{"id":1130,"date":"2006-05-04T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1130\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:24:02","slug":"1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1130","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

This is WAY COOL. The Museum of Useful Things (which is an online store) is selling a product that I would have loved to have purchased six months back, and I thought would be a cute product. It is sticky tape with a ruler printed on it. They<\/a> have it in inches only which would be fine for the plane. The only thing I would want more would be a finer scale on the thing. <\/p>\n

WSJ.COM is reporting on their best flops from the DotCom era<\/a>. My personal favourite is CyberRebate.COM which allowed people to buy at highly inflated prices on the promise of a rebate. For instance they could by a TV worth a few hundred dollars for over $1100, on the basis that there were rebates for up to 100% of the purchase price. Now, where they made their money was that they would not send the rebates out for 10-14 weeks (thereby earning a tiny bit of interest), but also assuming that some people would not send in their rebates. <\/p>\n

Now, you tell me. If you purchased a TV for four times the retail price would you get around to sending the rebate in on time? That is the problem they had. There are a huge number of people who do not send in rebates for $20 items, but when the price gets much much higher… Well, human nature takes over! The WSJ also report on the worst use of computers in movies… Like an animated email sending<\/a> which would really really infuriate you if you had to see that lots and lots of times a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is WAY COOL. The Museum of Useful Things (which is an online store) is selling a product that I would have loved to have purchased six months back, and I thought would be a cute product. It is sticky …<\/p>\n

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