Sale Sleuth Prints

Garage Sales

Reduced to clear.

'Bargain basement sale ... Everything's down but the prices.'

'And I want that end table for $40...' When bargain hunters crack.

The Businessmen Have to Make Decisions from Many Options

'It's only a hunch, but I think everybody bought everything they needed, last time.'

That's supposed to say garage sale!

Maybe it's now time to review our customer care strategy!"

'We don't know what it is but it was in the sale so we thought we'd better get one before they sold out.'

'Let's go and make some unfunded spending committments.'

Orderly Conduct of Sales

Help!!! I've been kidnapped - Your Money.

'Today, the market did the 'Ol' Dipsy, but recovered in the 'Doodle'.'

'Our giant sale now on!'

'We couldn't give away black-and-white TVs until we started advertising them as having 'non multi-color capability'.'

'Oh my God! You look like you've see the FTSE.'

"Have you heard something that the rest of us don't know about?"

'This morning a rumor that we would buy the Arpex Corp drove our stock up $3. Around noon a rumor that Arpex would buy us drove it up another $3. And in the afternoon a rumor that wo have nothing to do with Arpex drove it up $3 more.'

"Our stock is down. Start some rumors on Wall Street that it's going up."

Retail Worker's Thanksgiving

'I'm sure they make it up in volume.'

Shopper sees sign: Buy one get ripped off.

"It's two sizes too big, but it fits."

I figured out how these folks keep guaranteeing the precise day the world ends. Shhh. Keep it down. Why? It's a scam? If you read the read the fine print, they are promising that the world will begin to end that day. Could take forever. It's a no-lose scam … Shhh! What? It's scary when the world might end. There are a lot of people out there who need comforting. Women people, I presume. Women people, I presume. Who take comfort in necking. And you belittle their fears?

Exportation and importation in Cuba

'Always bought low.'

'The price or the biscuits?'

Artwork in a gallery still has wet paint.

Gone Phishing

"Fraud ..what fraud?... " SEC

"...so if my maths serves me right, if I buy four of these it won't cost you anything"

"Just sniff around – see what you can find out."

'You must have something in my size?'

"I'm off to the sales!"

"I don't need one, Gracie. My shopping list is very simple! Things I have a coupon for and things that are on sale!"