(ENDED) Sunday Daily Deals: more of the same items

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1. S. W. Anderson says

   December 3, 2016 at 11:07 pm

   “Due to time constraints I cannot produce a detailed schedule for this tonight.”
   Nor should you have to. Past some number of months of telling the inmates it’s bread and water for lunch again, the “news” — if and when there is any — becomes anything else being served for lunch. That is, in the seemingly unlikely event there is actually a change in what’s to be served.

   IMHO. Amazon has let the Gold Box lightning deals gimmick degenerate, at least where things I might be interested in are concerned. Time and again, any notably good deal is a “now you see it, now you don’t” proposition where you need arcade-game reflexes to bu ity. Or, I would need be up and online at 4:21 a.m. Pacific Time. Beyond that, it often seems to be a come on, wherein surprisingly slight discounts are applied to likely slow-moving merchandise.

   Lest anyone get the idea I’m an Amazon basher, let me point out that I just got an excellent color laser printer there for half its original price. That was after having to return a less-expensive one from another manufacturer that was DOA out of the box. Amazon took it back promptly, with no hassles and for no return-shipping charge. I was impressed and grateful. I’m sure the new printer that works is at the end of its new-product life cycle. It’s neither lightweight nor compact, but it is well-designed and appears to be built for the ages. It’s loaded with useful features. All’s well that ends well. But this deal didn’t come on the end of a lightning bolt or in a gold box. I ferreted it out during a couple of hours of late-night product research. 😉

   • 1001nc says

     December 4, 2016 at 5:02 pm

     I like the “bread and water” lunch analogy! Yeah, since they opened the floodgates to almost any marketplace sellers and they and/or the manufacturers restricted the well-known/desired products, it became more of a wild west.

     I am going to start experimenting with different ways to cover things, since the market has changed significantly since this blog originally began.

     • S. W. Anderson says

       December 4, 2016 at 9:20 pm

       Experiment away. The tedium of listing the daily ration of studio lights/background cloths/stands/etc., alone must be more mind numbing than being strapped in front of a TV where you’re forced to watch endless days of “Duck Dynasty” reruns.