Just need to vent...

I suspect this is more about the advertisers buying lists only of people searching for those generic product classes, and not paying extra for the lists of those who actually bought product (to weed out of targeting). If their surveillance suppliers even have the latter.

The big data surveillance sellers would most certainly charge extra for more finely curated lists of prospects who searched but haven't yet bought, quite possibly more than the wasted cost of sending ads to those already off the market.

 

Often I will put a desired item in the cart and checkout just short of the final click. A few days later a discount shows up in my email.

With Toyota online dealers, shopping multiple dealers results in various prices, some with free shipping. One often sells for 50% msrp but the total discount does not show until the buyer actually starts checking out, typically during one of the nationwide sales. One guy bought a new brake booster during the last Christmas sale for $500 total.

I am not too worried about email spam since I setup rules to dump violators to the Twilight Zone.

 

The on-line industry has long been concerned about these "abandoned carts," considering most of them to be lost sales. I sometimes go that far to see what the added shipping charges might be, and to see if they charge my stiff local sales tax (some still don't), even when unlikely to buy.

It seems this may be a good way to fish for discounts, for those truly interested but patient.

 

Needed some Subaru coolant. Local dealer online $24.xxUSD a gallon. Tried to do an online order to PickUp the next day but they only took PayPal and I do not have PayPal.

Went to dealer next day $31.xxUSD. The lower price was only if I ordered online and then picked it up...
kris

 

Plenty of sellers do that now.

I find the opposite at Costco, in-store prices sometime lower than on-line, even before delivery charges are added. Though others may find different, as Costco in-store prices vary.

 

Confirming - Costco online never seems to beat the brick & mortar prices

 

Why is it difficult for so many to understand how to use an acceleration lane?

 

They don’t spend enough time on car forums?

 

Those spending time in car forums tend to be in their final deceleration lane...

 

I can’t argue with that, one of the benefits of retirement

 

I just don’t get it. These are not politically biased facts, just regular simple facts. They are not at all brand new, just made public last nite facts. These facts have been out for a good long time; well over a year.

The Epstein case was an open investigation under Biden. They had an open grand jury. After Maxwell’s conviction, the case was on appeal … anyone with any brains, watches any TV news (even FAUXNews), or listens to any radio news, should be very well aware that you don’t/can’t. open case files when they're still under appeal. On top of that … victims were still going to the FBI with information during Biden’s term.

 

You don’t?

 

Catching them with a wire is far more entertaining to watch. It shakes the whole aircraft carrier every time.

The timing has to be perfect - snag the wire and shutdown. Otherwise its ejection seat time and the jet in the water.

 

Bird farms displace a lot of seawater but their flight decks are big, flat, and 65 feet from the waterline, and carrier planes don't flare out to land.
They hit the deck with about 800'/sec of 'down' dialed in.
If you slam a 52,000# combat-loaded F/A-18 into the rear of the flight deck where the wires are - you get a shutter that the brown shoes call a kadunk.
I've never been to sea on one of the things - but I've heard about them more than once.

Flight deck pay.
They EARN EVERY DIME.