re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg

OT, but I need to vent.

It seems to me that advertised sales are becoming largely meaningless because retail prices/MSRP don’t mean anything anymore.

Case in point, in the lead up to Christmas I saw several stores advertising sales featuring 40-60% discounts on big name brand name whatever.

It used to be that 40-60% off was a SIGNIFICANT discount that you didn’t see very much, ESPECIALLY not in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Thus, I am forced to conclude that such “sales” , and the discounts they offer are merely a ruse to separate people from their money.

I think MSRP means “Maybe Somebody Really Pays”. One thing I know is that some high end product lines do have a lowest price that a retailer can display on the web for a product (Canon, I’m looking at you….) but retailers can sell for less. That’s the great “Put In Cart To See Price” thing.

RBS