eBay Maybe Has Degenerative Brain Disease
BARGH, people. What in balls is going on? Why is bloated online swap meet eBay going all analog and erecting a store in midtown Manhattan? I mean, it's a pop-up and not a brick-and-mortar and it's SO special and open for ONLY a week but someone explain to me the crazytown collected hodgepodgery? An eBay exclusive Norma Kamali collabo, L.A.M.B. shoes, Anthropologie dresses and DOONEY & BOURKE? Who fucks with Dooney & Bourke other than people who say "pocket book" and think Coach monogram is like a real thing? Who is this person who'll go to 57th street during the week of Thanksgiving with the sole motivation of buying THIS crap? Also, "shoppers will have access to the entire eBay marketplace via Internet kiosks." So wait, you get to go all the way outside so you can stand thick in the pig-flu riddled shit and GO ON eBAY? Do these people really exist? Are they waiting for Wikipedia to come out with a hardbound? Should etsy maybe open a flagship in SoHo with a subbasement to store ALL the inventory EVER? Holy 2009… this is going to work isn't it?
Glad to know I'm not the only one hates "pocketbook".
This is what I think of when I hear "pocketbook." http://theperfectpocketbook.com/ Pretty sure it's not D&B.
These are the same people that say "slacks."
And "dungarees."
Catherine Keener tried this once, and look how well that worked out.
i love catherine keener so much. sometimes i believe she's brad pitt's only true friend. AND what's up with her sister looking SO MUCH like her but without any of the likability? how weird is that? Let's think about it.
I say "pocketbook"!
Ironically.
(Okay, maybe not ironically. But I still wouldn't be caught dead with Dooney & Bourke.)
Jonathan Lethem characters, apparently.
Good morning, Mary.
MAWNIN. I'm tard.
and quirky (love quirkiness,) entertaining, funny.
This is a far cry from those "eBay Stores" that were unaffiliated brick-and-mortar pawn-shopish places. I recall one jerking my 11 year old brother around over some video game console. They wouldn't pay him for awhile, and then gave him less than 25% of what it would have sold for on eBay. It was sad. I think these eBay Stores popped up around Payday Loan establishments.
Wow, I didn't think they actually existed. I thought this was something just completely whacked and out there that they'd invented for that movie with CK in it. Was it 40 Y.O.Virgin? I can't remember.
yep. i only know this because it's been shown on television over and over and over again.
I was just in Vegas and saw eBay themed video slot machines. Instead of a single row, the screen had a grid of random shit that had to match up. I think the payout was cash. Or maybe PayPal points? I didn't play!
My mom just told me? That if you go to Sears? And order Land's End stuff online from their in-store kiosks? Then they'll ship it to your house for free. So you can't go home with your stuff that day at all, but then if you want to return the stuff you ordered? You take it back to Sears to avoid paying shipping. Like you go there to be your own salesperson basically, and to hang out at Sears.
But if I go to this eBay store? And order things from liars? I can't go back and return their shit to the pop-up because it's temporary and gone already like a Halloween store or an Edible Arrangements, right? AND PROBABLY NO MONOGRAMMING
Whoa whoa whoa, is Edible Arrangements like a traveling gypsy tribe of Pineapple Spongebobs? They're not FOREVER? How am I gonna return this daisy bouquet made of cantaloupe?
whoa. that's crazy. also, what's up with NO ONE having to try on Land's End in this arrangement? is fleece like space foam? does it mold against your body? i have no idea about synthetic pile fabrics. ALSO, yeah GOOD POINT what if your $40 chanel purse was fake? where to leave the feedback? GAWD if they have special boutiquey expensive eBay shoppe bags i will barf.
Oh you can totally try it on! THEY HAVE IT ALL RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO BUY AND TAKE HOME IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE (EVERYBODY). But no, trying on Land's End clothing is not actually informative.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the typical Land's End customer is concerned with fabric molding to their body.
I just noticed this at the Sears here in Ottawa (it's a shortcut to the market, ok?). I wondered why they had a corner devoted to Land's End.
I had to work at a Sears in Queens one horrible horrible summer in high school.
Please, do not speak of Sears ever again.
Maybe in 2010? IT WILL BE HEN PLAGUE
Giraffe plague: global warming.
YEAH. I want giraffe plague. I want people to stop pretending it's an acceptable animal print. there needs to be backlash on that ass.
Is "Open Your Own Aussie Ebay Store" the brand name for some new type of tampon? Also, levity badly needed today. Please stay Ms. Choi.
I think Canal Street would be a much better place for an ebay pop-up shop.
people would die. it would be a wildebeest crossing. hugely entertaining but not good.
LOL "Wikipedia to come out with a hardbound?"–yeah, and there's 15 sullen teenagers that come with it who follow you around scrawling obscene falsehoods for marginalia.
I just purchased the complete youtube on disc!
On HD DVD?
This post is almost normal. Where's the batshit crazy? It's election day, we need more crazy, Ms. Mary!
Did somebody accidentally replace your placebos with meds?
In what way does this post relate to buying tires?
Wait a sec, I always say "pocketbook". Am I not supposed to say that? Crap, this is just like the time I went away to college and realized only people from my town called drinking fountains "bubblers".
Wisconsin or Rhode Island?
Massachusetts.
Come back to MA, everyone says "bubblers" around here. You're not alone…