Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
On 1/7/2013 1:34 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Walt wrote: On 1/7/2013 10:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. Then you obviously never had a typing class. In any event, that's no typo. A typo is a mistyped character. That is just flat-out stupidity and carelessness that exceeds the bounds of reason. Either nobody checks those advertisements for accuracy (carelessness) or someone does and actually thought it was plausible that a $77,000 camera was marked down over 99% to a paltry $699 (flat-out stupidity). It looked to me like someone simply neglected to input the decimal point so that 776.99 became 77699. The highlighting looks like it was done on a screenshot after the fact. That'd be correct. That was my handiwork, just because EasyCapture makes it easy to do that kind of stuff. And, as a general rule, I never pass up anything that's easy. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Walt wrote: > On 1/7/2013 10:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: >>> . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 >>> >>> I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! >>> >>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 >> >> I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. >> > > Then you obviously never had a typing class. > > In any event, that's no typo. A typo is a mistyped character. > > That is just flat-out stupidity and carelessness that exceeds the bounds of > reason. > > Either nobody checks those advertisements for accuracy (carelessness) or > someone does and actually thought it was plausible that a $77,000 camera was > marked down over 99% to a paltry $699 (flat-out stupidity). It looked to me like someone simply neglected to input the decimal point so that 776.99 became 77699. The highlighting looks like it was done on a screenshot after the fact. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
From: Walt On 1/7/2013 10:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. Then you obviously never had a typing class. In any event, that's no typo. A typo is a mistyped character. That is just flat-out stupidity and carelessness that exceeds the bounds of reason. Either nobody checks those advertisements for accuracy (carelessness) or someone does and actually thought it was plausible that a $77,000 camera was marked down over 99% to a paltry $699 (flat-out stupidity). Plus the math is wrong. A 99% markdown from $77,000 is $770. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
Err . . . please ignore my previous reply. ;) -- Walt On 1/7/2013 11:08 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: Hum, let me rephrase that a bit, I've never seen a commercial enterprise highlight their own typo before. On 1/7/2013 11:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
On 1/7/2013 10:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. Then you obviously never had a typing class. In any event, that's no typo. A typo is a mistyped character. That is just flat-out stupidity and carelessness that exceeds the bounds of reason. Either nobody checks those advertisements for accuracy (carelessness) or someone does and actually thought it was plausible that a $77,000 camera was marked down over 99% to a paltry $699 (flat-out stupidity). -- Walt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
Hum, let me rephrase that a bit, I've never seen a commercial enterprise highlight their own typo before. On 1/7/2013 11:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. -- Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a quick reduction of funds in the bank account). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: HUGE price drop on the Q10 . . .
On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter1!11 I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. -- Buy a Leica to get the full “Leica Experience”, (a quick reduction of funds in the bank account). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
