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    Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/15/09

    In reply to Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
    I dunno about the obligation to be polite. After all, you're soliciting gifts from total strangers, just because. They are permitted to give you crap and you are permitted to bitch about it. If you weren't, what incentive would there be for these people, who don't give a rat's ass about you, to give you something not-disgusting?
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    12/15/09

    In reply to Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
    Gawker needs this, badly, but how do you put a price on disdain?
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    12/15/09

    In reply to Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
    It might be the seasonal affective disorder but that helper dog thing made me cry so I helped get the total a little closer to the $1000 matching amount. Only $205 to go, you can donate here:
    [anamazingtail.synthasite.com]
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/15/09

    In reply to Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
    Don't. Eat. The. Iced. Cookies.
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    Image of icelight icelight
    12/15/09

    In reply to Best and Worst of Largest-Ever Secret Santa
    Given the very one-tailed nature of this event, and the fact that a few large gifts are certainly skewing the mean upwards, I'd be much more interested in the median gift price.

    /nerd wankery
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    12/08/09

    In reply to Make Thousands of Dollars from the Comfort of Your Own Home
    When Jesus wins, we all eat, and we all drink.

    But we have to bring him loaves, fish and water (to change into wine) first.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/08/09

    In reply to Make Thousands of Dollars from the Comfort of Your Own Home
    Is Jesus hiring right now? Jesus! I can bring many assets to your organization!
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    12/08/09

    In reply to Make Thousands of Dollars from the Comfort of Your Own Home
    Ok, I love this guy. This is a green industry I can get behind!
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/08/09

    @momof3wildkids: Yep, best motivation to properly look after the trash ever!

    I've also seen people at the track do this and win. Definitely one of those bittersweet "Yay for you but ew you scrounge in racetrack gutters for a living all day long and god I need a drink now" moments.
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    Image of Niubi1 Niubi1
    12/03/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    I'd never heard of Cyber Monday before today (I'm in Europe, though). Interesting how densely populated the east coast is compared to the rest of the US.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/03/09

    @Niubi1: You made me curious: here in the US, the day after Thanksgiving (4th Thursday of November) is the busiest shopping day of the year and considered the "official" start of the Holiday shopping season. Is there a similar start-date in Europe?
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    Image of Niubi1 Niubi1
    12/07/09

    @Claire Buoyant: It would vary from country to country - remember that Christmas 'day' in much of Europe falls on the 24th! As for the UK, I think the main shopping period is in the New Year. We call it the 'January Sales'.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    We spent Black Friday totally off the grid. Didn't even miss my 'puter which shocked me.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    I'm also curious how this data is aggregated. Zoom in to Chicago, for instance, and you'll see it has practically no activity, which makes no sense at all.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    The linked site says the color corresponds to transaction activity (yellow = light, red = heavy). How did you get from there to sellers vs. buyers?
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Yeah, it's just e/w volume, which makes this rather meh. And a relief, we have enough problems without running a trade deficit with rural America.
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    Image of taco-flavored-kisses taco-flavored-kisses
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: yeah exactly. In fact, I would imagine that a huge percentage of ebay items SOLD now come from urban warehouses and operating centers (which includes the so-called coastal elite here) as selling on ebay has become increasing more a corporate opportunity to sell in bulk or push inventory.

    The point of this article is based entirely on an assumption...

    ..though the graphic is fun to ponder.
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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: If you hover over the dots it shows you the number of buyers versus sellers in that dot. Many more sellers in no-mans-land.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    @friend_of_a_friend: I'm not saying that rural areas aren't seller-heavy (that may be the case, based on information from other sources), but we can't infer that from the data shown from the linked site. Hover over a few urban areas (Washington DC and Houston TX are among the ones I found) and you'll see that red doesn't necessarily indicate more buyers than sellers.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/03/09

    @Claire Buoyant:
    DC doesn't count, they're selling influence.
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    Image of GregorMendel GregorMendel
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    My area is orange. Does that mean we were buying and selling our own crap?
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    This is interesting because usually the sale of a Bill of Goods goes the other way.
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    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Lots of attics full of stuff out there I guess.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/02/09

    In reply to Groom Tweets, Changes Facebook Relationship Status from the Altar
    Tool.
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