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Old 10-27-2011, 03:29 PM   #46
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I wish you'd stop pushing this anti rug propaganda. The war on rugs has cost this country millions, and many are locked up for the offense of carrying a small amount of rugs, accusing of planning to resell them. How many children's lives have been ruined because their poor minority father was locked up over soft rugs?
OMG! i just shared my ice tea with my computer monitor after reading that!
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I wish you'd stop pushing this anti rug propaganda. The war on rugs has cost this country millions, and many are locked up for the offense of carrying a small amount of rugs, accusing of planning to resell them. How many children's lives have been ruined because their poor minority father was locked up over soft rugs?
How unpatriotic of you! I suppose you will want next that all rugs be openly displayed in public? And then give all those rugs a tax exception, followed by charitable donations and government funded infrastructure so they could build all-rug houses all over the world? It's bad enough they are spreading over the internet and getting support of shady websites like B&N already, but you want more? I will have you reported to every Counter-Rug Agencies I can find!!
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I think we've, um, lost the thread here ...
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He said better to sell online, not buy
The point is that they aren't having to dedicate floor space to it, buy in stock for all stores, etc... So it is a much lower-risk proposition for them to try.
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Well B&N is only a couple of letters away from B&L.
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Or BB&B, although in this case it might stand for Bed Bath & Books.
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B&N can decide to sell whatever they want, but if it's available on Amazon I'll buy it there everytime and if it's not, I may wait until it is.

Better customer service and no tax.
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B&N can decide to sell whatever they want, but if it's available on Amazon I'll buy it there everytime and if it's not, I may wait until it is.

Better customer service and no tax.
plus i LOVE amazon prime ...i get my stuff in 2 days what takes a week elswhere and if im in a real hurry i pay $3 to over night it ...every year i renew my membership because it only takes a 2 months of savings to overcome what i paid for membership. that and i can find almost anything cheaper there than most places AND fee shipping since im a prime member.
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plus i LOVE amazon prime ...i get my stuff in 2 days what takes a week elswhere and if im in a real hurry i pay $3 to over night it ...every year i renew my membership because it only takes a 2 months of savings to overcome what i paid for membership. that and i can find almost anything cheaper there than most places AND fee shipping since im a prime member.
Same here. Plus if you're a student and can provide a .edu email address for verification, it only costs $39 for Prime. You can renew for three years at that price.
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Same here. Plus if you're a student and can provide a .edu email address for verification, it only costs $34 for Prime. You can renew for three years at that price.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!


NOW you tell me??!
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NOW you tell me??!
I only found out through Facebook. Someone posted something that I happened to read and I jumped on it. It's $39 not $34.
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I only found out through Facebook. Someone posted something that I happened to read and I jumped on it. It's $39 not $34.
Either which way, it's cheaper than what I pay.


*mutters*

I don't even think I have an .edu account anymore. *pouts*
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Time for some commonsense into this thread ......

I've had a blinding realisation - B & N are much cleverer than we realized.

I think they've hit on a real money-maker, selling things on an industrial scale, to a niche market, that the likes of Amazon have allowed to pass by.
They'll be in on the ground floor- and thereby hangs the point, and I think they've let slip a clue that's perhaps more obvious to us Brits.

What they are going to be selling is not floor rugs - it's head rugs !
[This being the...vernacular term here for a wig, toupee, hairpiece, whatever. ]

Think of the profit margins they'll command.

"Rugs R B & N".... bespoke hair & ebooks.

Oh, I can see it now...........
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Time for some commonsense into this thread ......

I've had a blinding realisation - B & N are much cleverer than we realized.

I think they've hit on a real money-maker, selling things on an industrial scale, to a niche market, that the likes of Amazon have allowed to pass by.
They'll be in on the ground floor- and thereby hangs the point, and I think they've let slip a clue that's perhaps more obvious to us Brits.

What they are going to be selling is not floor rugs - it's head rugs !
[This being the...vernacular term here for a wig, toupee, hairpiece, whatever. ]

Think of the profit margins they'll command.

"Rugs R B & N".... bespoke hair & ebooks.

Oh, I can see it now...........
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I get stuff so quickly from Amazon with Free Super Saver shipping that I never saw the need for Prime. E.g., I ordered a DVD box set on October 20 (and that was a preorder that didn't ship till October 23!); it was at my post office on October 24. I ordered a handheld vacuum on October 26; it's already at my local UPS and will be on the truck Monday.

How much quicker can Prime possibly be?
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