Vintage cocktails I have loved
Work’s stressful these days. Liquor helps. Specifically, pretentious antique liquor.
I picked up a vintage cocktail book last year and have steadily been drinking my way through it. Highly recommended.
March 14, 2007
March 3, 2007
How I almost got scammed by Best Buy
So Laura and I wanted to buy a TV recently. We’d been meaning to get a nice shiny HDTV for a while, and when I screwed up my W-4 withholding and ended up with a large tax return, it was the perfect opportunity. We looked around online and in stores, and settled on a nice Sharp LCD.
Unsurprisingly, the best prices were online, but Best Buy’s website showed a fairly close price and wouldn’t need a week or so to ship it to us. So after a bit of dithering, we traipsed down to the local Best Buy to pick one up, since their site claimed that store had the thing in stock.
When we got there, the price wasn’t what we expected — suddenly it was $200 higher than it’d been the previous night online. We complained to a salesman, who assured us that their sales end Sunday morning. That seemed a bit odd, but we had no reason not to trust him, especially since he showed us the online price, and it matched what the store offered. We resisted his pressure to buy the thing and wandered off, hunting around through different stores and finally finding the right price at Circuit City. Things happen, we thought, and we should have been quicker about buying the TV when we saw the online price.
Turns out I shouldn’t have been so trusting about the “see, it’s the same price online” maneuver: