The Enogoration. If You Act Now, (and only if you act now) You Can Buy Something You Dont Need For 40x26x The Cost
Brian Selter, "A TV Decoder and media reporter for The New York Times." Retweets @davidseguin -- "An eBay user is already hawking a 1/21/09 edition of the NYT. http://tinyurl.com/a563uz"
You might recall the hubbub in nyc with regards to procuring a newspaper after election night in November. The gentleman who sets up his papers on my corner was sold out by 6:30 am that morning, 45 minutes after setting up. Newspapers appeared on Ebay that day for hundreds of dollars, and stayed at that price for a few days, until most everyone learned that you could just call the newspaper and get one mailed to you for cost, or a few dollars premium. But not before a ton of people did their American duty and overpaid for something they didn't need, just because they could.
Anyways, as Brian Selter pointed out in his Retweet above, some enterprising soul is already selling on Ebay the right to receive a copy of January 22nd's paper, the day after inauguration. 40$ and it is yours. That way you can save yourself the trouble of picking up the phone and buying one for cost direct from the NYTimes.
But it's the items description in this auction which really adds extra value.
IN THIS LOT YOU WILL 100% SURE GET A NEW YORK TIMES COPY OF OBAMA ENOGORATION !!
Addendum: Hamilton Nolan at Gawker helpfully notes the correct percentage increase for buying this paper today on Ebay at 26 times the original cover price of $1.50, and not the 40 times initially reported here at YM. Oh does that make me wistful for the good ol' days when the NYTimes was a cool $1.00.
You might recall the hubbub in nyc with regards to procuring a newspaper after election night in November. The gentleman who sets up his papers on my corner was sold out by 6:30 am that morning, 45 minutes after setting up. Newspapers appeared on Ebay that day for hundreds of dollars, and stayed at that price for a few days, until most everyone learned that you could just call the newspaper and get one mailed to you for cost, or a few dollars premium. But not before a ton of people did their American duty and overpaid for something they didn't need, just because they could.
Anyways, as Brian Selter pointed out in his Retweet above, some enterprising soul is already selling on Ebay the right to receive a copy of January 22nd's paper, the day after inauguration. 40$ and it is yours. That way you can save yourself the trouble of picking up the phone and buying one for cost direct from the NYTimes.
But it's the items description in this auction which really adds extra value.
IN THIS LOT YOU WILL 100% SURE GET A NEW YORK TIMES COPY OF OBAMA ENOGORATION !!
Addendum: Hamilton Nolan at Gawker helpfully notes the correct percentage increase for buying this paper today on Ebay at 26 times the original cover price of $1.50, and not the 40 times initially reported here at YM. Oh does that make me wistful for the good ol' days when the NYTimes was a cool $1.00.
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