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Mark Etinger
The internet is a place of "Now Now Now!" One second the world is meeting up on MySpace, the next it has its meetings on Facebook and MySpace is an internet ghost town. This is even more true when it comes to daily deals offered by innumerable internet sales websites. Things from the highest end jewelry to the lowest end leftover "pogs" from the mid 1990's (some with characters from OJ Simpson's trial!!) are offered at limited rates on a one day sale or are simply sold out by the time you are ready to jump on them. This culture of buying and selling is often like an accelerated version of the usual Pawn Shops and Close Out Store model of business. Things are bought and sold at cheap rates and often sold back at higher rates. Assets are liquidated and people get large "lots" of stuff and they flip them for solid profits. The process moves fast and if you are looking to capitalize on it you had better jump on good prices when you see them. Finding a really great giveaway of the day takes a focused and smart shopper. I was trained in the idea of the "good shopper" by my aunt and grandmother when I was a kid. Those two knew how to shop. They would hit sales and wrestle with other women over whatever the deal of the day was. They knew the deals that were red herrings. They knew enough to hit more than 1 sale a day. Experts I would call them. Of course, were they to try and apply those real world skills to the internet's deal of the day policies they would likely be steamrolled, but their training did help me develop myself into the online shopping warrior I am today. Good shoppers learn from mistakes too, though. For every few great buys you find you might get burned on a giveaway of the day that is not quite up to snuff. It is not such a bad thing, in a way it is sort of like you're buying something at a low cost and flipping it into a learning experience; not quite as fun, but just as, if not more, rewarding. And who's to say whether those OJ Simpson pogs are "originals" or not? Is there some sort of authenticating strip? Is there a barcode? No, there isn't. Just Judge Ito looking contemplative and Kato Kaelin looking confused. It has to be worth something.
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