Monthly Archives: July 2019
Caught Up . . .
After I got the last of the orders boxed up and waiting for the USPS, (none with UPS today) I started back going through the denied credit cards, some for orders we have already shipped out and some we will ship as soon as we can get a good card number from them.
I did have two customers, who according to the USPS tracking info had received their orders on the 15th, deny they had received anything from us. One was listed as being left at the front door, and the other one was handed to the resident.
So I asked them them if the address and phone number on their order was the best way for the US Postal Inspectors to get in touch with them. When they ask why, I said that the USPS is really cracking down on mail theft, i.e. porch pirates, etc., and that the inspectors would want to get more information from them since mail theft was a Federal crime.
In both cases, they excused themselves for a few minutes, only to come back and say they were wrong and they did receive their order, and then quickly gave me a good CC number.
It was just amazing how quickly they were able to find those missing orders.
I’ve got a few more that I’ll call tomorrow since I couldn’t reach them today.
Since we’re pretty much caught up at work, I’m not working this weekend, so I’ll take a shot at changing out the plugs and coils on the truck tomorrow, and maybe the brakes on Sunday.
Thought for the Day:
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”– Mark Twain
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Just As Funny Now . . .
We’re caught with all the orders except for ones waiting on product to come in. We were supposed to have a big shipment of electrolysis needles this morning but they didn’t show up. Hopefully tomorrow.
Next Prime Day I guess I need to look through the ads a little more closely. Apparently there were some pricing ‘errors’ listing a bunch of very expensive cameras and accessories.
Like a $13,000 lens for $94.48. You can see how it’s back at $13,000 on Amazon – Canon Telephoto Lens
You can read more about all the deals here on the PetaPixel website. It seems like some people were just stuffing their cart full as fast as they could until the deals were shut down.
For my part I’m not exactly sure that these are mistakes, especially since they seemed to only occur in the Camera area. Seems like they would be randomly scattered around the product lines.
No, I suspect this is a marketing ploy by Amazon to hype Prime Day sales, getting people to scramble through the site looking for other ‘mistakes’, and of course, coming across other ‘deals’ they just have to have.
A couple of days ago we came across the very first episode of the Beverly Hillbillies on BEST, channel 268 on DirecTV. And it’s just as funny now as it was in 1962. You just couldn’t help laughing.
When the Clampett’s drove into our living rooms in their 1921 Oldsmobile, they were pretty much hated by the critics, who said it was “strained and unfunny.” and “painful to sit through.” But the public went head over heels for it.
By the sixth episode it was the number one TV show in the country and mostly stayed that way for the next 10 years. And two episodes from1964 are listed as the 2nd and 4th most watched episodes of the entire decade. And the 2nd one, “The Giant Jackrabbit”, about an escaped kangaroo of course, is ranked as one most watched half hour episodes ever on TV.
Even the theme song ended up as a No. 1 hit.
But the show, still in the top five, was canceled when “The Great Rural Purge” swept through CBS in 1971, ending shows such as “Green Acres, Mayberry R.F.D., Lassie, Hogan’s Heroes and The Jim Nabors Hour.” as well as Beverly Hillbillies.
Many of which were still in the top ten show list.
The reason given was that advertisers wanted more hip, sophisticated shows like MASH and Mary Tyler Moore. Of course you would think that if that were true, the public wouldn’t have been watching them.
But the inside scoop in the industry was a little different. As the story goes, the wife of the president of CBS hated the fact that her elitist friends teased her about her husband’s ‘Countrified’ network. So she demanded that he get rid of all of those ‘hick’ shows and put on something more ‘cultured and refined’.
Ahhh. What somebody will do for true love. Or at least to get his wife to stop nagging him.
And the cancellation of the Hillbillies didn’t seen to stow Buddy Ebsen down at all, since he was right back on the air in 1972, starring as Barnaby Jones.
Thought for the Day:
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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