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November 29, 2002 

**Days since lances web page has been updated: 6

Worked my 12 hour day today. I'm tired, but all-in-all it went pretty well. I threatened to sue Best Buy if they wouldn't let me go on my 10 min break (see page seven) and so they let me. Suckers. I personally sold over $700 worth of ink, our department alone sold over $250,000 worth of merchandise (which is how much the President and CEO of E*Trade makes a year) by the time I left, and the whole store by the time I left had sold over $650,000. lots od stuffs.

My favorite part of the day after thanksgiving in retail: they ask, "Why is it in your ad if you won't have enough and will sell out?" First of all because we are a successful business. Second, we cant keep 300 in stock of each thing we carry. Third thing is that at the top of the ad, it says "Limited Stock, First come first serve, No Rainchecks" Now, if the customer wants to discredit this information, then the must also discredit the advertised cost of the product, right? You can't just pick and choose which parts of the add you want to be true and which you want to be false. Its all or nuthin. I guarantee that if someone was willing to buy one of our sale items at regular price, I would find a way to make it happen. I mean, most of the sale stuff was selling for about 1/4 or less of the regular price. It would be funny if anyone would have taken me up on this offer.

Anyone have a good story of a bad shopping experience?

-=RandomThoughtoftheDay=- Brought to you today by: Nick
"Do you think Darth Vader ever got stressed out? I'll bet he did"

Posted by Mark at 11/29/2002 08:55:00 PM 0



I work in 5 hours. For 12 hours. With one half-hour break. I'm sure I'll be telling all about it when I get home.

Also look soon for a great story about my cousin.

Jon Favreau said the word �ber in one of the many episodes of 'Dinner for Five' that was on tonight. He said "�ber-geeks". He made me proud. Also they used �ber somewhere in Maxim Magizine a few weeks ago.

I'm goin to bed

Posted by Mark at 11/29/2002 12:37:00 AM 0




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