Hey Stoney.. fwiw btw, I graced an Olli's. Why? For fun, and of course for my never ending and thankless devotion to GBA research. (It was there so I thought why not, in the spirit of Peter Lynch.) Cool store. I walked out with $120 of stuff that I didn't walk in intending to buy. Prices are cheap... but it's like a scavenger hunt in there lol. I mean you'll find coffee creamer in the hardware aisle... next to the Armour-All and between the pliers and the weed-eater attachments. But it's cool. And cheap. >>>THE ONE THING HOWEVER<<< And who knows if whatever software their corporate IT marketing guru's buy scans websites like this for remarks about customer experience... but a big chunk of that $120 I dropped was on books. And I mean man... if you ever want a cool coffee table book on any subject... and I am talking a QUALITY book... like a hardcover with thick glossy pages that weighs more than it should... this is the place to go. And a gillion other books. All dirt cheap. Like an (originally priced) $65 book on post-war Japanese home architecture for $5.99. I kid you not. The ONE THING... and read this OLLI web scraping bots if you exist... it's hard to buy a book like this... or anything else in your store... for a gift at least.... when you stick these obnoxious orange price-tags on the dust-cover. "But Van... you can peel those off." No! Guess again... I friggin' tried. I even tried Dawn dish soap and then WD-40. I mean yeah, if you want to spend 10 minutes hiding the fact that you bought your loser inlaws an expensive gift for $0.05 on the dollar... by all means, have at it.---> But OLLI's--- I realize your business model and the current retail shrinkage environment requires stuff like this... and I'm not sure I have a solution... but a bright orange sticker on a book's dust-cover that originally cost $55 and you are selling for $5... that is impossible to remove... ? Whatever.
Hey Vz, did you try “goo gone”. Works great on those annoying Ross stickers. Not sure about orange stickers tho. I will say this tho, “NOTHING sucks like a big ORANGE!”
Goo-B-Gone. I forgot about that, and I think somewhere we have a can of that stuff, I remember seeing it somewhere. Too late for Xmas, but I bought a couple books for me that I can try it on. Good thinkin'.
Do you know the page I'm searching under " poem " and can't find it. I was an English major and a bit of a poet myself and I have two famous poets in my family tree one borrowed, so don't be alarmed if I make suggestions or comments...
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Don't get me started on MASI I was a whisker away from selling. Then boom Apple appeals.. that was I think a known factor why wouldn't they appeal-- the shock may of been the allowing of Apple to continue sales now-- I think the judge will tell them to settle. But I got smacked yesterday
I want to explore the idea of TIPS. I think that's what they are called inflation protected yada yada... I saw this Asian dude on Bloomberg last night make the case for Treasury protected inflation TIPS and it did make sense. Plus I know big Pete has been selling these to his clients down in Fla/ If Inflation stays elevated for the year and we have a market / election turn down would this not be a completely safe idea? I'm still understanding it but 2% above inflation is that what you get? Or 2%? It does appear to be risk free.