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12 Christmas Gifts Not To Buy Online
nsingapu writes "While online shopping is booming this Christmas, niche products like "two turtle doves" purchased on the Internet are becoming increasingly more expensive then their non e-tailed counterparts. PNC bank has updated their annual tongue-in-cheek economic analysis, based on the cost of goods and services purchased by the True Love in the holiday classic, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." The analysis compares the cost of traditional goods against their cost thoughout the past 20 years and against the price when purchased online. PNC concludes that most items are more expensive to buy over the Internet, primarily due to the cost of shipping, and that the abundance of cheaper labor in countries such as India and China has resulted in pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource."
The internet price of swans appears to be skyrocketing. Must remember to get all of my swan supplies from local swan merchant instead of Swans-R-Us.com.
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I'm a nerd, I don't buy gifts at all you insensitive clod, I just receive the ones in my (rigorously) ThinkGeek wish list!
Somewhere online one can buy Swans and Milkmaids??
UK Laptops
Drumming Drummer (12 pack)
Customers who bought this item also bought these items:
Golden Rings (5-pack)
Turtle Doves (2-pack)
Pear Tree with Partridge
A license to SCO unix...
...3 French hens, or has that been changed to 3 Freedom Hens?
I've found that bleached pigeons work just as well as doves. It's a good thing.
I'm not sure I even want to comment on this one. Let's just say that I could find this on the internet for way cheaper than even $41...
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You see you just got to start dealing in bulk goods
Notice how once you start buying in bulk in 11 and 12 the internet is cheaper. I have always wanted my own marching band and better get them now price seems to be increasing.
Wow, these guys don't know where to shop. I can get a lot more than nine ladies dancing for only $19.95 per month on certain sites... and dancing's not all they do... heh heh.
The pear tree online is only $2 more than buying it locally. (Which is well worth it to avoid having to haul it home yourself.) It's the live birds that are expensive to ship--$15 local versus $67.50 over the internet for the partridge.
cheaper labor in countries such as India and China has resulted in pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource
That's cool with me; 9 American girls bopping to synth-pop aren't nearly as hot as 9 Indian girls gyrating to their respective traditional music. And if the 9 Chinese girls are in those long form-fitting Chinese dresses with the slits up the side... whoa momma!
The Canadian version would be quite a bit cheaper, and not just due to the dollar.
8 comic books
7 packs of smokes
6 packs of two-four
5 golden touques
4 pounds of back bacon
3 french toasts
2 turtlenecks
and a beer... in a tree.
Of course you will notice 12 - 10 are missing due to time constraints, but we know at least one of those should be donuts.
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What I want to know is, what exactly are "Lords a-leaping", and where can I buy them on line?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
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On the twelfth day of Geekmas my True Geek gave to me
12 O'Reilly handbooks.
11 cups of caffeine. 10 Help Desk persons screaming.
9 Linux distributions.
8 viral virii.
7 routers routing.
6 Geeks a coding.
5 Handsprings!
4 SDRAM chips.
3 PS2s.
2 Xboxes.
and
a real working Bluetooth device.
There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Perverted Mayor Quimby (thumb out pointing at audience at podium): "... theeere will beeee 8 maids a milkinnng"
Homer Simpson: "mmmmmmm milk...."
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