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Best Times to Buy (if you can)

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Best Times to Buy (if you can)

from JoeUser Forums

 

 

Not strictly Personal computing, except that some of the items covered are tied to that.

This really caught my eye, and I figured (maybe I'm wrong) it could come in really useful at least to some degree for just about everyone. It comes from Lifehacker which I couldn't live without. Well, not as well, anyway. Don't forget to check your papers, though. This doesn't tell you where to buy, after all. It's just a "general guide".

It's been “just sitting there” so... here's my contribution for today. Lifehacker’s calendar:

Reproduced from Lifehacker:  http://lifehacker.com/#!5736625/the-best-times-to-buy-anything-in-2011

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top
The best time for cruises isn't even in Spring. The best time for cruises is the first & second week of December. Unless you're talking Alaska--the best time for Alaska is May. The best time for chocolate is February??? Isn't there a certain day that happens in mid-February? I think it happened exactly one month ago today.
Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top
"It ain't no bridge to nowhere..." Of course not, some people just take their silliness way to seriously. It's the Brooklyn Bridge, of course. You know, the bridge that has the super express lane to that extremely exclusive plot of swampland in Florida. Now that's not nowhere.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just from my own personal experience, the best time to buy is when you have the money.  A sale does no good if you are broke.  :O :-" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Philly0381, reply 28
Just from my own personal experience, the best time to buy is when you have the money.  A sale does no good if you are broke. 
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I will add to the above. The best time to buy is when you actually need something. If you really want to buy you won't just be waiting till a certain time of the year. Finally, just go out and buy something there will be a use for it somewhere and of one can't find that use give it away as a Christmas present.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The best time to buy is at the spur of the moment. This way by the time you realize you need/want something you already got it ...... someplace.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Personally, the best time to buy is on a week segment that ends in ay
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah but how do you distinguish between them? There are six of 'em you know.

Reply #33 from Elemental Forums Top

I have a fool-proof system that I will sell to you for ONLY 999.99$! Also, completely unrelated, I'm currently selling a various assortment of tools, chocolate and digital cameras.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

How much for the chocolates? Oh wait ... I have to wait until February. Never mind. :P

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah but how do you distinguish between them? There are six of 'em you know.
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Um, at last count there were 7, and I don't know about in the US [where you are], but we can shop 7 days a week here in Oz, up to 9.00pm Monday to Friday, to 5.30 - 6.00pm Saturdays and Sundays.  In fact, here in Brisbane we have the Myer Centre with hundreds of specialty shops, and it NEVER closes, well except for Good Friday and Christmas Day.  In fact, Brisbane these days never shuts down, to cater to the thousands of tourists who arrive each week.

Wasn't like that when I arrived 42 years ago, everything was shut by 5.30pm Monday to Friday, Saturdays has morning trading only, and on Sundays Brisbane was a virtual ghost town, very few people on the streets and maybe an odd cafe or two open here or there.... but come 5.00pm it was totally dead.

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 31
Personally, the best time to buy is on a week segment that ends in ay
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Guess there is no good time to shop in Spain and France then. ;)

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Guess there is no good time to shop in Spain and France then.
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Hehe, all the more left over for us, then... cos it don't matter how they spell it, our days always end with ay.  O:)

And another fing, I don't see no good time fer ta be buyin' eye patches n' peg legs. :S

I muss admit, tho, me finks Spring be a good time fer cruises.... bein' tha water won't be so cold fer when them thar landlubbers be made ter walk tha plank after us fleeces 'em of their booty

Roll up, roll up, book yer Twisted Sister Spring cruises here. :w00t:

Reply #38 from Elemental Forums Top

Now is probably a good time to buy beachfront property in the North Pacific.

 

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

NOT funny!

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Um, at last count there were 7,
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Six! I don't do Mondays. And you did fall right into it just like I predicted you would. HAR HAR HAR. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top

And another fing, I don't see no good time fer ta be buyin' eye patches n' peg legs.
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The only good time is when you lose the eye or leg!  D'oh!

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Buy them on consignment. This way you got extras in case you lose an eye or a leg or an implant ... someplace. :w00t:

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The only good time is when you lose the eye or leg! D'oh!
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So much for the Boy Scout motto, then.... 'Be Prepared'

Okay, so what do you get when you cross a boy scout with a pirate?

An ornery SOB who tells yer: "Be prepared ta walk tha plank."

Buy them on consignment. This way you got extras in case you lose an eye or a leg or an implant ... someplace.
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Then you could always play 'Jake the Peg' with the extra leg.... and there's nothing wrong with keeping a spare implant or three around the place.

:-"

Reply #44 from JoeUser Forums Top

So much for the Boy Scout motto, then.... 'Be Prepared'
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I flunked tenderfoot. ;)

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I flunked tenderfoot.
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That's alright, I flunked pirate school first time around.... failed I on keel'auling n' cannonry.

So next time 'round I keel'auled a Kings man n' fired 'im out of a cannon... got A+ fer that n passed wiv a flyin' Jolly Roger.

:w00t:

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah well ... I passed at the top bottom 2% of mine class. Got 2 whole tin gold leafs for it too. It was very hard!

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah well ... I passed at the top bottom 2% of mine class.
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Sheesh, I didn't know you did so well.... I know some who didn't even get in the bottom 1%. :rofl:

Like tha swab who become shark food.  He wur suppose ter wipe up a bit o' pee off tha plank [blast them nervous plank walkers] n' he slipped n 'e falled in.

Aaaarggghhh. :w00t:

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

we can shop 7 days a week here in Oz, up to 9.00pm Monday to Friday, to 5.30 - 6.00pm Saturdays and Sundays.
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Oh man....I don't know how I could function without having stores open until 11pm, that's just madness. 8O

Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top

we can shop 7 days a week here in Oz, up to 9.00pm Monday to Friday, to 5.30 - 6.00pm Saturdays and Sundays.

Oh man....I don't know how I could function without having stores open until 11pm, that's just madness.
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It'll get that way here soon enough, what with retailers lobbying govt to extend trading hours across the board.

Thing is, that's suburban stores and larger country town that stay open 'til 9.00pm... the capital cities never close down these days.

Anything that would/could attract a tourist dollar in capital cities is open 24/7 363 days a year... 364 on a leap year.

Me, I haven't been in Brisbane [out state capital] for almost 10 years, except once last week, and only then to attend a lawyer's appointment with my son's significant other half as moral support.  Don't like big cities, myself, so I avoid them like the plague whenever possible.

Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I just can't understand how the govt can dictate what a business's hours can be. Sounds kinda communist/socialist to me. How is anyone supposed to get any shopping done after work if the stores close at the same time people get off? Retarded.