Johnny Depp or Pirates of the Caribbean, some things are just so scary I have to wonder what in the world the marketing execs were thinking.