Hello Scorpio!
Isn’t that nice? It’s Scorpio time again. Just in time for Halloween, right around the corner. I was shopping for Ma Wetzel the other evening, and having no luck finding her what I was looking for. It came out of an in-flight catalog.
I really detest those in-flight catalogs. All that cool merchandise looks really valuable and entertaining at 25,000 feet over the Midwest. It’s not nearly neato, cool and keen in person.
But it was the genesis of an idea, and I let my fingers for the walking on the web, trying to find that identical product. Which I did find, only, the price was the same, and I’m not sure I trust just any online marketing website. So I went back to the “sky mall” website, and the price there wasn’t much different from the price anyplace else, all within a couple of bucks of each other. Here I am, one of the shadowy merchants on the net, and I was playing a game where I didn’t trust some other net merchants.
It’s my built in “BS detector.” Alarms go off when I realize that a net storefront might be gone tomorrow, and my credit card payment goes with them.
By the same token, I’ll pop down a credit card number fast as can be for an airline reservation, or to buy a book, or even to drop a dollar in a tip jar.
Don’t know whom I trust these day.