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There’s money in aromatherapy

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:01:32 +0000

I really can’t tell whose rich anymore. The Beverly Hillbillies knew that if you looked poor at least live in a fancy house. But take for example Northern California: everything is expensive but do you really know who has money? That kid on the bike could be a Google heir. About those Yahoo punks over there. San Francisco used to have a lot of blue hair old ladies who walked tiny dogs on Nob Hill, now the telltale signs are gone.

What do you do when you don’t have it in you to look like money? The next best thing is smell like money.

Sure some people like that fresh pine forest smell or the ocean in the distance but there’s a magic odor every time somebody opens up their wallet and the cupboard isn’t bare.

Cash aromatherapy gives your overpriced crappy apartment that fresh from mint Tony Montana cash on the table smell that lets people know you reak of the green stuff and you can still dress like a slob. Now available in pump spray, hanging air freshener (with string) or essential oil.

Capitalist Records

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:37:38 +0000

Jukeboxes are great. Great, if you like libraries and socialized medicine. So… what I want is a jukebox that only plays the music *I* like. How? By paying more. Hear a song you don’t like it, outbid it. I mean, what do you want more: That fiver in your pocket, or that Vanilla Ice song haunting your waking moments for the rest of the evening?

Self imposed waiting day period for purchases

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:33:57 +0000

E-commerce is all speed– getting you your product fast and taking your money faster. What if there was an online service that would give you some of the immediate consumer therapy of making a purchase but actually held yor money for a self imposed period of days before it actually made the purchase? It would work like this, you still get to shop at the store of your choice, you get to use your credit card and the store responds as if your just a regular shopper.Behind the sceens the whole process is managed by the online financial proxy and payement and of course shipment of the goods is held until say 5 days later. You then get an email from the online escrow service asking if you still want to go through with purchase and if you do it releases the money to the vendor. If not, no harm no foul. The online escrow could give you a chance to cool your heels a bit before realizing that there is no shortage of flat screeen t.v.’s in the world or countless other online “deals”.