What’s the deal with this crazy economy?
| Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | --Sean |
And trust me, "crazy" was not the first adjective that came to mind, though it does share many of the same letters. It's also pretty..."shifty".
We're certainly all feeling the crunch, particularly if you happened to have, say, purchased a chunk of company stock yesterday and logged on this morning to see that the market had "normalized" your employee discount for you. So while you sit on that investment for a few more years, you might as well make your liquid capital go as far as it can by hunting down some online deals, and by golly have we got a site for that.
As Greg Hintz explains over at Yodel Anecdotal, despite the sad economic state, there's still a lot of great shopping to be had online -- certainly better to blithely pass credit card numbers back and forth than to have to physically watch your money leave your wallet at some mall. And the massive quantity and variety of online bargains means that you can probably actually save a buck or two, by clipping (or copy/pasting?) online coupons, jumping on single-day bargains, and generally keeping track of all the best sales. If nothing else, even if you're not in the mood to buy, you should appreciate the extra attention devoted to Woot captions, such as today's gem:
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