No Gossip. Just A Rant

I don't do much shopping because honestly, I really don't have much money. Between the ex-wives and the drinking it pretty much disappears each month as fast it comes in. So, like many of you I am always looking for a sale. When I think sale, I'm thinking at least 20%, but to really make me get my lazy ass out of the recliner you better make it 40%.

Would you or anyone you know get out of your recliner for a 5% off sale? How about 8%? I wouldn't either. That isn't even worth my time or gas or anything. So, how is it that each and every week I hear at least 5 different companies all advertising no sales tax sale and think that all of us are going to be dumb enough to come in.

I know each state has a different sales tax and some have none, but here in California it is about 7%. The way they make the ads sound, they act as if they are doing the public the biggest damn favor of their entire lives. That the store is going to go out of business because this is such a damn good deal. 7%? Seriously? No one would care unless they were already at the store and the clerk said, "oh, by the way, today you get 7% off." Plus, to make matters worse, the 7% is money we don't care about.

When you take your tax rebate check and go to Best Buy to purchase that new flat screen with built in porn, the price might be $1,499. Each and every person is going to say it costs $1,499. The sales tax is just something that gets thrown on at the register. What we say we are paying is $1,499, so when the store says you don't have to pay the sales tax, who gives a f**k, because in our minds we weren't paying it anyway. We were just paying $1,499.

The fact that stores keep doing this is either because they have no imagination, think we are all stupid, or that we must think sales tax is 40% or something. Maybe I'm alone, and maybe people really are influenced by it. Maybe I'm the only guy in the world who thinks the price is the price. Tell me I'm wrong and I'll shut up. I know it's not gossip, but honestly I heard 14 different stores this weekend with the same promotion and I just couldn't stand it anymore.