Business

WGHubris on November 14th, 2011

It happens every year like clockwork. Big retailers generate sales ads with “unbelievable” savings on items that shoppers want to buy. Then, why do so many customers end up burned on Black Friday? Black Friday Tricks The oldest Black Friday scam in the book is the super-limited inventory scam. This is the same scam that [...]

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WGHubris on May 25th, 2011

I stumbled across this company called Getaround while reading through one of my less focused RSS feed lists. Basically, the way Getaround works is that you can (but do not have to) rent out your car when you are not using it to someone else who wants to rent your car on an hourly basis. [...]

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WGHubris on March 8th, 2011

Here is something very interesting. Warner Bros. is trying out offering movie rentals via Facebook. Using Facebook’s own Facebook Credit payment system, the company is offering online movie rentals of The Dark Night. What makes this new business strategy so interesting is that it completely cuts out the middle man companies that Warner Bros. currently [...]

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Some analyst decided that he would take the sales figures for computers and then add the sales of iPads to the numbers for Apple, thereby concluding: Apple Is the Number 1 Computer Seller If You Count iPads I don’t even know what to do with this. The idea, I am well aware, is that iPads [...]

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